Now I cannot wait for my Glif to arrive. And by the looks of the fact that the designers have raised over 1000% of the KickStarter funding they were seeking, there are quite a few others in the same boat.
I’m hoping that the Glif will be a bit more practical than the OWLE I have for my iPhone 3S.
I’ll post a full review as soon as I have the 3D printed version in early November.
One of my Macs is a Mini just old enough to have been supplied with a low speed wireless card. It has been deployed as a media center a long way from anywhere and is therefor connected by wireless.
This was all OK until I wanted to stream HD video … can’t be done over 802.11g as at high resolutions this is just not fast enough. Since my local Apple Reseller wanted over $300 (that’s AUD) to supply and fit an upgrade to the internal card the idea was shelved. Until now that is …
Enter the Mvix Nubbin Tiny Wireless N Adapter discovered on ThinkGeek who say …
Fashionably, sporting a micro-footprint with protrusion of less than 2cm, Mvix Nubbin is capable of delivering data at 150Mbps. With its small 3/4th-inch size, Mvix Nubbin is an attractive accessory for a wide variety of applications and devices constrained by space and size. Compliant with IEEE 802.1n draft 3.0 and IEEE 802.1b/g, Nubbin supports WMM® and WMM-PS® (IEEE 802.1e QoS Standard). Nubbin also offers advanced features like innovative WPS® (Wireless Protected Setup), auto-builds connection, and synchronizes settings. It supports all encryption standards and is compatible with all operating systems: Microsoft Windows XP / Vista, Mac OS X and Linux.
The Mvix Nubbin adapts to any standard USB2.0 port and connects wirelessly to a router to stream data at high throughput in a secure environment. Mvix Nubbin is also backward compatible and interoperable with 802.11b/g devices… but you would never ever want to go there unless forced to.
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The very first thing that my wife noticed about the spanking new iPhone I bought her recently was the glassy touch screen. You might have thought that her comment would be along the lines of “amazing technology”, “beautifully elegant interface” … but no, it was more like “how will I keep it clean“!
Pogo iPhone Stylus
A later observation related to the fact that she has had to develop a touch style which works with her beautifully manicured (long) fingernails. This was after discovering that several improvised “styli” did not work.
I, of course, informed her that her new iPhone’s glassy touch sensitive screen is only sensitive to human fingers. Why? Because it uses a technology called capacitive touch which I am told measures the flow of electrons through the skin. Problem is, even without the manicured nails, fingers are pretty rounded and not too precise at picking out tiny URLs in Safari.
Luckily the geniuses behind the Pogo iPhone Stylus have magically solved this problem by making a stylus that somehow tricks the iPhone into thinking it’s really a finger. What’s more, the tip of the stylus is a soft felt like material that has the added benefit of keeping your screen clean while you tap away. How do they do it? Frankly I have no idea, but hopefully it doesn’t involve grave-robbing. (Leave a comment if you know the answer).