Friday, March 05, 2004

I got a new phone this week and I'm a little obsessed with it, which is really odd for me.  It's a Sanyo 8100...a nice, little camera phone.  My favorite part about it is I can finally have real rings that are fun.  There's this great site: http://www.d-d-n.com/ that for $2 you can get all the rings and images you want.  Last night I was in a Jaycees meeting and my phone started playing "sexual healing" and, well, it was funny as all get out. I mean, if you're going to be rude and forget to turn your phone off, it should at least crack people up, right?  And look, here's a self-portrait: Comments9:37:57 AM

Programmable credit-card to replace most of your wallet's contents. The Chameleon Card is a programmable credit-card and the Pocket Vault is a programming terminal for it. Feed it your credit-card magstripes and your loyalty-card bar-codes, seal it with your fingerprint, then, on demand, it can mimic any of the cards in your wallet. Oh, and it's got an RFID-mimic built in to replace your swipeless gas-pump card. This strikes me as simultaneously very cool and very creepy, and at $200, it seems too pricey to fly. First-time users of the Pocket Vault will read their old credit cards with the device, which stores their information internally and backs it up to an online or local database in case the Pocket Vault is lost or stolen. Each credit card stored on the Pocket Vault is then represented by an icon on the device's touch-screen display. The Pocket Vault also prompts its owners to place their fingerprints on the device's reader pad to create a biometric profile. Link [Boing Boing Blog] Can you imagine losing this? Comments7:42:22 AM

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