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Too bad this geek has to miss the Consumer Electronics Show this year due to national service commitments. This looks really interesting. My head is just beginning to get around how it’d change the way we use our PC. Wonder if I can play Starcraft 2 better with it? Alas, we’d have to wait till July to find out! More details in the announcement after the break.
Mouse 2.0 research becomes a reality with the new Microsoft Touch Mouse.
LAS VEGAS - Jan. 5, 2011 -
This sounds way awesome, I wanna attend!
Singapore, November 10th, 2010 – BBH Asia Pacific is bringing the world’s leading digital university, Hyper Island, to Singapore - making it a first for Asia.
Founded in Sweden in 1995, Hyper Island has been dubbed the ‘the world’s digital Harvard’ and has now established offices in Stockholm, New York and London, trained over 1500 graduates, and developed tailor-made master classes for creative professionals across Europe and the US.
Hyper Island will conduct its radical Master Class for the entire Agency and along with BBH, will co-host a ‘Meet Market’ workshop - to be attended by a cross-section of BBH Clients and collaborators - representing Singapore’s creative community.
This looks like a nifty gadget that might make a lot of sense for certain lifestyles. Earlier on, this geek was playing with the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Pro and it packed a lot of features in a little device providing a pretty nice experience on Andriod. Looks like Sony Ericsson is going for smaller devices with more modular extensions like the LiveView. I haven’t played with one myself but you can find out more from the press release below.
Singapore, September 28th 2010 – Today sees the announcement of the Sony
Ericsson LiveView™. This innovative accessory is another step in Sony Ericsson’s commitment to help consumers get the very best mobile phone experience through the open Android platform. The Sony Ericsson LiveView™ is part of the Sony Ericsson Extras portfolio – a division which offers a total product experience and enhanced mobile possibilities.
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The Sony Ericsson LiveView™ uses Bluetooth™ connectivity to wirelessly pair up to a compatible handset and allows consumers to control the phone without taking it out of their pocket or handbag. Read text messages, see incoming calls and keep up to date with the latest news
on Facebook™ and Twitter™.
Looks like my favourite camera, the Canon PowerShot G11, just got better! I’m in cyberlust!
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London, UK, 14th September 2010 – Canon today announces the new PowerShot G12 – the latest model in the multi award-winning PowerShot G-series trusted by professional photographers the world over. The new model offers photographers best-in-class flexibility and all-round powerful performance, with professional levels of control and support for a wide range of accessories.
This geek is not familiar with thermal management inside the PC although I’ve dabbled a little with over-clocking before. This sounds like a breakthrough and I wonder how does it compare with some of the other cooling methods the extreme over-clockers use.
INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM 2010, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, SEPTEMBER 14, 2010– US Technology Consortium (USTC), the leading developer of Metrological Test Validation Tools for Debugging processors, today announced the achievement of the best cooling solution on the market. This cooling solution utilizes interlocking longitudinal axis, opposing jet technology. Called T-Collider Jet™ Cooling Technology, this technology comprises assets that are scalable, without inherent limitations of other fluid heat sinks, making it viable for applications from microprocessors, to servers, rack systems, data centers, radar, lasers, military and to aerospace and beyond.
This geek is currently in San Francisco for the Intel Developer Forum 2010 and Intel AppUp Elements. Lots of exciting announcements this week, here’s one of them.
xHCI Specification for USB 3.0 Reaches Maturity
Intel Developer Forum San Francisco 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SAN FRANCISCO–American Megatrends Inc (AMI), a leader in BIOS and computing innovations, and Fresco Logic, a global fabless semiconductor company delivering innovative SuperSpeed USB connectivity solutions collaborate to deliver xHCI 1.0 solutions to a key customer. This delivery establishes Fresco Logic and AMI as market leaders in USB3.0 host controller chip and in BIOS development, respectively.
Behold, the Camera Lens Mug, a mug that looks JUST LIKE a 24-105mm lens!
It’s equipped with a lens-cap lid, rubber-grip focus and zoom rings, and an auto-focus switch that actually switches! It’s so realistic, you might have to use post-its just to remind yourself which is your mug and which is your lens!
More info and photos from source @ Photojojo
This appeared in my inbox yesterday:
Dear,
”PLEASE THIS LETTER MUST REMAIN SECRET”
I am Olarn Chaipravat, former deputy prime minister during Thaksin Shinawatra regime which was ousted by a military coup on Sept 19 2006,and Martial law was imposed by the Council for Democratic Reform, now called the Council for National Security . After the Sept 19 coup, i would have called you on phone , but because the new government is taping the past goverment officials phone numbers, so it is no longer safe for me to call you, that is why i think it is safe to send you this mail. we are placed under surveillance.
However my main point of contacting you is to seek your sincere suggestion and guideline to invest in your country. And please because of my previous position in the government, i do not need to tell you of the absolute confidentiality which we both must have to observe, if we are to go into investment, or rather if you are to help me in investing in your country.
I desided to contact you now that I am very sure that all eyes are not on us as it was when the problem first began though we are still going to court but the environment is good now to handle the transaction very safely.
From the news publications attached here in respect of the goverment probes into much of the projects my ministry executed will make you to understand my position with the govenment now.
I thank you very much for taking time to go through my mail, and hope to read from your reply soon, .Thanks for your anticipated co-operation and my
regards to your family.
Good luck,and feel free to contact me on my email for now, until arrangements are made.
yours sincerely,
OLARN CHAIPRAVAT.
Please reply me for further details to (email removed by this geek)
I attach herewith my international passport. (picture after the break)
I stumbled upon this random page created for my blog, by Facebook apparently. Don’t have to time to investigate why or how it happened. But I take it as a wake up call for me to start a Facebook page for my blog so here it is, my brand new glorious Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Geekonomics/101925233191279
Actually I’m away in Bangkok now trying to look inconspicuous with my red shirt so I don’t have time to update the page much yet. However, I just got a pair of free tickets to give away for the Wonder Girls Music Showcase in Singapore this weekend (Thanks to Sony Ericsson and also to Hillary for passing me her extra ticket) so I will be picking a winner to join myself and Hillary at the concert this Friday evening!
How to join and win?
1. Like my new Facebook page
2. Tell us why you must go to this concert on the Facebook wall.
The answer we like the most wins!
Terms and Conditions applies:
1. Final decision is made by myself and Hillary and our decision is final. *evil laugh*
2. Closing date and time shall be Thursday night 8pm Singapore time. The winner will be notified via Facebook with details on the ticket collection.
More information on the concert taken from http://entertainment.xin.msn.com:
Back for more island lovin’, sensational Korean group The Wonder Girls are set to take our city with their addictive pop hits and maniac dance moves
Photo credits to MediaCorp
This is interesting. First of all, to have boot camps sprout out all over China for “internet addicts”. I’ve seen TV reports of these addicts given jabs daily but nobody knows what is contained in the jabs. And now this mutiny. Makes me wonder if these boot camps will ever open in countries like Singapore and Korea?
