Archives / May, 2006

SlingPlayer Mobile on Moto Q on YouTube

Several of the gadget blogs I read yesterday pointed to this cool video than an early-adopter user posted of his brand new Motorola Q running the new SlingPlayer Mobile client. Get a Slingbox, a Motorola Q and a TiVo, and you’ll be the coolest kid on the block. This blog post was also an excuse…

Functionality and Flexibility Trump Quality

I just read Fred Wilson’s Texting Home post. Fred details the shortcomings of landline phones versus what is now possible with mobile phones. Despite the dropped connections and inferior voice quality, he is ready to abandon his landline because, as he says, “all I really want is increased functionality”. Me too, as soon as I…

My Current Beer Obsession

Perhaps because I feel that I am betraying my German heritage, not to mention Erdinger Weißbier, a beer I determined to be the best of the German wheat beers after hundreds of liters of comparison drinking during my six months living in Germany (Berlin and München) in 1992, what follows is something that was not…

Chargers and AC Adapters are Evil

OK, time for a twenty-first century rant: One of the unfortunate side-effects of being a gadget freak is that I have a tangled and cumbersome collection of AC adapters, battery charges and automotive adapters, and Murphy’s law often dictates that I am missing the one I need at a crucial moment. This is also one…

Fujitsu Adopts Akustica’s Digital Microphones

I’m happy to report that Akustica has announced their first digital microphone design win with a major customer. On Monday, Akustica announced that Fujitsu will use the Akustica’s AKU2000 digital microphone (the world’s first single-chip digital output mic) in the upcoming Lifebook Q2010 high-end executive notebook. CommsDesign has an article that covers the announcement in…