Dec 31 2009
Targeted visitors do not end up at your site by chance – the content is written in a way that attracts them there. Keywords and phrases are an integral aspect of your content that must be written in a way that is well optimized. Sound complicated? Learn more…
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Dec 31 2009
Google wave is one of the latest revolutionary inventions of Google that further reduces the barriers in communication. Google is still working on their open source product, Google wave, to enhance the features and functionalities. Here is more information for the newcomers, the up to date platform for communication by the giant Google is easy to use even for the tyros, but you need to get an invitation from the registered users just like their proprietary email system, Gmail, before you get your hands on the rapidly propagating wave of modern times.
from Internet and Businesses Online: SEO Articles from EzineArticles.com
Dec 31 2009
When the microwave oven was first released, it did change the way we live in many aspects. No longer do you need to wait for hours on end for something frozen to thaw, and heating food up takes but a couple of minutes under the high power setting. While there are certain quarters that claim eating microwaved food isn’t exactly the most healthy way to go, who wants to live forever anyways, right? After all, we’re all about convenience these days, and you don’t get any more convenient than popping in a TV dinner into your microwave whenever you’re home grouchy and hungry. Well, looks like the electrical world’s sliced bread has just gotten better with its “butter”, in the form of the Wavebox portable microwave oven.
The Wavebox portable microwave oven is pretty self-explanatory – it functions as a microwave oven, albeit you are able to bring this with you just about anywhere you go. We mean that with some common sense, of course, as we wouldn’t expect you to lug this around a shopping mall just because the waffle you bought was not hot enough for you. No sir, the Wavebox will target folks who need to prepare meals away from the kitchen or those who live off-the-grid, which includes campers, boaties and truckies among others. Tipping the scales at 6.3kg, the Wavebox will run off the mains voltage regardless of which country you are in, while you can always hook it up to your vehicle’s 12 volt battery via alligator leads with the option to plug it into your in-vehicle power outlet.
Retailing for $250 a pop, at least you won’t need to go through the hassle of starting a fire in the middle of nowhere while waiting for many minutes before your food is cooked. Just make sure your vehicle’s battery has enough charge left to keep the Wavebox going, otherwise you might end up as food for the grizzlies.
Source: Gizmag
from Coolest Gadgets
Dec 31 2009
American Scientific Resources, better known as ASR for short, has just announced that they will be rolling out a new range of affordable yet revolutionary, 5-in-1 non-contact thermometers that were specially designed to meet the needs of consumers and healthcare workers globally. Instead of the usual glass-and-mercury combination, these new non-contact thermometers are a snap to use, where it is able to provide instant temperature reading that is accurate as well, while making kids (and some adults) more comfortable since they no longer need to have something probing their orifice – whether it is from the top or at the bottom. Too bad for the little ones, as I clearly remember be paedatrician offering me lollipops after taking my temperature as a form of goodwill.
Some of the advantages for this new thermometer line will include :-
Apart from that, the medical health industry will also learn to go green in some ways and save on costs, since there won’t be any more additional expenses associated with other thermometers such as probe covers and disinfection methods. You won’t find these thermometers out so soon as the consumer model will enter production in February next year, with full production capability exceeding 5,000 units per day. As for the new Kidz-Med 5-in-1 Non-Contact consumer model pictured above, it is expected to retail for $49.95 in the US while folks living outside of the US will have to fork out nearly $80.00 instead. Expect the thermometer to be widely available for purchase sometime in Q3 2010. While it is going to be manufactured in China, we hope that there will be sufficient quality control methods employed. What other non-invasive medical advances would you like to see happen in the future?
from Coolest Gadgets
Dec 31 2009
Christmas is over, but that doesn’t mean you won’t be holding any more parties or large family gatherings in your home down the road! Why not make things easier with the Inflatable Serving Bar that introduces convenience to your guests, as it sits on top of a standard table with the ability to hold ice so that your salads and finger food will remain fresh hours after being exposed to the air. Storage is also a snap, since you can just deflate it and fold it somewhere even if you have limited space left at home. Made from PVC, you will need to purchase our own air pump unless you have the lungs of Hercules to inflate this through your mouth. Good thing it comes with its own repair kit, but we would still advise you to keep it out of reach of dogs, cats and mischevious kids. The Inflatable Serving Bar retails for $19.95.
from Coolest Gadgets
Dec 31 2009
Having the right tire pressure is essential if you want to have a safe drive wherever you go, so make sure you check the condition of your vehicle before making any long road trips. We’ve seen digital tire gauges and solar-powered ones before, but none of them speak out to you. This time round, the Talking Tire Gauge comes in the form of a key chain with LED light that shows the current tire pressure reading in low light conditions while speaking it as it is to double confirm those who “see without seeing”. The Talking Tire Gauge retails for $14.99 a pop.
from Coolest Gadgets
Dec 31 2009
I am not going to make a bunch of ridiculous predictions about what’s going to happen in 2010. Really… why?
No, instead I’ll share a recap of what happened month by month from the lens of my camera.
The year started out with Affiliate Summit West 2009, and I stopped by CES the day I got to Las Vegas, and ran into Jackie the Jokeman.
Then it was on to three days of Affiliate Summit, and what was the biggest Affiliate Summit to date with over 3,200 attendees.
Apparently I wasn’t doing much in February, according to my camera, because I just have pictures of me in a Snuggie.
In March, I headed to Austin for SXSW, where I spent most of the time in the TechSet Blogger Lounge and checked out a live Diggnation.
