July 18, 2005

Delicious

Delicious Monster, creator of Delicious Library software has won the prestigious Apple Design Award. I never had the time to check out the software, but it's nifty, with a couple of amazing features, utilizing your iSight camera to read bar codes of books, CDs, DVDs.

Posted by Henning von Vogelsang at 08:33 AM | Comments (0)

May 31, 2005

iPhone or SkypePod?

Engadget picked it up from The Wireless Weblog. Apparently Skype had enough of dealing with reluctant phone companies and hesitant network vendors:

Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom announced the company plans to put out a VoWLAN phone, which will allow customers to connect to the Skype voice network via WiFi. Not too many specifics were given, other than that it’ll be out later this year. Let’s hope they inject it with a little more style than Vonage’s retro-cell aesthetic employed on the UTStarcom F1000, their first offering in the WiFi phone department.

To pull this off, what Skype needs to do right is simple and twofolded. One, they need to make an excellent phone with seamless software/hardware integration. Just like the iPod . Two, they need to be able to create an enormous hype within three to four years, just like the iPod did. Hold on a second.—"Mr. Jobs? There is a phone call for you from Mr. Niklas Zennstrom?.."

Posted by Henning von Vogelsang at 05:41 AM | Comments (0)

September 25, 2004

Find your iPod to find your keys

Speaking of innovations, here is another one. You're gonna love this. It's something that makes your iPod even more useful. Griffin Technology came out with a plugin flashlight for your iPod. Yes, you can find your keys with it now. Isn't that amazing? Now you never have to look for your keys again. You just have to look for your iPod, and then look for that little white thingy that plugs into it, and voila, you have a flashlight and now you can look up your keys. That's a really useful $400 flashlight.

Am I the only one who finds that amusing, or do we all want to go out in clustered groups now, joining the hordes who came late to the iPod shopping party and arm ourselves with a brand new Griffin iPod flashlight? We can test it then and find out if it actually is as useful as promised.

But you know, I shouldn't be that harsh. Cause it's really hard. I mean, what do you do if you're third party developer for an uber-fetish. How can you top functionality of something that does, well, play music everywhere you go? Because Apple doesn't want to come up with a real PDA, you can already put text and your calendar dates on your iPod. So you can look up which date you missed cause you couldn't find your keys.

At least it sounds a lot cooler to say "I didn't hear your call cause I was listening to my iPod", even though that won't bring her back to you.

Posted by Henning von Vogelsang at 03:29 PM | Comments (0)