Operation Gadget
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Dartfish, Athletic Performance Visualization Company, Profiled in Time Global Business
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA special supplement to this week’s Time Magazine called Time Global Business profiled an athletic performance visualization company called Dartfish. Dartfish uses digital video technology to show athletes and coaches the mechanics of different activities performed in sporting events. The key technologies that Dartfish offers are Simulcam which overlays two separate…
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China Unicom to Begin Selling GSM/CDMA Phones in July
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Chinese People’s Daily reports that China Unicom will begin shipping dual technology GSM/CDMA phones in July. The phones are said to be manufactured by Samsung, LG and Motorola. Following up on this report, Smartphone Thoughts said: … wouldn’t it be great if they used the technology in Smartphones? Smartphones with…
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palmOne to Update Treo 600 Firmware, No Confirmation of Treo 610
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Register’s Tony Smith reportedly interviewed Ed Colligan of palmOne. Smith’s article about the interview, published yesterday, revealed a number of useful pieces of information about palmOne’s future plans. The most immediate news to come out was that palmOne intends to issue a Treo 600 firmware update this week that will…
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Fixed Broken Comment Submission Mechanism
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast night, a reader sent the following message: Hi, I was trying to post a comment about the Lansing 2.0 speakers, and got this error An error occurred:Undefined subroutine &jayallen::Blacklist::comment_post_hdlr called at /home/httpd/cgi-bin/plugins/Blacklist.pl line 115. Thanks for the tip, Kevin. I decided to upgrade the MT-Blacklist plugin on the production server…
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Got a Nokia 6600 for Long-Term Review Purposes
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou may remember that I said that I was working on getting a Nokia 6600 to do a full-fledged review. Thanks to my friends at T-Mobile I received a 6600 today. I’ll have it for several weeks, so you can expect a number of articles about it in the near future.…
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Altec Lansing inMotion Portable Audio Speakers Turn an iPod into a Stereo
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday, my wife and I had her parents and sister over for a cookout for Mother’s Day. This was the first time that I tried to connect my wife’s iPod to the Sony CFD-440 CD / cassette boombox in our living room. You may remember that I documented the process of connecting…
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May 3 – 9, 2004 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the first week of May 2004. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism…
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MPx200 Reviewed by ExtremeMhz
Reading Time: < 1 minuteExtremeMhz recently published an extensive review of the Motorola MPx200. The point of this review seems to be to illustrate the ways that the MPx200 can be configured to allow it to substitute for a Pocket PC. The review includes an extensive discussion of third-party software for the MPx200 that adds…
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Getting Exact Lactate Threshold Measurements Using a Lactate Pro
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve been TiVoing each episode of The Lance Chronicles on the Outdoor Life Network, looking for information about state-of-the-art fitness measurement devices. In the second episode, they showed Lance Armstrong and one of his trainers using a Lactate Pro, a handheld lactate threshold analyzer. This device reportedly costs about $300 with the…