iPad Tutorial: "How do I reset by iPad?"

We've all heard of the iPad by now.  We've seen the iPad reviews, the iPad problems, the iPad disappointments (should there be an iPad recall?), and many of you may have already received yours.

One commonly asked question that I am seeing is "how do i restart my iPad?"

It's such a new trend, that Google automatically prompts you with "Did you mean how do I restart my ipod?"

A helpful tutorial on the topic can be found here:

http://www.garyfarnam.org/garyfarnamorg/how-to-reboot-an-iPad/howtorebootaniPad.html

The Lip Reading Cell Phone of the Future

New technology is always a popular trend, and this latest invention from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology will show you why.

Have you ever sat in a movie theater, and heard someone's cell phone ring, even after the repeated "Please silence your cell phone" messages that are now played before the movie?  To make matters worse,have you ever sat in a movie theater, and after you heard the cell phone ring, the person actually answered it and carried on a conversation right there during the movie?

This is a major pet peeve of mine as I'm sure it is yours, but there may be hope beyond just thinking people will one day have a little respect.

It's a lip reading cell phone that is currently under development that will make "silent communication" possible by you simply moving your lips to the words you would normally speak out loud.

Not a lot of information is being given out as to how it all works yet since it is still in development, and all of the wires connected to a person's lips as shown on the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology website don't make it look very appealing, but all of those wires are simply for demo purposes as the technology is further developed.


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"MagicJack Free Cell Phone Tower"

magicJack has now developed a method of using "femtocells" to basically put a small cell phone tower right in your home.

From there, the call is routed over a broadband internet connection so that no minutes are deducted from the cell phone, and this also means less load on local cell phone towers.  Could this be the "disappearance of cell phone fees"?

The new and improved magicJack device will soon be a hot product and is about the size of a deck of cards. It will reportedly connect to any phone that uses GSM.

Sprint Error 2112 Outage: Cannot Send SMS

Has the Sprint Error 2112 been fixed yet?  This is the answer many are looking for right now.

Technology can not only enhance our lives, but can also miserably fail us, even if it is just a simple outage like the Sprint Error 2112 Cannot Send SMS that people are getting.

The error is all over the web, but I couldn't find anything on Sprint's website under their support area.  Instead all I found was "Sorry, No Answers Found" when I simply searched the error number 2112.  The link to Sprint's support area is here for your convenience:  Sprint Support.



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Zeo Sleep Monitor Does Not Actually HELP You Sleep

The much publicized and interesting invention, the Zeo Sleep Monitor does not actually help you sleep, but rather records your sleep patterns and acts as a personal sleep coach.

With the Zeo Headband attached to your head while you sleep (using the patent-pending SoftWave technology), you can daily monitor your sleep patterns, something that has never been a home possibility before.  Most have gone to "Sleep Clinics" to find such a technology, but the Zeo Sleep Monitor allows you to do this from the comfort of your own home, in your own bed.  I've heard of people that had different sleeping patterns at a Sleep Clinic than what they would have in their accustomed home environment.  I believe this will be a great product for those who continually lack sleep.

Sleep disorders are very common today with many people getting 6 hours or less of quality sleep.

For a full description of this new technology and the steps taken once you purchase one, check out MyZeo.com.

What is WiTricity?

Imagine wireless power....or wireless electricity if you will.  Imagine being able to charge your cell phone WITHOUT physically plugging it in to a cell phone charger.

This technology is becoming a normal reality for the new company WiTricity,  by Marin Soljačić the inventor, as he was annoyed by his wife's Nokia cell phone that would beep whenever it needed charged.  There it lay, so close to an electrical outlet, the very thing it needed, yet it had no way of getting that electricity.

With support from his employer, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), started up WiTricity.

The idea is based off of coils that can turn electricity into magnetic energy, and then back to electricity.

Is wireless electricity coming to a home near you?  Maybe sooner than we think.

If you'd like to learn more about the basics of wireless electricity, check out WiTricity's website.

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Quadruple Google?  No, my keyboard isn't stuck.  This is actually a hot search trend on Google.com right now.  But why?

Someone has purchased the domain name googlegooglegooglegoogle.com, and has made a web page that is split into 4 sections that will allow you to do 4 Google searches all at once!

But why would anyone want to do 4 google searches at once?  Could possibly be good for research purposes if you needed to do a lot of searching, but couldn't you just open 4 tabs and have a Google search going on each one of them?

 The website is not owned or in any way affiliated with Google, Inc, but was rather just a random idea when one of the creators wondered if GoogleGoogle.com was taken (which it was).

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The Mysterious Mystery Behind Google Mystery is.....

...well nothing really.

Mystery Google is a site that Google has put together to be mysterious. Really all it does is give you the last search results of the person before you, regardless of what you type in as your search.

So if you put in "Target Black Friday Ads" on Mystery Google, and the person before you put in "How to bake a turkey", their search results are what you get.

Not really being a useful tool, but just a little fun...for some.

Check it out at http://www.mysterygoogle.com/

What's that DVD made of?

Does your DVD collection "rock"?

Now it can, with an emerging technology of DVD's made of synthetic rock.....yes.....ROCK.  But this won't likely be the kind of DVDs you use for your favorite episodes of House, or your favorite movie such as the Wizard of Oz, or Three Men and a Baby. 

These seem to be created more for long term archive purposes.

Brought to you by the company "Cranberry" naming the product "DiamonDisc", these new DVDs are touted as able to last 1,000 years.  This is because they won't easily deteriorate from UV rays or heat as ordinary discs would.

And, with a current price tag of $5000 for a disc drive and 150 discs, I'm pretty sure you also won't see these in any of the upcoming 2009 or even 2010 Black Friday ads :)

iSick: Tracks Swine Flue (H1N1)

An application built for the iPhone called "Outbreaks Near Me" (nicknamed iSick) helps track occurrences of the H1N1 a.k.a. "Swine Flu".

The application also helps users report H1N1 outbreaks to keep other users informed.  If users are more informed about potential infections, it is believed that they will take better precautions such as washing their hands more often, not touching their face, etc to prevent further spread of the

The application was developed by researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and the MIT Media Lab that utilizes the tracking information from HealthMap.org.

Check out iTunes for the no cost application.



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Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale: Experience the Hurricane Via Flash Video

Technology is so great.

Now you can "experience" a hurricane from your computer or mobile device via a Flash video simulation.

The videos (categorized 1-5) are interactive, allowing you to pan left and right to see what each category of hurricane might look like.


The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale itself was proposed in 1971 by Robert Simpson and Herbert Saffir. That scale is based on hurricane intensity.

So go ahead, experience the hurricane at this link: Experience the Hurricane.
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After that, check out the hurricane tracking map at this link: StormPulse.com.