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No Cash? No Problem!
In the past we've gone from trading goods to trading coins, then from coins to cash, now we trade with nothing but electrons. Digital credit has changed the way the world does business. While there are some downfalls with digital transactions, I'm only discussing the next 2-5 years of digital transactions on a personal level. .png "Greek Coin")
While the coin was actually invented back in about 660BC and widely used in the Persian empire, the Greeks and Romans used it as a widespread method of trade. Archimedes determined the coin's value could be set based on the physical coin itself. The weight would stay constant, and even if the coin had been tampered with the coin was still made of some sort of metal. This allowed the Greeks to cut down on counterfeited coins. But today we have similar issues with credit cards, we need to ensure that the credit cards are not stolen or fake.
The future is companies like Squareup.com a product for your iPhone in which you can take credit card payments anywhere you have cell service.
Opening Up Mobile Hardware
Today we have so many different choices in the mobile market. You can have a cellphone the size of your finger, or one the size of the brick. However, the most significant problem, as I see it, is that ever phone comes with it's own mobile operating system. Some people may need the pure utility of the Blackberry OS during work, but may want the sleek and shiny iPhone OS once they leave the office. This causes you to either buy two devices and switch the SIM card back and forth, or be subjected to the lackluster appeal of one 'industrial' phone that you use for work and 'deal with' when your not at work.
Updated on 1-26-2010
Canon EOS 7D Video
Normally I am not a fan of canon but this camera rocked, even at 1600-6400 ISO it was still a pretty clear image, it really wow'ed me. I can't believe he went from a huge film camera to this little tiny slr for shooting HD footage, the future of video looks incredible! Check out the video after the break.
Mooga’s DDR Pad Hack
So a friend of mine did a hack with a DDR pad to play audio surf on his PC, he had a USB ddr pad and some ingenuity... Check out the video after the break!!