Help geeksugar! I love my iPod and my shuffle and ideally would like to take them with me at all times. However, earbuds simply do not fit in my freakishly small ears. I have to work to get them in there, and when they do finally go in, they kind of hurt — most of the time they just pop right out. It's the standard Apple earbuds I've been trying, as I don't want to spend a lot of money on anything else to have them not fit. Do they make earbuds to fit tiny ears? Everyone else looks so content with their earbuds, and I'm pretty sure they aren't in pain! Any suggestions?
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Microsoft may have missed the mark on their Parental Street Cred Videos, but we'll let it slide this time since they've just launched some great new services that are sure to make our lives a bit easier. Thanks to On 10, I've just learned that Microsoft has partnered with LinkedIn, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5 so users can easily import their Windows Live contacts into these sites. Utilizing Microsoft's Windows Live Contacts API, you can now go to sites like Bebo or Facebook and see all your friends — kinda like what Adium and Pidgin did for chat, except with social networking sites.
Not only that, but Microsoft has just introduced a new website called Invite2messenger where people can invite their friends from these "partner social networks" to join their Windows Live Messenger contact list.
OK Microsoft, I take back everything I said about your street cred videos!
My BSG obsession has hit an all time high now that I've not only re-watched the third season, but have also seen the ten webisodes (did you know about these!?) and checked out the movie Battlestar Galactica: Razor (spoilers if you haven't seen all three seasons!). So it would be fitting that I scoop up one of these BSG Propaganda Posters ($30) just in time for the season four premiere this Friday. Thanks to Petty Officer Calamari for bringing these to my attention, I'll be prepared and my apartment will be fully dressed for the BSG party I'm planning on April 4.
Coming together in a pack of five, these posters – officially approved by Laura Roslin, of course – are made of heavy duty 100 pound satin paper and are a whopping 22-inches by 17-inches wide, for maximum viewage. This is no joke people, this is war. We can use all the soldiers we can get.
The New York Times highlighted a new product, microprojectors, which let you project your iPod, iPhone, or whatever personal gadget with an image you might have onto any nearby smooth surface — and simultaneously wonder the same things as me. Say you just settle in for a long nap on your red-eye flight to the opposite coast, when the family next to you decides to project Enchanted onto the tray table next to you.
You guys know how I love my gadgets, but I loathe the idea of people ever being able to talk on cell phones on planes, play music on the bus, and basically disturb your neighbors with your tech (especially when you've got no place to go). I just think personal gadgets should remain personal — yes to headphones, yes to downloading a movie just for you for a flight. . . But gadgets like microprojectors seem to be made for traveling situations that would disturb the people around you. What do you think of microprojectors and this kind of tech?
Have a need for extravagantly priced but exquisite-looking white ceramic iPod speakers? The Phonophone II, more whimsically described by Unica Home as a "sculptural audio console," costs $450, but this is a true piece of artwork.
That's how I'm choosing to think of this piece by Tristan Zimmerman — as a "piece" — rather than just some iPod speakers. Then I can appreciate it as gorgeous instead of just glancing at it and passing over it as "too expensive." I love the all-white ceramic rendering and the Vintage Geek subversion that creates a beautiful and modern element of tech art. It's totally going in my "someday" file!
Look what I found in this month's issue of Domino! It's geeksugar favorite eco blogger Jill Fehrenbacher! We swooned over the perfect geeky coupling of Jill and Engadget's Peter Rojas last year, and now, the happily-married Inhabitat founder has been profiled in Domino's ongoing "My Green Life" series — which shows a day in the life of an eco-conscious person.
Jill is a green goddess, but what I love about her is her love of and dependence on tech, which often comes through on her blog. In this column, she admits to fantasizing over a MacBook Air, and points us to some awesome websites: Project Earth Day (a green fashion competition) and Freeplay Energy (eco-friendly gadgets).
Adorable, cool, and intelligent — Jill Fehrenbacher is my eco/green/techie idol!
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