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As these are typically implemented with a small camera (256*4) focussed on the finger, with appropriate hardware and software, you can also use them as an optical mouse in reverse, detecting movement of the finger over the sensor.
As these are typically implemented with a small camera (256*4) focussed on the finger, with appropriate hardware and software, you can also use them as an optical mouse in reverse, detecting movement of the finger over the sensor.
==Ideas that will probably never be implemented==
==Ideas that will probably never be implemented==
Revision as of 05:53, 1 March 2007
Hardware enhancements
Some small hardware enhancement could be cheap, but very useful. Please add your ideas/wishes here:
Video-capable camera
- A camera that is able to take reasonable quality video and pictures is something many want. Applications vary from simple snapping, to gesture interfaces, video conferencing, barcode reading and more.
- Some people can't take cameras into work - a model without the camera, or some way of removing the camera would be useful.
Integrated WiFi hardware
- To sync data
- To access Internet when WiFi is available (at home, work, school, friends)
- For VoIP (this uses much power but maybe the user have the charger connected)
- for videoconferencing (as with AccessGrid)
- Even 802.11b 11Mbps -only would do -- the point is being able to connect it to the Internet without incurring the (sometimes huge) costs of GPRS or (even worse) HSCSD.
- To save power have WiFi able to wake up and check for a designated SSID then sleep again if not found (i.e. I'm not home) or wake up by GPS location (only come up at home and in the office)
- Variable TX power, to the minimum needed to connect to the AP.
- Some sort of caching (encrypted?) internet proxy that can store and forward packets. Instead of having the radio constantly on, it turns the radio on every 30s, for just long enough to register with the AP, and ask the proxy if it has new packets for it.
- An optimisation might be if the hardware, and the AP can do broadcast packets. The receiver is only turned on for .5s/30s, to recieve a broadcast packet saying 'you've got packets' without registering with the AP, or transmitting at all. The GPS synchronises the timing.
- This slows the initial connection to the phone, but most tcp/ip applications will not time out in 30s.
- A blinking LED would be cheap and low power, good for informing the user about new SMS/Email....
- An alternative to this would be for one segment of the LCD to be seperately backlit. There are many LEDs in the backlight, all normally on. This has the advantage that you can display reasonable amounts of information on the bit of the screen that's illuminated.
- The disadvantage is the field of view is smaller, and it's dimmer than a bare LCD, as the LCD absorbs some light.
- This also requires the CPU and LCD to be somewhat active, to keep it refreshed.
- Note: the LED and button ideas could be combined: illuminated buttons
- A yellow LED for GSM/GPRS Tx burst, a blue one for Bluetooth/WiFi Tx burst, a green one for non-urgent notifications (sleep state, missed call etc.) and a red one for urgent notifications (battery almost drained out, new SMS etc.). All of this could be done in one, multicoloured (RGB) LED, similar to the nice one on the Yaesu VX-7R.
D-Pad and Buttons
- Adding a D-pad (to the bottom of the phone) and 2 to 4 buttons (to the top) would provide some tactile input controls, in addition to the touchscreen. They could be used as shortcut keys in the menu, or playback control when playing media. When the phone is held sideways, they can be used as games controls. (With touchscreen alone, gameplay options are limited)
Game buttons would be extremely great especially on both sides of the screen. The larger the buttons, the better. 2x 4 buttons in up-down-left-right configuration + some extra buttons separately a bit lower on the device would be extremely great for emulation games.
This enables the phone to sense where 'down' is - to enable various options.
Change playlists when I'm jogging vs walking. (there ia an mp3 player on the market that does this).
- Can't the GPS information be used for that purpose? It should be possible to derive the phone's velocity from the change in coordinates over time, so such a playlist profile switcher should be a possibility even now already. Abraxa 00:09, 18 February 2007 (CET)
- Yeah in my opinion that is a very cool idea. But for that case the device should be much lighter. I wouldn't go jogging with a device with this size.--denis_std 01:01, 18 February 2007 (CET)
- Shake mitigation when using the camera (wish list item #1). How many of us end up with blurry pictures because we can't hold the phone steady?
- An accelerometer is not a gyroscope. You can't tell orientation generally from acceleration, only which way 'down' is, which does not help for side-side motion, as the phone can spin around the direction of gravity without any acceleration. Up and down tilting is slightly easier, but it's very hard to determine between shaking of the phone in an up and down axis, and tilting the phone in an up and down axis.
- There are a number of three-axis accelerometer chips on the market. These will be capable of determining most movements. I.e. accelerations in all directions and rotation (change in direction of gravity). Some related research has already been carried out (when three-axis accelerometers were not commonly available, instead using 2 two-axis devices) which shows these kind of movements can be tracked [1]. Mwelchuk 11:02, 26 February 2007 (CET)
- 3 axis accelerometer does _not_ give orientation information. It gives direction in which the current acceleration is. There are 3 variables to orientation - roll, pitch, yaw, and only two independent outputs from the accelerometer (tilt in two axes at 90 degrees). To get these, you have to assume no acceleration, which is not the case in a shaking hand. Two 2-axis accelerometers, one on either side of the device, do give this information, or at least enough to use the device as a steering wheel. If you place them like this and tilt the device the 2 accelerometers will give opposite readings, if you move the device (translation) they will give the same readings. Simple, no ?
