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iPhone 4 sales open for pre-order

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

After staring at the temporarily unavailable iPhone 4 pre-order page all night, the Apple store finally opens for business. The newly priced iPhone 3GS is available, as is the the black iPhone 4. The iPhone 4 white version seems to be left out from the party at this time. iphone4This may disappoint many as there seem to be a lot of people waiting specifically for the new white version. Unfortunately the pre-order requires checking with AT&T Wireless, which at this time is mostly down due to the pounding of the masses on the poor proxy gateways that lead to the AT&T Wireless website. Yet again the AT&T partnership will frustrate the masses of Apple fans, and make all of the the work by the Apple systems admins to make sure the website experience is zippy clean, rather useless as many sit and watch the spinning busy (and sometimes timeout) issues of AT&T. For now hopefully, the evil spinning cursor of death will end soon and life can move on …

Honda U3-X transport or office chair

Monday, June 7th, 2010

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Up until now, I’ve had quite a few news views of the Honda U3-X mobility transport.

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The device has shown up in technology news, auto news, robot news. It is a quite futuristic looking device, for which there really has been descriptions of it’s innovation. Yet what is it? It’s a chair.

Now this in no way diminishes the coolness of the unit, but I think a little more could be done to help demonstrate that part of the description. The Asimo site has a great picture of some of the researchers sitting on the U3-x.

Depending on the price, it could make an awesome office chair (although at the same time contributing to the obeseness of Americans). But until the release date, we will all have to continue to walk to get that bag of Cheetos.

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