Hasta La Gadget!

I-wood — useless stump of a gadget or subtle commentary on the social misuses of technology? The sell:

 

With our exclusive 3B* technology, fast connection speeds, support for those of us who live in reality, and our all new applications, i-wood is the all-in-one solution you have been looking for. It will help you redefine your relationships with people by showing them how truly irritating they, and their portable devices, have become. [*3 Bamboo]

The design is oddly derivative of a certain other i-product, but the environmental impact is a lot lower (mostly because there are only a few in existence, not, like, a zillion) — hell, even the ink is green.

The maker, Jesse Willmon, describes it thusly:

 

I just wanted to show all of you a new fancy schmancy portable device that me and my wife created called the i-wood.  I thought i might be something you guys at wired might like (or really hate who knows) anyway take a look at www.iwood3b.com and let me know what you think.

Jesse, we love it. I will certainly be using it to “remind [my] friends how fun it used to be to actually know things instead of constantly referring to an electronic device.” (if I can remember), and checking out the other apps — Fantasy World (imagine it! In your head!), Meeting Ignore (give the finger to the boss) and Beat Down (“Give anyone a proper Beat Down just like the one they gave to Joe Pesci at the end of Casino.”)

The biggest surprise is that these are for sale. $10, no contract. Take that AT&T!

Product page [i-wood. Thank. Jesse!]

Not that Fujitsu’s totally new to the netbook arena or anything, but we’ve got to hand it to the outfit’s design team on this one. The newfangled LOOX M netbook is definitely handsome, even though the innards contain a list of hardware components that we could rattle off in our sleep. Ready? Here goes. A 1.6GHz Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 160GB hard drive (yawning yet?), WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, three USB 2.0 sockets and a multicard reader. If you’re suddenly overcome with déjà vu, you’re definitely not alone — ’tis a shame Fujitsu has the nerve to charge ¥59,800 ($611) for something that’s no more advanced than the original line of Eee PCs.

[Via Engadget Japanese]

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Fujitsu’s 10.1-inch LOOX M netbook looks good, positively average originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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And you thought Apple’s button-less “glass trackpad” was hot stuff. Sharp has just let loose details on its thoroughly Japanese Mebius PC-NJ70A, which sadly packs an exceptionally boring list of internal components but manages to stay interesting with a decidedly unorthodox trackpad. As you can see in the image above, Sharp has actually tossed an 854 x 480 resolution LCD right onto the palm rest, which automatically adjusts brightness based on surrounding light and can likely act as a secondary display for things like adjusting an equalizer with your digits. Beyond that, the netbook is downright drab, sporting just a 10.1-inch display (1,024 x 600), 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB HDD, three USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and a multicard reader. There’s no set price as of yet, but word on the street puts it right around ¥80,000 ($817). Glamor shot after the break.

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This article was written on April 07, 2009 by CyberNet.

It’s not often that I come across a bookmarklet that I’ll use everyday, but in the last few days PageZipper has become an unbelievable tool in my daily arsenal. Basically what it does is look for links on the page that say “Next”, and as you scroll down past that link it will automatically append the next page for you. That’s right, you’ll never have to click the “Next” button again (well, almost never).

I tested out the bookmarklet and it works exactly as advertised. You can use it on sites like Google, Digg, and it even works on our site. When you come across a page that you want this to activate for just click the bookmarklet, and then keep scrolling. The next page will eventually show up once you get all the way to the bottom.

Here are some of the PageZipper features:

• As you scroll to the bottom of a page, PageZipper automatically adds the next page to the bottom of the page you’re on.
• On image galleries, press Control+Down to skip directly to the next image in the gallery. Control+Up returns you to the previous entry. You can also use these keyboard shortcuts on any page that PageZipper works, making it easy to jump to the next page of results.
• PageZipper automatically resizes images in photo galleries to fit your browser window. So you always see the entire image without having to scroll

What I really like about this is that it’s not making a ton of unnecessary page requests. By that I mean it only fetches the next page once I get towards the end of the results, and it will only work if I decide to activate it via the bookmarklet. So it leaves me in control.

PageZipper is also available as a Firefox extension for those of you who would prefer not to have yet another thing on your bookmarks bar (the extension uses a toolbar icon). Either way, it is a must-have utility that I believe works way better than the alternatives out there.

PageZipper Homepage [via MakeUseOf]

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