2007 Predictions!!
A new year is around the corner for all new gadgets. After Computer Electronic Show (CES) in January, everyone will get an idea of what products will be out there, but CES doesn’t not exactly have 100% reliability of when the products will be on the market.
So I thought it would be a good time where I could give my 2007 predictions of what will happen with Gadgets, Phones, Operating systems, Gaming, Mp3 players, & Websites.
Viewing Legend: If you see a green $ at the end of my prediction, it indicates that I will actually purchase it in 2007.
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Halo Kitty T Shirt & Threadless.com
This is the coolest T-shirt out there for all you girl/women Halo gamers! It is a t shirt made by Magilla-DA-Killah and it is on Threadless.com but NOT ready for purchase. Why is it not ready for purchase? This t shirt did NOT win to become manufactured. Confused yet? Well, Threadless.com allows you to submit your own t-shirt design and they the post the pictures of your shirt to be voted. Then YOU vote for which t-shirt you want Threadless to manufacturer. So if your t-shirt gets the most votes you not only get your t-shirt manufactured, but you also win a cash prize of $2,000!!! Plus sometime the prizes has been “iPods, CDs, DVDs, autographed band merch, books, software, extra cash and more!” One of the creators, Jake Nickell, won a contest for his t shirt design in London. So, he thought this would be an awesome concept to do it worldwide, hence he started up this company. It order to increase you odds for your T shirt to be made, Threadless have themed competitions going on with a date range, but that shouldn’t stop you from submitting your own designed t shirt!
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Blogger Beta
In the past few months all the blogger users have noticed problems with Blogger. It has been real frustrating not being able to post entries or even log in! Well there was a reason for all the delays. Google has been working on Blogger and finally developed a new user friendly interface for the Blogger accounts. Google developed the new service on December 5, 2006. The new design allows users to change their blog template layout with easy functions and without having to use all the HTML code. Another new function are the labels. Labels (a.k.a categories) can be used in your sidebar of your blog. These labels help you organize your blog in a more orderly fashion, so when people come across your blog they can see multiple categories of what you’ve posted. The categories are kind of like the tags used on Flickr.com and other website sources. Also, whenever you log in, you have a new streamlined dashboard.
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Condolences to Kim Family
All of us here at Techiediva.com would like to give our condolences to the Kim family for their loss. This has been a hard time for this family and they’re going through a lot. Some of us here at Techiediva have personally gone through a loss in our family too. There are no words to bring the person back, but now the family has something that is closer to them than before. James is still continuing his love for his family & friends at all times. He is still watching out for them just as he did in his heroic efforts. He will be with his family every step they take from this day forward.
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Nike Amp +
November 30, 2006 by Nick
Filed under iPod/iPhone
Remember the old Nike iPod Hack post? Well, Engadget found a new cool Nike iPod accessory called the Nike Amp on the 2007 Men’s Health Tech Guide. For around $80 you can buy this new Bluetooth wristband and not have mess around with your iPod while running, like the old armband. This wristband has a LED display that illuminates from below the mesh of the band. So it is hidden while you are running, but you can still display the song, race pace, distance, and duration. In the picture you can see a little bit of red lettering, that is the LED display. No news on when it is coming up, but my guess is that you will see it at MacWorld in January.
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Tivocast, Treo 680, Sweet Skins, Zune
November 26, 2006 by Nick
Filed under Video Reviews
A little review of the new Tivocast, Sweetskiz, & Treo 680 on amazon.
Another thing. We would like do know what you think about the Zune. To Zune or not to Zune?Quicktime Ipod
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Understanding How RSS Works
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a web content syndication format (XML-based) that is used for content distribution. Confused yet? I was until I started learning more about RSS. This is the best way I can describe it to my friends in order for them to understand: Television controllers allow you to set certain buttons on your remote for a specific TV station. Heck even, your local news has a certain button for you to turn to watch the news i.e. Channel 3 news at 6 o’ clock. So you press channel 3 and boom, you’re there.
RSS is KIND of like that for the web. RSS is better than TV channel saving, it’s like a TIVO. TV channel saving just saves the TV station number, unless you have a TIVO (DVR). A TIVO allows you to record specific shows that you want to watch. That is what RSS does. It records any new changes to a particular website that you frequently go to and it automatically updates for you. It basically narrows down any new updates to the website. RSS is used for a number of news websites, blogs, and vlogs (video blogs).
So how do you subscribe to a website? Well first the webmaster must have an RSS feed for you to subscribe to. Those feeds are buttons on the website where you click to subscribe. (Like the picture above)
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Babysitter Around Your Neck
The baby-business has been going high tech for quite a few years now, but never did we actually wear an electronic baby sitter around our neck before. Now we can: mom’s around the world, be aware… this is scary. You can strap on a contraption, attach some electrodes to junior’s bottom (yes!) and his nipples (YES!), and you will be automatically altered when he poos, or get’s cold.
It saves baby sitter costs, but really… I wonder if it also alerts you when the child is hungry, crying or just plain lonely? The concept was introduced at the ubiquitous fashionable computer show in Korea.
I don’t really think this will catch on with parents around here though. Were would you leave the kid? At home? Or just at the coat check. In any event, you can always use it as a very fancy necklace.
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Griffin iKaraoke
November 16, 2006 by Nick
Filed under iPod/iPhone
Griffin Technology has done it again with the iPod. One of the coolest products out there for this winter is the iPod iKaraoke. This iKaraoke is compatible with the mini, nano, ipod (4GB), and iPod video. It sends music to from your iPod to your Stereo via line-in cable, or wirelessly through your FM receiver. The iKaraoke cuts out all the lead vocal just like any other karaoke machine. Then, just use the cool little microphone to sing away or even, pause/play/next/previous the song too. It even comes with reverb effect to make your singing either sound better or worse. iKaraoke hooks up to your stereo.
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MP3 Bike Player with Speakers
November 16, 2006 by Nick
Filed under MP3 Players
One of my favorite catalogs is Hammacher Schlemmer. They also have the new cool techie gadgets. However they have this new MP3 player for your bike and has speakers too!! Or you can use it with your headphones. It is a 1GB MP3 flash player that attaches to any bike that has 1" frame tube. The player also has an SD/MMC memory card slot. It requires 4 AAA batteries . It can be synced with your Mac or PC with the USB cable. Another cool thing about this $130 product, is that it is water resistant too!!
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