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In December I was lucky enough to acquire an Hp TouchPad for $99 during the massive fire sale that Hewlard Packard had as they exited the tablet market. After the first couple of days (when the device still held it’s novelty), I have to admit that the tablet saw an exponential decrease in usage. While WebOS was hands down one of the best mobile operating systems on the market (i.e. Multitasking features), the lack of applications in the marketplace (especially applications designed for a tablet) coupled with some performance issues (web browsing felt choppy) really took away from the overall experience. The lack of Evernote, or really any productivity applications gave me no incentive to carry around a tablet along with my laptop and smartphone. In turn, the touchpad served the mundane task of being my alarm clock for several months (talk about wasted potential) in addition to a device where I occasionally checked my mail.
Remember when a decade ago when Plasma technology was first introduced to the public? People living in the then CRT dominated time period were amazed at just how thin this technology allowed televisions to become. At that point in time I recall my father saying something along the lines of, “There is simply no way televisions could have a slimmer profile.” Fast forward 10 or so years later and it’s absolutely amazing how wrong he was with that statement. Simply take a look at the video attached above to appreciate just how thin the next generation OLED based Television Panels can become! We can only wish that the strong presence of OLED technology in this years Consumers Electronics Show translates into faster adoption of the technology for devices aimed at the general public (i.e. people who do not own yachts). Anyhow, if you haven’t already done so, I urge you to look at the video above showing the latest 55″ OLED offering from LG electronics!
When the house I currently live in was under construction, my family decided that they wanted our living room area to have a very clean appearance. In our previous house, the entertainment area was a complete mess due to a combination of poor cable management as well as clutter created by equipment such as the home theater receiver, HTPC, smart tv box as well as the Blue-ray player. To eliminate the presence of such devices from the living room, HDMI, USB, ethernet as well as coaxial cables were installed behind the TV mount during the framing stages of the house. These in-wall rated cables ran to the basement where a specific area was allocated for all the Audio/Video equipment in the house. Unfortunately, fixing the “clutter” gave rise to another problem; how would we control the equipment in the basement without physically going to the basement each time we wanted to alter a setting? For devices such as the Blue-ray player which featured an Infrared input (IR) the solution was to purchase and setup an Infrared blaster (or RF universal remote). However, this was not possible for the HTPC which featured no IR ports. In turn, Wake on LAN as well as a 2.4Ghz Keyboard/Mice was used.
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