Archive for the ‘Listening’ Category

Emporia Life Phone info sought

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Back here I wrote about the Emporia Life Phone. The other day I got an email asking me about where to get one in Australia, which it appears you can't. Can anyone help shelly? Are you listening Emporia? shelly wrote: EMPORIA PHONE These are not available in Australia at present and nobody I have spoken ...

More simple cell phones for life

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

emporia have a great statement on their site which states: What is simple will be understood. What is understood generates relevance. I came across these phones made by emporia via Popgadget blog. They reminded me of my observations made in an earlier post where I see that simpler interfaces for devices that hide ...

Talking iPod - Eyes off!

Monday, July 10th, 2006

The other day on Gday World, my mate Mike Seyfang was talking about how he could put a video iPod in his pocket and still listen to the audio, negating having to actually look at the screen in circumstances where that would be not possible or less desirable (like crashing ...

Tuff ipods

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

Came across this tuff case for iPods called a TuffWrap. It reminded me of the look of those laptops that are used in extreme environments, usually by military and industry. I once heard these toughened laptops are good for kids with disabilities, who can often be very heavy on electronic equipment using ...

Bluetooth & My PDA - my ongoing saga

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Over at Frank Arrigo's blog he has the low down on a kludge to get VoiceCommand to take commands straight from a BT headset. frankarr - an aussie microsoft blogger : K-JAM, Microsoft Voice Command, Bluetooth earpiece and a registry hack Longtime readers will know the ongoing battle I've had with this ...