The Sound Pillow: tampering with a classic

Info from someone who listens to his MP3 player while he sleeps, this is way cool!  I can never find a set of earbuds or headphones that don’t end up either falling out/off or hurting my ears.  Now, one would ask, why not just hook regular speakers up to it?  Well, the wife tends to not like my choice of music and tells me that it keeps her up or wakes her up in the middle of the night…  This might actually be worth trying…

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Household

Open letter to manufacturers of household products: Stop messing with the classic pillow design by trying to get all high tech and cutesy. That means no more MP3 playing pillows, no networked pillows for "communicating" with loved ones, no pillows that record us snoring, no pillows that indicate current surfing conditions, and definitely no pillows with artificial heartbeats. Chillows, however, are still allowed. That is all. Since we'll get in trouble if we don't mention the actual product here:  the Sound Pillow is just a regular pillow with embedded speakers and a stereo plug, designed by the UK's Royal National Institute for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing to sooth tinnitus sufferers (which actually makes it sound kind of useful, thus negating our whole introductory rant), and costing about $44.

[Engadget]

Superstition, (Fri, Jan 13th)

I hope my buddy Bill does ok today.  I seem to recall that he has Triskaidekaphobia or Paraskevidekatriaphobia.  I think it is the first one but anyway, I guess I shouldn’t also mention that it should be a full moon tonight…..

Hack your 4GB iPod nano to 8GB?

Way cool!  But, if I had put out the dough to get an iPod, I would be afraid to break it open and start messin’ with it. 

Filed under: Portable Audio

We definitely absolutely positively cannot attest to the validity of efficacy of this hack, but word on the street is you can actually solder in a dead iPod nano's guts (namely the Samsung flash chips) to double that storage to 8GB on a formerly 4GB nano -- and the guy who's making the claims is also offering up his services to do so for a paltry $225 (which includes shipping, natch). Buyer / modder / hacker beware -- you know what they say about things seeming too good to be true. That said, anyone given it a go yet?

[Via hack a day]

[Engadget]

Good Enough For Frank

Hehe, I have to agree with Noded that this is the best blond joke ever.

An Umbrella That Makes Sense (We Think)

This would be cool but what they need is an umbrella that is surgically attached so I don’t leave it in the car when I go INTO the office….. 

Do you demand the dopest umbrella around with the ultimate rain-prediction technology? Look no further than the Forcasting Umbrella from Ambient Devices. Announced at CES, the Forcasting Umbrella does what every umbrella on the face of the earth should do: lets you know if it's going to rain. The umbrella is connected to Ambient's network and can automatically tell you the day's weather. If rain is near, the handle will glow blue meaning you should open Mr. Umbrella up and make haste to your car. This way, if you're leaving the office and aren't sure if you should drag the umbrella along with you, just look at the handle and you'll know what to do. No price has been set.

Forcasting Umbrella [Cool Hunting]
[Gizmodo]

Unintentially Geeky Joke In Apple's Share Price

This is funny.  I looked it up on yahoo: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL and it is true.  Too funny. 

Unless you're the sort of person who immediately recognized why the folks at Google originally sought to raise $2,718,281,828 in its IPO, you might want to just pass over this story. A reporter at News.com noticed an extremely unintentional inside joke with Apple's closing share price today. On the very day the company officially announced its first Intel-based product, Apple's stock price closed at $80.86. If you don't get it, it's time to read up on your computer history. No, there is no way at all that this was intentional. However, that doesn't make it any less amusing.

[Techdirt]

Updated to Wordpress 2.0

Well, we will see if this works.  The new admin console looks kewl!!!