Confessions of An Economic Refugee

I can’t get Cobra Starship’s Snakes on a Plane theme song out of the my head.  For some idiotic reason I’m listening to it 3-4 times a day at work.

Great use of the company’s bandwidth.

*sigh*

Back to work.

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The long march toward gadget nirvana continues.

The other day I picked up a Motorola Q after 6 months of anticipation.  For those of you not up on this stuff, the MotoQ is the high anticipating, highly hyped and long delayed ‘RazrBerry’ that is supposed to marry the producitivity features of a RIM Blackberry with the slim and sexiness of the Moto RAZR.  That’s the hollywood pitch.

As expected email is not quite nice as the Blackberry and battery life is a little short (needs to recharged every day) but otherwise its working pretty good.  It’s a Pocket PC so I get MediaPlayer – i.e. it doubles as my iPod and video player (as soon as I can get a good sized miniSD card.)  My contacts and appointments sync over the air (very cool!).  Now if my company would just get around to getting corporate e-mail up and running on it…

Not done yet , I also picked a pair of the new Oakley stereo bluetooth sunglasses today which look like the dorky ski glasses Ahnuld wore in Terminator 1.  Still, it’s passable on me and now I get to consolidate my device count from 4 (phone, ipod, shades, bluetooth headset) down to 2 – MotoQ and Oakley shades.

Sound on them is pretty good thus far, I get Oakley lens so I’m pretty stoked.  Only interesting this is this line on the user manual "Do not wear O ROKR during prolonged periods of perspiration."  I dunno, that mean I can’t take them running?  I guess we’ll see how they hold up.

Here’s one for trendspotting – I think Oakley is on to something with the bluetooth integration.   Burton recently released an embedded bluetooth stereo speakers built into their high end jackets.  Expect a lot more wearable electronics offerings in the future.

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