Photos: Is this pen mightier?
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Livescribe's Pulse is targeted toward people who take a lot of notes, and it's capable of recording sound, translating language, and calculating math equations.
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Here are a few digital cameras designed for those who want more control than the usual point-and-shoot gives.
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&#147;This latest head turner manages to better its clever predecessor in design &#151; no small achievement,&#148; writes Edward C. Baig for Forbes.com. &#147;The back of the computer is elegant in its simplicity. You can loosen three captive screws to remove the cover to add, say, extra memory, or a wireless AirPort networking card.&#148; [Sep 30]
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I've not made much of a secret of the fact that I've been working on a new product, and am getting close to offering it as a public pre-alpha thing for Mac users only.  It's fairly Flickr-centric, sucking photos down from Flickr in a variety of ways and pushing up photos in others. Like Radio 8 and Google Reader, it has the ability to maintain an output feed of stuff you want to pass on to friends and associates. As I was developing this I wished that Flickr had the ability to store simple text files, because I needed a place to put an RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures on behalf of each user. Of course I used Amazon S3, but I had to implement my own lightweight identity system so that Juan couldn't accidentally or intentionally replace Alice's feed. If only every user had a place where they could store stuff that's net accessible so that once and for all we could stop inventing new places. I was inspired to write about this when I read an Uncov review of Pownce where they reminded me that they were reselling S3 storage at a big markup. What if the users had their own S3 storage that they paid for themselves?  Then it occurred to me to ask if people thought S3 could be an end-user thing. I'd like to find out, so if some non-technical users who have Amazon accounts would like to try setting up an S3 account, I'd be interested in hearing how it goes. Here's an idea of how you get started. 1. You must already have an Amazon account. Nothing special about it, if you buy shirts or books or stereo equipment from Amazon, you use the same account for S3 storage. Already that's pretty easy, millions of people have Amazon accounts, right? 2. Visit this page on Amazon, ignore all the stuff about objects and buckets. In the right margin is a big button that says "Sign up for this web service." Click the button. A very familiar page appears, asking you to sign into your Amazon account as if you were going to buy something (you are!). 3. From there, I'm not sure what you see, because I have already enabled my account. But the end result of signing up is that you get two strings with weird names: Your Access Key ID and Your Secret Access Key. Any software that would save a document in S3-space on your behalf would need these two strange strings. In return each document would have a URL just like any other document on the web. Nothing strange about that.  4. You could also use the space to store stuff using an FTP-like app that runs in Firefox called S3 Organizer. It's about as hard to use as the Mac Finder or the Windows Explorer, i.e. it's no challenge for a moderately geeky user. The cool thing about it is that you're able to share anything you upload into S3 space with anyone else. You can even use BitTorrent to access any file to save you bandwidth bills and distribute the load round the net. It's all very easy to do, imho. As a developer who has to pay for his users' storage needs I would very much like to see users learn how to use S3 to store their stuff, so I can focus on writing software and fixing bugs instead of paying to store your stuff.
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If you attended last week's Emerging Technologies Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, you probably weren't on the lookout for ways to become a better typist. This is MIT, after all -- Rocket Science Central. Couldn't they offer something more challenging?
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As a reporter, I'm never sure when the muse will strike or an editor will call. That's why I send copious notes and drafts of stories to myself by e-mail. As long as I'm within range of a computer with an Internet connection, I know I'll be able to tweak the latest version or do a quick fact check.
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By Al Gibes, Las Vegas Review-Journal  Jun. 5--VEXING ELECTRONIC TEXT, DISPLAYS YOU CAN FLEX HIGHLIGHT ANOTHER  NET NOTES: Thoughts on electronic publishing; an alternative way to read; and  new ultrathin flexible displays fill this edition of reader-contributed Net  Notes.
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It's hard to resist these increasingly handy devices. But should you try?
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Reader Abhinay Tibdewal sends us a photograph.
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One of these things is not like the others ...
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In photo land, a new gizmo extreme white balancing than the traditional white paper. David Becker's PMA coverage continues in Gadget Lab.
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Reader Tejinder Singh sends us a picture.
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I&#8217;ve been sitting on this for a week now, not sure how to properly frame or present it. Paul Southworth described it as &#8220;&#8230;like getting a Valentine from God.&#8221; Today it came in the mail and I decided the best thing to do was just photograph the unboxing. This office is now hallowed ground. I [...]
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Somebody call Superman. He&#39;ll be happy to know Kryptonite can be neutralized with a BIC ballpoint pen. The superpowered U-shaped bicycle lock, impervious to heavy-duty
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[B]By IVANA MARTINI  Word to the wise, morsels: Never commit your brainstorms to cocktail napkins. I've been documenting the odd flashes of brilliance for some time, doodling inventions and scribbling pearl onions of wisdom between Gibsons.
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Digital cameras tend to be delicate. The LCD display and lens on my pricey Canon point-and-shoot were damaged recently because I had the audacity to carry a pocket-size camera, minus a case, in well, my pocket. A second Canon died when I dropped it in a kiddie pool.
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Tycho:  I uploaded the comic early, as many of you noticed.  I entered the wrong number in the update field.  You may also have noticed that the spelling in these posts has really gone to hell.  So, that's numbers and letters.  I hope to one day discover a set of pictograms with which I can manage some baseline fucking proficiency.