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Last week, I talked about my feeling on the obvious shortage of Wii’s available to the market

In my previous article I mentioned the biggest draw for me personally to this console was that it would help my get off the couch and up and active again (during those times where I actually have free time to play games). I still think it’s a brilliant idea, especially when I’m facing roughly 3-5 months of fall/winter rain on the west coast of Canada.

Apparently this idea is striking a chord with others as well, as Seniors trade walkers for Wii

The article also touches on something that’s close to what I’ve witnessed as well with my mother-in-law who is a dependent to us. Playing games of some description provides the kind of brain stimulation that television watching alone does not provide. Puzzles on the computer, like bejewelled helps her to focus more and think. I’m just not sure that the Wii would be a good idea for her after seeing all those home accidents that teen boys posted in the early days of Wii on Youtube. At least not with me.. I’m too competitive.

I’ll be the first to say that I’m a 35 year old guy, who loves gadgets and the night sky, but never owned a telescope. The primary reason for that is, I never owned a house in an area that afford good night time viewing of stars. That however, has changed. I’m also aware that astronomy requires a lot of knowledge of the night sky, and serious astronomers get heavy into math, which has not been an strong area interest of mine.

I have a funny feeling that’s all going to change with meade telescopes. And check out the specs on this point and shoot meade telescope. Claiming you need no previous knowledge of the night sky, all you need to do with this gadget is point to a celestial object and it will identify it for you.

There’s no other way to describe this gadget as far as I’m concerned: it’s just plain cool.

Apple To Roll Out IPhone On June 29.

There’s been a lot of buzz around Apple’s iPhone set to be released June 29, but after reading the above article I can’t help but be a little disappointed. Internet access and storage for music and video are two great features that one can come to expect for *most* smart phones. As early as 2001, I recall telling my partner that I couldn’t wait until the day cell phones combine, storage, and highspeed cell internet access *as well as* 802.11b/g WIFI access in order to take advantage of highspots now commonplace all over the world. And you know what? I’m still waiting for an affordable option that includes internet, storage, digital camera, and wifi.

Apple’s iPhone if this article is correct is set to be launched with 4-8 gigabytes of storage. Not bad. But not too good given the $499-599 price tag. While it appears to be as top quality as most smartphones out there, with perhaps more emphasis on widescreen and other media enriched features, it’s not likely be revolutionary.

Where’s the wifi access? Is this a conspiracy amongst cell providers? It makes me wonder. Is the storage built in, or flash? If built in, 4-8 gigs will soon seem limiting to most people.

And with that, I must confess, the search for me continues: 6 years later.

Let’s face it, most of us are becoming more and more dependent on technology and the world wide web. More and more I see technology merging. Over the years one can see the uses of the internet become common place in our daily lives.

Photography is a prime example of that. Digital photography slowly started to become available to the average consumer in the early 90’s however film photography it’s almost unheard now.

So where does one store all these files? What about music files? I look at my desk and see clutter sprawled amongst 2 laptops, a desktop and about 3 external hard drives. Given my passion for sharing pictures, videos and music files amongst family and friends I need to look at other solutions.

One such solution is online backup services. IDrive.com offers encrypted backups for your important files. Not only do they offer free backup services for anyone looking at using 2 GIGs, but also have affordable pricing for unlimited backups for as little as $4.95 per month. The list of features are extensive, providing many user friendly features including an interface that’s similar to native Windows Explorer.

This website is definitely worth a look at. For more information, you can check out their online backup demo

Yes folks, by now, I’m sure there’s tons of blogs writing about The USB Absinthe Spoon Do a search on technorati, do a search on google, you’ll find it. But my fascination with this started thanks to a simple link share with a friend of mine on MSN.

This really struck my funny bone. And no, I wasn’t chasing little green fairies at the time, I swear. But having experienced a little absinthe ritual fun both in europe when I travelled there last fall, to recently when I returned I couldn’t but laugh at this gizmo, gadget, or… hoax?

There’s some speculation that this fantastical gadget is nothing more than an email grab. Create a buzz about a fake product, collect some email addresses while you’re at it. The makers of this supposed gadget “didn’t know” that the response would be so positive and so global. The deal was (and is), for you to write to them on their site, as to why you think you deserve a prototype of the USB Absinthe Spoon.

I couldn’t resist. I wrote. My comment was somewhere in the 400th mark. My reasoning for “needing” an absinthe spoon was simple: I’m left handed.

In any case, this is a fun little buzz that I’m following. I sure hope they make big bucks regardless of whether this product is real or not.