Family Friendly Netbook from Disney

For those of you with young children and looking to pick up one of those priced right for the picking netbooks which have taken the market by storm, Disney’s new Netpal netbook just starting taking Pre-orders yesterday. For those who don’t know, the specs look like this:

* 8.9-inch screen
* Intel Atom N270 CPU
* 1GB RAM
* 16GB SSD
* WiFi
* 3 USB ports
* 0.3 MP webcam

The best spec of this laptop is that Disney has put their own child friendly, parent approved shell on top of Windows XP, allowing parents control of the apps which are allowed to run, the times of day they can be run, a web browser which allows you white-list websites and an email client which will do the same. It’s very customizable and best of all it can run any MS apps such as Word or Powerpoint for your young one’s class projects. As stated, pre-orders are up at Toys R Us.

For more details and a great video demo of the product, check out Engadget.

[via Slashgear]

Spiderman+Giant Robots=Awesome Explosion!!

How could Spider-Man get any more awesome than a college student, bitten by a radioactive spider and embued with superhuman powers? Give him a motorcycle, a giant robot and Japanese subtitles! Yataaaaa!!!!

20 Concept Laptop Designs

The future is now and Technology.AM takes a look at it with 20 Concept Laptop Designs that are sure to amaze and astound. Well, that may be a little over the top on some, but they’re nice to look at anyway. Lol.

http://www.technology.am/20-mindblowing-concept-laptop-designs-152850.html

MoIP? We’ll see.

As a regular Skype user, VoIP has definitely been a powerful tool for helping me do interviews and make international calls while keeping costs to a minimum and keeping .mp3 records of calls in one place. Wonder if MoIP will have as great an impact on the cellular communications market as VoIP has had on landline based communications? I can’t call it, but it will be interesting to see what happens.

For those who don’t know, MoIP stands for mobile communications over internet protocol. Wikipedia defines it as: “the mobilization of peer-to-peer communications including chat and talk using internet protocol via standard mobile communications applications including 3G, GPRS, Wifi as well as Wimax. Unlike mobile VoIP, MoIP is not a VoIP program made accessible from mobile phones or a switchboard application using VoIP in the background. It is rather a native mobile application on users’ handsets and used to conduct talk and chat over the internet connection as its primary channel.”

With the background info taken care of, check out this post from the Boy Genius. It details the launch of a new nationwide network called Zer01 Mobile which runs on AT&T’s data networks.
Zer01 Mobile launches nationwide : Boy Genius Report