Comments on: Digital Cribs: Homes with Practical (and Impractical) Technologies (Plus: Victorinox Winner) http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/12/22/cisco-digital-cribs/ Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Workweek and Lifestyle Design Blog Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:05:13 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Tim O'C http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/12/22/cisco-digital-cribs/comment-page-1/#comment-38754 Tim O'C Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:10:24 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/?p=976#comment-38754 Hate Wires? You might want to check out http://amphony.com/. I have one of their wireless amps, amazing. works wonders with my HD ready Projector setup, as i don't have to run wires to the other side of the room from my media stack. I have to rave a bit here about Projectors. as a space vs, screen size thing, there is no competition, 60" is the smallest a good projector will scale too. You can use it to show media from your laptop. For Wii gaming, there is nothing like being having an almost life size window into the game in front of you. Last but not least, if you have it setup in the brightest room in the house like i do, it physically restricts your TV consumption to non daylight hours, or crappy weather days :) Hate Wires? You might want to check out http://amphony.com/. I have one of their wireless amps, amazing. works wonders with my HD ready Projector setup, as i don’t have to run wires to the other side of the room from my media stack.

I have to rave a bit here about Projectors. as a space vs, screen size thing, there is no competition, 60″ is the smallest a good projector will scale too. You can use it to show media from your laptop. For Wii gaming, there is nothing like being having an almost life size window into the game in front of you.

Last but not least, if you have it setup in the brightest room in the house like i do, it physically restricts your TV consumption to non daylight hours, or crappy weather days :)

]]> By: George K http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/12/22/cisco-digital-cribs/comment-page-1/#comment-37193 George K Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:43:39 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/?p=976#comment-37193 Again another great post Tim. I am a recent convert to your ways...I tihnk my friends are sick of hearing about this Tim Ferris guy. I am a mac guy, like the idea of not traveling with out a laptop at all but when I looked at go 2 my PC (their actually located in my home town) they only support the mac being the "vessel" if you will to access a PC at home, not access a mac at home. Was I wrong in understanding you use it to access your mac book? Keep up the great work, I am on board and am reading and viewing every video (i'm not stalking you, I promise). All the best. Again another great post Tim. I am a recent convert to your ways…I tihnk my friends are sick of hearing about this Tim Ferris guy.

I am a mac guy, like the idea of not traveling with out a laptop at all but when I looked at go 2 my PC (their actually located in my home town) they only support the mac being the “vessel” if you will to access a PC at home, not access a mac at home.

Was I wrong in understanding you use it to access your mac book?

Keep up the great work, I am on board and am reading and viewing every video (i’m not stalking you, I promise).

All the best.

]]> By: Why I do all my work from a laptop | Mellow Business http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/12/22/cisco-digital-cribs/comment-page-1/#comment-34099 Why I do all my work from a laptop | Mellow Business Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:11:31 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/?p=976#comment-34099 [...] is something Timothy Ferris pointed out - with a laptop you can physically close the lid. This is significant because it improves work-life [...] [...] is something Timothy Ferris pointed out – with a laptop you can physically close the lid. This is significant because it improves work-life [...]

]]> By: Jay G. http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/12/22/cisco-digital-cribs/comment-page-1/#comment-31350 Jay G. Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:27:52 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/?p=976#comment-31350 Hi Tim, Where can we see the outakes? ;-) It's great that you showed how technology improves interaction with the world around you, rather than just how you interact with the technology. Compare with Apple's digital crib in "Knowledge Navigator": Responding to one of the comments: MacSpeech Dictate gives you speech recognition on the Mac, based on the Dragon Speech Recognition Engine from Nuance. And our product is definitely being actively developed. Hi Tim,
Where can we see the outakes? ;-)

It’s great that you showed how technology improves interaction with the world around you, rather than just how you interact with the technology. Compare with Apple’s digital crib in “Knowledge Navigator”:

Responding to one of the comments: MacSpeech Dictate gives you speech recognition on the Mac, based on the Dragon Speech Recognition Engine from Nuance. And our product is definitely being actively developed.

]]> By: Sebastian http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/12/22/cisco-digital-cribs/comment-page-1/#comment-31299 Sebastian Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:54:29 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/?p=976#comment-31299 Thanks for this interesting link! But I was just wondering, is the whole series supposed to promote Cisco's products ... or Apple's? ;-) Sweet stuff after all. Thanks for this interesting link! But I was just wondering, is the whole series supposed to promote Cisco’s products … or Apple’s? ;-) Sweet stuff after all.

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