- The tilt information you get cannot be separated from shaking the phone.
- Yes it can, just dampen with a filter
- Consider you are sitting down in a chair. You know which way down is. You cannot, without further information tell if you are spinning round. Down does not move.
- Obviously it does move : action-reaction : say down is a vector G. If you spin direction D is the tangent to the spinning circle. This tangent will be added to G, and this is the value the accelerometer returns. So you will measure G+D. Knowing this you can easily determine D, as you always measure G somewhere in the accelerometer.
- An accelerometer is not a gyroscope. You can't tell orientation generally from acceleration, only which way 'down' is, which does not help for side-side motion, as the phone can spin around the direction of gravity without any acceleration. Up and down tilting is slightly easier, but it's very hard to determine between shaking of the phone in an up and down axis, and tilting the phone in an up and down axis.
IBM's thinkpad laptops have a demonstration program that actually does this, so obviously it is possible. --Speedevil 14:10, 26 February 2007 (CET)
SIR/FIR transceiver (Serial Infrared)
- An infrared tranceiver is cheap, small, and useful for sync with many laptops and mobile phones. A learning infrared remote is another application.
- Tt could be used to detect when to turn off the display (if the low power IR signal is reflected) and activate the key lock.
- FIR would be a nice option, as it's some 40 times faster than SIR.
Standard 3.5mm jack
- I think everyone interested (and knowledgeable) enough to buy a Neo can make a 2.5mm male to 3.5mm female adaptor cable in under 1/2h and under 10EUR :-)
Certainly - now make it light, small, pretty, durable, tangle-free. I want a 3.5mm jack. The only problem is - are headsets widely available in the same format as 2.5mm. --Speedevil 14:28, 16 February 2007 (CET)
Multitouch screen
Multi I/O adapter
- VGA, standard Jack (line in & out), standard USB
MMC/SD/SDIO slot (rather than?) miniSD or microSD
- Cheaper, more durable cards in a widely accepted format.
- Cards are harder to lose
- Wider selection of accesories, including SDIO accessories.
- Make externally available so that larger length SDIO cards can be used (thinking about SDIO WLAN here)
- Only because CF takes too much room (or CF would be the wish, instead)
Expansion Back
- Replacement backs with additional features
- I believe this would be a great idea, if put into practice. It would solve the extensibility need, usually associated with Open Source projects. It would allow for lots of other devices and for functionality to be developed and put into use without making it a burden for FIC.
- With extra card slots and small footprint hard drive (if possible), Neo might become a nice image tank for photographers - --cedel 18:34, 19 February 2007 (CET)
Thumb keyboard or keyboard attachment accessory
- Could be slide out or clamshell (hinge on long side) design with an external OLED. The keyboard should be protected when not in use.
- Could be a clip on keyboard that attaches to the serial port or communicates by bluetooth (not preferred for permanent keyboard users).
- cheap clippable miniusb keyboard
EDGE support
EDGE support would allow better transfer rates than non-EDGE 2G, which is limited around 5 kB/s, thus enabling a real internet connectivity for the use of (mostly geographical-based) web services.
Ability to insert more than one Sim-Card and (if possible) connect to more than one network at the same time
- This could be achieved via a specialist dual sim card kit (currently on market)- where two sims are trimmed and combined on one card, software support for dual sims would need providing...
- What about twin-SIMs (SIMs with 2 phone lines registered on them)? Conventional GSM phones have an option to switch between the two, older ones use # (long press before dialling) to do that. I'm guessing Calypso should support it, we just need to provide an interface for it :-) --@Dexter 11:34, 19 February 2007 (CET)
RFID tag
- Implementation/Cooperation with: RFID-Guardian
- Advantages of a RFID tag? I would see a lot privacy problems
- The tag could be switched on or off. A nice feature would be a module able to clone tags. This would unfortunately probably be rather expensive.
- What about an RFID Reader which could be used to locate items with RFID tags (IE: in your house) Alexpb
- Powered
- Power is a scarce resource in a mobile device as it stands. Why would anyone expect a powered USB port on a smartphone?!
--@Dexter 13:17, 28 February 2007 (CET)
- Simply because pocket space is also a scarce resource. Being able to plug in for a moment a camera, flash reader, or ... is a valuable thing. Also, many powered hubs will not recognise a totally unpowered host.
- OTG (is this maybe supported already ?)
- Bootable USB device emulation: the possibility to boot any computer on a bootable flagged partition of the transflash
UMTS support
- The Neo1973 already supports that in hardware (routing GSM audio to the loudspeakers). Could someone delete this wishlist item then? --@Dexter 13:14, 28 February 2007 (CET)
- Unfortunately, speakerphone is more than simply connecting the speakers to GSM audio, it's also echo cancellation, and eliminating the feedback that will otherwise happen between the speakers and the mic.
