Gadgets for Christmas?

[Coronita]

[quote=briansd1]ok, flu, I’ll take your advice.

My bro bought that same TV from US Appliance earlier this year and he got a much better deal. He’s able to stream Netflix directly to the TV and it looks nicer than going through a separate box.

I think that Sony still makes the best TVs.

I can live with my setup for a while longer; so I’ll hold off.[/quote]

Just wait until 3d LED tv’s become mainstream. Like once the lower end brands start making them (like Visio,etc)…
Then everyone’s going to have to drop the price.

That’s the reason I’m still using my 25″ Sony Trinitron downstairs….

“Old fashion” Big ticket electronic items are so yesterday… All the consumers are snapping up the <$800ish small electronic items....tablets and smart phones, portable electronics,etc. That's why Best Buy is in big trouble. Because they haven't shifted their product mix to these new trends. They still bank on a lot of "old fashion" electronics (TV's, computers, AV gear)...Laptop/computer sales are getting cannibalized by all the tablets/smart phones. And it's simple. Most people these days primarily use a computer to surface the web, check email, listen to music etc...Everything you can do with a tablet...and even some light housekeeping like word processing,etc. Most people don't whip out that MS Excel anymore... If my old employer would make Turbo Tax for Android or iPad, I'd be set on a new tablet.... It will definitely be interesting to see what happens to computer co's numbers next quarter, like Dell.

[CDMA ENG]

Dude that light scribe is TOTAL MONEY!

Man, find one person with excellent hand writing skills and you could sell the notes out of the class for good bucks!

At least that is what I would have done in Engineering College…

We would always ask the person with the best hand writing for a copy of his notes if we had a heavy schedule and could not attend.

CE

[CDMA ENG]

Dude that light scribe is TOTAL MONEY!

Man, find one person with excellent hand writing skills and you could sell the notes out of the class for good bucks!

At least that is what I would have done in Engineering College…

We would always ask the person with the best hand writing for a copy of his notes if we had a heavy schedule and could not attend.

CE

[CDMA ENG]

Dude that light scribe is TOTAL MONEY!

Man, find one person with excellent hand writing skills and you could sell the notes out of the class for good bucks!

At least that is what I would have done in Engineering College…

We would always ask the person with the best hand writing for a copy of his notes if we had a heavy schedule and could not attend.

CE

[CDMA ENG]

Dude that light scribe is TOTAL MONEY!

Man, find one person with excellent hand writing skills and you could sell the notes out of the class for good bucks!

At least that is what I would have done in Engineering College…

We would always ask the person with the best hand writing for a copy of his notes if we had a heavy schedule and could not attend.

CE

[CDMA ENG]

Dude that light scribe is TOTAL MONEY!

Man, find one person with excellent hand writing skills and you could sell the notes out of the class for good bucks!

At least that is what I would have done in Engineering College…

We would always ask the person with the best hand writing for a copy of his notes if we had a heavy schedule and could not attend.

CE

[UCGal]

I think best buy got slaughtered because they have the worlds crappiest customer service.

check out this link

http://www.forums.bestbuy.com/t5/BestBuy-Com/bd-p/Dotcom

It’s full of disgruntled folks who ordered stuff and bestbuy is not shipping, cancelling orders, and marking stuff shipped when it hasn’t shipped yet.

I discovered that forum (on the best buy site) while waiting for more than an hour on hold to talk to customer service about a screwed up order… the CSR rep told me that everything was the postal services fault (including wrong items shipped, and items not shipped for more than 2 weeks.)

Best buy is losing business because they aren’t good at getting the products they sell to the customer.

[UCGal]

I think best buy got slaughtered because they have the worlds crappiest customer service.

check out this link

http://www.forums.bestbuy.com/t5/BestBuy-Com/bd-p/Dotcom

It’s full of disgruntled folks who ordered stuff and bestbuy is not shipping, cancelling orders, and marking stuff shipped when it hasn’t shipped yet.

I discovered that forum (on the best buy site) while waiting for more than an hour on hold to talk to customer service about a screwed up order… the CSR rep told me that everything was the postal services fault (including wrong items shipped, and items not shipped for more than 2 weeks.)

Best buy is losing business because they aren’t good at getting the products they sell to the customer.

