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If you're still here, watching this blog, then it's about time I returned the favor. As of today, The Show and Teknolohiya will be no more - in their current states, at least. My new tech (and personal) blog will now be maintained at http://spacecowb0y.livejournal.com/
With that, I bid you all farewell, and I hope to see you all on the other side. Teknolohiya will be retained online for posterity and reference (at least as long as the LiveJournal servers are up), but this is officially its final post. Thank you all for sticking with me through its good and bad times, and I hope it's still fun the second time around.
-- The Show, 12:09 PM, 24 June 2006
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bluecatbashful, I'm sorry I wasted your money on a Paid Account. I'll make it up to you somehow!
With that, I bid you all farewell, and I hope to see you all on the other side. Teknolohiya will be retained online for posterity and reference (at least as long as the LiveJournal servers are up), but this is officially its final post. Thank you all for sticking with me through its good and bad times, and I hope it's still fun the second time around.
-- The Show, 12:09 PM, 24 June 2006
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Man, the Swedes have all the luck. Swedish semiconductor manufacturer Nanoradio AB has revealed the NRX700, a liliputian lowpower wi-fi chipset measuring only 20mm2. According to them, it's currently the smallest one of its kind in the market, not that consumers actually go out and shop for the smallest wi-fi chipsets at their local PC shop. The good news is that assuming it's widely accepted into the industry, then the magic of wireless Internet will find its way to the smallest next-generation gadgets and devices. Now all we need is consumer-level 100Mbps broadband like what's available in Sweden. Sigh. Due in Q3 2006, hopefully in devices by early 2007.
I can't even begin to describe how amazing this little guy is. It puts together two of the highest life priorities of a growing boy: cars and freaking cool robots. Transformers, GoBots, Voltes V, Bioman - the list goes on and on with just how awesome the result is when you mix them together. The figure so elegantly posed before you is a creation that does just that. The WR-07 is a transforming car/robot designed by Himeji Soft Works in Japan, and it's just mind boggling how all our Transformer dreams have now hit paydirt and is now a product of technology rather than science fiction. But what are you still doing here reading my stupid blog? Go watch the video at the link! Man, can you imagine something like this being built to scale as a real vehicle? Pimp. My. Ride.
Made the jump from CRT to LCD, but eternally frustrated by stuck pixels? You know the ones, they're the pixels that are stuck at a specific color like red, green, or blue, and are different from the black ones - those have died and gone to liquid crystal heaven. You may have heard about an article on WikiHow recently on a possible fix for the situation, which involves a damp cloth and some rubbing action, but if that doesn't work, then maybe this program can. It's called UDPixel, and though the tiny screenshot of it doesn't really say much, it tries to repair the stuck pixels by making the display undergo rapid color changes to force them to "get with the program," so to speak, and corrects the problem by properly circulating the liquid inside them (liquid crystals work through a combination of this liquid and the backlight of your monitor). It's not 100% guaranteed to work, but as the creator says himself - what have you got to lose by letting it run a few hours?
Like any growing Filipino techie, I grew up watching MacGyver, the "real world" hacker who made us believe that one could really disarm terrorist nukes with just paper clips and rubber bands. Well he's back, folks, and I'm sure you've all missed him as much as I have. Here now is MasterCard's Super Bowl XL commercial, and MacGyver is at it again with his own priceless brand of technology - sans the infamous mullet. Great to see you again, Mac! Full clip of the commercial as well as additional behind-the-scenes footage at the link. What I don't understand is why the A-Team theme is playing in my head whenever I play back the commercial. Guess I'm off to look for Mac's original theme.
Enough said. Goodbye shuffle - I guess people like the Front Row remote better than you now.
Sigh. Got into some trouble at work this week, so I'll have to offer my humble apologies for the lack of posts. But everything cleared up today, so I'll get right to it! Little known fact: I always have to have either a high quality set of speakers, or an equally nice pair of headphones. Every moment in my life has its own little soundtrack, and that soundtrack has to come through clear and just perfect. So, on my List of Favorite Techie Things, excellent peripherals come first, and powerful audio mediums a solid second. This pair right here is the Sony MDR-Z900HD, the high-definition successor to the MDR-Z900 before it, and bumps up its pappy's original 5Hz-30kHz range to an eardrum-shattering 5Hz-80kHz. My only problem with this (common) headphone design is the fact that the cans are very, very likely to break off from the head strap with continued use (I'm looking at you, A4Tech). No details on the price, but I must say Sony's doing a good job in the headphone department. Check out the second link for a list of locally available cans that offer great value and quality for their price.
The USB memory stick stick by OOOMS product design. I think the joke tells itself. Comes in more shapes and sizes than you can shake a sti--ah, screw it.
My friends and I had a good laugh while going through the