Special covers
- A standard slip-on or clip-on template (possibly with buttons) to make the touch-screen blind accessible
- Small metal frame for protection (like Siemens M65, only with more style)
Video acceleration
Hardware acceleration for video playback.
3D acceleration
3D hardware acceleration for 3D games, GUIs, etc. (maybe a PowerVR MBX Lite ?).
Possiblity to use something like Eyeglass Mounted Display.
Or electronic paper display, EPD is used in many new devices such as the new Motorola motofone, sonys new e-reader and Irex's iliad. The technology provides thin, flexible, power saving screens using new eink technology. This technology could cut the weight of the phone and its power usage. For more info see: eink's website.
FM/Digital Radio(DAB) Reciever
A nice feature would be a radio reciever: FM or even better: Digital Audio Broadcast (Digital Radio)
An electronic thermometer might become handy for some users.
There are very small I2C devices available, that could easily integrate to the existing bus. For example this one from ti.
I2C breakout
I2C is an internal bus in the phone. This is a simple bus, with only 2-3 wires, hence ideal for making accessible to those making add-ons, as it is low powered, and can be daisy-chained. It would be a great candidate to bring out into the Expansion Back.
Readily available I2C chips range from temperature sensing, digital input/ouput chips, to 1-wire bridge chips (which is designed for external switches, ID, sensing, ...)
Finger print sensor
Fingerprint sensor gives easy and fast access to the phone, could lock the touchscreen etc. An example of this device can be found at Sony UX17.
As these are typically implemented with a small camera (256*4) focussed on the finger, with appropriate hardware and software, you can also use them as an optical mouse in reverse, detecting movement of the finger over the sensor.
A trackball would provide an efficient mouse-like interface in a very compact package. As exemplified in the newer Blackberry® models.


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• June 11, 2004 | 4:30 p.m. ET
Reagan's space legacy: Ronald Reagan's space legacy was recognized 250 miles above the earth this week, with 40 chimes of the "ship's bell" heralding the passing of the 40th president. As astronaut Mike Fincke noted in his orbital tribute, Reagan pushed the idea of putting Americans aboard the outpost back in 1984 — although at the time he probably didn't imagine the first living quarters would be built in Russia.
Reagan also used missile defense research, known as the Strategic Defense Initiative or "Star Wars," as a high-tech lever in America's Cold War struggle against the Soviet Union. But on National Review Online, Transterrestrial Musings' Rand Simberg argues that Reagan's true legacy in space extended to commercial matters as well as NASA and the Pentagon.
As President Reagan was laid to rest, Cosmic Log readers reflected on his space legacy:
Bill Daniels: "The Strategic Defense Initiative was a brilliant ploy of statecraft and deception and will be remembered as the crown jewel in Reagan's legacy. Whether the system could work or not was beside the point. Betting that a technological breakthrough is impossible is a loser's bet, so the Soviet Union had no choice but to spend every ruble in an impossible effort to counter a system with thousands of ill-defined parts that only might work. The result was the Russian joke: 'The Cold War was a race to see who would go broke first, and Russia won.' I submit that result was exactly what Ronald Reagan intended. If only we had that level of sophistication in the White House now."
Ryan Shannon, San Francisco: "Reagan's legacy will be the fact that he was right to ignore the 'Chicken Littles' and those with a 'can't do' attitude on the left. They screamed about this 'cowboy' Reagan starting WWIII by daring to speak the truth about the evils of communism ... in the end he brought the 'Evil Empire' to its knees and freedom to the people of Russia. They also scoffed and smirked at the idea of missles being shot down out of the sky. Thank God these attitudes were ignored when men were inventing the phone, planes, space travel, microwaves, etc. Reagan's legacy will be his vision for the future based on his knowledge of the past."
Michael Hoffman, Concord, Mass.: "...Ronald Reagan damaged the world by taking missile defense from a modest research program to a major effort. It was as destructive to our nation's attitudes as the fools who decided, during the Kennedy presidential campaign, that there was a 'missile gap' and that we needed a thousand ICBMs to keep us safe, thereby scaring the hell out of the Russians and launching the arms race that we were saddled with for 30 years. We're still saddled with it, only now we're racing only ourselves. It's said that people become what they hate. I believe our nation has become what it has always said it hates. The militarization of space is symptomatic of a people in decline."
James: "We are spending billions on this 'Star Wars' thing, but will it be able to work if the nukes are set off within the United States and not by means of air? I feel we need to spend the money on home security instead of this nonsense. I could see if we were at war with Russia or China that this would be necessary, but not with terrorists who only have means by ground to attack, unless they hijack another one of our planes. ..."
