The scene: crowded international airport. The dilemma: delayed
flight to destination. The solution: quick and easy call on
mobile phone detailing situation. The annoyance: dead cell phone
battery from daily overuse. The remedy: desperate hunt for any
available wall-mounted power outlet in terminal. The problem: power
charger for cell phone packed in checked luggage.
While the exact details of the above situation may have never actually
occurred for each and every one of you, chances are most of you have
known the frustration of losing use of your cell phones. Although
it would seem not many of us consider battery life a top priority when
purchasing a new phone for ourselves. A much higher priority is
given to the features of the phone as well as its aesthetics. Can
I access the internet? How much of my music library can it
hold? And what about picture and videos? No wonder weÂ’re
constantly worried our phones will die by the end of the day if there
is no way to recharge!
Energizer
has developed a way to ensure our cell phones will never go flat
again. The Energi To Go supplies immediate power anywhere at
anytime. The device plugs into all major phone brands and runs on
two long-lasting Energizer AA Lithium batteries. The Energi To Go
($20) provides up to nine additional hours of talk time once your own phone
battery has lost power – so you’ll never feel anxious or stranded
again. By Andrew J Weiner.
The idea of HDMI over CAT5 cable isn’t exactly new but glitch-free, economical* CAT5 HDMI transmission solutions are a rarity. Honeywell recently announced their powered HDMI to CAT5 converter package that would seem to be targeted toward filling that very void.(*actual pricing undisclosed) “The converter system consists of a power supply, transmitter unit and a receiver unit each built into single gang Decora style wall plates. At the source end, the high-speed transmitter transcodes HDMI signals over two CAT5/6 cables. A 1080p signal will travel up to 125 feet on a pair of CAT5e cables or a maximum of 200 feet on a pair of CAT6 cables. At the display end, the externally powered receiver unit transcodes signals back to HDMI. Built-in CURxE Light Technology automatically corrects the signal for any corrupted EDID or HDCP data resulting from capacitive loading problems, plus verifies Hot Plug Detect, 5V, EDID and HDCP…
And we’re back. This week’s podcast features a report from a school in Nigeria where children are taking OLPC’s XO-1 laptop for a test run. We’ll also discuss whether bloggers are the new foreign correspondents. Then, to Italy where one company is giving people a chance to download their favorite holy images to their cell phones. And we’ll finish with a look at a new theory of everything that comes courtesy of a physicist who spends as much time riding the waves as he does thinking Big Thoughts.
Channels included in Verizon Wireless’s $15-a-month basic V Cast Mobile TV plan, with the programs airing from 8 to 11 p.m. tonight:
This time of year, people’s thoughts of TV-watching often turn to large screens — bright, flat-panel displays that dominate walls.
“Is there an RSS feed with my YouTube videos people can subscribe to?”
YouTube recently publicized a bunch of RSS feeds for subscribing to popular topics and categories, but they haven’t made it obvious how someone might subscribe to your YouTube channel via RSS. Thanks to their well documented section for developers, this is a relatively easy. Each YouTube user has their own unique RSS feed in the format:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/jakeludington/uploads
Just replace my YouTube username, with your own YouTube username in the URL and you’ll have an RSS feed of only videos you uploaded to YouTube. You can find more ways to access your YouTube information, like an RSS feed of your Favorites and Playlists, see the detailed YouTube API documentation.
A slightly different approach to this, including an enclosure with a SWF video file, is to use a URL like this where the file is in the format username.rss. This is a little more complicated because other people could tag their videos with your user name and show up in your RSS feed.Here’s an example:
http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/jakeludington.rss
Subscribe to my YouTube RSS feed
Sharp has introduced a second-generation widescreen high-definition (HD) 1080p AQUOS LCD TV that is optimized for gaming. The 32-inch LCD HDTV, available in black, wine red or white, is specially designed to handle the highest frame rates of the most sophisticated video games available today. The model, LC-32GP3U, has a slim-line design and comes with [...]
Electronic data have rendered all sorts of paper documents obsolete — plane tickets, billing statements, card-catalogue entries and even, for many, the morning newspaper. The book, however, has yet to be bumped off by the Internet.
