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e-mail goes low tech

filed under: just plain fun

Paper E-mail Pads from ThinkGeek

Working in the online biz, I just can’t seem to get away from e-mail. All day and all night, the messages flow. I get hundreds each and every day (and that’s before the spam). I can only imagine how big that stack of would be if the messages were written on good old paper…

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April 11th, 2008 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

spamtrap: shreds spam into a fine pulp

filed under: design | interactive | strange and wonderful

Bill Shackelford’s Spamtrap Installation

I don’t know what it is that fascinates me so much about shredding devices lately; maybe it’s just my latent destructive tendencies. That said, this art installation by artist Bill Shackelford just seemed too good to not mention.

Shackelford’s Spamtrap is a computer-driven sculpture that receives spam e-mails, prints them out, then immediately shreds and discards them…

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May 14th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

blackberry features coming to windows mobile devices

filed under: mobile tech

Windows Mobile BlackBerry Mashup

In a surprising move, Research In Motion today announced that they will start to produce software that will let you run BlackBerry applications on select Windows Mobile 6 devices. The BlackBerry software will run side-by-side with Windows Mobile applications as a dedicated icon on the programs list…

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April 23rd, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob