October 24, 2004
Shiny Like Me
There are lots and lots of gadget review sites, but most of them are so manly. Engadget, for example has the newest thing if you are a tech loving boy, like this 22 megapixel Hasselblad digital SLR with a built in 40 GB hard drive.
Engadget's influence is huge. Add a few Engadget reading geek bloggers, and now no one in Seattle can buy the new Audio Vox phone. (Want one! I think I really really need to watch the latest Stargate episode on my cell phone!)
ShinyShiny, a blog created by London tech writers Katie Lee and Charlotte Ricca-Smith, is a different sort of tech site. I didn't know what what was missing from my laptop accessories until I got a look at the Sushi USB key . Or maybe I would rather have a monitor-handbag.
Seriously, if you work with computers and haven't discovered the wonderful world of usb flash drives, you need to take a look. I bought my first one more than a year ago, and paid almost $200 for 512 MB of storage.You can get 1GB of flash memory now for under $100. I now have 3 miniature drives, one for carrying client work, one for carrying Windows patches, anti-spyware and anti-virus programs for troubleshooting client computers, and one for personal and business files. Forget about floppies, burning CD's or e-mail files to yourself. The drives are cross platform, so I can sit next to my designer while he works on his powerbook and I work on my Vaio. (Sony, true to form, has already discontinued my model, so here's a picture of my little lap toy. It's smaller than it looks, in fact its smaller than this picture.)
Posted by Trigger Tech at October 24, 2004 11:48 PM Permalink
