Your Brain on Tech

Courtesy of www.apple.com

Apple announced their new tablet computer today, called the iPad. Dubbed as a “magical and revolutionary device” it somehow manages to be exactly the opposite. The iPad is essentially an oversized iPhone that doesn’t do anything that a normal computer, or an iPhone can’t do, except for maybe allow the user to read books more conveniently. Apple should change “magical and revolutionary” to “old, rehashed yet still somewhat convenient under very specific circumstances.”

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I regretfully have to say, as of next semester, I will be taking classes back home at a community college.

All in all, I will still be involved in YBOT but just in a different light. I am looking for ways to shoot the Gadgets and Gear segment in my home, but that is still up in the air at the moment.  Either way, I will still be here to update you on the new gadgets on the market and hopefully physically bring segments to you as well.

I will be returning in the Fall, so I will be on all cylinders once again in the near future.

Your Gadgets and Gear Specialist,

Tyler Besh

Google Wave screenshot from Pat Hoban

Since it’s founding in 1998, Google has brought us a super search engine, excellent email, and marvelous online maps; all for free.  This has many people wondering what they will do next.

The answer is Google Wave.

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Communication, Google, Wave

If you can recall, I reviewed the new LiveScribe pen in the second episode. I just found out that they have opened their own app store, in beta, on their site. I haven’t had a chance to test it out yet, but I’m here to keep you updated. Enjoy.

http://www.livescribe.com/store/20070723002/c-106.htm

LiveScribe

Here’s a little video I put together for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Hope you like it!

Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 2

I don’t think I am the first person to notice this, but I feel like the first to come out in anger against the new direction video game companies are taking “multiplayer” video games these days — if you can even still call them multiplayer.

The first offense I noticed was last year’s Left 4 Dead. My roommates and I rented a copy and were ready for some four-player, zombie, split-screen action on my 52-inch TV. We put the disc in my XBOX360 only to figure out that four player co-op really meant two player split-screen split between two different consoles.

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Borderlands, Call of Duty, Halo, Left 4 Dead, Multiplayer, Video Games, XBOX

To all who have seen the movies, you know how “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ended. This, however, is how it SHOULD have ended.

Video courtesy of YouTube

This week we review Apple’s new multi-touch Magic Mouse, check out Sega’s remade classic Earthworm Jim for the iPhone, and stop by GameGo Computers to check out post-apocalyptic shooter Borderlands for the Xbox 360.

By now, you’ve seen the iDon’t/Droid Does commercials by Verizon, right? If you haven’t, just click the link I provided.

Verizon has recently been taking shots at the iPhone, highlighting the shortfalls of the phone (mainly coverage and some software inadequacies). The new Droid line of phones is Verizon’s attempt at reducing the loss of customers because of the iPhone, but the real question in all of this is of course whether or not the new Droid phones will be “iPhone killers.”

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Android, AT&T, Droid, iPhone, Motorola, Verizon

Easily the coolest pumpkin I have ever carved.

Can you guess what it is?

Halloween, Pumpkins