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Today’s Cool Stuff!
Today, I was browsing digg at work as it’s fairly slow with it being holiday break on campus and I noticed this really cool manufacturer of Google Android phones, ZZZPhone. Aparantly, they make CUSTOM PHONES. Yes. That’s right. Custom phones, configurable with some particularly outlandish features from particularly high megapixel digital cameras (5mp, 7mp, or no camera), to qwerty keyboard, to integrated projector… yes, integrated projector… idk about you, but i’ve never even thought of a projector as something i’d want in a phone… but it sure would be sweet… R2D2 Style 😉 yeah, i’d probably set it to play back the “help me obi-wan” loop until it was burned into the projector, but it’s sweet. other strange options include 2 sim cards, allowing 2 phone numbers, or even 2 completely separate networks if you wanted. tv tuner (like OTA analog tuner), front-mounted vga camera (for video chats over 3g!). it uses a modular slideable interface for the full qwerty keyboard, projector, “boom box” (powered speakers), and a high power spotlight/flashlight that is also a large battery pack for the phone. overall it’s just a really cool concept… even the people at CrunchGear and Gizmodo think so as well.
in other news, I’d just like to give honorable mension to some downloads for the apple platform:
Stainless a very alpha web browser based upon chromium (which is what Google Chrome uses to
iPhone / Vacation
I got back from my vacation to VT last weekend – I finally got an iPhone!
I executed my plans to go to the VT brewer’s festival this year with a bunch of friends and it was great! VIP tickets means all you can drink beers of as many different varieties as you can possibly think of (and some you never would) and all you can eat food as well (they had sushi, pulled bbq pork, and these wonderful little roast beef sandos that were amazing!) there was chocolate and beer pairings, pizza and beer pairings and whatnot, etc. and it was all great. I hope that my friends and I can put together a similar trip next year… VIP tix are a must and they aren’t that expensive.
then we went to the vacation house that we usually rent every year in Killington, VT and played video games, drank more beer, hung out in the hot tub, and went out for the beer and wing happy hour at Casey’s Caboose on a regular basis as well (the people who work there know us and are awesome). it was great!
right before (like the day we left, with a car full of stuff) I went down to the west farms mall apple store and picked up a 16GB iPhone 3G (white in case you were wondering) and it’s great too. software is a little buggy (apps crash from time to time, but there’s an OS update soon that should hopefully take care of that). I’ve already gotten it properly jailbroken so i can run third party software including terminal, the BSD utilities, and a slew of other third party apps that add a fair share of functionality that you’re NEVER gonna find at the app store.
Special thanks to idbeholda who was the only person to donate to my iPhone cause and Liz for taking us the special trip for which my iphone was a result.