Sunday, February 11, 2007

Some Neat Tech Gadgets

I like staying up to date with technology, and I've come across some interesting sites about cool (although not always that practical) gadgets and gizmos:
http://www.dynamism.com/Gadgets/category.shtml

and some additional creative usb drives: http://www.mimoco.com/

I'm interested in seeing how the GP2x develops in the future (under gadgets --> video games from the first link). Open source is very popular now, and although there are more security threats, there's also more sharing of ideas. I think this product has a lot more freedom than some of the other available hand held consoles now.


Additional comment about discussion this week:
Part of our assignment this week was to discuss whether it was ethical or not to edit an interview. After responding to the forum, I was reminded of something fun one of my old bosses told me to do (as part of an informal speech training class to prepare me for teaching). If you every get bored in a class or have to listen to someone speak very often, start paying very close attention and you'll pick up on the person's speech habits. Some people will repeat the same phrase over and over while others will have certain patterns of speaking. It's fun to see how everyone's habits are different. However, it's also often these habits that should often be edited from interviews.

1 comment:

Queen of Bohemia said...

That's kinda scary, but a good strategy. I teach public speaking so I'm attuned to student's habits. Uhhhhhhhhhhh........
Anyway, I hope my students don't use this on me. :)