Wednesday, January 29, 2003

Digital Photogs Need an Apple 'eyePod' Yet another firm, Taiwan's Vosonic Technology, has made a portable hard drive for downloading photo memory cards and IBM Microdrives. (Nixvue's Digital Album was the first and it has since released the Vista.) All three include a USB 1.1 or 2.0 port. While NixVue's models have a color LCD for reviewing images, Vosonic's does not. dpreview.com has the details. Doesn't it seem like Apple's missing the boat on this part of its "digital hub?" It wouldn't take much to recast the iPod as an "eyePod." It'd be a compact blessing for travelers with digital cameras. Why lug a laptop computer on your vacation when all you really need is a way to free up your cards or Microdrive for more photos? The iPod just needs a little color LCD, a transfer interface, and an USB socket to download a camera's images. Once travelers got home, or back to the hotel, they could use the iPod's FireWire port to move the pictures into iPhoto on their PowerBook or PowerMac. While larger memory cards grow cheaper every day, at some point the convenience and security of having all your images on one fast iPod wins out. 9:14:41 PM    comment []

But 18-Hour Days Can Kill Ya Well, scratch the benefits of LCDs when working long hours on the computer. The Australian newspaper reports that a man who regularly sat at his computer for 18 hours a day nearly died from a blot clot in his leg. New Zealand researchers said the man developed deep vein thrombosis (DVT), which caused a blood clot that eventually moved into his lungs. Would a wall-mounted LCD do the trick? 10:46:38 AM    comment []

© Copyright 2003 Nolan Hester.