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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
Go have fun spending time with your family and eating.
Monthly Archive for November, 2007
Register for SolidWorks World…check, Get free weird Lookin’ mouse…cheeeck.
The quickest 100 people who register for SolidWorks World here will get a shiny new Space Navigator 3D mouse. Just look at it in it’s ubiquitous model-manipulating glory.
It cost $59 retail. You could swap that for half a barrel of oil or 11.8 cups of a Carmel Macchiato.
Oh, and if you forget to sign up after December 14th, you’ll pay an extra hundred dollars because you’re a your boss is a procrastinator. I would try to entice him with this and also offer to give the company an overview of all the things you learn at SolidWorks World.
There’s an agenda here.
I’m not to keen on Macs, even though I was raised on them years ago, along with meat, potatoes and iodized salt. You may have seen the Apple ads on TV. Now you may start seeing some even more creative ones online. Macs don’t run SolidWorks (for shame), but you can’t beat a good ad, especially when it shows up on sites reviewing your competitor. See video below.
Via TechCrunch
You know that open-source software like Apache or OpenOffice that actually makes it possible for you to do things on your own? Some bright guys applied that to hardware and have developed BUG, an open source, web-enabled, modular software + hardware platform. Sound cool? Here’s what they have to say.
Bug Labs is a new kind of technology company, enabling a new generation of engineers to tap their creativity and build any type of device they want, without having to solder, learn solid state electronics, or go to China.
Open-Source Hardware?
At first I thought this was a kooky idea with not a whole lot of possibilities, but think of some gadgets you’ve had ideas for, but didn’t know how or what you would need to put it together. This can make it possible. I have no idea what goes into something to create a speed-plotting-video-amplification device, but with BUG I can take a few modules a turn it into a fully-optimized web-based piece of hardware. From a tech side, that’s cool. It pretty much pummels Radio Shack into the ground.
Here’s a photo and video that explains the inspiration behind the madness.
I’ve hired Burt Reynolds to convince you to chip into a fund to buy my wonderfully supportive and extremely cool wife a Dell XPS.
Mad-cap Consumerism at its best
This is actually a pretty cool promotion from Dell. Get someone famous to convince people to chip in and buy you something cool for Christmas.
You can get Ice-T to turn on the charm, Estell Harris to tell it like it is and there’s some other b-movie personalities. I went with Burt Reynolds since Cannonball Run I and II were pretty decent movies in their day. Check out the dell promo and get your own actor at yoursishere.com.
If you like the blog go on and chip in!
