Now old Thinkbooks know how I feel after watching a Bowflex infomercial. 

It’s only fair.

And yes… they still have Bowflex infomercials.

Holy thin.  Is that a cracker or a computer?  .76 inches on the thick end, .16 on the thin end.  Lord.

And multi-touch.  Let the frenzy begin!

It fits in a manilla envelope.  Don’t put it near your junk mail.

I ran across the video below of Britney’s Piece of Me, where a fan-remixed her video (and the international version) to the Mike Rizzo remix of the track.  And say what you will about Ms. Spears - she’s a guilty pleasure of mine, though - the remix   video gave me a really great idea.

So here’s the deal… I won’t have time to get a new mix out before New Years - I’m travelling quite a bit for the holidays, and working on set in Seattle for a work shoot.  So I’d like to change it up this time… and do a fan-made house mix set, chock full of your requests.

You know my ear, and the style of house tunes I be mixin’.  So if you know of a hot new house track you’d like to submit, shoot me an email.  If you’ve got the mp3, I’ll toss her in the mix bucket.  If you just know the song and the remix, I’ll see if I can’t purchase it at Beatport to add to the playlist.  I’ll mix us all up something hot.

Vague requests of “this one great song, can’t think of it” will sadly be overlooked.  Nobody likes a cock tease!

To my fellow bloggers out there, I’d appreciate any help you might like to give to spread the word - let’s have some fun with this.

Feel free to link to my mixes if you need to prove I’m worth my salt. If you feel I am.

Oh my God that Bravehound’s shameless.

They want a piece of us.

That’s right boys and girls… more accurately, boys and more boys… us and ours are off to Toronto to bring in the new year.  I get to see some of my West coast buddies, and bring in the new year seeing my favorite event DJ, the amazing and always energetic Offer Nissim, hailing from Israel.  Fuckin sweet.

Strangely enough, this’ll be my first time to Toronto (outside of the airport).  It’s Offer Nissim’s first time playing on Toronto, too, and it’s sure to be a hell of a time. 

If you’re lookin’ for some fresh NYE plans and wanna bounce the night away to some hot house tunes…

Gosh, what could it be?  I’ll just have to open and find out.

Like you had to guess.

So.  Excites.  All over my face.

This is just an interesting little video Nokia created about the design inspiration/intentions behind the new Nokia N82.  Or just call it a marketing video. :)

I’m just glad the phone that they’ve created to cater to the kind of consumer I am - younger creative professional looking for phone that lets me create and share easily - isn’t a slider, twister, or a flip.  Love me some sturdy, well-built candybar phones.

Once N Series devices started getting 3.5mm audio jacks, they started being seriously considered mp3 players.  And much to my surprise, when I had the Nokia N95, I discovered they’re actually *great* players for subscription music services like Rhapsody and Yahoo! Music.  The N82 continues to show their commitment to music, as it’s not a music-centric or flagship do-it-all device, and they *still* included the normal headphone jack.  Nice.

And now, it’s easier than ever to sync your N Series phone with iTunes (and iPhoto!), thanks to Nokia Multimedia Trasfer (for Mac).

I made a short little video with a Nokia N93i to demonstrate how easy it is to manage music on your Nokia if you’re used to (and refuse to give up) iTunes.  Once I saw how easy syncing (not just add, but remove and update) was, I felt the need to share.

So now N Series handles both iTunes sync, as well as syncing with subscription music services!

Find me an N82 with an armband for it, and I think my iPod nano will be collecting dust…

Over at his blog, James Burland has been one of the lucky few to have been given an N82 device to start exploring.  He’s already posted some great photos comparisons between the new device and the N95, but thankfully, he’s also posted a crisp quicktime video (and a youtube version) of the N82, so you can get better feel for the material and feel of the device.

Definitely check out his N82 video and also the his great N82 photo galleries.

Beating the official announcement by a day, press photos of the Nokia N82 have been posted online.  And if the spy shots weren’t convincing enough that this is a beautiful and wondrous thing, hopefully these will.

While many handsets (including the iPhone) truly target media consumption, this Nokia handset again shows the company’s vision to empower media creators.  And unlike most companies, just because they’re making a photo/video centric handset, doesn’t mean they’re going to leave off all the other power features the company has worked hard to integrate well into their handsets… GPS mapping, WiFi, and all the other sweet trimmings.

For now, have a look at all of the Nokia N82 press photos on Nokia’s web site.  And after tomorrow morning, info on the Nokia N82 annoucement will be at http://nseries.com/truestories/.

 
Nokia loves their little mysterious web promos, and viral flash sites to stir things up before a big announcement.  The Womworld team just shared another one…. with a countdown timer.

Behind those curtains?  If the floating mysterious music player iconography preceded the N81 music phone, red show curtains for the photo/video N82 superstar seems pretty darn fitting.

This is the phone of phones - for me in particular.  I’m pretty stoked.