Technological reflections of 2007
Happy new year everyone! Several personal technological reflections for 07 that made a difference to my life this past year. The first was my new Intel Core Duo, my last big update was in 2003 - video processing on this new machine is ridiculously fast (almost realtime), my craving for Battle Field Two was fuel injected with the new graphics card (this is in fact a vast understatement) and my productivity dived (see last comment). I discovered the power of Facebook for research purposes and productivity sored, started using Second Life for commercial purposes (teaching) and gazed in awe at the coverage of google earth (to the point where sat with my father we could see his boat on the river Dart in Devonshire). Other than that however Ive remained wanting a little. No foldable screens, electronic paper, always on free wifi, GPS watches or Freddie Mercury 3D holographic concerts from the 1980's. I do though live in hope. I hope 2008 will bring the following for me in particular, a decent compact prosumer HD video camera, decent HD video processing software to go with it, decent HD DVD media to store it on (here's hoping) and my very own little island in Second Life to call home (complete with 60ft yatch) donated by some large organization.
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Neil,
I was reading your blog and realized that there is a decent compact prosumer HD video camera. I work at Best Buy and I sell these types of things all day. It’s a sony and uses all memory cards. Compared to the other hd video cameras this one is pretty small. It doesn’t use tapes, or hard drive. All you need is a memory stick (I would recommend 8GB or higher) because that is the media it records on. Check it out.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8374528&st=sony+hd&lp=2&type=product&cp=1&id=1177718990774