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Now some Apple followers might not even know about this product yet but I'm guessing most of you do so in essence I'm just covering a mundane topic no one is interested in except me. I just heard about this new product and supposed new category of product. I am not an Apple supporter, especially the iPod, but Apples new wave of products including the iPhone and this, the iPod Touch have got me thinking about purchasing one. When looking for the iPod Touch it was hard to know which picture was correct as I had never seen it so, I had to go to the source, the Apple Store.

The Apple iPod Touch looks much like an Apple iPhone plus the new earbuds. It comes in 8GB and 16GB each priced at $329 and $449 respectively. Both of them ship by September 28 2007 and both come equipped with the same things except the hard drive space. This includes: a 3.5inch widescreen multi-touch display(which I will touch on later in the article), Wi-Fi, Safari, YouTube, WiFi Music Store, and with an 8mm thin casing. The WiFi Music Store is Apple's new music store to support the Apple iPod Touch. As well that music store will be able to work with the Apple iPhone by letting owners of the supposed revolutionary phone create there own ringtones using songs bought from the store, although there is one catch. The songs cost an extra 99 cents for the service.

Apple has not only introduced a new category into the digital device market but it also has revamped its line-up of products. The iPod Nano is now in my opinion, an ugly looking player. I'd easily rather buy a Creative Zen V. As well, the iPod Video has become the iPod classic and has retained most of its shape but has added an 80GB version and a whopping 160GB version and to make things better, they slashed there prices. A little touch they added is you can now laser engrave your iPod to make it more personal.

The multi-touch screen is an exact replica of the iPhone multi-touch screen. I learned so many new features of the screen when looking at the iPod Touch Guided Tour such as "pinching" which lets you resize an image and when you rotate the Touch, the screen rotates too. As well it lets you glide through album covers and tap the one of your choosing. It does all this by recognizing your finger movements using electrical fields on the screen.

Sorry for no new articles in the past couple weeks but I've been on the go and fritz in England and France so I haven't had much time to write about articles. I saw the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, and some local sites. Now enough about me, it's now about you. I too am looking for an unlocked phone as I can get a middle of the pack price and a great phone I never would have considered with Pay As You Go. I am currently looking at 5 websites. First off is:
Overstock - This website is American but has great shipping rates and has mediocre deals on phones. They aren't a full cell phone website, they do have other products including furniture. I probably won't be buying any phone from here because there prices are more on the expensive side compared to my other two recommendations
Cellular Blowout - This is another American website and it has much better prices and slightly better phones but I'd rate the quality and integrity of the website below Overstock. They do have better descriptions of the phones they sell which is a great plus to me. There selection is a little bit lacking although I can't complain.
PureMobile- This website is Canadian and this one is my favourite because they have tons of amazing phones at great prices. The problem though is that they show phones that haven't been released and some of those unreleased phones are actually released and are shown on the website. As well they show many versions of each phone for particular phones like the Motorola L7. They do have the Apple iPhone for Canadian buyers at a measly price of $1 149.00.
Kijiji CA, Kijiji US, & Craigslist - All these sites are like ebay but local. They are great in my opinion but my own beef with it is the warranty issue. I can never be sure whether the product is going to be reliable. These websites replace eBay's customer complaint with you going over to the persons house and demanding your money back as all dealings are local.
My personal opinion is I want to buy from the online marketplaces but I'm too worried about the phone breaking down even though I can get a better phone for the price. So my other choices in Cellular Blowout with a RIZR or L7 for $130 and $180 respectively. I will update this article by September 13th on what I chose if anything.

Have you ever wanted to create your own furniture? Well I have, especially chairs and this is where a Swedish company comes in. They have created a pen coupled with cameras to sense where you move the pen, track it, and use this information to create the structure you drew in the air. After I saw the creations it turned me off but it was mainly because it was ugly white and the pen draws the lines in a cylinder form. On the other hand the technology was a great demonstration of what kind of technology we have. My dream machine would convert AutoCad drawings, namely buildings, into a 3-D model which could use the same type of technology. The pen is not commercially available yet so don`start saving those pennies.

Basically what the system does is it converts the sketches into 3D digital files with the root of that information coming from the cameras. These 3D files can be easily used by the machine to then create a protype of your project. There is a laser beam on top of the prototyping machine that molds the plastic 0.1mm at a time. This whole process takes around a day.

I've been seriously thinking about buying solar panels for the specific use of powering my laptop. Canadian Tire is selling 6.5W foldable solar panels for just over $100 but I've also just stumbled upon a laptop bag with solar panels but it might just put my HP laptop bag out of commission and there wouldn't be as many compartments as a regular laptop bag but it would look better than carrying around solar panels on one hand and my laptop bag on the other. I do though just plan to use the solar panels at a stationary place but take them elsewhere. This bag then would be justified for a consumer soon to be purchasing a laptop or laptop bag.

My laptop gets my neck in a knot, even my desktop does that so Logitech has come up with an all-in-one solution to make that situation better. For $100 US dollars you can own this which comes with 3 high powered USB ports plus wireless technology to help connect with the included keyboard as typing would not be ergonimical at a 45 degree angle. It doesn't come with a wireless mouse but mice are cheap nowadays. The package minus the keyboard can be packed neatly into one small package and can be taken in your laptop bag alonside your notebook. A disadvantage to some consumers it isn't compatible with laptops above 15.4 inch screens but it is Vista ready which is a major plus alongside being XP ready. My opinion is it definitly is not a necessity but for people who like laptops for their portability but hate the keyboard and the problems associated with a laptop (i.e. neck, using it on your lap) then this is a great package as a good keyboard would run you about $50-$60. You can purchase it at Logitech.

Spiral Frog is the weirdest name I've heard of for a site like this. It is a downloading site for music and videos but the catch is you have to download a spyware-free download manager. It's a totally free site that is supported by ads like banners unlike some sites where they make you see the ad and give you the option to skip. This site just has the banners. I just downloaded a song and it took under 30 seconds for me to download and I have a regular connection for North Americans. They only offer released albums so the problem is you can't buy songs on a CD that is months away from being released but I'd rather do it the legal way than the illegal way with the cost of waiting a little bit. Now people who will seek this type of service will want to know that because they are doing this, the artists and labels are getting paid which is exactly what happens. All this site requires is your time, hint, little details like postal/zip code, country, email, gender, but no address or credit card. Membership lasts 30 days and then you have to renew it by re-entering your email, password and a verification code.
I learned from CutEdge about more technical things like who Spiral Frog pays to which is EMI and Universal and the files are encoded at 128kbps which is on par with iTunes. The songs are in .wma format which will play on most mp3 players namely not the iPod. An important thing I found out is the DRM. The DRM expires after 60 sixty days only if you haven't renewed your membership after that time and it only allows you to download the file once and put it on two digital audio playe