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Episode 14: Home Office Technology
In this week's podcast Charlie and Stephen tell you about cool technology for the home office. Find out about new phone services that can make your home office sound like a Fortune 500 company, get the scoop on luxo-sport office furniture, and follow along as the guys blaze through another spellbinding Rapid-Fire Roundup® of Cool Products.
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Interview: Making Small Companies Sound Big, Part 1
Innoport gives you the sound of a hosted PBX without all that hardware and expense
Intellicomm offers a service called Innoport, which gives individual users and businesses the functions of automated telephone hardware such as a hosted PBX without its associated high costs. The service can make a small business seem like a major corporation by screening callers, handling fax-to-email functions and finding its users by automatically calling a list of phone numbers, all the while playing the user’s choice of music to callers while they wait. Digital Media Net’s Charlie White talked with , about the company’s services in this two-part interview.
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iPod: The next generation
iPod does video
With Apple controlling 75% of the portable MP3 player market, and considering just over a month ago they released the new iPod Nano, it makes perfect sense to update the tried and true iPod. Two colors, larger screen, and oh yes, it does video. Stephen Schleicher received his in the mail and shares his thoughts on the next generation.
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Rapid-Fire Roundup® of Cool Products
Ancestry by DNA
Where are your ancestors from? Are you Native American, East Asian, sub-Saharan African, or European? The answer is, you're probably a mixture of some or all of these. Find out for sure with Ancestry by DNA, where you send a DNA sample and for $219 they'll tell you who you really are. I mean, they actually give you exact percentages. You may be surprised.
Digital Sound Bag
Taking a personal music player to the next level is in the bag. This over the shoulder bag converts your portable music player into a boom box for everyone to enjoy. All they have to do is slip it into the bag's interior pocket, plug into the built-in speakers, and hit play.
Flavor Spray
David Burke, a big-time famous chef in New York City has invented special flavor sprays that simulate the taste of high-calorie foods but have absolutely no fat or calories at all. You can get 18 varieties, such as birthday cake, chocolate fudge, Memphis barbecue, and bacon flavor, and spray this mist onto, say, rice cakes, scrambled eggs, whatever you want. No calories, all the taste, $6 a bottle.
Sanyo NV-E7500
A touch screen personal navigation, DVD, and CD player all rolled into one. Get to your location with voice based directions, and be entertained at the same time. You’ll never be lost or bored on your next trip with this unit.
Sonic Impact i-fusion Portable Speaker Case System
Dock your iPod into this smart-looking case and hear high fidelity music blasted out with MaxxBass technology. This tiny case can also charge your regular iPod, mini, or nano when you're not using it. It's packing a lithium-ion battery that's good for 15 hours of play. Big sound in a small package for $150.
The Singing Pillow
Developed by Danish researchers, MusiCure is a soft pillow that chirps like a bird and is designed to lull soldiers to sleep while stationed in remote locations. Designed over 10 years ago for hospital patients, this pillow could very quickly find itself as part of required military gear, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it made its way to a restless child’s room, too.
Home/Office Technology
Intellicomm
Bunn NHBB
Herman Miller Aeron Chairs
eFax
Sony ICD-CX50
Anthro Corporation
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