Video: Reagan's space legacy
Matt Boyk, Banks, Ore., on the missile defense system:
Matt Boyk, Banks, Ore., on the missile defense system:"I am sure it would be beneficial for its first intended purpose, but I feel it would better serve mankind if it were a near-Earth asteroid shield. We are currently tracking 700 to 1,000, correct? What about the ones we don't know of yet, like the one that passed us at a distance less than the moon. So far I'd say we have been very lucky. What if one lands on a major city? I'd like some protection from that."
C.P. on Reagan, the Strategic Defense Initiative and the Delta Clipper: "...If SDI hadn't been cut back drastically by Congress, they would have built at least the DC-Y, and NASA would have been forced to inherit a fully functional orbital vehicle. ... Reagan's legacy to the space programs has already been discarded by 15 years of neglect. We have to start over, and it looks more and more like Congress and the majority of the American public could care less about the space program than the supposed (and fictitious) 'Social Security Trust Fund.' Whichever country's businesses succeed in commercially exploiting space assets (more than the already-mature industries such as telecommunications...) is going to have enough money to pay any 'trust fund' social welfare/wealth redistribution programs that they want. It might be the U.S. The way we are headed, it just might be China or India. ..."
• June 11, 2004 | 4:30 p.m. ET
Watch for space stars: The solstice launch of SpaceShipOne is shaping up as a milestone event on three levels: The main appeal is the history-making aspect of what could be the world's first official spaceflight in a privately built craft — something science-fiction authors have assumed for more than a century would come to pass. The June 21 event could draw tens of thousands of people to Mojave, Calif., providing the additional atmosphere of a Woodstock or "Burning Man" happening. (A tip o' the link to Clark Lindsey at HobbySpace.)
The third angle has to do with the intersection of space and celebrity: Among the VIPs expected to attend are moonwalker Buzz Aldrin and California millionaire Dennis Tito , the world's first space passenger to pay his own way. Other big names, from Hollywood or beyond, might well come to Mojave.
Just this week, British millionaire/adventurer Richard Branson told The Guardian that he would make an announcement by the end of June relating to space tourism — and I have to think that the throngs in Mojave would include Branson, who wants to go into space himself and is working with SpaceShipOne designer Burt Rutan on the Virgin Global Flyer, a 'round-the-world plane. Mojave would serve as the most fitting venue for Branson's announcement.
• June 11, 2004 | 4:30 p.m. ET
Weekend trips on the World Wide Web:
• L.A. City Beat: 'Space Cowboys'
• The Economist: Hunter-programmers
• 'Nova' on PBS: 'Who Killed the Red Baron?'
• The Onion: Mischievous raccoon wreaks havoc in space
• June 10, 2004 | 5:30 p.m. ET
Tomorrow's grand challenges: Today, building a better rocket or robot could win you millions of dollars. Which technologies should take the prize in years to come? That's what NASA will be considering over the next week, during its first Centennial Challenges workshop and at an industry briefing on its new space vision .
In advance of the workshop, I asked Cosmic Log readers to come up with suggestions for prizeworthy space challenges. Some offered suggestions; others offered questions instead.
Here's a sampling of the feedback:
Michael Huang: "Build and run a closed-loop life support system that supports two people for a set time. At the end of time, the system must be in the same state as the beginning ('steady state'). When the first life support challenge is won, the next challenges will be progressively more difficult (support more people over a longer time) with larger prizes."
Vernon: "I would like to see NASA construct a working deep-space fusion drive to power the next generation of spacecraft."
Larry M. Beasley, Pflugerville, Texas: "... Space ain't dead. It's just been drained to a withered and anemic husk by the political practice of rewarding huge corporate donations with huge lucrative contracts. Anybody remember the successful tests of the vertical launch vehicle design by our own military? The only way space will be developed is by bulldozing a bypass around, over and through our so-called political leaders' monopoly on research and development for near-Earth orbit. Hats off to the whole X Prize crowd for proving it can be done!"
Patrick Bishop, Caldwell, N.J., on the Ansari X Prize: "Building a system to pop our heads above the atmosphere is not a true steppingstone toward privately lofted orbital systems, but merely an extreme amusement-park ride. When we can get up and stay up — that will be something."
Steve Harmon, Bismarck, N.D.: "How much more space junk and pollution will this new rich man's adventure create? It's bad enough that governments continue this quest. ..."
J. Tacheny, Mankato, Minn.: "I believe strongly that all scientific evidence tells us the hidden mysteries of our oceans hold much more promise for the future health and habitability of Earth than any space exploration. Space has had a surreal and exotic attraction for humans preceding recorded history. But that does not mean we are on the right track. If even a fraction of the monies of the space budget and the space industry were spent on exploring ... underwater, then we would discover the bounty provided on our own planet to benefit humanity and the future of the health of planet Earth in profound and far reaching ways. Why travel far away at great expense when the benefits we seek are very likely right here at home? I for one do not believe the benefits of space exploration have justified the costs in money, human resources and time. Space exploration has become a 'given' in the world community that needs to be seriously challenged and examined by giving equal attention to the voices that disagree with this course of action."
