Emotion Archive

  • Japanese emoticon stamp is too cute for \(^o^)/

    Japanese emoticon stamp is too cute for \(^o^)/

    Posted on April 28, 2010 | No Comments
    This is one of those products that I look at and cringe. I do realize though, that some people just can’t live without this type of thing. If that describes you, you can get an emoticon stamp to “share your emotion to your lover in real world with a secret”. Apparently this is a “Kaoiro” [...]

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  • Laptop Mag’s cornucopia of system ratings is really quite thorough

    Laptop Mag’s cornucopia of system ratings is really quite thorough

    Posted on January 23, 2010 | No Comments
    We all know by now that HPis the largest PC seller out there. Good for HP. But when you're shopping for your next system, it helps to know how Brand A compares to Brand X. Our friends at Laptop Magazine have done just that, and put together a series showcasing the strengths and weaknesses of this brand versus that brand. Best part: regular users—like you!—are invited to give your thoughts, which will be compiled into a sort of go-to glossary. Good idea.

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  • Behind The Scenes at Cirque du Soleil

    Behind The Scenes at Cirque du Soleil

    Posted on January 12, 2010 | No Comments
    I’ve always been a fan of Cirque du Soleil and I make sure to go to a show when they are in town either in San Francisco or in Las Vegas. I got a backstage tour of their latest extravaganza, OVO, in San Francisco when they were in town. I caught up with Gerard Edwards-Webb, [...]

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  • Review: eMotion Social-Connect Digital Photo Frame plus a giveaway

    Review: eMotion Social-Connect Digital Photo Frame plus a giveaway

    Posted on November 19, 2009 | No Comments
    I've suffered much when it comes to digital photo frames. I purchased a number of frames from multiple manufacturers for multiple members of my family with the expectation that I would, for time immemorial, be able to email said frames images, thus allowing family members the opportunity to see new photos without having to drag them over from the computer. Alas and alack each one of these frames (Damn you, SmartParts!) has failed and their attendant services have gone out of business. I'm an optimistic fellow, however, and they say digital picture frame usage after being burned by picture frames in the past is a triumph of hope over experience. Well fool me again, picture frames, because I'm going to talk about the eMotion Social-Connect Digital Photo Frame with LifeGoRound.

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  • Apple lets devs bite their nails in real time as iPhone apps navigate approval process

    Apple lets devs bite their nails in real time as iPhone apps navigate approval process

    Posted on November 11, 2009 | No Comments

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    Apple's App Store approval process is one of the great black boxes in the mobile industry, a bizarre place ruled by emotion, erratic logic, and an uneven application of censorship that has driven some developers to the very brink of insanity since the day of iPhone OS 2.0's release. Well, folks, here's the bone just thrown your way from Cupertino: a new dashboard where you can watch closely as your pride and joy makes its way through the bureaucratic assembly line. Before, all you could do was submit, pray, and wait indefinitely for your app to get accepted or rejected, so consider this an almost imperceptible step in the right direction. Next on our list: emulators. You know you want to, Apple.

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  • Hai Karate! The Black Belt Watch is for black belts only

    Hai Karate! The Black Belt Watch is for black belts only

    Posted on November 4, 2009 | No Comments
    Remember those watches made out of pieces of the Titanic? Or that watch with the little moon lander on it? Well Yvan Arpa, the nutso horologist behind those treats has finally hit the a new level of crazy. Homeboy is a has a black belt and, in order to honor his fellow black belts, he's created a watch just for black belts. It's a watch for black belts only. And it costs about $4,000. The site accepts applications for their watches and the design takes queues from other martial arts including creating hands that look like Shinai, wooden Kendo swords.

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  • Hands-on with the Pentax K-7 at the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix

    Hands-on with the Pentax K-7 at the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix

    Posted on August 31, 2009 | No Comments
    One of the downsides to covering gadgets on a daily basis for as long as I have is the fact that I think everything is crap. Very few things excite me and anything that does usually ends up falling short of my expectations. It’s unfortunate, but once in a blue moon does something not only impress, but also exceed my expectations. Case in point, the Pentax K-7.

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  • Mama, They Took My Kodachrome Away

    Mama, They Took My Kodachrome Away

    Posted on June 23, 2009 | No Comments
    It would be hard to find a film as iconic as Kodachrome. Imagine another emulsion that that garnered so much emotion that songs were written about it. Sadly, the film is no more, retired by Kodak after 74 years of service. The slide, or reversal, film was making up a fraction of one percent of Kodak’s [...]

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