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 to find quiet places to work. I consider myself a strong programmer but I’m not so good at doing it when lots of noise, including music I happen to love. For some reason, the logic part of my brain requires intense focus. Web Worker Daily suggests a few ways, including my favorite: noise canceling headphones, among others.

How do you find quiet time to work when you’re out in public spaces?

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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 the design of the keyboard in this one. I’ve suggested to friends that what we need is a multitouch keyboard. Or at least an area on our keyboards with a multitouch surface allowing us a much richer way to interact with the computer.

At any rate, to get a glimpse of what’s to come, other than the Apple Tablet, check out this video.

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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 doesn’t clog up your home network streaming audio.

The setup works pretty simply. Connected the transmitter (via usb) to any computer that’s going to play the music. You can then connect up to 3 receivers to anything that excepts audio inputs, like your TV, Stereo, MP3 Player or even another computer. The price is seems a little steep starting at at $149 for the starter kit which comes with 1 transmitter and 1 reciever. However, when you look at other solutions this is in the right price range for the market and has some advantages, like smaller size and easier use, over some of it’s competitors. if the quality is as as good as it sounds, this could be one of the best ways I’ve seen to stream audio throughout the house or office. Additional receivers are $70 each. Pick them up here.

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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 know what Apple’s obsession is with crippling touch typists, but that little keyboard is the worst.

Hopefully we’ll see a similar update for the Magic Mouse’s power issues. Apples previous bluetooth mouse was pretty horrible. From design to function, it was just a horrible. The only thing Apple like about it was it’s pearly white color. Apple is usually pretty slow to release these kinds of updates so it may be a while.

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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 their desktop brothers and sisters and you don’t have to “sync” up between several machines. Oh, and it’s mobile.

I think there will always be a market for desktops. I don’t see many businesses switching to all laptops and losing control over their assets, digital and physical. There are also higher end consumers who will need more power than the current laptop market offers: Video Editors, Musicians, serious photo manipulations, large calculations and compiling large code are just some of the things that can make use of the extra power a desktop brings. Must laptops today are thousands of times faster than the thousands of the some of the first desktops combined. The mobile era has most certainly arrived.

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 your mouse or keyboard cord wound up as short as it needs to be. Most importantly, it also happens to look good. We love design here at Mobility Hacks as much as we do function, thought that’s our most important criteria. This product defiantly gets bonus points for looking sweet. Coming in at a mere $9.99 it’s at the right price point for an accessory of this type.

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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 is no projectors, no silly fingertip tape to wear, nothing but the device’s camera tracking your finger movements. I imagine the limitations would be it needs to be pretty close and not a lot of background objects that resemble fingers. Very impressive start and I hope to see this kind of tech getting better, faster and on my devices sooner!

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 technical aspects behind this sort of thing so I hope we see more and more live data streaming from space.