Friday, April 11, 2008

Help!!

I just read about the Help line of products today. A simple way to address a headache or a cut. The band-aids sound high-tech, they are made of a "futuristic material" used in hospitals.

Unrelated to cuts and headaches, the iPhone might be getting 3G in the next 60 days. I just read about this today, but Walt Mossberg alluded to it in an interview a week ago, then later tried to backpedal. I'm not really sure if this is a big improvement unless you spend all your time in an urban area (ie. you aren't a mt. biker), but the potential of it is appealing. I'm still holding off on the iPhone anyway, at least for a little longer. I'm inching closer - they finally made it available to business accounts and I am finally going to upgrade my mac os to Leopard, so the barriers to ownership are slowly dropping away.

I read about this new dance Tecktonik (a mix of rave and breakdancing), that is big in France, so I went on YouTube to see what it's all about. it is apparently a modern version of disco. Mullets and muscle shirts are de rigeur. This video of a student named "Jey Jey" has been watched by more than 8 million people. I think it would be fun to be able to do that. There's something oddly appealing about it to me, I guess cuz I used to love to dance. Quite a work out. It would be a novel way to get in some off-season cross training, too. If that first video wasn't way too, um, disco, for you, here's another one.

4 comments:

bmxmtbfam said...

Great 3G is emerging in the US and third world countries are testing 4G networks.

Make sure you call Hillary and Barack and ask them to punish AT&T and Verizon if elected. Why the heck would we want to advance the US braodbad coverage ranking up into the 30's with most of Africa. Ask them to keep forcing cell companies to give away billions to create competition and stop investment into the US fiber backbone.

Watch for the new phone from garmin later this year. Sweet but pricey.

velogrrl said...

I didn't know that 4G was already out there.

I like Garmin products. Is the phone a smartphone? If so, hopefully they will have mac software for it.

bmxmtbfam said...

It is the phone that will bury apple if the fcc keeps theirs hand off it. All the WIMAX and 3G interfaces that anyone can handle and a huge huge hard drive. It uses the "east" tech for banking stuff. With wi max you can pick up tv radio and download about anything to it. The gps mapping was so fun. Its a bit thicker than a i phone but will wow everyone.

velogrrl said...

thanks for the info, it sounds really cool.