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Modifying ultra-mobile PCs for sunlight readability

One of the biggest challenges to “mobile computing” (besides battery life) is outdoor readability. (If you’ve ever squinted through your sunglasses trying to dial on your windows mobile phone, you know what I’m talking about).
Recently I had an old EO 72xx UMPC upgraded to a transflective screen. It cost a few hundred dollars for them [...]

A mid-century car with next-century features

Will you be coming to the Maker’s Faire?

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Epitaph 2.0

I commute a lot in Los Angeles, and I have noticed an intriguing but literally disturbing trend: Mobile epitaphs.
No kidding, these are short dedications to the deceased on the rear windows of my co-commuters.
I have to say, as an observer and writer on emerging media trends, the mere fact of this emerging medium for paying [...]

A do-it-yourself Dashtop Computer – in Popular Science! (How 2.0)

I’m happy to report that I’ve had an article published in Popular Science on installing a car PC, in the How 2.0 section!
If you like cars and new technology, I strongly recommend you read the current issue (May 2007), and not just because of my article
With a readership of 7 million, I think we’ll [...]

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