Jakob Wästberg's shampoodle blog

This thing is one crazy zeppelin, man, and we’re not talking about the one with the gonzo drum solos. You can pilot
the $130 Plantraco R/C microblimp from up to 200 feet away, or take advantage of its diminutive size to annoy your
housemates indoors. The full size antenna is hidden inside its 900MHz transmitter, which operates on four AA batteries.
Helium not included, so you’ll have to hike down to your friendly neighborhood party store and fill ‘er up before
launch. We know you’re so excited about this balloon that
you’ve long since stopped reading this post in your haste to go out and snag one, but if you’re still here, do us a
favor before you fly and remember the (RC Von)
Hindenburg, aiiight?

Can we say how excited we were when we first peeped the
i730, Samsung’s new
EV-DO capable Pocket PC
Phone? We thought we’d finally found what we were looking for—the i730 is only slightly larger than the
Treo 650 and sports a 2.8-inch QVGA (240x320) 65,000
color touch screen, 64MB RAM, a 1.3 megapixel digital camera, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard—but
then we played around with it. Yeah, the screen is nice, and the prospect of having EV-DO on a phone like this really,
really, really appeals to us, but that slide-out keyboard (which is one of the big selling points) just wasn’t cutting
it for us (typing on it wasn’t pleasant). Anyway, not that we care as much as we used to, but apparently the i730 is
going to be launched at the big CTIA wireless trade show in March, with
Verizon all but guaranteed to be
the carrier (it really couldn’t be anybody else now, could it?).