DigiDiaries

Holiday Gadget Guide (and so much more)

 New Gen Tech has been on a 3 week hiatus, and during our downtime, we've been playing around with some good, and some not so good, gadgets. Monday's New Gen Tech show also briefly talks about a cool tech camp that Christian helped out with last Fri (more info after the swag)...

 GADGETS (GOOD)

 These aren't your traditional gift cards. Best Buy and Target are both offering some neat-o twists on these holiday staples. Best Buy cards double as portable speakers while Target's got a killer low-res digital camera built in to the cards. Only caveat is a $15 min. load on each card---but if ur gonna spend it anyways than its a great deal)c anyways than its a great deal) 

The Nokia n97 may be the iPhone / STORM / G1 killer (though its not slated for early Spring). 

Joyce likes the new HD Flip . For those parents out there, Paypall has, effectively, created an allowance system that parents can control for their virtual kids to shop till they drop (or at least until their weekly pay pall dollars are gone)

Christian had a chance to play with the Blackberry STORM, and needless to say, he wasn't very pleased with the performance...all to clunky for his speedy fingers, the tactile feedback was just too slow for him and his emailing patterns. 
Finally, Joyce tipped the team to some (terribly) overpriced Dr. Dre sponsored Monster headphones. At $350 a pop, its a little too out of our league for sub-par performance. 
Finally, Christian spent his Friday afternoon helping fellow New Gen Marketing colleague Colin Cupp carry out his latest tech camp at our Santa Clara campus. ~120 eager kids were soaking up some interactive demos and talks about Project Darkstar, Sun's gaming initiative, Project Wonderland, Sun's interactive world initiative, and learning about Atmosphir.com

Creative Director Dave Werner from Atmosphir showed us how easy it is to make your own drag-and-drop style videogames on the fly (and for FREE)

Tune in next Monday, Dec 15th at 10AM PT as we chat with JavaFX ppl Eric, David, and Jenn. These 3 are all involved with the marketing of this great new product (JavaFX.com)

Posted at 09:12AM Dec 09, 2008 by Christian Mudgett in Podcast  |  Comments[0]