Author Archives: John Wallenfeldt

McCain Moves to Block FCC Net Neutrality – Business Center – PC World

During the Presidential election campaign last year the differences between the two candidates was stark. While Obama was attached surgically to his CrackBerry and his staff leveraged social media from their Macbooks, McCain admitted having little or no knowledge or interest in modern technologies like email or the Internet.

It seems suspicious that the Internet is suddenly a major concern for him. Maybe he just missed seeing his name in the paper.

McCain may not know how to operate a mouse, but he sure knows how to be the cable companies’ bitch. He is moving to kill net neutrality, a stunt that must be hard to do while on his knees.

Gadget Fever

I was going to make a series of posts related to the cool designs I found on Yanko, but decided to just lump a bunch together in one post and post others as they interest me.

Starting off, the SoundBulb, a wireless speaker in a light bulb.

Next, the E-Note, basically a digital Post-it you can reuse.

Now here’s something I could really use. That, or less soda, probably the latter. Either way, it is a device that decontaminates soda cans.

Something we all could use, meat freshness labels that change color as the meat stays longer in the package.

For the ultimate traveller, a “third eye” that gives you everything you need to know about what you are looking at in the viewer.

And, the possible future of air travel: a huge airship-looking thing made to carry up to 1,500 passengers.

Ocean Rescue by Seol-Hee Sohn, Seung-Hyun Yoon & Cheol-Yeon Cho » Yanko Design

So, I’ve been on a few cruise ships and have had that moment at sea where I wondered what the hell would happen if the damn thing sprung a leak. Sure, they show you where your escape ship is and all – and yes, I was only in the Caribbean – but that somehow didn’t seem to be enough for me.

That’s why I really, really like this water distilling buoy thingy. If they had these on the ships I have been on, I’d probably had kept one in my cabin or attached to me at all times.