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NOW in downtown San Francisco: Two crazies rappelling down the Grand Hyatt. It's a long way down, and it is windy #sf

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Posted 5 days ago

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Posted 18 days ago

First impressions on my first day with iPhone 4

First impressions on my first day with iPhone 4:

  • Retina Display blows your mind. When you compare it side-by-side to previous model, you cannot believe how in heavens you could have stared at the foggy world of yesterday. Is THAT noticeable. Best feature for me so far! Granted, I am a designer at heart that loves staring at the minutiae of visuals. 
  • High-end hardware. So much indeed, it feels extremely fragile. All this glass wrapping heavy-feeling metal... not a thing you want to drop. The design feels as if this device came from the future, and tele-transported into your hand. 
  • The glossy glass, the smooth metal borders and the flat design, make for a very slippery device. Read point above. Read point below. Get the Bumper cover. 
  • If you are a lefty, buy the aforementioned Bumper plastic cover, otherwise your hand will short reception dramatically by bridging the antennas around the body ( lower left corner seems to be the culprit). I personally can't belief Apple let this design flaw pass through quality-assurance process. Biggest problem overall. 
  • It feels faster than 3GS. Way smoother animations on the UI. You definitely sense you got an upgrade on the deal. 
  • You understand the justification for Retina Display once you play with HD video and 5 MP camera. 
  • I was enthused about FaceTime videoconference until I saw the egg-shaped head produced by my tiny front lens. Egad! Couldn't Apple solve ugliness through software? Not something I would be proud to display. Nevertheless, the video is smooth... Although the switch between front and back camera was glitchy on some of my trials. 
  • Many surprises within the OS. I particularly like attaching a Bluetooth keyboard and basically enjoying a mini laptop wherever I go. 
  • IPhone 4 kills the joy of your iPad. Suddenly ages the later by about a year. 


Bottom line:

  1. Best features for me: Retina Display. It has changed the game of UI design. The gorgeous hardware will undoubtedly be copied and replicated by competition ushering a Bauhaus Renaissance. 
  2. Worst feature: The ability to short the antenna... And the somewhat uneasy feel in the hand coupled with a perception of extreme fragility. 
  3. Buy it if you are a geek. Buy it if you like to take videos of your kids. Buy it if you enjoy reading on the go. 

 

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Posted 1 month ago

Last hug from dad

The last time I saw my dad before his untimely death.
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Los Angeles, California, USA
September 23, 2006. 1:40PM

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Posted 5 months ago

iType brings a full-size physical keyboard to the iPhone... Why???

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This product seems to defeat the whole point of mobility... If you need to lug a netbook-size keyboard for a netbook price to attach to your iPhone... Why not go ahead and purchase a netbook with a decent screen? Makes no sense and whoever uses this monstruosity will be the object of much derison.

What the iPhone could benefit from (for those that need it) is a fully portable keyboard accessory, something that rolls, bends or collapses into something the size of the iPhone itself (Maybe even turning into a protective case).

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Posted 6 months ago

iLuv App Station

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Nice use of the iPhone when it is charging... Will the screen get burned out?

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Posted 6 months ago

Sanyo Xacti VPC-CS1

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1080p High-Deffinition in your pocket!
...We are one step way from the fingernail camera

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Posted 6 months ago

Samsung SyncMaster MD230

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Someday I will have toys like this, not sure why, how or where I will fit them... But dream I can

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Posted 6 months ago

Merry Christmas!!! ...Today?

Nope, I did not finish the expired eggnog this evening... I better explain:

Not too many people will know this, but 10 days were "skipped" in 1582 when Italy and a handful of European Catholic countries (among them my home country Spain) transitioned from Julian Calendar to Gregorian Calendar (Motivated by the church to better deal with leap years and to sincronize the celebration of several versions of Easter).

"The last day of the Julian calendar was Thursday, 4 October 1582 and this was followed by the first day of the Gregorian calendar, Friday, 15 October 1582 (the cycle of weekdays was not affected)"

To make things more complicated: Many other countries took much longer to adopt this change (because of religious, cultural, political or simple geographical isolation reasons), and the difference in day-counting kept increasing, so the British colonies (Eastern USA today) "deleted" 11 days in 1752. 12 days were "gone" in Alaska in 1867 (later adjusted to 11). 13 days "lost" by Russia in 1918, and 13 days "removed" in Greece... as recently as 1923!

Bottom line: When you specify the date of a historical event before 1923, it can mean different days in different countries! In fact, my Russian friends still celebrate a second "Old Calendar" Christmas today (therefore the title of this post) and New Year's on January 13th.

More fascinating facts on this topic in the following link, including many other irregularities and adjustments on our calendar that seem to mock any attempts to take the horoscope seriously (as if it were necessary) and that somewhat trivialize the controversy on when the next decade really begins.  

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Posted 6 months ago

Product designers rejoice: OLED promises to shape light itself


Industrial design has a new ingredient in the kitchen of product creativity: Light source will be now a malleable, bendable, shapeable material thanks to the Organic Electro-Luminescence phenomenon being harnessed by the likes of Konika Minolta's scientists.

http://www.konicaminolta.com/about/research/oled/index.html

No more fragile glass bulbs, no more cumbersome diodes, no more unsightly sockets... Beyond backlighting current crop of flat displays, you will soon be able to lay a blanket of light around surfaces, even curved and flexible ones. Light will simply emanate from any product skin as if it coming from the heavens!!

Additional benefits:
  1. Large area surface (ceilings will now be THE source of light!)
  2. Energy efficient (30% of a fluorescent light)
  3. Low heat (cool to the touch)
  4. Thin & lightweight (product does not need to be bulky to provide light source)
  5. Flexible (wrap it around, roll it in and out)
  6. Green (good for the planet)
Technology is indeed becoming indistinguishable from magic. Next stop: malleable, bendable, shapeable video screens (Think music videos on your raincoat!) Following stop: OLED Video paint? (You read it first here).

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Posted 7 months ago