Watson

If you watched Jeopardy lastnight you might have noticed something odd. One of the people playing was a robot. A few years ago IBM started making a robot that would be able to play on Jeopardy. Unfortunately the robot is too big so you didn't get to actually see it on Jeopardy. All you got to see was it's avatar.

Television Remote Control Wristwatch

If you keep forgetting where you put the remote control than you might want this remote. Just enter in the three digit code for each device and it's ready to use. Or if you don't want it as a remote you can also use it as a digital watch. You can buy one here:

http://www.hammacher.com/Product/79710?source=CJ&cm_mmc=CJ-_-2296962-_-2868751-_-Hammacher+Product+Catalog

Target Alarm Clock

Some days when you get up you feel like you just want to shoot your clock. Well now you can. When the alarm clock goes off you have to get a bullseye on the target for it to stop. The gun doesn't actually fire anything it just makes noises. You can buy one here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0044YZNDW?ie=UTF8&ref_=sr_1_1&qid=1297415259&sr=8-1&linkCode=shr&camp=213733&creative=393173&tag=theawes-20

For those of you that didn't notice, it's been one year today since I started this blog.

Dual Sided Remote

Later this year Samsung is releasing a new remote that has buttons on both sides. It will have the normal buttons on top and a QWERTY keyboard on the back. I don't think it's a good idea because you could accidentally hit a button on the back while holding it or if you set it down on the table.

PSP 2

Sony has now announced the PSP 2 codenamed NGP (Next Generation Portable). Just like the Dsi it will have two cameras and a touch screen. Unlike the last PSP, this one will have two joysticks. This will be out sometime during the next winter holidays.

Emoticon Keypad

For years people have been using emoticons to tell people how they feel while chatting. Soon you'll be able to buy a keypad that has each emoticon on one button so you don't have to push multiple buttons to make them. It's only a concept so it isn't for sale yet and there's only one prototype of it right now. I think it looks more like a game of Boggle than a keyboard.

New Blog

Today I set up a new blog that you can look at under My Other Sites. For a few months I've been learning ventriloquism so I decided to put up a few videos of it. Unfortunately youtube keeps having problems with my videos and keeps aborting the upload when I'm almost done. You can still read about the two characters I use though.