http://www.hypehole.com What gadgets are over-hyped? Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:00:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Eye-Fi WiFi Secure Digital flash memory card is probably the coolest device to come out this year. What does it do? Well, it does just what it sounds like it does. The Eye-Fi allows you to take pictures with a camera that supports SD cards and ... http://www.hypehole.com/56/eye-fi-wifi-sd-card-represents-limitless-potential-but/ Even if you are a Mac person, if you have any sort of reasonable bone in your body you're cringing at all of the hype surrounding the release of the Apple's latest version of OSX. Anywhere you go in the gadget-blogiverse there's news of Apple's new OS. Over ... http://www.hypehole.com/54/osx-leopard-hype-unbearable/ According to an article at IHT.com today, electronics giant Sony has announced their profits for the last quarter and while things look great for them, the Playstation 3 has become the perfect example of how not to hype a new product. On the one hand, you're probably the single ... http://www.hypehole.com/51/playstation-3-the-high-price-of-high-hype/ The XO Laptop, also known as the $100 laptop, the OLPC laptop, the One-Laptop-Per-Child Laptop, and, of course, the Green-and-White-Laptop-that-Could has run into a snag in the manufacturing process. You may recall how the OLPC people are giving you a chance to buy your own XO laptop for $400 ... http://www.hypehole.com/48/bad-and-good-news-for-olpc-and-xo-laptop-fans/ By now, the odds are severely against the possibility that you have never heard of the video rental-by-mail service Netflix. For a few years, now, Netflix has been the leader of mail-based video rental services. Their only real competitor, Blockbuster, came along and decided to allow their customers ... http://www.hypehole.com/46/netflix-fixing-the-unbroken/ Yes, it's true--the Parrot DF7220 digital picture frame has it's own phone number. You may be asking yourself, why the hell a picture frame needs a phone number. This would be very reasonable of you. However, Parrot, makers of many different wireless things, would like you to ... http://www.hypehole.com/44/parrot-picture-frame-has-own-phone-number-seriously/ When you think of Porsche you think sleek, stylish, fast, expensive, curvy, cell phone? Yeah. The car company that has specialized in making high-end, high-maintenance, gorgeous sports cars is expanding into the world of cell phone design with the P9521 mobile phone. Yes, in a world ... http://www.hypehole.com/42/porsche-designs-a-phone-yay/ These days it seems like WiFi, or "Wireless Fidelity," networks have just about everywhere. OK, they're not everywhere--they're not in outer space, for instance. However, a handful of people (and they're minions) want to change this. Now, before you judge, picture this--you're tooling around on your space bike ... http://www.hypehole.com/39/wifi-internets-in-space/ You know you're living in the future when cell phones can help you try on glasses. Forget the jet packs and flying cars science fiction films of old promised us--now, true believers, you don't have to try on glasses to try them on! HOLY COW! Sure, we ... http://www.hypehole.com/37/your-cell-phone-helps-you-try-on-glasses-wait-what/ RFID is an acronym that stands for Radio Frequency IDentification and you'll probably be learning about soon if you haven't already. Some people actually pronounce it "ARFID" where others simply spell it out. I suppose it's a "whatever works for you" kind of thing--regardless, there's a lot of ... http://www.hypehole.com/35/rfid-radio-frequency-idont-think-so/