Basements Archive

  • AT&T will count Micro-Cell usage towards your data cap – UPDATE

    AT&T will count Micro-Cell usage towards your data cap – UPDATE

    Posted on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Just when you thought it was safe to love AT&T again, we have another interesting tidbit about their famous 3G Micro-Cell, AKA the "rip-off box." As you recall, AT&T's MicroCell is being marketed as a way to repair bad connectivity in areas with little or no AT&T reception including, but not limited to, basements, attics, Manhattan, and San Francisco. It essentially piggy backs on your own home network to provide data service and voice to your phone.

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  • Depot Angel: Japanese company sells pre-fabricated basements (video)

    Depot Angel: Japanese company sells pre-fabricated basements (video)

    Posted on January 4, 2010 | No Comments
    About a year ago, I blogged about Yamaha's portable room that you could set up in bigger rooms to have your well-deserved quiet time. And now another Japanese company called Tamada brings us something similar: The Depot Angel [JP] (what a name), a pre-fabricated basement that can be, again, used to enjoy some alone time, as a storage room or as anything you'd like it to be. The main idea is to create additional space for Japanese households at relatively affordable prices. Seeing that real estate in Japan is (generally speaking) pretty expensive, it might make sense for some families in this country to get one Depot Angel and bury it under their house.

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  • Apple’s 100,000 point lead

    Apple’s 100,000 point lead

    Posted on November 4, 2009 | No Comments
    In this political season, why not talk about the roughest political argument of them all: the real meaning of Apple’s announcement of over 100,000 apps in the app store. Are these apps important because, as Steve Ballmer says, the iPhone doesn’t handle the Internet well? Are these apps a testament to a strong ecosystem? Or [...]

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