Gadgets

Yesterday afternoon the residents of Brisbane may have thought Prince from the Purple Rain era was riding around town – if they were a little bit creative. To normal people it probably looked like a vespa scooter and a rider with a toy guitar hanging out of their backpack. Hey, I needed some way to [...]

Pauline, Kelly and I went to the motor show last week and discovered it was a huge disappointment. Thankfully the free yellowglen champagne because it was ladies night at least refunded $6 of the $16 we wasted. Not a single concept car was in sight (if there was one it didn’t seem any different to [...]

Every year around early January the Macworld magazine has an expo in San Francisco. Apple usually chooses this expo to release new products by announcing them at the keynote address. In 2004 Pauline and I were lucky enough to attend, but unlucky in that the only cool new product they announced was the Ipod Mini [...]

I had predicted that the Wii would be a hit at xmas, and I was not let down. Here are some clips of my aunt and mother competing for supremacy at Wii Sports Tennis. My favourite quotes come from mum “this is good isn’t it?” and “I like this”. Unfortunately I didn’t have the ultimate [...]

1. Myer isn’t very experienced at game console launches – especially succesful ones. An hour and a half in line because only 2 cash registers were being used isn’t good customer service. See Cameron’s blog for details. 2. People who aren’t gamers absolutely love the wii. I had people stay for four hours playing Wii [...]