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Tuesday, February 12, 2002 |
I don't know if I believe this one, but it'd be pretty cool if it's real. Check out the Musit, a new digital music device that has a "continuous satellite Web link that allows for continual downloading of millions of songs in MP3 format. The Musit will allows you to enter in a song or album title, download, and play it almost instantly. With a patented high-speed wireless link to the Web, the Musit will download songs at an amazing rate of over 1MB per minute." It comes with a stylus and supposedly recognizes handwriting for input of song titles. All for under $200. (Note that the site requires Flash.) [via Mempool]
Hmmmmm....... I'll believe it when I see it, but someday, this type of device and service will be commonplace. For those of you that have heard me talk about the "heavenly jukebox" of content, this is one way it might look.
10:38:25 PM 
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Virtual Ink Untethers Mimio Whiteboarding Product "Mimio Xi (neXt ink) is a departure from the company's four-year-old Mimio electronic whiteboarding product in that it allows users to record whiteboarding writing without a PC and with almost no setup time via wireless connectivity.... At Demo, 3Com is expected to show off a proof-of-concept module for Bluetooth that allows the data to be fed to a PC via a wireless connection, and ultimately to a corporate network. Virtual Ink is publishing the specifications and plans to develop a version for IRDA to connect to PocketPCs or Palms; the company expects that third parties will create a WiFi module." [at InfoWorld]
We have the current Mimio at SLS, and we've never been able to get it to work well enough to put it to good use. The additiobn of Bluetooth or WiFi connectivity would be a huge boost. They also need to work on the handwriting recognition, but it does have potential. It would be cool to have this type of technology available in a library's meeting room so that various groups could use it and take their notes with them on a CD or email it to themselves.
9:23:38 PM
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Very cool! My alma mater, the University of Kansas is combining 802.11b network mapping with GIS for its Wireless Network Visualization Project in Lawrence! "While computer networks and Geography may not appear to have much in common, a collaborative effort was launched between the Univeristy of Kansas' Information & Telecommunications Technology Center and Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program to create a more advanced wireless 802.11b mapping and network visualization method. This new procedure uses wireless network data collected from walking and/or driving scans, aerial photography, and interpolation techniques to create highly detailed network coverage and signal strength maps." [via Slashdot]
Not only does it map the various networks in Lawrence, including signal strength, it evaluates the security of them as well. Lawrence is Wi-Fi rocking! (Just add some security in there, folks.) Just imagine all of those emails, video file trades, instant messages, and streaming video going across those networks when the Jayhawks win the NCAA Tournament this year!
12:32:20 PM
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Watch Out for a New Watchphone "Samsung's SPH-S1OO 'watchphone' accepts voice commands so it can be used hands-free. It rings in different ways for different callers and automatically keys in preprogrammed letters or numbers to make quick work of logging into online services. There's also a 'Secret Phone Book' where every saved phone number can be used only after the person keys in a 4-digit code, according to the device's 112-page user manual.... The FCC go-ahead is instead a 'proof of the technology,' the spokesman said. He declined to say when and where the watchphone would be available." [at ZDNet]
The analyst is right that it will take a long time for something like this to take off, even if Samsung starts actually making them. However, can you imagine what it would be like to be a kid growing up with this kind of device widely available and inexpensive? Always connected to a 3G network? Talk about information shifting!
8:41:01 AM
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Comments by: YACCS
© Copyright 2002 Jenny Levine.
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