Archive for June, 2005

About hardware, and avoiding “lock-in”

I’ve been asked and also been asking myself the same question, over and over again, over the recent weeks and months: Nintendo DS or Sony PSP? I’ve finally come to a decision, and it is: neither. This is the reason: I don’t like hardware of software that makes decisions for me. I don’t want to […]

How come every other continent gets the cool appliances first?

Yeah yeah, so some guy in California invented the Segway, I still haven’t seen one on the street yet. Big deal, what I want is a Dressman shirt iron by Siemens. It’s an auto-iron for shirts: you put a shirt on it, press a button, and it inflates to fill the shirt, and then irons […]