Today was a heavy news day: Berlusconi may be indicted for underage prostitution, Steve Jobs taking a medical leave of absence and then the world’s first 3D VoD service is being launched in this country. Having seen these three items in this sequence the last almost escaped me, and then I thought, wait a minute. [...]
Archive for the ‘Tech we don’t need’ Category
To the a$$holes of #Vodafail
Posted: November 23, 2010 in Digital life, Tech we don't need, Why I hate...Just landed in London, trying to check in at the airport, but iPad won’t work because I am over my roaming data traffic limit. I complained last week about non receiving any hint about this beign the problem (instead of some oher malfunctioning), but I cannot say this is the case any longer: as soon [...]
Installed Seeismic, tried it out for 24 hours and immediately dumped it. I had fallen for its “stream” thing, but I should have checked better: the stream is only made of Twitter and Facebook updates – no way to add RSS feeds from anything else. All of this on the back of the Adobe AIR [...]
Good job, Camillo! Translations for non-italian speakers: “Someone might like to send MMS… easily” “Someone might like to send files via Bluetooth… easily” “Someone might like to do cut&paste… easily” “But all… would like to do these things without losing their shirt !” The title? watch the video to the very end…
Off to Pisa – hope wheater reports are wrong as I am hearing of hailstorms on the Appennines. Predictably, the Kindle announcement has sparked a a global discussion and printed-word talibans are furiously jacking off in defense of the Holy Entity; among the many discussions, I find the one who is raging on Nick Carr’s [...]
It’s now officially on sale at $399, which for Europeans ain’t so bad after all. But it is God-Almighty-fugly. Call me shallow, but I can’t think myself toting this ‘relic of the 80s’ design around. And no PDF. And DRM by the wheelbarrow. And in case you have your own texts, papers or books, it [...]
The gaming car (Tech we don’t need – part 1)
Posted: December 29, 2005 in Cars, Fun stuff, Tech we don't needThis article on the Register prompted me to start what could well become a new series of posts on this blog: the “Technology we don’t need” series. The first post of the series honors a concept design by Nissan and Microsoft where the steering wheel, gas and brake pedals double as joystick controls to play [...]
