“Apple is set to release an all-new line of Macbook Pro notebooks next year. But what’s more intriguing is that rumors have already claimed that Apple has already started developing the new models at Quanta, Taiwan. Moreover, the source also cited that the 2012 Macbook Pro will serve as a “milestone” for the company’s future notebook models.”Source
I want to upgrade my computer this year. I’m looking forward to the new Macbook Pro Notebook’s display resolution of 2880 x 1800.
3. Samsung flip-screen MV800 compact camera
As you know, Aryanna and I love using PopBooth. Unfortunately, the app produces super low res images. With the new Samsung MV800, we’d have better quality photos (16.1 Megapixel resolution and 5X optical zoom).
Samsung MV800 MultiView Digital Camera
What we love: “Magic Frame” which provides 12 preset background templates and lets you customize your own, a Picture-in-Picture lets you insert one image into another (so you can take a group shot and then slot a self-portrait in), a “storyboard” function, artistic “Smart Filters” for fish eye, vignetting and brushstroke effects and “Funny Face” portraits that let you morph images using the touchscreen.
We want this camera!
Coolness: The 3.0″ Flip-Out Display lets you take great pictures from any angle. Snap a picture over a crowd, get waist-level candids of kids and pets, or spin the display for perfectly framed self-portraits. Make any shot possible by simply adjusting the LCD from 0 to 180 degrees.
4. PX 680 color material for Polaroid 600 cameras and SX-70 models with an ND filter
According to Washinton Post’s “In/Out” List, Instagram is “Out” and Gold-Edition Polaroid is “In”. GQ.com also listed it at part of their “100 Best Things In The World!”. I can understand why:
The Impossible Project manufactures new instant film for vintage cameras. Its limited Gold Edition works with all Polaroid 600 models and produces black-and-white instant images framed in gold. The newest generation of the PX 680 color material for Polaroid 600 cameras and SX-70 models with an ND filter, framed in a gorgeous gold frame.
PX 680 Color Shade FF images are sensitive to light during their first seconds outside of the camera. Shield the images from light immediately after their ejection from the camera and during the first four minutes of development to get stunningly colorful images.
5. iPad3
No need for explanation.
Out this March!
Shopingero/shopingera, which gadget would you want to own?
R.I.P. Steve Jobs February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011
Thank you Manny Del Rosario for reminding me about this video. This is one of my favorites too!
Here’s to all the “crazies”!
Are you crazy enough to change the world?
Here are some inspiring Steve Job quotes:
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”
“We’ve gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.”
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
“I want to put a ding in the universe.”
“I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when I was 24, and over $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn’t that important because I never did it for the money.”
“The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They’re just like dead fish washing up on the shores.”
“Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don’t know any better.”
“Bill Gates‘d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.”
“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.”
“My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better.”
“We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.”
“Click. Boom. Amazing!”
“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”
“A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.”
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
“Recruiting is hard. It’s just finding the needles in the haystack. You can’t know enough in a one-hour interview.
So, in the end, it’s ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they’re challenged? I ask everybody that: ‘Why are you here?’ The answers themselves are not what you’re looking for. It’s the meta-data.”
“We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren’t going to lay off people, that we’d taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place – the last thing we were going to do is lay them off.”
“I mean, some people say, ‘Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.’ And, you know, I think it wouldn’t be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple.
My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that’s what I try to do.”
“It’s not about pop culture, and it’s not about fooling people, and it’s not about convincing people that they want something they don’t. We figure out what we want. And I think we’re pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That’s what we get paid to do.
We just want to make great products. (I think he means “insanely great products!“)”
“So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.”
“When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself.
They’ll want to do what’s best for Apple, not what’s best for them, what’s best for Steve, or anybody else. (this actually reiterates my oft-repeated mantra of “ubiquitous evangelism” in companies)”
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.”
“Our DNA is as a consumer company – for that inpidual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.”
“That happens more than you think, because this is not just engineering and science. There is art, too. Sometimes when you’re in the middle of one of these crises, you’re not sure you’re going to make it to the other end. But we’ve always made it, and so we have a certain degree of confidence, although sometimes you wonder.
I think the key thing is that we’re not all terrified at the same time. I mean, we do put our heart and soul into these things.”
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.
Life is brief, and then you die, you know?
And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.”
“Almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
“In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.”
“So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.’ And they said, ‘No.’ So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.”
“The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.”
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
“I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building.”
“I’m as proud of what we don’t do as I am of what we do.”
“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”
“I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.”
“It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much.”
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.”
“Insanely Great!”
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
“It’s rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.”
“I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I’m only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I’ve got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.”
“I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”
“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?”
“The products suck! There’s no sex in them anymore!”
“The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.”
“If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it’s worth — and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.”
“You know, I’ve got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can’t say any more than that it’s the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.”
“Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could — I’m searching for the right word — could, could die.”
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I saw this Nike watch on Oprah’s show featuring Nike founder Phil Knight. What I love about it is that it has a “motivational” feature, meaning, the watch “cheers” you on as you reach your goals. How fun is that? Yehey!
Nike+ SportWatch GPS
Nike has teamed up with TomTom and created a SportWatch GPS as part of their Nike+ running technology.