On Friday, I'll pass along a selection of the feedback on Ronald Reagan's space legacy and the state of "Star Wars." If you have some final suggestions on space challenges, pass them along and I'll try to squeeze a few of those in as well.
• June 10, 2004| 5:30 p.m. ET
New life for 'God Particle': For years, particle physicists have been searching for an elusive quarry known as the Higgs boson, which is thought to give mass to all other subatomic particles. It plays such a key role in physics that it's been nicknamed the "God Particle," but the particle has not been definitively detected.
Now there's a new twist in the quest: In this week's issue of the journal Nature, researchers report a new estimate for the mass of another subatomic particle, known as the top quark. When you crank that estimate into quantum-mechanical equations, you get a significantly higher figure for the energy levels where the Higgs boson can be found. In fact, the levels (117 gigaelectronvolts, if you must know) are beyond the range of any particle accelerator currently in operation — which would explain why no one's been able to find the darn thing.
"It's as if we've been digging a hole for the Higgs, and suddenly we realize we read the map wrong and it's really somewhere else," Thomas Ferbel, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, said in a news release.
And so the quest will continue, most likely using a European super-duper-collider due to start up in 2007.
If this is the sort of subject that gets your heart racing, keep an eye on Preposterous Universe, the Web log recently launched by University of Chicago physicist Sean Carroll. "I'm surprised that there aren't more physics-oriented blogs out there," Carroll tells Cosmic Log. "I suspect the field will continue to grow pretty rapidly, though."
• June 10, 2004 | 5:30 p.m. ET
Dispatches from the online frontiers:
• Slate: Why realistic graphics make humans look creepy
• BBC: Nanotech guru changes his mind on 'gray goo'
• New Scientist: Ring reveals ancient complex machines
• Ananova: UFO fans create intergalactic currency (via Buzzworthy)
• June 9, 2004 | Noon ET
Next robot race set: The second DARPA Grand Challenge for autonomous robo-cars has been scheduled for Oct. 8, 2005, with the prize doubled to $2 million, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced Tuesday.
The previous Grand Challenge drew 106 applicants, and back in March , 15 finalists competed on a rugged course that wound through the Mojave Desert between Barstow, Calif., and Primm, Nev. None of the vehicles could finish the 142-mile course, but DARPA said it got its money's worth nevertheless. Collectively, the teams spent far more than the offered $1 million, on robotic research that is important to the military.
The Pentagon hopes future autonomous vehicles will take some of the risk out of resupply operations in future battlefields — a factor that has posed a serious problem in Iraq.
"This event is a challenge for American ingenuity," DARPA Director Anthony Tether said in Tuesday's announcement. "It brings together individuals and organizations from the research and development community, industry, government, the armed services, academia, professional societies, and from the ranks of students, backyard inventors, and automotive enthusiasts."
DARPA invited would-be participants to attend a preparatory conference on Aug. 14 at the Anaheim Marriott in Anaheim, Calif. Right now, Carnegie Mellon University's Red Team would have to be the favorite for Grand Challenge II, but it will be interesting to see how the field develops over the next 16 months.
• June 9, 2004 | 1:30 p.m. ET
More robotic news on the World Wide Web:
• Johns Hopkins: Students design land-mine robot
• Globe and Mail: Robot speechless but agile
• Nature: The brain learns like a robot
• MATE: Underwater robotics, anyone?
• June 8, 2004 | 8:25 p.m. ET
Math's Holy Grail: The Riemann Hypothesis has been called the "Holy Grail of mathematics" and "the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics." A $1 million prize has been set aside for the person who comes up with a solution.
Now a mathematician who has been working on the challenge for 20 years is putting his latest proposed proof on the Internet.
Purdue University Professor Louis de Branges de Bourcia has offered proofs before, only to withdraw them. By one account, the National Science Foundation has given him more than $450,000 over the years to work on the Riemann Hypothesis. This time around, de Branges has posted the proof online even before submitting it to peer-reviewed publications — in hopes of eventually claiming the $1 million from the Clay Mathematics Institute.
"I invite other mathematicians to examine my efforts," de Branges said today in a news release from Purdue. "While I will eventually submit my proof for formal publication, due to the circumstances I felt it necessary to post the work on the Internet immediately."
Back in 1984, de Branges delivered a proof for the Bieberbach Conjecture, another longstanding puzzle in the math world, so his colleagues tend to take him seriously. "It will obviously take time to verify his work," said Leonard Lipshitz, head of Purdue's mathematics department, "but I hope that anyone with the necessary background will read his paper so that a useful discussion of its merits can follow."
What's the big deal about the Riemann Hypothesis? The challenge dates back to 1859, when German mathematician Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann published a conjecture about how prime numbers were distributed among other numbers. Riemann could never prove the conjecture for all numbers, nor could anyone else since then — although a distributed-computing project called ZetaGrid has shown it to be true for the first 100 billion solutions.
