Whoa! I... I think I'm having a thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thought. Now I'm having a plan. Now I'm having a wiggins.

Xander ,'First Date'


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tommyrot - Jun 08, 2005 8:07:23 pm PDT #3273 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I don't want my cellphone to do everything! Just be a cellphone!!

I want a blender attachment for my cellphone so I can mix margaritas....


Gris - Jun 08, 2005 8:09:58 pm PDT #3274 of 10003
Hey. New board.

There's actually a company that just started releasing cellphones with exactly that in mind: they're just cell phones, old school. They can speak, they can text, that's it. I've forgotten the company, but they were mentioned on Slashdot a few weeks back.

If Apple decides to really get (back) into the PDA business (more Newton!), I'm sure they'll at least make it iTunes playlist-sync compatible, though i'm not sure they'd put in a 20 GB HD. Still, the Lifedrive shows that there's probably a market for a PDA with a Mini-sized HD, so maybe they'd go for it.

Me, I'm hoping their R&D is going into a Tablet Mac instead. Because the concept of the tablet is so freaking cool, and it's been implemented so freaking poorly, I want them to show that it can WORK.


NoiseDesign - Jun 08, 2005 8:47:00 pm PDT #3275 of 10003
Our wings are not tired

Yeah, I really want a tablet Mac. I'm pretty sure the next PC Laptop I buy will be a tablet as long as they finally get the screens up past 1024x768.

Being able to run my acoustic modeling and analysis software with a tablet wi-fi'ed into the booth is pretty much where I want to be.


§ ita § - Jun 09, 2005 7:41:19 am PDT #3276 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

So, I promised my sister a camera for her birthday. My stipulations are that it has to be small (smaller than your average 35mm point and shoot) and that it has to use an SD card. Her stipulation was that it needed to have a zoom lens, so really, she's not demanding.

Does anyone have any specific model names to toss out for me to start researching with?


Steph L. - Jun 09, 2005 7:42:47 am PDT #3277 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I have no idea what an SD card is, but check the Canon Elph.


Tom Scola - Jun 09, 2005 7:44:55 am PDT #3278 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

SD card: [link]


Steph L. - Jun 09, 2005 7:46:00 am PDT #3279 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Oh, that! I didn't realize it was called anything other than a "memory card."


Jessica - Jun 09, 2005 7:47:27 am PDT #3280 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

DH just got this Nikon Coolpix, which is pocket sized, uses SD cards, and has a nicely intuitive interface.


§ ita § - Jun 09, 2005 7:50:26 am PDT #3281 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I didn't realize it was called anything other than a "memory card."

They have different sorts of cards -- my Clie used an incompatible format.

Will go look at Elphs.

eta: Excellent, Jessica!


Tom Scola - Jun 09, 2005 7:56:14 am PDT #3282 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I like my Panasonic, it's small; but it doesn't have a very good zoom.

The next model up has a pretty good zoom, though.