Packing
Tomorrow I fly to Boston for the Summit and the embedded GNOME hackfest. Packing clothes took about five minutes: pants, socks, tees, jumpers. Packing the electronic toys was a bit more complicated...
- ThinkPad X60 plus charger
- Canon EOS plus charger
- Canon IXUS plus charger (for Vicky)
- Nokia 770 plus charger
- Zaurus SL-C1000 plus charger and wifi card
- USB card reader
- My Nokia phone charger
- Vicky's phone charger
Please can people start using the same chargers? I'm impressed that the Zaurus charger is actually a PSP charger, but I'm not happing having to take two Nokia chargers and two Canon chargers.
Posted by Luis at Tue Oct 3 22:30:32 2006:
Posted by Ross at Tue Oct 3 23:09:11 2006:
Posted by Jon at Wed Oct 4 00:12:13 2006:
I agree. I love my igo stuff. Looks like Belkin licensed the technology, I saw their stuff at BestBuy. RadioShack sells iGo. I have 1 brick I can use at home, in the car, or in the plane. That and 6 tips and I am good to go anywhere.
Posted by Ken at Wed Oct 4 00:36:50 2006:
Amen!
I'm kind of not-surprised-but-disappointed that more companies haven't taken Apple's approach of Firewire-for-everything. Being able to use a single Firewire cable, with a small cableless wall brick, is nice, and would be really nice if it worked for digital cameras, laptops, etc., too.
Posted by iain at Wed Oct 4 00:38:14 2006:
I'm kind of not-surprised-but-disappointed that more companies haven't taken Apple's approach of Firewire-for-everything. Being able to use a single Firewire cable, with a small cableless wall brick, is nice, and would be really nice if it worked for digital cameras, laptops, etc., too.
Oh like it took 5 minutes for you to work out which threadless shirts to take with you for maximum impact. And I know you don't have a suitcase big enough for all of them...
Posted by Luis at Wed Oct 4 01:11:03 2006:
Posted by Kai Hendry at Wed Oct 4 01:42:41 2006:
I've seen a trend in South Korea.
You can get USB chargers for cameras, phones and say my Nintendo DS. Admittedly there are still wires flailing about, but it's a massive improvement by saving the weight and size for individual PSUs.
Posted by Ross at Wed Oct 4 07:57:58 2006:
You can get USB chargers for cameras, phones and say my Nintendo DS. Admittedly there are still wires flailing about, but it's a massive improvement by saving the weight and size for individual PSUs.
iain: who said I'm only taking one bag? The five minutes involved placing a call to FedEx to get my entire threadless collection -- that is stored in a shipping container --- shipped over to Boston.
Posted by Fred Crozat at Wed Oct 4 08:55:13 2006:
You don't need 2 Nokia chargers :)
N770 is using the new Nokia plug (very small) and I guess your Nokia phone is still using the previous Nokia plug, little more bigger.
Just buy Nokia adaptater CA44, so you will be able to use your phone charger (with the old plug) to charge your 770.
That is what I'm doing ;)
Posted by Daniel Stone at Wed Oct 4 11:04:31 2006:
N770 is using the new Nokia plug (very small) and I guess your Nokia phone is still using the previous Nokia plug, little more bigger.
Just buy Nokia adaptater CA44, so you will be able to use your phone charger (with the old plug) to charge your 770.
That is what I'm doing ;)
Get an N-series. The 770 isn't a custom wacky charger, it's the new, all-singing, all-dancing Nokia charger. TTBOMK, no new products use the old one.
And yeah, we have tons of the old->new kicking around the office, but none of the reverse.
Posted by Ross at Thu Oct 5 13:29:26 2006:
And yeah, we have tons of the old->new kicking around the office, but none of the reverse.