“The Nike+ SportWatch GPS is designed for high performance with an extremely clear and readable user interface that delivers the information necessary to the user while in-run. It adds personalization and motivational features to the running experience, including audible sounds, challenges, run reminders and more.
The Nike+ SportWatch GPS is designed to be simple and intuitive with only three buttons and a Tap Screen for navigation. During the run, the new Nike+ SportWatch GPS captures location information while showing runners their time, distance, pace, and calories burned on an easy-to-read screen featuring a customizable layout. Throughout the run, the GPS receiver works in tandem with the shoe-based Nike+ Sensor to deliver highly accurate pace and distance data.”
Nike + Oprah =
Tanong ng bayan: Is this going to be available in Manila?
According to CNET, a cellphone’s SAR, or its Specific Absorption Rate, is a measure of the amount of radio frequency (RF) energy absorbed by the body when using the handset. All cell phones emit RF energy and the SAR varies by handset model.
If you’re concerned about limiting your SAR exposure, you can take a few easy steps:
* You can text instead placing a voice call, use a speakerphone or headset whenever possible
Carry your phone at least 1 inch from your body (making sure the antenna is facing away from you).
* If you’re pregnant, you should avoid carrying a phone next to your abdomen. Some researchers also caution against using your phone in areas with a weak signal since phones emit more electro-magnetic radiation during those times.
* Children, who have smaller and thinner skulls, should limit cell phone use, and people of any age should not sleep with an active phone next to the bedside or under the pillow.
Does it seem a bit O.A.? Well, better safe than sorry, I say!
If you’re paranoid about SAR radiation here’s another fun and quirky solution:
Moshi Moshi and YBZ Talk retro phones are designed to transform any type of smart-phone/ mobile-phone into a comfortable and convenient conversation device.
Moshi Moshi and YBZ Talk handsets
The YUBZ Talk pink phone was a gift that I got three years ago! I totally forgot about it (note to self: MUST. GET. ORGANIZED.) I love the color but the jack of the phone is not compatible anymore to the new phones. I wonder if I can get an adaptor for it.
Moshi Moshi is the newest handset in the market. The retro handset is compatible with all 3.5mm jack phones and computers, including the iPhone, BlackBerry, MacBook and iPad. When fitted with the proper adaptor (sold separately) it is compatible with all mobile phones and computers for VOIP computer telephone calls, including Skype and Google Talk.
What do these puppy do? All you need to do is plug in your iPhone or iPad into this handset through a 3.5mm jack (YUBZ Talk has a smaller jack, not suitable for the new phones), and you’re good to start yakking and catching up with old times over the phone. Heck, it can also be used in conjunction with Skype and iChat, and on the bright side, your head won’t be bombarded with mobile microwaves.
Spotted: makeup artist Juan Sarte using a black Moshi Moshi phone. Ginaya kita, Skwez!
If you happen to see me around the metro talking through a handset, don’t be alarmed! I’m just careful about SAR radiation! LOL
Electric fans – such an important and scary home appliance. Moms, you know this, when our little babies are growing up and getting too curious to handle, we kind of want to baby-proof everything in our houses. I have flinched too many times at the thought of Dylan getting too close to one!
Bladeless fans from China, available at SM Department Store
Well, I finally got one for the home! I do have to thank China for this cool gadget (not Dyson, sorry *ducks*)!
Yes, I bought a fake. Bite me.
How can one resist? This China made fan used to be P4,995, now it’s P2,995! STEAL!
No blades, no worries!
I don’t have to worry about Dylan’s fingers getting caught in the blade anymore. What a major relief!
Now, if only I can stop the whole family and household from sticking their arms through the bladeless fan! Stop it guys! It’s not an accessory! Haha!
No blades, no worries!
Get yourself a gadget from the future! A fan with no blades, it’s too cool to pass up!
Some people “will work for shoes”. I get that.
Others “will work for bags”. I’m all for that.
Me, I don’t do these things.
I… “will work for gadgets”. Haha!
Look what Aryanna and I spotted while breezing through Anson’s!
Sony Cyber-shot J10 with built-in USB arm! It’s the World’s Smallest 1080p 3D Camera!
2.7" Clear Photo LCD Screen
Have you ever had one of those times that you just wish you got something on photo? You try to get it on your phone but it just doesn’t work. You lug a DSLR everywhere, but some outfits just don’t match it. Our problems are solved ladies. Sony is a WINNER in compact cameras! The all new Sony DSC-J10 is a compact 16.1MP point ‘n shoot camera that has 4x optical zoom and basically has a big boy’s camera’s features in it’s tiny, stylish body!
Fun, funky and colourful, the Cyber-shot J10 digital camera makes it easy to shoot and share great-looking images. There's generous memory space inside to store all your shots, plus a handy USB arm for hooking up with your PC. On-board software helps you upload those precious moments without hassle.
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I heard my wife broadcast on Twitter my back problem. Bless her. I feel better now.
Thank you for all the recommendations! My wife is lucky to have amazing friends on and offline.
MagnaCart™
Hi. This is Jenni again. LOL
The Magna Cart is nice to have in the car or at home. You’ll never know when you need to carry huge and heavy stuff so might as well be ready for it! Get one! Your husbands will love you for it!
And he’s right! I am indeed very lucky to have amazing friends like you guys! Thanks again for all the back doctor recommendations!
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