Apparently he is having a hard time grasping the whole idea of twittering…or just insightful twittering. I’m not sure if that’s even possible, but if you think you know…fill him in!
The reason I don’t twitter myself is I don’t know what a good twitterer is. Before I started blogging I began reading the best blogs so I could then write what I would like to read. I don’t read great twitters so I am ignorant of what I want to do.
This is an interesting little gadget that looks like it could possibly be useful.
It’s the Nav Jacket from O’neill. From what I can tell, it has a built in GPS that it uses to mark waypoints, record stats, along with track where you are. The information is then viewable through a flexible lcd screen on your sleeve. Information can also be audible through speakers in the hood of the jacket.
Along with all of that, you can also download/upload trails and waypoints via their community online.
It’s all an extremely cool little system and I could see it having some major advantages especially after the technology advances to the point that you could enter an entire resorts trail map into your jacket. However, the big problem with the jacket now is, from what I can tell they are selling the jacket on the O’Neill E-Shop for €1200. Which is about $1600. It’s cool, but it’s not $1600 cool.
Hang with me, this post gets long and winding, but I think it’s worth it.
I posted yesterday how I was reading the book Freakonomics and how it reminded me of the the true meaning of the internet. On a bit more sinister note, a line in this book reminded me of something else. During the energy crisis when Enron was manipulating the energy market to rake in huge profits, there was a tape made of two traders working for Enron talking about the wildfires in California and how they were going to help them jack of the prices of energy….they were quoted saying “Burn Baby, Burn”. Now this was the second time that I heard about this in just a couple short weeks…
“Information is the currency of the internet.”
I read this line in the book “Freakonomics” (one of the books suggested that I read) and it really just stopped me in my tracks. I think the reason why this statement blew me away is because of how true it is and how easily it is forgotten. Just today It was pointed out to me again from this post that Deane forwarded to me on Gadgetopia.
