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Posts from May 2006

$100 Laptop Prototypes

The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project at the MIT Media Lab appears to be moving right along. Last week photos of the first working prototypes were released. The laptop runs a customized version of Linux Fedora and is seen in three different colors/versions: green, orange, and grey. The new prototypes use a detachable foot [...]


Barbaro Bonds

There were two big stories in sports this weekend: one involved a horse that didn’t win the Preakness Stakes and the other involved Barry Bonds reaching a milestone. The milestone, of course, was 714 career home runs–tying Babe Ruth for second place for career home runs.
The all-time record for career home runs is held by [...]


iPod Boomboxes

I’m very surprised that the Bose Sounddock (now available in black, by the way) has sold so well. The Sounddock packs a punch, but it is not a replacement for a home stereo system. I think the reason people gravitate toward the Sounddock is because they don’t own a home stereo system or they simply [...]


Panel: Social and Personal Ways of Finding Information

Kevin Rose (digg), Joshua Schachter (del.icio.us), Tom Conrad (Pandora), David Porter (Live365), and Neil Hunt (Netflix) discuss their services and the issues surrounding information sharing and discovery. This is from the April 11th BayCHI monthly meeting. Listen to it on the web page or via the BayCHI podcast.
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