March 7th, 2010
Neat-o watch manufacturer Tokyoflash has unveiled an awesome new concept watch which uses an e-ink screen to create a wraparound inverse display.
As seen over on the company’s blog, the e-Paper Timing watch uses a curved e-ink screen to “show the time digitally in the negative space.”
The company has even seen fit to include Bluetooth functionality, making the watch vibrate and display a message on incoming calls or messages received by the paired handset.
Sadly, it’s only a concept at the moment – which is a shame, because it’s the first of Toykopop’s peculiar designs of wristwear that I could actually see myself spending three figures on.
March 7th, 2010
The second long-spike article that I’ve resurrected is regarding Intel’s decision to downgrade its Larrabee platform release into a Software Development Kit, written back in December.
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March 7th, 2010
I’ve been going through some of the older stuff I wrote for bit-tech, and came across a couple of articles that never made it. Rather than consign them to the digital dustbin, I figured – having already written them – I’d resurrect them here.
The first is an article about the agreement ‘twix AMD and Intel over the latter’s allegedly anticompetitive behaviour, written back in November of last year.
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November 17th, 2009
I appear to have broken my netbook.
Well, ‘broken’ might be a bit steep – it no longer responds to a lid close event with the nice, neat standby mode it once treated me to. Instead, it triggers the standby script and gets itself into a half-on, half-off state.
In this state, the power light is flashing to indicate that it’s in standby. Unfortunately, it isn’t – everything’s still working fine. The only indication that it even tried to standby is that my SD card unmount/remount script is triggered and the default keyring is locked.
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October 21st, 2009
I came home tonight to find that my Internet connection had crapped out, but that’s not what this post is about. This post is about how Billion – that is, the company rather than the oft-misused numerical value – software engineers are perhaps not the sharpest tools in the box.
After restarting my router, the syslog spat out the following:
Jan 1 00:01:33 DDNS: DynDNS can not be reliable if SNTP -time server do not
reply to modem correctly, Please fix SNTP -server address.
Oct 21 19:13:50 syslog: NTP current time is Wed Oct 21 19:13:50 2009
That’s the DDNS service complaining that things might go wrong if it doesn’t know the current time – followed by the NTP service updating to the current time. Apparently making those two things run the other way around is too logical.
Neat-o watch manufacturer Tokyoflash has unveiled an awesome new concept watch which uses an e-ink screen to create a wraparound inverse display.