If you’re nostalgic for times past when moving pictures came on a disc, you’re in luck. The YouTube Collection gives you every YouTube video onto DVD — and it may be a few more DVDs than you were hoping for. Delivered to your door by a fleet of 176 trucks piled high with dozens of boxes, it promises immaculate categorization of every single YouTube video. Too bad you won’t be able to fit even 1% of the collection through your front door. It offers up your favorite categories or the entire collection, which contains upwards of 400,000 discs, and at a cost of $5 per disc, YouTube can only hope you’re willing to shell out more than $2 million for the order. Alternatively, you could still go to the normal YouTube website — for free, of course.
The demographic that grew up with the tabletop-game favorite Hungry Hungry Hippos has aged quite a bit. Now ThinkGeek is trying to win back some of that crowd by updating the game using the current technology of the era. It’s proposed the Hungry Hungry Hippos for iPad, and it looks to be all of the fun with none of the wily mess of the original game. Never again will one of the plastic marbles launch across the room and hit your opponent in the eye. Come to think of it, that was most of the fun of the game, anyway. Regardless, a number of commenters have pointed out that the game would actually be possible to make.
It’s got all the power of your standard off-the-shelf laptop, and it fits right in your pocket. In fact, you might even lose it among your keys and spare change, because Sony’s newest computer is the size of a quarter. Good luck not ruining your eyesight with its 1.25-in. screen. Fortunately it comes with a monocle to help magnify the image.
All tablet PCs are rather boringly shaped like rectangles. Noticing this, Toshiba has decided to throw a curve into the burgeoning market with its Shapes tablets. The company promises us tablets that are as unique as our individual personalities. Throwing us back to ninth-grade geometry, we are introduced to the Rhombus and the Oblong — and Toshiba romanticizes the notion with a heart-shaped one called Amore. Sure, they look goofy, but at least it’s not another boxy tablet. (Perhaps it took a cue from the Pyramid tablet introduced on The Office a few weeks ago.)
As those pesky virtual keyboards on our smart phones get more cluttered, what if we could go back to the 1800s? No, Gmail is not suggesting we ditch its technology, but instead it’s hoping that we’ll revert to the typing method from that bygone era: Morse code. It has developed a keyboard that uses two simple keys: dot and dash. Its creators claim you can even tap out two messages at a time (hopefully your brain can keep up). Is this one case where the technology of the past will become that of the future? With Gmail having cast a spell over so many e-mail users, who’s to say it can’t change the way we type?
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