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And for those of you who don’t know what to get me for my next birthday…

Kyocera's flexible, folding phone concept

Kyocera’s EOS folding concept phone incorporates a flexible OLED screen, changing its form factor from a clamshell into something more closely resembling a wallet or clutch-purse.

I always get the craziest ideas for combining gadgets, but this one is already done for me!

Just think: wallet-phone.

Since the whole thing is flexible already, why not actually INTO a wallet? That way, when I lose it, not only will I lose all my sensitive data, but also all my money and credit cards! The up-side is that it would most likely have a GPS tracker.

But seriously, this takes the cake for the cool gadget of the day, even if it is still a concept. If they make this thing iPhone-like in the least bit, I’m sold. Sorry Apple.

via Core77 via Gizmodo

Wii Fit

The other day, Sarah went to Target while she was waiting for me to finish work. While she was there, she spotted a Wii Fit and surprised me with it.

We’d been looking for one for a while, and they aren’t easy to find.

So for about a week, I’ve been checking in each day to weigh myself, get a BMI reading and do some exercises. I do push-ups, boxing, super hoola-hoop, yoga, the whole nine. It’s actually pretty exhausting.

The major benefit I’ve noticed is that I haven’t had a single headache since I started using it. In a regular week, I’ll get between five and seven headaches (sometimes two in a day). This could be attributed to the Wii Fit or to the fact that, coincidentally, I began taking a multivitamin a week ago. There’s really no way to tell but I do feel much better overall.

This is the first workout routine (besides riding my bike to and from work) that I’ve actually stuck with over a few days. I usually dread any kind of strenuous workout but with the Fit — number one, I get points and number two, I can see my progress up on the screen with the handy built-in calendar.

A while back, Sarah and I decided to start going to the gym but, well, that didn’t pan out. The $90 this thing costs was nothing compared to that; we can bust it out at any time, bust a move and not bust our asses getting to the gym and back.

Overall, I’m pretty happy with it so far. I used to be able to do over 100 push-ups in a set. Right now, I’m struggling with twenty.

Looks like Photoshop, right?

As I was Stumbling along, I came across this very Photoshop-esque web-based flash application: Pixlr.

Some things aren’t there that I love, like a few advanced shortcuts but the basics are there. Overall though, I was completely blown away by the functionality they put into this thing.

Here’s what I came up with after 2 minutes as a little ode to Digg (I’m sure most of you could do 100x better)-

Digg Logo done in Pixlr

Enjoy!

Change We Can See

I try not to be an Obama zombie, but if he’s doing what he says he will — how can you not like the man? He’s shown, so far, that he’s the kind of man says what he means, means what he says and does what he says he will do.

Put simply, we were eating really bland junk food and now we’ve got steaks.

In the first few days Obama has been the president of the U.S., he has set the bar pretty high by making changes to the way Washington does business, some major and some minor.

Here are the ones I could come up with-

• Ordered a freeze on new regulations
• Started a plan for withdrawal from Iraq
• Ordered the closure of CIA prisons
• Stopped allowing torture and instead requires interrogations to go by the Army Field Manual
• Ordered increased governmental transparency over the coming months
• Banned aides from attempts at influencing the administration when they leave his staff
• Banned gifts from lobbyists to anyone in the administration
• Overturned the Gag rule which prohibited aid from going toward any organization that mentioned abortion as an option in family planning
• Asked Sun Chairman Scott McNealy to author a white paper on the benefits of using open source for the government as a whole

And that’s just the first week or so. What will he do in his four years as president?

I don’t know but if it’s anything like this, America really is back, baby.

How great is this software? It’s all flash-based and looks like a stripped-down version of Adobe Photoshop.

I’m just blown away by this. Wow.

Check it out here.