I had a teacher in Middle school Mrs Harper, who tasked me with finding a quiet way to work out my nervous energy when working on a project. “Find or make a ‘fidget‘ ” she said. It has to be small, light, and silent. Now I just use whatever debris is handy. I have her to thank for the best productivity tip I ever received. Do you have a fidget?
I need to have busy hands. When I’m working on a problem or waiting to get something done I make things, i doodle, i draw constantly, not well mind you. The larger the product the more raw materials from the office landscape i seem to use. If I ever work on a huge project i might disassemble something important. For especially big projects keeping my hands busy is just enough of a distraction to clear my head and allow my mind to move forward. Think Lucky Bat from a Few Good Men.
Day 3’s run down. Our intrepid adveturers at CES 2008 Andy and Todd have been pulled to the limit. 12 hours sleep in 3 days does not make a lucid podcaster. but they still can Throw down some damn fine content when called upon. The guys are podcasting live from inside the Zune tent at CES.
Today’s winner is …. MyDreamFlyer. Since the dawn of man people have wanted to fly this brings that dream into your living room. Not quite hitting the par of the 3 million dollar flight sims but this model is fantasy made steel.
So each day at CES 2008 Andy and Todd are going to be rocking out the best of the best they see from the show floor. The have interviewed countless people, culled through the coal laying all around to find these diamonds. These brilliant gems shine brighter than their respective competitors and one shines above them all That is the Pick of the day.
So here are the products featured in order.
TuneUpMedia: Music organization, works with iTunes and sifts your music cruft
Dlink’s SecureSpot: Get a hold of your home network and manage the environment, security, routers the whole 9 yards
Dlink’s Digi Photo frame: Menu options, rss subscriptions flickr streams whats not to like?
Creative xDock HD: Upscaled HD video from your iPod
This clip should give you a very real look at what good podcasters do. They sacrifice sleep so that the mail goes through… errr Show must go on? Again we follow Andy and Todd as their intrepid journey continues, into the weeee hours of the morning. Not many people know this but for each out after 1 am they add an e for each hour of wee in the morning… just thought you should know.
Andy McCasky again gives us a glimpse deep into CES 2008 with a very stunning view of the HD DVD booth. Sad times indeed.
Well as a proud owner of an Xbox 360 I had a small vested interest in the format war. But no problem, I don’t own a single next gen disk. I have been burned too many times in the format wars of the past, as I think we all are. And frankly this one seems forced. I can count on 1 hand the amount of movies i have specifically planned on and watched the extra content on. Because thats what this war seems to be about, extra space for extra content. The movie is now secondary. By the way, 3 of those 5 movies where the episodic content for Lord of the Rings, so that could possibly only count as one. The rest i couldn’t care.
At one point in time I was an amateur magician. This is mostly due to my Grandfather adding magic tricks, or “street magic” to his act as a clown… Yup that right the man I’m named for graduated from clown college at the ripe age of 67. So it is with this in mind that I post this awesome video of Andy McCasky talking to one of the presenters from PlumChoice. Not only did the man stay true to his calling as a magician but he worked the company and their message brilliantly into the act. Magic starts a couple of minutes into this.
Each day of CES Andy McCasky and Todd Cochran take a moment to give us a rundown of some of the awesome bits of techy goodness they were able to sink their teeth into. Then after everything was said and done they give us their pick of the Day, an in depth look at what they see as the best product of that day’s coverage.
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