But that is the point of this blog, no? Yes. I got myself a new Blackberry. I really thought, years ago, that I would become a Treo person, but no. I ended up dropping my Treo from the SEPTA train (Philly’s public transportation). Then I got a 7100, then I got another, then another, and now the 8320!!!! I really like this one. I was not a fan of the bigger or regular sized BB, that is why I had the 7100 and the 8100 Pearl. They are the thin ones. But now then I heard that the new BB had Wifi. I ran my butt down to T-Mobile, and checked it out, only to get in line behind someone from my work who heard about it first. Strange, don’t I hear about gadgets first??? Not only that but T-Mobile had just released it hours earlier and one for WORKING demo models had been stolen already!!! In any event, it is mine, along with the T-Mobile HotSpot at home. This allows me to make and receive phone calls for free, when I am on Wifi. Now you may ask, but who cares? Well you, I live in Philadelphia, and we have free Muni Wifi, so everywhere I go I have Wifi. Huh, good call. Anyway. I love it. Go Blackberry 
As some of you may have seen already a UK group has release the first million dollar laptop. The group, Luvaglio, makes luxury products. The specs are not released yet, but what we do know is that it has a 17″ LED widescreen with anti-reflective glare, 128GB of Solid State Disk space, a slot for a Blue-Ray drive, a screen cleaning device, a diamond that doubles as a power button and a security identification. Check out the full post at Gizmag.
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So in last months Wired was a piece on can openers (page 100, if you are keeping track). So of course I needed to get one (of couse the regular can opener won’t do). For a mear $25.00 I walked down to my local Sharper Image and purchased the “Sharper Image No-Hands Deluxe Auto Can Opener“, with batteries for another $4.00 or so. More gadgets to fill my obsession.
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So, as you should know, all the great gadgets are first found in Asia. Or even worse, only appear in Asia. So I was in Chicago for a certification class, and met a very nice woman from Singapore. We traded business cards and she then put my business card on the table and used her smart phone to take a picture of the card, where it OCRd the picture and entered the information into her contacts. The entire class watched this happen in awe. The phone was a 838Pro by Dopod International. It was crazy cool. You have to check it out.
http://www.dopodasia.com/global/SEA/products/pda_838pro/pda_838pro_fea.html
As I return from any trip, I have the ability to get access to one of the gadget bibles, Sky Mall. This catalog has all gadgets one could and never want. Even now Sky Mall has combined their catalog with other great gadget catalogs: Frontgate, The Sharper Image, Hammacher Schlemmer, TigerDirect, among others. Unfortunately, there was no outlandish or crazy gadgets to report.
