Great Scott!!
Back in elementary school after Back to the Future II came out, I may have told everyone that I built one at my house. I had the diagrams and everything. Needless to say, when my friend said he also built one I asked me to show us HIS drawings. That’s right…he didn’t have any.
FTW.
So, apparently an artist actually made a REAL hoverboard…and it’s everything that after watching Marty fly by the clocktower – I thought it would be..I mean it’s like the one I made.
Exit Quote – Hoverboard still don’t work on water.
Did Google Android Just KO Apple’s iPhone?
Based on the iPhone 4.0 sneak preview and yesterday’s Google Android 2.2 demo, I for the first time want to have a full cover on my iPhone to not let people know I don’t have a Droid. Time will tell if this stands, but right now it’s looking like Android 1, iPhone 0.
It boggles my mind since the iPhone came out first, controls its own hardware, and has such a large and vocal user base. Android sputtered out of the gate, and has to deal with wildly different hardware specs and had a lot of catching up to do.
Is it the iPhone’s Kryptonite?
So exactly why should you be looking at Droid phones when the iPhone 4.0 is just around the corner? From Gizmodo on yesterday’s announcement (excerpts). It’s all about the Android 2.2 software, also known as Froyo.
- Froyo lets you turn your phone into a hotspot—which means it can be your wireless internet for your wi-fi devices, including friends around you, your iPad, or even your laptop.
- 5X faster processing than the previous version of Android (2.1..what’s on phones now) and the fastest mobile web browser in existence. iPhone is lucky to double their speed with each new release.
- it runs Flash. Whether or not it runs it well is TBD (supposedly pretty decent) but Apple has decided the internet will be filled with little question mark boxes. (as Google put it “We discovered something cool: It’s called the internet.”)
- Downloading music or apps on your computer, then synching with a cable. Nope. Over the Air (OTA) synching to your phone. Want long time.
- A variety of other tweaks and fixes meshing your browser and other native apps (like camera) and more usability settings, etc.
- If you have a Droid phone (at least most newer ones) you’ll just upgrade and get all these features in a few weeks or a few months.
- full details at Gizmodo. also check out Google is Leapfrogging Apple
Hey, iPhone’s got multitasking, wallpaper, and folders coming. Oh wait, those were in Google’s last version already.
Sigh. We’ll see. I hope all those new features brick everyone’s phone 
Convenience Store Hero Restores My Faith
Not too long back a homeless man helped a woman who was being attacked, and was stabbed. Over 2 dozen people walked by and didn’t help him. He ended up dying. It was all caught on tape. There have been numerous versions of this lately caught on tape and it is shocking. (See video at the bottom of the post).
Maybe it was always that way we just didn’t have YouTube. Or maybe we’re too absorbed in our cell phones and our own lives to bother. Maybe big government has taught us we don’t even need to help ourselves, let alone know how to help someone else. Or maybe we’re desensitized to real violence from the movies.
Whatever it is, this video below of a man who uses a beer bottle to thwart a would-be robber with a gun makes me feel a bit better. The report below says it all. Best wishes to him in recovery.
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Is Technology Leaving Us Passed By?
One of my favorite gadget sites, Gizmodo, featured a story from the wife of one of the writers about how technology is changing so fast and furious we’ve completely lost some important ways we used to communicate in only a few years — and today’s generation will never have known them.
Love letters, long conversations, labeling the white paper in cassette tapes, having to wait for something to rewind, listening to whole albums instead of singles, physically visiting the library for research….the list is endless and once technology leaves, it takes everything with it for something else — better?
Her name is Anna Jane—author of Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By
I think about this type of thing all the time, the report below is very interesting and her recent book looks like it might be worth picking up.
Not reading on the iPad, physically picking it up.
