New reason to exercise

14 07 2006

Ok so maybe exercise kind of sucks, and it’s not as cool as going to the movies, or watching your DVR, but I think this is a new reason to quit being a mouse/couch potato.

Behold NIKE + iPod

This thing is really cool and it works with an iPod NANO! Basically what you do is buy the kit, its like 25 bucks, and it comes with a sensor, that goes into Nike’s new shoes called NIKE + . Then with this other device connect it to the end of your ipod, and via bluetooth, the shoe sensor sends data to your ipod! How awsome is that?

It even has voices that tell you how far you have gone, and motiviational words from Lance Armstrong, saying things like “Your Doing Great”, im assuming. What is probably the coolest part is that after you exercise go home and plug in your ipod to your computer and it synce your date to Nike’s website and uploads your progress. Awsome!





I think patents are out of control…

14 07 2006

The fact now that you can have a patent that specifies a specific idea, and after you use the idea and someone else does, then you can sue them and get tons of money.  This is good in some cases, but the fact that Block Buster cannot offer online video rentals like Netflix, because Netflix owns a patent on it, is eliminating our choices as consumers.  THE DMCA is getting outs of controls.  Oh well…

New Pictures coming soon….We got a new NICE camera.  :-)