Wednesday, August 27, 2008

GBTV #0330 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

GBTV #0330 (small) | GeekBrief.TV
That iPhone holder I had stuck to my head on Brief 329 is a Naja King. It's a flexible holder that will wrap around anything including your neck for hands-free viewing on a plane. It also holds on to the iPhone really tight, but that doesn't mean you should twirl it like I did. It isn't meant to do that.

This fetch robot started showing up on blogs Monday. It senses when a ball is placed in the launcher and automatically sends it in the fetch direction. In the video, Jerry the dog replaces the ball. We know the dogs name, but we haven't been able to find who makes the device.

Kyocera makes our favorite mobile broadband router and they've just updated it. The K2 does wireless N and accepts a number of sources including Express cards, PC cards, USB modems and some phones.

Checkser.com is a checklist Wiki. It's an interesting idea, but it needs additional features to make it truly practical. For example, I would want the ability to break a list out of the wiki and save it as my own because inevitably, things on my list will diverge from a general community list.

Pidgin is the most popular app for the Nokia N810 right now. You can download it here.

You can get a Nokia N810 for 15% off at podshowoffers.com (more details here). Use Promo Code "geekbrieftv".

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