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Here you will find older scratches, musings and other detritus that once were located on the front pages, but have now faded.

Filed away here to collect dust and cobwwwebs in perpetuity, links may break, facts may change and data may corrupt.

On occasion I may come down here to tidy, but for the most, I prefer to leave the past where it lies.

 

petfrog

Oh my god, what they done?

frog have created an "Integrated Fusion Device". Thats right, "a personal computer, PDA, Digital Media player, camera, karaoke machine, and more...":

Ladies and gentlemen (drumroll please) the petfrog.

A device where, "All functionality converges into one seamless, human-minded experience platform, which results in an "all-in-one gadget" that has both professional and personal uses".

Huh? For those of you who didn't understand that, let me rephrase it for you.

For "all-in-one" read encompassing, not-often used, see-though marketing term that screams "we don't know why we made it or what it does, let alone what it could be used for, but all you geeks out there need it because you are weak!".

Why only last night as the meeting went passed nine, I was looking for a way to ease tensions during a particularly difficult negotiation. If I'dve had one of these babies, Mr Wakajimo could've put down the pen he was wielding as a sword, started his Soho-famous rendition of "Baby One More Time" whilst myself and Jones from accounting strutted our stuff, thereby smoothing the rough, completing the deal, solving world hunger, establishing world peace AND had the pictures to prove it....

If you haven't visited the site they petfrog can be seen here and here. I particularly like the snazzy colours and the draw out screen and pads.

Lets be honest though. Its a Fisher Price-esque version of a Star Trek Communicator.

Having looked at it, mocked its functionality and its facade, I realise the sad truth. I want one.

17 Jun 2004 9:22 | (0) comments | Technology

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