The details are strewn with zetas, sigmas, pis and phis — the math Greek only a geek could love. But the bottom line is that an airtight, elegant proof of the Riemann Hypothesis could well shed new light on the "music of the primes."
Mathematicians have always been fascinated by prime numbers — integers that are cleanly divisible only by themselves and the number 1. More practically, prime numbers form the foundation for the cryptographic systems that keep online purchases secure. So any progress on primes would prick up the ears of very smart people around the world.
To learn more about the Riemann Hypothesis, click through this Web portal on the problem at the University of Exeter. I particularly recommend the applet on this Web page, which helps you visualize what Riemann was talking about.
• June 8, 2004 | 8:25 p.m. ET
Watch this space: The President's Commission on the Moon, Mars and Beyond has rescheduled the release of its recommendations for noon ET June 16 ... overlapping with NASA's first Centennial Challenges workshop on June 15-16. Then the action moves to Mojave, Calif., for the June 21 milestone spaceflight by Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne — which some are already calling the "Woodstock of Space." This month's whirl is enough to give you a bad case of space sickness.
• June 8, 2004 | 8:25 p.m. ET
Scientific smorgasbord on the Web:
• National Geographic: 'Exploring Space'
• Wired.com: Water to boost satellite snooping
• News.com: High hopes for unscrambling the vote
• Technology Review: Biodefense boondoggle?
• June 7, 2004 | 7:40 p.m. ET
Past and future 'Star Wars': Former President Reagan now belongs to the ages, but one of his most controversial legacies — the Strategic Defense Initiative, or "Star Wars" — lives on, and is due to take a significant step from Cold War dream to post-9/11 reality this year.
As proposed in the 1980s, "Star Wars" technology was supposed to render Soviet nuclear weapons harmless: Interceptors and killer beams would destroy the intercontinental ballistic missiles while in flight.
Back then, scientists questioned whether a national missile defense system could ever work. Some commentators now say that was beside the point: They argue that the mere existence of the program pushed the Soviet Union into a military mind game that hastened its Cold War defeat. Others downplay the historical role of "Star Wars."
In any case, the issue is of more than historical interest: After decades of theorizing and testing, the first elements of a real-life missile defense system are due to be deployed as early as September.
The reality will be far less ambitious than the grand "Star Wars" vision of 1983; the threat far more nebulous. Interceptor missiles will be placed first at Fort Greely in Alaska, then at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, to guard against the perceived threat of North Korean missiles. Eventually, the Bush administration argues, such a system will have to be expanded to protect against other "rogue states" or even stateless terrorists.
Interactive: How a missile shield works As in Reagan's day, the technological questions are overwhelmed by the political debate: Will "Star Wars" play an important role in the war on terror, or is it merely a distracting sideshow?
For the pro side, consult the Missile Defense Agency's Web site, which even lists potential civilian spinoffs from the military research, such as a deer-detection system for automobiles. For the con side, you can always depend on the Union of Concerned Scientists.
In addition to "Star Wars," other facets of today's final frontier parallel the challenges of the Reagan era. Then , as now, NASA had to deal with the tragic loss of a space shuttle and its crew. Back then, the centerpiece of Reagan's space vision was Space Station Freedom. Today, that vision has morphed into the international space station, with the heirs of the "evil empire" playing the lead role in its operation.
The space station plays a smaller role in the current president's revised vision for space exploration — serving as the testing ground for future giant leaps, but not as the jumping-off point. The President's Commission on the Moon, Mars and Beyond had been scheduled to release its recommendations this week, but Reagan's passing has forced a week's postponement. The new release date should be announced Tuesday.
Let me know what you think about the Reagan legacy in space, and how that legacy is likely to evolve in the years ahead.
• June 7, 2004 | 7:40 p.m. ET
Your daily dose of science on the Web:
• BBC: Has Atlantis been found in Spanish marshes?
• Science News: Dead zones widen in the seas
• Nature: Patch of brain put to sleep
• N.Y. Times (reg. req.): Fresh warnings from Bill Joy
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An overhaul of the education system is due to reduce the stubbornly high unemployment rate and keep the country competitive. An ideal education system should have diverse functions and one of them should be developing and nurturing homegrown talent to support the development of local industries. In Taiwan, there are about 160 colleges, which generate 230,000 graduates each year, but local companies still find it difficult to recruit enough qualified workers.
At the beginning of this year, Hon Hai Precision Industry, which assembles iPhones and iPads for Apple Inc, launched a recruitment program to hire 3,000 software engineers for its new cloud-computing data center in Greater Kaohsiung, but only 300 vacancies have been filled.
Meanwhile, Taiwan's unemployment rate has been at a relatively high level since the global financial meltdown caused by Lehman Brothers in 2008.
Five years later, the unemployment rate has improved to more than 4 percent on average from the peak of 5.85 percent on average in 2008. Yet the improvement stopped there, with the number of people out of a job remaining steady at about 480,000 in the first 10 months of this year.
