OK, this is what I've been wishing for for a very long time.
Tiny Philips Bluetooth music earphones have a magic gestural interface
Unfortunately it's for cell phones only. I would like for this to be available for iPod's or any type of mp3 player. All you'd need is a receiver that plugs into the earphone jack and it would have a rechargeable battery inside one of the ear buds that when you are not using them you place them in a charging station. This would be so cool for people who are joggers or bike riders. It would even be great for me when I'm doing dishes. Or if you get bored easily you can wear them in church hello! Nobody will know as long as you just wear 1 and if you have long hair just put the hair on top of it. Or if you are a guy, I don't know lean your head on your hand the whole time, I don't know lol. Get creative.
Sadly this is still just a dream of mine but I'm glad someone finally made it, for cell phones but that's where it starts right? Next it will be for mp3 players hopefully.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
The wait for Kindle 2
While all of the people who have already ordered the Kindle 2 have to wait for their Kindle to be delivered to them, I will have to wait just a bit longer than that. I simply don't have the money and in today's economy I just can't justify spending the money on something I really don't need.
I just don't read that much. I thought maybe if I had one then perhaps I would read more. Unfortunately though that probably won't be the case. I would probably get my Kindle then read a book, maybe 2 books then I'd probably never pick it up again. At least for awhile that is.
Sure I might buy a subscription to a newspaper and just give it to Chip to read that every morning and he could take it to Church with him every Sunday (yes, there is a bible available for the Kindle) but for me, I just can't justify it.
I want it but I don't need it. I have lots of books that I still haven't even read. I've tried to but I just can't get into them. And I've already paid for them. What am I gonna do, type them out so I can read them on my Kindle? I don't think so.
So what my plan to do is just set aside maybe $20 or $30 every month in my PayPal account and then in a year when I have the money saved up to buy a Kindle if I still want it then I'll buy it. But only if I can. I mean, if I've had to spend some of that money on groceries or for emergency bills then of course I will have to use that saved money. But if that isn't the case and I still have it then I might buy it.
But given the fact that it would take a whole year (saving $30 a month would be exactly 12 months) to save up the money, by then they may have the Kindle 3. And who knows what the Kindle 3 will feature. Maybe a bigger display, bigger hard drive than the now 2GB for the kindle 2. Color display. Touch screen to flip pages and to highlight text. Maybe it might be a little less money by then?
I'm hoping that in a year if I have the money all saved up that when I am finally able to buy one the price might have gone down, our local newspaper will be Kindleized, the kindle will be in color and have touchscreen and have a 20-200GB hard drive. Because I just don't want to spend money on something that can only hold 1,500 books, magazines, newspapers and blogs and still be in black and white.
I'm going to hold out for the best and why shouldn't I? I'm also going to hype it up to everyone I know so they will be so excited about it that they will buy a Kindle 2 for themselves then they will hype it up and so on and so forth then 50% of America will have a Kindle all thanks to me hyping it up. By that time, the Kindle 3 should cost $100.
I just don't read that much. I thought maybe if I had one then perhaps I would read more. Unfortunately though that probably won't be the case. I would probably get my Kindle then read a book, maybe 2 books then I'd probably never pick it up again. At least for awhile that is.
Sure I might buy a subscription to a newspaper and just give it to Chip to read that every morning and he could take it to Church with him every Sunday (yes, there is a bible available for the Kindle) but for me, I just can't justify it.
I want it but I don't need it. I have lots of books that I still haven't even read. I've tried to but I just can't get into them. And I've already paid for them. What am I gonna do, type them out so I can read them on my Kindle? I don't think so.
So what my plan to do is just set aside maybe $20 or $30 every month in my PayPal account and then in a year when I have the money saved up to buy a Kindle if I still want it then I'll buy it. But only if I can. I mean, if I've had to spend some of that money on groceries or for emergency bills then of course I will have to use that saved money. But if that isn't the case and I still have it then I might buy it.
But given the fact that it would take a whole year (saving $30 a month would be exactly 12 months) to save up the money, by then they may have the Kindle 3. And who knows what the Kindle 3 will feature. Maybe a bigger display, bigger hard drive than the now 2GB for the kindle 2. Color display. Touch screen to flip pages and to highlight text. Maybe it might be a little less money by then?
I'm hoping that in a year if I have the money all saved up that when I am finally able to buy one the price might have gone down, our local newspaper will be Kindleized, the kindle will be in color and have touchscreen and have a 20-200GB hard drive. Because I just don't want to spend money on something that can only hold 1,500 books, magazines, newspapers and blogs and still be in black and white.
I'm going to hold out for the best and why shouldn't I? I'm also going to hype it up to everyone I know so they will be so excited about it that they will buy a Kindle 2 for themselves then they will hype it up and so on and so forth then 50% of America will have a Kindle all thanks to me hyping it up. By that time, the Kindle 3 should cost $100.
Kindle Pays For Itself
I was looking at the Amazon website again (yeah yeah yeah) and I was looking at the reviews for the newspapers just to see if it was worth it. I saw that for Time magazine people were saying they were disappointed because there were no pictures, just articles. Well, you need pictures with articles, especially in time magazine.
So I went to the New York Times newspaper and scrolled down to the reviews and the 2nd review from the top this guy said that he was paying $35 a month for his paper but now he pays $14 a month. So basically the Kindle pays for itself from what amount this guy is saving from getting the digital version of his newspaper.
This person pays $420 a year for his new york times newspaper. He now pays $14 a month instead of $35 so now he pays $168 per year which means he is now saving $252 a year on the newspaper. The kindle doesn't exactly pay for itself in a year but maybe a year and half. That'll work.
I don't know how much our newspaper is because I don't pay for it, Chip pays for it because he is who reads it. I don't even read the newspaper. I asked him how much he pays and he couldn't recall. I said is it like $15 a month? $20 a month? He said yeah I guess. Currently our local newspaper is not available for the Kindle but it is available at www.newsstand.com for $10 a month but you have to view that on a PC or a laptop via browser or you can download it and view it through software called iBrowse. You can also print pages. If it were available via Kindle then that might be incentive enough for me to buy one so he can read the newspaper but unfortunately it's not so, oh well.
But it is good to know that the Kindle pays for itself with certain newspapers and magazines.
So I went to the New York Times newspaper and scrolled down to the reviews and the 2nd review from the top this guy said that he was paying $35 a month for his paper but now he pays $14 a month. So basically the Kindle pays for itself from what amount this guy is saving from getting the digital version of his newspaper.
This person pays $420 a year for his new york times newspaper. He now pays $14 a month instead of $35 so now he pays $168 per year which means he is now saving $252 a year on the newspaper. The kindle doesn't exactly pay for itself in a year but maybe a year and half. That'll work.
I don't know how much our newspaper is because I don't pay for it, Chip pays for it because he is who reads it. I don't even read the newspaper. I asked him how much he pays and he couldn't recall. I said is it like $15 a month? $20 a month? He said yeah I guess. Currently our local newspaper is not available for the Kindle but it is available at www.newsstand.com for $10 a month but you have to view that on a PC or a laptop via browser or you can download it and view it through software called iBrowse. You can also print pages. If it were available via Kindle then that might be incentive enough for me to buy one so he can read the newspaper but unfortunately it's not so, oh well.
But it is good to know that the Kindle pays for itself with certain newspapers and magazines.
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