ZEverything costs you at Apple, even a stinking plastic remote that should come free, like when you buy a TV, a hifi system or a blu-ray DVD player. But at Apple, a remote will cost you another $19. Pfft. This is why I will never be a part of the Apple community save for the iPod I stowed away and converted into a hippie songster. It’s too capitalistic just like the country it comes from.
Has anyone thought of making Apple the country’s national brand? Maybe every home will have an Apple branded gadget/stuff/mookies because it’s patriotic like the national flag.
That’ll be $20/person annually for the royalty, please.
Wow. Just simply wow. At a brink of destroying earth with stupid gadgets and inventions, British scientist might have just found a solution to all those unwanted metal scraps left over from older generation technologies. They’ve found a way to grow flowers from unwanted/broken cellphones. Just dump your old cell into flowering pot, some soil, water, sunshine and some love and you’ll have flowers growing out of them.
Now that’s what I call “environmentally friendly”. Nothing is friendlier than daisies sprouting from your old Nokia.
Thing is, despite this fantastic idea, only the casing can be made environmentally friendly. The innards of your cellphone is still silicon and a mishmash of environmental hazard….it’s a start somewhat. *shrugs*
It’s been a week since I updated, I blame it on the tropical weather and the palm trees. For those of you who are still stuck in winter, my desolations to you. :P
Anyway, back to the program, I want to talk about when phones explode. It’s not a funny matter, some guy actually lost a nipple when his phone exploded. He left his phone in this breast pocket you see. I believe I can find a video to prove it.
This is created by a Japanese company called Actbrise. It’s a hands-free keyboard that detect head movements for those who has impaired upper body movement. The user just needs to tilt his/her head to activate the pointer, to click and to enter data. It is an extremely useful keyboard that will help those to be independent. The keyboard and the works costs 298,000 Yen ($2600).
Why run in silence when you can run in music? The latest gadgets don by runners on the 2007 ING Marathon. MP3’s are not the only thing but also pacers and timers to help the runners gauge their heartbeats and distance.
Apparently, computer servers are as bad as SUVs when it comes to carbon emissions. IT departments worldwide could accord for about 2% of the world’s carbon emission, which contributes to the detriment of our earth aka global warming. How interesting and disturbing at the same time, I don’t know where the CO2 is emitted but Jalopnik.com says that the average server produces CO2 like how an 15mpg SUV would produce. God…what are we gonna do?? I love my computer and my internet….sigh.
I know, the necessary evil would be to get rid of SUVs and keep our computer servers. If everyone is cycling and going on the internet, not only will they be smarter and healthier - they would also be saving the world.
Remember that project about providing cheap computers so that every child in the world can afford one? Well, the OLPC program has not been successful so far with it’s cost rising up to $200 dollars per PC now. It’s quite disappointing since this is a program that is suppose to aid kids to be more technologically savvy and prepared for the world and definitely an embarrassment as well.
Frankly, I think what they need is someone to help them keep costs down. Right now, we can safely, unfortunately, predict that prices for these cheap computers can only go up. :/
I am sure the survey has its confounding factors but regardless +/- aside, Macs are not as popular as some Mac-fans might think. Analyst, Gene Munster, of investment bank Piper Jaffray did a little analysis about Apple’s apparent skyrocketing popularity but it the reason why for the jump is because Apple’s just shipped 2.16 million in the third quarter of this year. Fanboys might be jumping on the table and go “I told you so! I told you so! MAC’s the best!” but they might need to get their feet down a little because according to the report, Apple’s world market constitute only 3.2% of worldwide PC sales.
According to IDC, Apple’s market share is considerably higher, reaching 6.3% at the end of the third quarter of 2007. That’s compared to a 5.7% market share at the end of the same quarter last year, a 15.9% gain. Still, that’s a tiny sliver of Dell’s 28% market share an HP’s market share of 24.3%. Either way you slice it, even though in the echo chamber of the blogosphere it seems like Apple is dominating, Macs are still a relatively minor player when it comes to market share.
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