Archive for October, 2005



Wegman’s

Published on October 29, 2005

If you aren’t from the Central New York region or even attend school in that area you prolly don’t know what a Wegman’s is. Wegman’s is one of the country’s largest and most profitable grocery store. The environment that the chain brings to you just can’t be replicated. There isn’t a supermarket like it. I [...]


USCO Accepting Suggestions for DMCA Update

Published on October 28, 2005

Finally, something worthwhile to write to the government about. The government will get together and revisit the anti-circumvention portions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). This will allow people who are ticked off and can’t legally put it on their MP3 players. You can actually write them a nastygram via the web or good [...]


Sprint to Roll Out WiMax

Published on October 27, 2005

On the heels of companies rolling out their national high speed cellular access, Sprint has decided upon WiMax. The future of broadband may not necessarily be the high speed cellular, but in WiMax. The range of WiMax has been tested out to be a few miles and maybe up to 15 miles depending on the [...]


RFID to be Used in Airports

Published on October 26, 2005

RFID has been around for a while and they needed to think of some new uses for the technology that isn’t library books. So why not put them on luggage and speed up the loading process. McCarran Airport in Las Vegas already has 3 airlines utilizing the system and the company that provides this system [...]


Good Online Shopping Practices

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I was surfing the web last night for a case for my iPod Nano. I found this great frosted looking one from Agent18.com. This case is probably the slimmest and most unobtrusive case that I have seen. So I began to the checkout process and then though to myself, “How can I SAVE some money [...]


Canon SD430 Wireless Digicam

Published on October 25, 2005

Kodak watch your backs! Just when Kodak announces a wireless digital camera, Canon fires back and comes up with a slick all-in-one wireless SD430 package. While Kodak’s camera features a 4MP and a wifi SD card add-on, the Canon boasts a 5.3 MP and built-in wifi capability. Here are some of its features.


Snore Detecting Pillow

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Now I think I’ve seen it all. This interesting little product available in Japan will allow you to record your heavy breathing (snoring or any other heavy breathing exercise ;)). Then the pillow will allow you to adjust the height of the pillow and re-record your snoring. If it improves, then I suppose, the pillow [...]


Digital Divide Dumping Grounds

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Where does all of your old computers and unused parts go? They first get donated to a third world country and then when it malfunctions, the parts are just thrown into a ditch and allowed to sit there without being properly recycled. Many large companies are exporting their ‘old’ PC’s to third world countries like [...]


USB Sake

Published on October 24, 2005

You may be thinking, what is USB Sake? Well if you thought that the fad of changing useful gizmos to un-useful pieces of crap was over, well think again. Akihabara news has a new gizmo that will turn heads. At a paltry 256MB, it doesnt quite stack up to the USB Pez dispenser, but heck [...]


Interactive….Bedding??

Published on October 21, 2005

Imagine this. You wake up on a Saturday morning (or afternoon) and the sun is shining, but you wake up alone with no one to make you breakfast. But you don’t care because you have an interactive blanket that is wirelessly connected to your home appliances. So, without getting out of bed, you can press [...]