Huge iPhone, iPad, and web geek. Selfish, Obsessive, and Easily Distracted.
Adam Curry is presenting his closing keynote at Gnomedex, and he’s making it a “live” Daily Source Code, episode #200!
We just played a mashup – Sgt. Pepper’s Paradise. Scoble got everyone dancing, then lounged on the Red Couch with Chris Pirillo. This is a total geek fest, and I’m having an absolute blast!
Multi-Media Me: The Red Light District inside the Seattle Public Library
Read John Hartman’s description of The Red Room at the party last night. It was quite a surreal experience, and I don’t even drink!
I was early to the party at the Library, so I hung out in the plaza of the Bank of America building across the street, and got a good start in Cory Doctorow’s new book, “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town”. The weather was beautiful, I snapped a lot of great pictures, and it was quite relaxing.
Rio, Creative, Samsung, Qtek, and Sandisk. The Microsoft Windows Media guys had a table full of “Plays For Sure” devices, which integrate extremely well with Windows Media Player. As you know, I’ve been using a Creative Zen Micro 5GB as my MP3 player, which is a “Plays For Sure” device, and I’ve been really happy with how well it syncs with WMP out of the box.
One of the Windows Media guys let me do a side-by-side comparison of my Audiovox SMT5600 and his new Qtek smartphone (I don’t know the model number, there are so many from Qtek). It’s about the same size, etc, and runs Windows Mobile 2003 for Smartphones (no WM5 preview exclusive for me!), but notice the 4 new hardware buttons, for IE and media shuttle controls, emphasizing the device’s role as a media player.
Bigger than a PDA, but thinner, Sony make hundreds of thousands of these in Japan. The e-ink screen is breathtaking – the contrast, and crispness of the text is outstanding. The colors are changed by a grid of little balls, so no power is drawn to keep the text on the page. The keyboard is for entering searches and notes, and there is a scroll/select wheel in the center of the row of buttons.
Unfortunately, the only eBooks that Sony ever released for it had such Draconian DRM (books expired in 30 days, etc.) that the product bombed, and was cancelled.
pt showed us how to install an English firmware on it, that besides making the UI navigable to non-Japanese readers, allows you to put your own text and ebooks on the Librie. Shown here is Cory Doctorow’s new book, “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town” (I’m currently reading it, and it’s awesome).
You can get these for about $300 on eBay, cheaper in Akihabara in Japan. I’d love to have one of these – the screen never fails to draw attention, and while it’s bigger than my Dell Axim X50v that I’m using for reading ebooks, it’s undeniably sexy.
Thanks to pt for letting us play with your toys!
The guts of pt’s old-school style cell phone. Rotary dial, bell ringer, the whole bit. He did a giveaway where he gave out some schwag to the first person that managed to call the phone while he was on stage. Of course, once he gave out the number, the phone kept ringing, after he left the stage, and throughout the evening at the party. Beth, pt’s wife, even hinted at the phone ringing at 3:00 AM. ;-O
Runs the Newton OS, has a touch screen, takes a common 5V charger (like for an iPAQ or PSP), and can be had on eBay for $30. Apple made tons of these in 1997, and flooded schools with them. Ever seen or heard of one? I didn’t think so. This could be considered the first Apple tablet pc.
The OQO has an 800×480 screen, and my X50v has a 480×640 screen.
I loved playing with pt’s OQO. It’s a great little machine – feels great in the hand. Wish the price wasn’t so high ($2000).
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