New Apple Products are just OK

Today, Apple had a ‘Special Event’ to announce some new products.  The first thing is this iPod speaker thing, which does not excite me at all.  There have been several different iPod speakers that have come out from great brands such as Bose and JBL, and well, I guess Apple wanted to get in on it as well.  I still prefer to just hook my iPod up to my home stereo that I got for free, and has great sound.

 

The second item of today is really cool, but not ‘Special Event’ worthy if you ask me. They released a new Mac Mini, which is pretty cool.  Don’t me wrong, it is better than my mini, but again, this just does not meet the excitement level that I had for this event.  Then again, I’m still one of those people with the two color iPod.  What can I say?  It plays music and that’s all I really need.

 

SNES = Best System Ever

I found this article at XYZ Computing today, and it argues how the SNES is the best gaming system EVER (or at least until the Revolution comes out).  The author’s main points are that the SNES stayed true to its roots, the NES.  The SNES was also packaged better than other systems.  The PlayStation and xbox normally only come with one controller, and maybe a game, MAYBE!!!  The SNES came with TWO controllers and Super Mario World.  For these reasons, I agree.  Not to say that I don’t enjoy killing people in GTA III, but Nintendo will always have a warm spot in my heart, and I plan on pre-ordering the Revolution.  

You can read this guys article here.

 

 

It really gets you in the right posterior inferior frontal gyrus, doesn't it?

I have a little ammunition for all of you  like me who work in marketing and have ever had to argue with someone who contended that what we do (Marketing) is "not neuroscience". Researchers from UCLA did an in-depth study, measuring brain waves and reactions to commercials via functional magnetic resonance imagery.

 

The scientists compared levels of brain activity triggered by this year's troupe of commercials in a number of categories, from fear, to arousal, to empathy. Admittedly, this year was a pretty lame subject matter to study, but I found to be interesting, based on the overall volume of brain activity, which commercials were chosen as the winners.

 

a summary of the study

or, just the fun part

 

 

This is a test. I am going to see if I can post via email, since I cannot access this site from my office. Also, I wonder if I can make LINKS here. 

Welcome to Bobo

Ladies and gents, I would like to welcome our newest contributor to the AAVR blogging world. You may have heard his voice in one of our podcasts, and now he is here to let his thoughts run free with ours. So, welcome Bobo!

Now Bobo, to answer your question, and probably the question a lot of other people have, I will tell you what this is all about. Even though my most recent posts were about tech stuff, that does not mean we are all about tech. NO NO NO. This blog is about us. And it is about the crazy things we do. For one, I had actually wrote this long post about the BBQ place we went too recently, but the computer farted on me and I lost it. And since it took 20 minutes to write, I did not feel like writing that again. So that is what this is about. Like Sienfield, it is about nothing. And soon, we will be having more podcasts. They have really only been delayed because I am house sitting for the week, so I can't record with Justin right now. Oh well, soon enough.

New (better) voice recorder

I now have the Olympus DS-2, pictured to the left here. It is much better than the Sony which I have up on eBay right now. This is just a quick test to see it working. The included software works great for downloading the files and then just converting them into a format that I can then use in an audio editor. In my case, I use Audacity, and then convert into mp3. I hope that this will lead to the rebirth of quality podcasts.

PS3 = The Death of Sony

To some, the xbox 360 may seem expensive, but wait, there is another money hungry giant on the way. Rumors are going around about possible prices for the long overdue PS3 estimated to be upwards around $800 - $900. This is crazy! And even if it is just a rumor, it has been enough to make the public worry as Sony's stock has taken a major hit.

It seems that for a change, Microsoft did something smart by eating part of the price of the xbox 360. Nintendo has come out to announce that they will be keeping the price of their up coming Revolution under $300. Sony, you are coming too expensive too late.

Apple Event 2/28/06

Now this is not a tech blog, but we do love our technology. And for those that care, Justin and I are both Mac users. That's right, we are part of that group that gravitate to the little white boxes with half eaten fruit on them.

This of course means that we keep are ear to the ground, or the internet as it were, about interesting news regarding the Apple. Well, today Think Secret has announced that there is a special Apple event by invintation only on 2/28. Now, at Mac world there was some cool stuff, but we were still waiting for something really big to come out and maybe this is it. Or not and I just wasted your time and mine. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Hello World

I would like to introduce myself as the second voice of AAVR. I previously posted under the name "BBQDudes" another blog that we had, but I think it is important to have unique identities here in this shared blog. So I'll be weighing in now and then on how we don't post enough, current events and the like.

My new Sony Voice Recorder

This is my new toy. It's a Sony ICD-P110 and this podcast was recorded on it. I hope that you enjoy.