[UCGal]

I think best buy got slaughtered because they have the worlds crappiest customer service.

check out this link

http://www.forums.bestbuy.com/t5/BestBuy-Com/bd-p/Dotcom

It’s full of disgruntled folks who ordered stuff and bestbuy is not shipping, cancelling orders, and marking stuff shipped when it hasn’t shipped yet.

I discovered that forum (on the best buy site) while waiting for more than an hour on hold to talk to customer service about a screwed up order… the CSR rep told me that everything was the postal services fault (including wrong items shipped, and items not shipped for more than 2 weeks.)

Best buy is losing business because they aren’t good at getting the products they sell to the customer.

[UCGal]

I think best buy got slaughtered because they have the worlds crappiest customer service.

check out this link

http://www.forums.bestbuy.com/t5/BestBuy-Com/bd-p/Dotcom

It’s full of disgruntled folks who ordered stuff and bestbuy is not shipping, cancelling orders, and marking stuff shipped when it hasn’t shipped yet.

I discovered that forum (on the best buy site) while waiting for more than an hour on hold to talk to customer service about a screwed up order… the CSR rep told me that everything was the postal services fault (including wrong items shipped, and items not shipped for more than 2 weeks.)

Best buy is losing business because they aren’t good at getting the products they sell to the customer.

[UCGal]

I think best buy got slaughtered because they have the worlds crappiest customer service.

check out this link

http://www.forums.bestbuy.com/t5/BestBuy-Com/bd-p/Dotcom

It’s full of disgruntled folks who ordered stuff and bestbuy is not shipping, cancelling orders, and marking stuff shipped when it hasn’t shipped yet.

I discovered that forum (on the best buy site) while waiting for more than an hour on hold to talk to customer service about a screwed up order… the CSR rep told me that everything was the postal services fault (including wrong items shipped, and items not shipped for more than 2 weeks.)

Best buy is losing business because they aren’t good at getting the products they sell to the customer.

[Coronita]

[quote=CDMA ENG]Dude that light scribe is TOTAL MONEY!

Man, find one person with excellent hand writing skills and you could sell the notes out of the class for good bucks!

At least that is what I would have done in Engineering College…

We would always ask the person with the best hand writing for a copy of his notes if we had a heavy schedule and could not attend.

CE[/quote]

The first generation pens were Java J2ME based. I bought one when they demoed it at JavaOne.

The technology is based on how optical mouses work. You write on special paper called “microdots”, which has a bunch of dots you can barely see. An optical sensor in the pen captures the movement across patterns and stores the pattern, along with information about the the page you are writing on (a page is encode with information about the page number, the specific notebook you are writing in). Then you plug the pen into a usb cradle and sync the data to your pc.

The software on the pc
1)Animates the penstroke you wrote in the notebook, and
2) plays any recorded audio at the time of writing. This is definitely much better than just taking notes because often one forgets what was being discussed when the notes were being written. This device keeps the context.
3)You can upload the writing and audio to livescribe online, and share the contents with other people. For example, sharing notes with your friends.

There are some improvements which I wish they had included in the first gen devices…
1) The optical char recognition software wasn’t as easy to write stuff on

2) I wish they used something like Bluetooth instead of using a traditional USB cradle to sync with a computer.

There were a lot of interesting apps one could write related to legal/finance. Some of which was/is patentable.

The biggest drawback is you have to buy the special notebook/paper, which isn’t cheap… In theory, you could make a photocopy of the notebook, and reuse the same paper over and over again… At one point, livescribe also mentioned they would include the ability to print your own paper. Not sure if that ever happened.

[Coronita]

[quote=CDMA ENG]Dude that light scribe is TOTAL MONEY!

Man, find one person with excellent hand writing skills and you could sell the notes out of the class for good bucks!

At least that is what I would have done in Engineering College…

We would always ask the person with the best hand writing for a copy of his notes if we had a heavy schedule and could not attend.

CE[/quote]

The first generation pens were Java J2ME based. I bought one when they demoed it at JavaOne.

The technology is based on how optical mouses work. You write on special paper called “microdots”, which has a bunch of dots you can barely see. An optical sensor in the pen captures the movement across patterns and stores the pattern, along with information about the the page you are writing on (a page is encode with information about the page number, the specific notebook you are writing in). Then you plug the pen into a usb cradle and sync the data to your pc.

