Archive for May, 2008

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Invisible Shield: protect your gadget by not using it

A couple weeks ago I saw @waynesutton tweet about ordering an Invisible Shield™ cover for his new N95. That reminded me that I had seen the rather impressive video demonstrating this polymer film’s toughness on YouTube. Developed originally to protect the leading edge of military helicopter blades, they say, the stuff has ridiculous […]

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Sunday, May 4th, 2008

External microphone for N95: the final word (we hope)

This is just one of those things I need to put out there for the Google-bots to find and index for posterity. Despite there being one YouTube video out there that comes really close to getting this right, and despite the immense collection of geekery within the N95 user base, there still arises the […]

15 Comments » - Posted in Cool things, Geekery, Media, Mobile, Netroots, Video by shelbinator

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

She’s such a gas bag

It’s been one of those weeks around here, have you noticed? Grading final projects and owing a report to NASA totally killed my plan to bore you all with several look-what-my-phone-can-do tech posts this week, so maybe that’s a good thing.
And more frustrating is that I didn’t get to weigh in on just […]

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