Midi Madness – some wildly cool devices here that I would never use.

* Pacemaker – handheld DJ system. Absolutely no use for but I admire it * ATP Photofinder – tag all photos with geocodes easily. Cool. * Toshiba Portege G – not even a remote need but these just look cool * RCA ipod competitor with wireless headphones – the phones are cool * DVR in a pen. with bluetooth. Just because

Why do all power strips have to be so ugly? I saw one in a downtown window that appeared to be a tower of cast stained concrete and it looked great. Why can’t you buy these anywhere? I am sick of the crappy plastic choices available. There is innovation to permit more transformers to plug in, and innovation to be more “green”, but why can’t these things look better? Is molded plastic really the only choice?

TechForward: Guaranteed Buybacks for Consumer Electronics – via Marginal Revolution. Ideal for someone like me who surfs the wave of the latest technology.

* The Gadgets Weblog: Wacom Bamboo Fun – I’ve always wanted a tablet. * Painter’s Pyramid – actually seem highly useful * 160Megapixel camera – on the road to gigapixel cameras * Sandisk TakeTV. this keeps calling out to me as the way to get home movies down on the tv. * 8 core macpro with decent graphics options * Garmin forerunner 405

Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision

1-Wire Devices - Maxim – interesting low cost control wiring and protocol. Maybe useful for halloween projects. Via Wes Felter

Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen - Long Term Viability of AppleTV – I wonder about this too. It seems like there are a kajillion boxes (for instance XStreamHD) and offerings (for instance Amazon Unbox) in this space. My gut tells me that this kind of service is going to get rolled into every settop box, dvd player, game console, just like DVR capability is getting rolled in. The need for a separate box is not apparent to me. I think this dynamic is going to kill off DVD players and their hidef ilk as well.

William Brent’s Search for Cleantech – good summary from William Brent

Rich likes the new Time Capsule. I may get one. Already ordered the new slim notebook. And the mac pros with the refreshed video card options look great. We are teetering on becoming a mac-only household.

Nanowires convert heat to electricity - nanotechweb.org – this seems very interesting. the huge amount of electricity we waste as heat is an appealing target. I wonder what savings could be made in general by replacing bulk machined wires and components with nanoengineered parts – as this article suggests, it seems like a lot could be done to improve conductivity and reduce resistivity.

cityofsound: The Personal Well-Tempered Environment – lots of interesting ideas for increasing our energy and environmental awareness by bringing the information to the fore in our daily lives.

Oklahoma, Ohio State ink series for 2016, 2017 : Fanblogs College Football Blog – nice announcement. With this the future now looks like:

2008: @USC 2009: USC 2010: Miami (FL) 2011: @Miami (FL) 2012: Cal 2013: @Cal 2014: VT 2015: @VT 2016: @Oklahoma 2017: Oklahoma

Exciting games. Wish we could dump the 12th game or replace it with another quality opponent.

Clams Convert Air Into Food – perhaps the breatharians are onto something.

Too bad for them that their black has already been trumped – new “blackest” material – “You could think of a material that basically collects all the light that falls into it” – oh my gosh we are manufacturing black holes now, I knew this nanotech stuff was dangerous.