The software on the pc
1)Animates the penstroke you wrote in the notebook, and
2) plays any recorded audio at the time of writing. This is definitely much better than just taking notes because often one forgets what was being discussed when the notes were being written. This device keeps the context.
3)You can upload the writing and audio to livescribe online, and share the contents with other people. For example, sharing notes with your friends.

There are some improvements which I wish they had included in the first gen devices…
1) The optical char recognition software wasn’t as easy to write stuff on

2) I wish they used something like Bluetooth instead of using a traditional USB cradle to sync with a computer.

There were a lot of interesting apps one could write related to legal/finance. Some of which was/is patentable.

The biggest drawback is you have to buy the special notebook/paper, which isn’t cheap… In theory, you could make a photocopy of the notebook, and reuse the same paper over and over again… At one point, livescribe also mentioned they would include the ability to print your own paper. Not sure if that ever happened.

[Coronita]

[quote=CDMA ENG]Dude that light scribe is TOTAL MONEY!

Man, find one person with excellent hand writing skills and you could sell the notes out of the class for good bucks!

At least that is what I would have done in Engineering College…

We would always ask the person with the best hand writing for a copy of his notes if we had a heavy schedule and could not attend.

CE[/quote]

The first generation pens were Java J2ME based. I bought one when they demoed it at JavaOne.

The technology is based on how optical mouses work. You write on special paper called “microdots”, which has a bunch of dots you can barely see. An optical sensor in the pen captures the movement across patterns and stores the pattern, along with information about the the page you are writing on (a page is encode with information about the page number, the specific notebook you are writing in). Then you plug the pen into a usb cradle and sync the data to your pc.

The software on the pc
1)Animates the penstroke you wrote in the notebook, and
2) plays any recorded audio at the time of writing. This is definitely much better than just taking notes because often one forgets what was being discussed when the notes were being written. This device keeps the context.
3)You can upload the writing and audio to livescribe online, and share the contents with other people. For example, sharing notes with your friends.

There are some improvements which I wish they had included in the first gen devices…
1) The optical char recognition software wasn’t as easy to write stuff on

2) I wish they used something like Bluetooth instead of using a traditional USB cradle to sync with a computer.

There were a lot of interesting apps one could write related to legal/finance. Some of which was/is patentable.

The biggest drawback is you have to buy the special notebook/paper, which isn’t cheap… In theory, you could make a photocopy of the notebook, and reuse the same paper over and over again… At one point, livescribe also mentioned they would include the ability to print your own paper. Not sure if that ever happened.

[Coronita]

[quote=CDMA ENG]Dude that light scribe is TOTAL MONEY!

Man, find one person with excellent hand writing skills and you could sell the notes out of the class for good bucks!

At least that is what I would have done in Engineering College…

We would always ask the person with the best hand writing for a copy of his notes if we had a heavy schedule and could not attend.

CE[/quote]

The first generation pens were Java J2ME based. I bought one when they demoed it at JavaOne.

The technology is based on how optical mouses work. You write on special paper called “microdots”, which has a bunch of dots you can barely see. An optical sensor in the pen captures the movement across patterns and stores the pattern, along with information about the the page you are writing on (a page is encode with information about the page number, the specific notebook you are writing in). Then you plug the pen into a usb cradle and sync the data to your pc.

The software on the pc
1)Animates the penstroke you wrote in the notebook, and
2) plays any recorded audio at the time of writing. This is definitely much better than just taking notes because often one forgets what was being discussed when the notes were being written. This device keeps the context.
3)You can upload the writing and audio to livescribe online, and share the contents with other people. For example, sharing notes with your friends.

There are some improvements which I wish they had included in the first gen devices…
1) The optical char recognition software wasn’t as easy to write stuff on

2) I wish they used something like Bluetooth instead of using a traditional USB cradle to sync with a computer.

There were a lot of interesting apps one could write related to legal/finance. Some of which was/is patentable.

The biggest drawback is you have to buy the special notebook/paper, which isn’t cheap… In theory, you could make a photocopy of the notebook, and reuse the same paper over and over again… At one point, livescribe also mentioned they would include the ability to print your own paper. Not sure if that ever happened.

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