Elliott C. Back: Internet & Technology

Let’s Eat … DINNER!

Posted in Cute, Food by Elliott Back on June 26th, 2006.

Tonight you have the pleasure of eating dinner with me, vicariously through my digital camera!

Dinner 1/6

Dinner 2/6

Dinner 3/6

Dinner 4/6

Dinner 5/6

Dinner 6/6

Mmmm…wasn’t that delicious?

Cornell’s Internet = Super Fast

Posted in Computers & Technology, Cornell University, Cute, Quantitative, Science by Elliott Back 2 weeks ago.

I tried the Speakeasy bandwidth test utility and got some amazing results:

speakeasy-internet-results.jpg

This is on a 1.2MB/s LAN connection over 54Mb/s wifi, which either makes the Cornell internet connection prescient (it can guess bits?) or Speakeasy’s tool completely wrong.

Update

Don’t post when you’re sleepy! 5600kbs = .7 MB/s, so this is within the range of what should be happening. We were getting weird results that morning in the 300kbs range, as well, which make me think it was on some kind of different scale, as that would have been really really slow…

MobiBLU Cube 2: World’s Smallest MP3 Player

Posted in Computers & Technology, Cute, Encodings, MP3, Music, iPod by Elliott Back on April 20th, 2006.

The MobiBLU Cube 2 is the same size as the original cube mp3 player, but it adds a new touch pad and a color display. Here’s quick photo of this tiny mp3 player:

mobi-blue-cube-2.jpg

If it has the same specs as the mobi-blue DAH-1500, it will have an OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) display, support MP3 and WMA formats, come in a 2GB (or possibly 4GB) size, have an FM tuner an recorder, a digital voice recorder, SRS WoW and Truebass, and come in a variety of very cute colors. So far, there’s no announcement on the American website of mobiBLU. This makes sense, since the leak is in Korean, and you know they get the scoop before we do. I’m working on getting a translation, but it will be a while.

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