Hands on with the Verizon Wireless Broadband laptop card

I picked one of these up today to test out just how fast this nationwide
“wireless DSL” internet service from Verizon really is. More to come!

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MobiBLU’s new video player lets you pay your subway fare with RFID

I love my mobiBLU 1500 (one inch cubed) mp3 player. I can’t go a single day on the subway without someone asking me about it. Now they’ve come out with a new contender in the form of the picture/video playing MobiBLU 1800. Aside from a ‘I’m cooler than you’ form factor, it’s got a new killer app. They’ve integrated a RFID chip into it. This means you can fill up the player with money (sort of like you do with pre-paid cell phones) and use the player as your e-wallet to pay for various things. In Korea, you can simply walk past the subway turnstiles and the MobiBLU automagically deducts your fare from your balance, all while stowed out of sight in your pocket. The future is now! (in Korea).

20 story tall city mural

sadly, its all a Delta ad….
-but it still looks awesome

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New Orleans to get city wide free WiFi !

I can’t believe the big corporations (Verizon, SBC, TimeWarner) haven’t crushed this initiative with an iron fist. Maybe they haven’t heard about it yet and soon will… It’s an awesome plan. Free city wide wireless Internet access for the entire city of New Orleans. Mayor Nagin is pushing the initiative to help spur economic growth for the devastated city. How long until corporate greed squashes this just like it has in countless other communities and states (Philly, Salt Lake City, etc) ?

Free Tix to sold-out Bon Jovi concert @ Madison Square Garden

Props to mah man Benji for scoring these free tickets to the sold out 2nd day concert @ Madison Square Garden. W00t! “
Wooaaah, we’re 1/2 way there- w0000ah- livin’ on a 1980′s prayer.”

-He better fucking play that.

UPDATE: -And he did!

Escalator to Heaven: Zepplen never had it so good.

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It’s 3am: the year may almost be 2006, but- no

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Lamabox gives your living room illegal TV/Movies/Love via BitTorrent, eMule, Kazaa!

Plug this little set-top box into your home network and Television set. Tell it what shows and movies you like. It goes out and scours the Net for your HD episodes of Desperate Housewives and downloads them all through the legal gray-waters of Bit Torrent, eMule, Kazaa, and all those household name P2P networks you grew up on. The Lamaboxes come with internal hard drives (200-500+gb) and optional DVD burners in case you fill them up. It gives you an easy to control on-screen interface for navigating and playing your freshly pirated content. Disruptive technologies like this are always relegated to foreign countries at their onset, but have a tendency to asplode onto the mainstream very quickly (with the help of blog articles like this!). NBC/ABC/CBS/HBO/[insert_network_name_here] will all crumble under the power of P2P! Bring it on!

Link to LamaBox.com