The mismatch is again reflected in the latest survey released by international consultancy ManpowerGroup, which indicated that Taiwan's employment outlook is the strongest in Asia. About 36 percent of the 1,080 companies surveyed plan to recruit new blood next quarter, up 3 percentage points from a quarter ago and up 5 percentage points from a year ago. Yet Taiwan's jobless rate is expected to remain the highest among neighboring Asian countries.
"This shows that a talent shortage is the problem," said Joan Yeh (葉朝蒂), operations director of temp business at ManpowerGroup Taiwan. "It means that jobseekers lack the skills and working experience that are required for the jobs."
So the question this begs is: Do we need so many colleges? And, is the pool of college graduates equal to the pool of talent?
The answer is clear: Taiwan's number of colleges is stunningly high compared with Singapore's four and Hong Kong's seven. Taiwan's population is about five times Singapore's 5 million people and three-and-a-half times Hong Kong's 7 million. Yet the number of colleges in Taiwan is 40-fold and 23-fold that of Singapore and Hong Kong respectively.
Morris Chang (張忠謀), chairman of the world's top contract chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, last week shared his opinions about the nation's educational system and provided his suggestions to the government.
Chang said that Taiwan does not need so many colleges. Doctorate degrees do not guarantee that the people who possess them have the ability to innovate, he said. However, Taiwan needs more vocational schools to train skilled workers, Chang said.
The nation's industrial boom over the past decades was based on the vocational school system, as well as college eduction. The balance was tilted after most vocational schools scrambled to upgrade to colleges, as the government had encouraged them to do. That has inflated the number of colleges, but those "new" colleges are unable to offer useful programs and to produce high-quality graduates.
Chang is deeply concerned about Taiwan's scarce talent pool and the future competitiveness of local industries.
Chang has good reason to be worried, since fewer young people are interested in entering the manufacturing industry. They no longer believe that higher education can provide better salaries or better careers because the monthly salary of most college graduates is capped at NT$22,000 and the jobless rate for local graduates with doctorates is 95 percent.


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Book review: "My Penis" by Tyler Hamilton
August 13, 2012 § 35 Comments
Slated for release on September 18, Wankmeister received an advance copy of Tyler Hamilton's tell-all illiterography, "The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs" As Told To Daniel Coyle In Very Simple Words And, Where Necessary, With Little Stick Figure Pictographs.
Coyle is known to seven or eight other people as the author of "Lance Armstrong's War," The Tale Of A Writer Who Couldn't Come Up With A Decent Title So He Stole One From Someone Else.
I was flattered to receive the advance copy, and immediately put down the important task of tweeting salacious recipes to @mmmaiko and devoted fifteen solid minutes to reading the book, which is subtitled "My Penis" to reach the cycling demographic that also reads books like "50 Shades of Grey." CU Tomorrow? Legit Girl? Bump'n'Grind? Yeah, YOU.
Does America really need another disgraced doper's kiss-and-jail cyclography?
After reading "My Penis," I phoned author Daniel Coyle to get some background material on the impetus for the book. "When Tyler and I started talking, I realized this was an historic opportunity for me to pay rent," said Coyle. "Note the way I use 'an' with 'historic.' Isn't that cool?"
"Uh, yeah. Go on."
"No one's ever had a ticket behind the wall of silence, behind locked doors, onto the team bus. I mean sure, there are books with that name, books by Kimmage, Voet, Landis, Joe Parkin, every legit book on the history of cycling ever written, TV documentaries, reams of public testimony, arbitration proceedings, detailed scientific evidence, and every kind of proof and testimonial known to man. But this is different!"
"Like, how, dude?"
"Over the past two years, in more than 200 hours of interviews and trips to key locations in Spain and France, Tyler has given me complete access to his story. Emails. Home videos of his dog. Sexts to his wife. Phone messages from his dentist. We even had a seance with his vanishing twin."
"You don't believe that shit, do you?"
"You bet I do. To verify and corroborate his account, I've also talked to numerous independent sources, including former teammates, several of whom are going on the record for the first time, immediately prior to sentencing. This is a classic tale of human ambition and the consequences of trying to win at any cost."
"Uh, what were the consequences?"
"Well, for Tyler it resulted in an Olympic gold medal, wins in the Tour, and buttloads of cash. But in the end he was banned for life from bike racing."
"But wasn't his career over by then?"
"That's not the point! It's a classic tale of human ambition! And the consequences of trying to win at any cost!"
"Sounds like a winner's game plan to me, dude."
Straight from the horse's mouth
Next I called up Tyler. "Yo, dude, this is Wankmeister. Remember me?"
"Hello? Who's this?"
"It's me. Wanky. From PV. You came out here three years ago and did the Donut Ride. I fucking crushed it. Remember?"
"I'm sorry, I think you have the wrong number."
"No! Don't hang up! I want to talk about 'My Penis'!"
