Archive of posts tagged tony wang

Episode 957

Ford SYNC
Voice-Activated Automation for Car Accessories
Link: SyncMyRide
Turn-The-Tables-Tuesday
 
SYNC is a technology developed by Microsoft, first announced a few years ago at CES, and now comes with most of Ford’s 2010 models.  It’s a voice activated system that operates many of the accessories or tasks that one commonly finds necessary in a motor car.  It gives you [...]

Episode 823

SanDisk Ultra Backup USB Flash Drive
Backup Flash Drive
Link: SanDisk
 
SanDisk has just come up with this Ultra Backup USB Flash Drive, a USB thumb drive with different capacities from 8GB to 64GB, with a backup button.  It uses the U3 software that autoruns on Windows upon insertion of the flash drive, and the built-in backup software [...]

Episode 785

Polaroid Pop Shots Camera
One-Time Use Polaroid Camera
Link: Camerapedia

Dick's Gadget Warehouse
 
 
Picture this.  A one-time use Polaroid instant camera.  The Pop Shots camera from the late 1990's gave you 10 instant shots (using Captiva film).  Although it was disposable, you were encouraged to send the camera body back to Polaroid using the mail envelope that came with [...]

Episode 762

The MSI Wind
Netbook
Link: MSI Mobile
Turn-The-Tables-Tuesday
 
Leo was going to do this device last week, but didn't have it with him at TWiT Cottage.  As promised, today he covers the new MSI Wind, a new netbook from MSI.  When Leo saw TWiT Editor Tony Wang flaunting his Dell Mini running Mac OSX, Leo vowed to have his own Hackintosh, [...]

Episode 759

Intra Oral Mini USB Tooth Camera
Dental Camera
Link: Uxcell
 
 A suggestion from a listener Caleb Mixson.  The Intra-Oral Mini-USB Tooth Camera is shaped like a toothbrush, and when connected to a PC via USB, will power on (with 4 white LED lights to illuminate your teeth) and can take 800 x 600 pictures of your teeth.  Windows [...]