Green Fax Machine

Jessie Atkin posted a new blog on Digital Landing! Read about the all-new fax machine, with a screen!

Even with e-mail and all the wonders of internet communication the fax machine has still survived. When you need a signature there’s just no way to type it and faxing, like printing, can still get you that hard copy.

Well it seems the fax machine at last has made an upgrade. Panasonic has taken the standalone fax machine and added one wondrous feature, a screen. That’s right, you no longer need a hard copy (long been the one and only great feature of the fax machine) because now you can read your received page right off the built in monitor.

I don’t know how I feel about it all. The screen will go green and save us some trees, but I feel like what I need to get faxed I also need to print out. As a college student I also feel that if I were to invest in a fax machine I’d upgrade to the not so standalone version that comes with a scanner and a copier. But hey, I’ve got time to make up my mind. This newest innovation is only available in Japan.

Portable Entertainment on the Fly

Jessie Atkin posted a new blog up on Digital Landing. Read about the new technology in watching videos. Set up in a sort of glasses-headset form, you can watch videos and have the screen move when your head does.

I posted about Myvu crystal specs a while back, and it seems, since then, Nikon too has jumped on the portable entertainment band wagon.

The Media Port Up 300 and 300X look very much like flight control headsets, although it’s not a microphone out front, it’s a screen. I don’t know how I feel about the look of the thing, but I don’t know about the Myvu glasses either. The models come in 4 GB and 8 GB and offer up to 120 minutes of video. The coolest feature is really the no hands control. Nod your head this way or that and you can control your own video playback (be careful if you’re falling asleep).

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Jessie Atkin posted a blog on Digital Landing. Read about the latest advance in the advertising world.

Billboards are so last week, lets bring television commercial style to the stagnant style of city advertising. That’s just the idea behind a new evolution in New York City Busing.

The buses won’t only come equipped with the equivalent of a side style television screen but a GPS system as well, ads will then specify themselves depending on the neighborhood and time of day.

It’s quite an idea in the advertising world, and I won’t say it’s not going to work, it probably will. What I do have to say is it’s getting creepy how far into my head advertising is beginning to penetrate.