Future Fantasy Gadget: Soundwave MP3 Player

I would buy one or two. :)

Friday's Fantasy Future Gadget has a very simple premise: we'll give you one of the best ideas ever conceived for free. You have to buy us a jet plane when you make a million dollars with it, though. Today's gadget would sell, like, eight nine eleven millions or thousands millions in a week, guaranteed.

The premise is simple. Someone needs to purchase the rights to use the image of Soundwave, the evil Decepticon Transformer, from Hasbro. Then make a hard disk-based MP3 player out of Soundwave (slightly smaller than the original Transformer toy, though, for portability) that actually transforms. Then sell the individual transforming cassette Transformers (Casseticons, was it?) as individual USB flash-based MP3 players that can be placed inside the larger Soundwave unit to extend its library.

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Friendly Fire By Design

When I first read this I thought that the drone was firing AT the people.  :)

I give our fighting forces a hard time, sometimes, but it's not because I think they are all babykiller jugheads (which is too bad, because I hate babies). In fact, one of the worst things I can think of is fighting for your country and taking a bullet or worse, then lying in a combat zone bleeding to death because it's too dangerous to send in a medic. Well, thankfully, the Pentagon -- who has never found a problem they couldn't shoot a missile at -- has developed an 32-inch long Quick-MEDS projectile that can be fired by an unmanned flying drone at wounded soldiers without jeopardizing unwounded troops; the projectile is filled with blood, bandages, oxygen, burn packs, vaccines, and bio-chem antidotes -- a medical missile.

Read - MEDICAL MISSILE PREPPED FOR LAUNCH [DefenseTech]

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More Details About Alpine iPod Interface

I would love one of these...  But it would cost more than my car.  $3000.00 stereo, $300.00 car. :(

MacCentral has more details about Alpine's upcoming in-car iPod interface, including the single-greatest quote ever to slip past the lips of a VP of Marketing, "Consumers love a knob more than anything." I've been saying that for years.

The Alpine unit looks nice, though. I think the best thing is that it's part of a whole system, so that any Ai-Net-equipped head unit can interface with the iPod, including using the aforementioned knob to scroll through like you would with the iPod's built-in wheel. Better than iPod Your BMW, that's for sure.

Read - Alpine offers details on forthcoming iPod interface [MacCentral]

Related
Alpine's KCA-420i iPod Interface Available in September [Gizmodo]

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DoubleClick blacks out from Web attack

Cry me a river...

[Neowin.net]

Today Player

For those of you who don't have in iPod but *DO* have an iPaq or PocketPC of some kind, check this out:

http://www.todayplayer.com/

 

I like it loads better than the built in WMP and slightly better the pPod er.. pBop (oh wait, we cant have that anymore, thanks Apple)

Mydentity at work

I happen to like googlenym over the other options. :)

 

That is... when google is working ;)

Googlenym is spreading. Current count: 155.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

More Motorola RAZR V3 Pics

Boy! it sure is wafer thin.  I would be afraid I would break the thing... Or spread butter and jam on it for a snack!

Cellphone site HowardForums' infamous 'BengalBoy' got his hands on one of those v. v. hot Motorola RAZR V3 phones and had the temerity courtesy to rub it in our faces share it with us all via about eight million pictures. That phone already has its detractors -- some say it isn't powerful enough -- but boy are those people are wrong; this is going to be one popular phone.

Read - BengalBoy's Motorola V3 Razors [HowardForums via SlashPhone]

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