Better living through technology!

Marty Katz
Where Technology is our Biggest Problem.
Call us at 410 484 3500 or zip us an e-mail.


 Reporting in Wired Magazine:
     --Smart parking at BWI airport
     --Remote-control sub for oil and defense
     --Binoculars
     --Digital SLR cameras
     --GPS Car Navigation
     --Photo Printers 
     --Digital Photography Tools: Digicam roundup (Dec. 2003)
     --Portable generators (March 2004)
     --Nikon D70 vs. Canon Rebel DSLR's (June 2004)
     --5 Megapixel Compact Digicams and AA NIMH Batteries (September 2004)
     --Digital Photography Tools: Digicam roundup (Dec. 2004)

 Reporting in The New York Times 
 (links change daily because the times is so dynamic; you can search the NYT site )
     Websites: 
     -- Building the Fine Grind's free website and update
     High Speed Connectivity: @Home cable modem network:
     --The Seeds that Grew A Network
     --How @Home Works
     --High Bandwidth Alternatives
     --The Fast Lane
     --When it Breaks
     Gadgetry and machinery:
     -- eBay pager
     -- New gadgets at CES
     -- Future products
     -- New connectivity products
     -- Point-and-shoot laser thermometer for chefs
     -- Red light cameras
     -- Satellite Phones: Iridium is alive and worked when cell didn't on 9/11/01
     -- A Really Loud Horn
     -- Land Cruiser Fetishists
     Portable E-mail:
     --Pocket E-mail
     --Two-way pagers connect air travelers
     --Two-way pager: device that links to the web and the world
     --Worldwide handheld satellite email terminal: Magellan GSC100
     --Motorola's long-awaited two-way Pagewriter
     --Space E-mail: Will Iridium work? Inmarsat does now
     --Two-way pagers help those challenged by phones
     --Wireless portable e-mail grows up (Skytel)
     --New portable e-mail products
     Photography: 
     --Point-&-shoot cameras and new film
     --Digital watermarking doesn't work (Digimarc) (references 1 , 2 , 3 ,4
     --A test of current digicams
     --Inkjet photo printers
     --New Olympus digital camera and scanner
     --High quality, low price digital cameras and scanners
     --New crop of digicams at PMA
     --Digicams change photojournalism: Kodak DC120
     The Web:
     --Infospace: Microsoft deserters bet on Web
     --Pro CD merges desktop and Web
 Dining:
     --The 2005 Zagat Survey of Washington-Baltimore Restaurants
. Reporting in Time:
     --Techwatch 1 and 2
     --The Consumer Electronics Show
 Reporting in Newsweek:
     --Gadgets galore, large and small

Marty Katz     Box 141    Brooklandville  MD 21022    410-484-3500     E-mail

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