It doesn't take a clairvoyant to figure out that the iPhone and its competitors will be the new platform for remote controlling features- especially audio and video systems. To that end we've been checking out some of the Apple Aps. Some are quite interesting, some borderline useless, and some with obvious potential.
My feeling is the iPod Touch will be the platform of choice for some; essentially an iPhone without the phone. A pity you have to use headphones, the small speaker deletion a major omission.
Urbanspoon may be the most interesting application currently available. Essentially it mimics a slot machine, where you lock down your city, type of food, and price you want to pay and spin the wheels. We tried a new local Chinese delivery on Saturday using it and were very pleased indeed.
The French language tool was appallingly weak, the Bloomberg financial one very good, and the NY Times one much better than an internet read of the paper.
One can't help but think every manufacturer is currently busy at work writing code for their hardware this week... Essentially we have a couple of hundred dollar wireless touchpanel.
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Integrating complex electronic projects requires industry individuals keep abreast of the latest technological trends.
Some things are important, many ironic, others outright frauds, and a few are just so very wrong. Occasionally the original technological goal and downstream results are in hilarious conflict.
Usually "the latest trends" go back fifty to one hundred years in their development and are only new to the uninformed. In most every case, the ancients have truly stolen our inventions!
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Some things are important, many ironic, others outright frauds, and a few are just so very wrong. Occasionally the original technological goal and downstream results are in hilarious conflict.
Usually "the latest trends" go back fifty to one hundred years in their development and are only new to the uninformed. In most every case, the ancients have truly stolen our inventions!
As far as we know, this is the only place that collects them and lets you celebrate them for yourself. We'd love to hear from you if you have something we've missed!
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