ROW, ROW YOUR WHEELCHAIR
Posted on January 9th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
HIGH-TECH GUITAR
Posted on January 8th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
We could name all the rock stars who’ve been raving about a new high tech guitar carrying the fabled Gibson name. Unfortunately for their advertising, we had never heard of the rock stars.
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WRITE NOW, SEND LATER
Posted on January 7th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
“Future Text” is a free app for your phone that lets you write text messages now and send them any time up to 30 days later. They have a $2 version that lets you write text messages now and have them sent up to a year later. (We could see this as a plot device in some mystery show.)
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PRINTING ON ANYTHING
Posted on January 6th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
We’re waiting to buy this one: Printbrush is a $200 device that you can use to take a picture of anything and then use the same device to print it on paper, wood or fabric. In short, snap and then rub one side of the book-sized device onto a surface and it prints. Go to their we
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ROAD MICE
Posted on January 5th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Bob used to own a ’63 Morgan, and we have replicas of that classic car in our living room. If he fancied a more common car, like a Corvette, he could have a model that doubles as a computer mouse.
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SOCIAL FOLDERS
Posted on January 4th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
We’ve signed on to so many photo and social networking sites we can’t remember what we’re connected to. “Social Folders” is an application that connects to social networking sites and downloads photos and documents to your computer.
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READY FOR MY CLOSE-UP, C.B.
Posted on January 3rd, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Mold a small plastic lens into a rubber band and what have you got? A close-up lens for your cell phone, that’s what. You can get it from Photojojo.com for $15. It fits like a rubber band over your phone, and lets you take pictures of insects and other things eye to eye.
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THAT’S AMAZING!
Posted on January 2nd, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
The huge Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas takes place every year in early January, and we have some flash previews of amazing stuff. As always with CES, some things are off in the future, some available now. Here are a few gee-whiz highlights:
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ATTENTION SKYPE FANS
Posted on January 1st, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Our nephew in Spain relies on Skype to keep in touch with the family by way of free video calls. Typically the family huddles around the laptop or iPad. Another way to do it is on the family TV
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