Not going to lie here. I picked up a 16GB iPod Touch from Apple on Black Friday for a pretty cheap $279 after taxes. I’m hooked. Addicted. I can’t put the damn thing down. It seems I also managed to go on an app buying spree. Hit the jump to see all the shit I bought/downloaded off iTMS in a three day period. I feel eerily similar to Lisa Simpson.
Microsoft has released the latest Seinfeld collaboration video entitled “A Family Affair.” It stars Gates and Seinfeld at a family’s dinner table. The ad is an improvement over the painfully dull first video they did, but it still needs some work. I think the problem lies in the fact that the video is over four minutes long. No one spends that much time on YouTube let alone on Microsoft, so perhaps it should try shortening these videos. Either way, take a watch and you be the judge. Let us know what you think in the comments.
Japanese company ELPA has introduced a meter that plugs between your AC and your electric appliance to measure the amount of electricity drawn out. Apart from just measuring the usual energy consumption over time in Watts, it also tells you how much you should be expecting to pay - in terms of yen according to standardized Japanese power charges. What’s more is that it calculates the amount of Carbon Dioxide incurred, so you can call that up with a button press and feel bad about yourself. I guess this is a self-check for geeks that cannot live without gadgets, or earth lovers trying to figure out how much power they can save by turning their refrigerators’ temperature up. This plug will only concern Japan in terms of displaying the correct power bill, the carbon dioxide and energy measurement can be applied anywhere I suppose. These power meters are being sold at $27 now. — Sam Chan
