New IPOD Touch - now for VoIP ? (or not?)

Hello IPOD Touch owners,

Recently some of my good friends got me an 8-gb IPOD Touch for my birthday. I started to wonder if the music playing device can do much more - like doing voice notes or even Voice over IP (eg. like Skype). Then I realise that the IPOD Touch does not have a Microphone built-in like the IPhone. As I was searching around the web, I come across a group of hackers who have successfully mass produced Mic dongle that fits into the IPOD docking socket... very cool. http://touchmods.wordpress.com/
As you can see from their website, they even have software that would allow your IPOD Touch to interface to SIPs and hence about to do VoIP calls.

As I did more research.. I've discovered a EVEN better method of VoIP WITHOUT the need of the Microphone. And it will work great for folks in Singapore. I'll detail this out in my next article once I've perform sufficient tests - so stay tune!!

Binary Clip, watch the chair

Can a hot chick charge your GADGET?

If you have a hot and sexy GF, just bring her to the beach, and let her put on the Solar Bikini, then you can simply charge any gadgets that you want by her. One of the cool business idea is that you let your girl walk around the beach to attract other geeks to come over for charging their gadgets, which you can then ask for a pretty high fee for doing that.

The Solar Bikini is covered all over with solar cells, which it can soak up sunlight and make use of solar power to charge your USB gadgets. It’s got a USB connector near the hip part, which you can just plug in your iPod or any USB gadgets. One pretty good use for hot chicks, is wearing it and lying on the beach, connect a USB beverage chiller to it to keep the already cold drink from getting warm!

Hot Girl to Satisfy any Blogger

See this photo of this young and hot girl right here :

What has a hot girl got to do with everything binary? It's an experiment to verify what T3 and other technology magazines have been doing is workable. Besides, Binary means One and Zero. You go figure out what One means and what Zero means in this instance! haha

Only the results of the popularity will tell me one way or another. Will the results sway my publishing methods? Perhaps... getting pretty girls to hold UP electronics gadgets focus everyone's attention on the gadget... ya.. right!

Singapore StreetDirectory move aside!!?!

Here comes http://sg.shownearby.com/ , a competitor? Something to search for your favourite food in the neighbourhood? Give it a try and comment your experience!

Creative supports Apple's IPOD

http://sg.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=209&subcategory=668&product=16185

The XDock, what if you want your music playing all around the house? That's something multiple Ipods (one in each room) would not help. So in comes the Xdock, a device that can wirelessly transmit to the X-Fi Wireless Receiver units that can send the music signals to powered speakers in each room.

Panasonic DMC FX500

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Panasonic/panasonic_dmcfx500.asp

This camera spots a ultra wide 25mm lens with up to 5x optical zoom (125mm).

The Touch screen is one innovation that takes photography to the next level - not just for menu control, but for focusing. Very cool.

I'm waiting to hear about image quality. Some people say that Fujifilm brand of cameras using their unique CCD sensors can offer better looking images at the end. I wonder if regular sensors can matched the so-called High Dynamic Range sensors from Fujifilm.

The smallest microprocessor from the largest chipmaker

Intel Corp is rolling out five new Atom microprocessors and a collection of chips designed for portable gadgets that access the Internet and for other uses, as the world’s largest chipmaker uses its marketing muscle to help create a new market. The low-power, tiny Atom chips will come in speeds of up to 1.86 gigahertz and Intel says that speed, plus other technologies designed into the chip, make it the fastest processor that consumes 3 watts of electricity or less. The recently named Atom family of processors is part of Intel’s effort to have chips designed with Intel Architecture — the fundamental blueprint of its semiconductors — in myriad computing devices — from what it calls mobile Internet devices, or MIDs, all the way up to high-performance computers.

That is where the Atom and Centrino Atom, come in. The Centrino Atom also includes a single-chip with integrated graphics called Intel System Controller Hub that allows for PC-like capabilities and long battery life for devices that fit in a user’s pocket. Major device makers are already planning to adopt Atom, with more than 20 manufacturers coming out with products using the processor. As far as MIDs, those will start shipping in May. Intel expects about 30 percent of those MIDs to have both WiFi — short range high-speed wireless Internet access — and WiMax — longer-range high-speed access designed into them. MID device makers include Asus, Fujitsu, Lenovo, NEC, Panasonic, Samsung, Sharp and Toshiba, among others, and prices will probably average about $500, with some priced higher than that or lower, depending on the functions.

Wideband deployment - when will Singapore do the same?

Starhub has been touting DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems for some time now, but obviously we do not see the type of bandwidth that the speed monster can deliver. It is called WIDEBAND rather than typical broadband. Look at the news below from US:

Although we just heard that Comcast's DOCSIS 3.0 rollout was on track for 2009, folks in the Twin Cities region now have exclusive bragging rights for an undisclosed window of time. Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota have become the first markets to have access to an all new "extreme" broadband (or wideband, as it were) connection, which promises 50Mbps down / 5Mbps up. As expected, the carrier isn't being modest about the launch, claiming that users can suck down a 4GB HD movie "in about ten minutes," compared to "more than six hours" on a 1.5Mbps DSL connection. The newfound speed won't come cheap -- for residential users, look to lay down $149.95 per month for the privilege. Even if you aren't springing for the good stuff, current customers in the area will have their existing broadband connections hastened gratis, with 6Mbps / 384Kbps users moving up to 1Mbps uploads and 8Mbps / 768Kbps users seeing 2Mbps uploads. Kudos, Twin Cities -- you just made most of America sick with envy.