Later in March, I went to SES in NYC, where I saw Guy Kawasaki give a keynote about how he games Twitter.
The opening of the new Yankee Stadium was a big day in April.
Then I went to San Francisco for ad:tech, where Affiliate Summit hosted a Beer Garden.
During ad:tech, I caught a Giants game against the Padres.
I finished up April with a business trip in Maine.
In May, I was off to Dallas for the Inbound Marketing Summit, and lucked into the Yankees being in town to play the Rangers.
And with June came the LinkShare Symposium in NYC. The hotel for the show was right at the start of the new High Line park.
I jumped on 95 South for a trip to Baltimore in July, where Affiliate Summit and buy.at held a meeting about the advertising tax, and then a crab feast.
I also took up running in the summer to try and get in shape, and I completed my first 5k in July.
August was all about Affiliate Summit East 2009 for me. Before the conference kicked off, it was time for another Yankees game.
Then in September, it was off to Santa Barbara for CJU.
Time for another 5k.
And then back to the west coast for the Google Affiliate Network Summit in Mountain View.
Early October meant another trip – this time down to Orlando for IZEAfest.
And then I turned around and went home to get to SMX East in NYC.
Then a third October trip out to California, where I caught game 5 of the ALCS before going to ShareASale ThinkTank (and watched the Yankees clinch on TV from the airport before my red eye home).
More sports started November with the Dolphins playing the Jets.
Game 6 of the World Series. Best game ever.
More conference action with the Affiliate Summit booth at ad:tech NYC.
ad:tech was followed by the Audience Conference.
Finally, my last conference travel of the year was Pubcon in Las Vegas.
Another 5k, this time at Yankee Stadium, to round out November.
I finished up the year with a December of no travel, and lots of prep for Affiliate Summit West 2010.
Finally, it was Christmas.
Good luck in 2010.
This post originally appeared on the Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins
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Dec 31 2009
In Las Vegas next week, a twenty-five year journey could come to a successful conclusion, when a British company launches what it believes will be a triumphant combination of science and technology. Plastic Logic’s e-reader, the Que, will be unveiled on the opening morning of the Consumer Electronics Show. It could be one of the show’s stand-out products – or it could end up buried under an avalanche of hype about a forthcoming rival device from a better-known firm.
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This journey began in the 1980s at Cambridge University’s world-renowned Cavendish laboratory, where the physicist Richard Friend was working on carbon-based materials for semi-conductors. He tried and failed to get electronics companies interested in the plastic light-emitting diodes which emerged from his research – but when he teamed up with another Cambridge lecturer Henning Sirringhaus, they ended up finding ways to print transistors onto plastic. It was this work which led to the development of the light, flexible displays which Plastic Logic believes will revolutionise the way we read.
On a snowy day just before Christmas, I went to meet the two men at Plastic Logic’s offices on the Cambridge Science Park. They are both still teaching at the university, while keeping an eye on the progress of the firm they founded in 2000. And while it has taken a decade for Plastic Logic to bring its first product to market, Sir Richard – he was knighted in 2003 – was confident that the long wait would be worthwhile:
“The most impressive thing is it’s an integration of fundamental science and world-leading engineering – it’s the thing that the British are not supposed to be able to do.”
At that stage, they were not able to show me the final product, but I was allowed to handle prototype displays developed in Cambridge and then manufactured at their plant in Dresden.
They are light and flexible, and Professor Sirringhaus told me the aim was to provide the same experience you get from paper, rather than the one you get from the glass which is needed for conventional screens:
“The whole reading experience is about holding something that is unbreakable.
“It’s light; you can treat it like paper; you can stuff it in your briefcase. If you want to read a business document or paper, then the weight of the glass used in conventional technology is quite significant.”
Plastic Logic has signed deals with a number of major newspaper groups, including the Financial Times and USA Today, to make their titles available each day on the Que e-reader. The product, which will enter a fast-growing market dominated by products like the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader, will be aimed principally at the business market. While the technology would permit a roll-up screen, it seems they’ve gone for something more conventional, so the Que may not look that different from e-readers with a glass screen.
The other crucial figure in the story of Plastic Logic is Herman Hauser, the scientist and venture capitalist who’s been involved in many of the ground-breaking businesses to emerge from Cambridge over the last two decades – you may have caught him in Micro Men, BBC4’s recent drama about the rivalry between Sinclair and Acorn Computers. He put up the money back in 2000 which allowed Friend and Sirringhaus to form Plastic Logic, and he’s been instrumental in raising more finance as the years have gone by.
What’s really amazing about this business is that that it has gone all the way from research in a laboratory, to manufacturing a product, to building a global sales and marketing team – much of that operation is now based in California – without sacrificing its independence. Which might just be a mistake. A less courageous option would have been to license its technology to Amazon or Sony – or maybe Apple – and let them use their undoubted marketing expertise to sell the idea of plastic displays to the world.
There are now convincing reports that Apple has an event scheduled for late January where it will unveil a mystery new product. The blogs and fan sites are alive with feverish speculation about the iSlate – supposedly the name of a tablet computer which will provide everything from books, TV programmes and music to the solution to global warming.
I’m as fascinated as anyone to see what Apple really has been hiding up Steve Jobs’ sleeve, but I hope that amid all the hullabaloo, the launch of Plastic Logic’s Que next Thursday will not be overlooked. I will be in the United States to cover this and a number of other technology stories next week, when this blog will have a new look and a new name. So thanks for listening in 2009 – and see you next year.
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