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Looking For Laptop Friendly Cafes?

I love the idea behind Laptop Friendly Cafes and it’s companion app ($.99). The site lists cafes that offer wifi, power and the staff is friendly towards mobile users. I’d like to see the site expand to other venues besides cafes because more and more places are popping up with WiFi and enough space to [...]

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Airstash Shares Any SD Card via WiFi

Airstash Shares Any SD Card via WiFi

My goal here at Mobility Hacks is to talk about things that you can use today. But some products look cool enough to announce before they are available and the AirStash is one of them. This little device lets you use any SD card and share it wirelessly with most devices. Show people pictures from [...]

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Tips: Working In Public Spaces

One of the benefits of living a mobile lifestyle is being able to work just about anywhere. While some things are still not as convenient as having your own space, we can still manage to have a pretty nice working setup on the go.
One of the biggest factors for me as a programmer is how [...]

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Cool Touch Interface

This video on the Cool Touch Interface highlights the problems and, well, coolness of multitouch. Gesture based interfaces are the future and the Cool Touch looks like it has a firm grasp on just how that might look. I’m completely fascinated by this and would love to play around with a prototype. I love [...]

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Beam Music Everywhere With Aperion Audio

Beam Music Everywhere With Aperion Audio

Aperion Audio has released a new device that allows you to play music from one computer and listen to it anywhere within range. This isn’t anything new, but it’s one of the smallest devices I’ve seen that does the job and also one of the least complicated. Bonus, it doesn’t run over wifi so it [...]

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Apple Updates Wireless Keyboard to Fix Power Problems

Apple Updates Wireless Keyboard to Fix Power Problems

Apple has updated it’s wireless aluminum keyboard to fix power bleeding problems. When the device is paired along with another bluetooth device it seems to bleed power at an alarming rate and it seems especially pronounced with the Magic Mouse (also Apple). I just wish Apple would release a full size bluetooth keyboard. I don’t [...]

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The Desktop On The Extinction List?

The Apple Blog writes an eye opening piece on the Decline of the Desktop Mac and while spot on, I think this is true of more than just Apple. I’m seeing more and more people switch to using just a laptop. It just makes more sense. The price is right, the specs are close to [...]

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Cool Gear: Manage Long Cords With The Retractable Sling Back

Cool Gear: Manage Long Cords With The Retractable Sling Back

I’m all about keeping my areas neat. I like the cords tucked away and the ones that have to be in site to be clean and as out of the way as possible. Th Sling Back does just that and looks especially good for the go. It’s small size makes it perfect to keep [...]

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New Interface Improves Gesturing

This new interface from Tokyo University is amazing. You’ll find me talking a lot about gesture based interface design here and I’m sure I won’t be alone. I think it’s going to change our lives in so many ways. That’s why I was excited to see this demo of finger tracking technology. The advantage here [...]

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Ultra Mobile: First Tweet From Space

The first tweet has finally been sent from space. While not really all that newsworthy, it sure is the largest leap in mobility we can hope to achieve at the moment. So props to the astronauts aboard the International Space Station for keeping us terrestrial bound souls updated from above. I can only imagine the [...]

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