Having lost my source, I went to Cyclingnews.com, where I steal most of my shit from anyway. They never disappoint! Here's the blurb they had. And I'm not making this up:
"Hamilton explained that his time in front of a grand jury during the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigation into Lance Armstrong's alleged doping practices he realised that there was a story that needed to be told.
"'I kept it all inside for way too long and I realized it was a story that needed to be told. I think when people learn how it really was – how it worked, how we did it, what it felt like – they'll see that this story is bigger than any one individual in the sport. It's really about making choices when you're pushed to the edge and deciding what you're willing to do to compete. I want to take people inside our world so they can understand the lives we lived.'"
In other words, the dude's flat fucking broke, and rather than get a job gluing on tires or flipping burgers he's decided to hire someone to write a book for him while they job around Europe getting drunk, riding bikes, and licking the pussy.
So these are the consequences of blind ambition? Fuck, where can I get some?
Back to My Penis
"My Penis" begins with Hamilton's discovery that no one will take him to the prom except Jonathan Vaughters. They dress each other up (Jonathan dresses up as a boy, but it's totally unconvincing), and afterwards they make passionate love and symbolically bury Jonathan's bike in a field and water it with their urine. A lovely rose bush grows on the spot, and they can often be found frolicking naked around its blossoms in spring. But that's a different story.
After getting recruited by the evil and dastardly Team Dope, Tyler loses his childhood dreams to a dirty, nasty, hairy, fat, toothless, balding, sweaty, unwashed French masseuse with long and unkempt toenails. Francois intends to inject Tyler's stomach fat with EPO, but misses and hits his penis instead. Tyler's twelve-day erection earns him a number of nicknames on Team Dope, none of which are printable, even in a nasty, uncouth, sophomoric blog like this one that revels in saying words like "pussy" and "cock" and "cunt."
First the breakout, then the rash
After his breakout season with Team Dope, Tyler catches the eye of the evil and cruel dictator of the peloton, Lance Strongstrong. Strongstrong, who has just won the Turdy France after a miraculous comeback from a lobotomy, entices Tyler onto the team bus with an offer of candy and a trip to EuroDisney.
The next thing he knows, he's sitting in Strongstrong's lap, Johan Squatneel has forced him to sign a multi-million dollar contract, forced him to take drugs, and forced him to ride with the most famous American team in the history of completely unknown and forgettable and forgotten niche/kook/dork sporting teams.
Tyler and Strongstrong part ways upon the death of Tyler's favorite pet newt, Newton, when Strongstrong makes disparaging remarks about salamanders, particularly the juvenile forms. "That newt was more than a son to me!" Hamilton cried.
"Only person ever liked a Newt was Callista, and she's a two bit whore anyway," Strongstrong shot back.
"Fine! You bad man! I'll go ride for team Phoneycrack!"
Team Phoney Baloney
Unceremoniously kicked off the bus along with his little plastic newt cargo case, Tyler was picked up by Tubby Rihs and Doctor Evil Ochowicz, or "Doc Ock" as he was called by his clients. With his medication properly adjusted, Tyler was forced to win more big races, world championships, and gold medals. He was desperately unhappy at living the lie, and eventually couldn't take it any more.
"The guilt became so great that after I was busted I confessed," he says in the most moving passage of the book. "Of course it took a few years to confess, as I had to first deny everything. But that's how badly I was hurting inside. It felt so great to finally admit the truth."
Hamilton points out that just because you admit the truth due to running out of legal defense funds and the threat of federal prison doesn't mean you didn't really want to tell the truth all along.
"It was freeing," he adds. "So much so that when I finally came back to cycling I could dope again, get busted, and get banned for life. It's a beautiful story. The passion. The pathos. They mysteries of the human soul…it's all right here."
The book retails for $29.95, but will be available at Half-Priced Rubbish and Discount Records and 8-Track Tapes and Books in October for $1.99, or free on Amazon's Kindle.
§ 35 Responses to Book review: "My Penis" by Tyler Hamilton
That is so priceless. You have summed up the whole thing, in one blog. If these guys were all so upset about living a lie, then why did they only talk, after either getting caught, threatened, or being offered a sweetheart deal. And why in hell are all these bloggers, so ready to accept them as reborn. Yet crucify Lance Armstrong. Oh!, we wouldn't hate him so much, if he would only come clean. BS.
Just how sure are you about the effects of injecting Amgen products into the male sex organ?
Needle pricks are an epidemic troubling today's male youth athletes. Oddly enough they prove a suitable match for the equally doped females. Sterility and the inability to attain such depths as would allow crushing musculature to come into play are all the reasoning I need to understand why the Olympic's remain an unfulfilling orgy.
Pure gold…
Dammit Wankmeister you just ruined my 27″ Apple Display after I twice spewed thick espresso out my nose during sips of Lion's Farm Kona luscious dark roast. You'll be getting the invoice for a replacement.
How about "My Chinchin" for the japanese version?
oh, and thanks for the relentless pursuit for the "purisness of truthfulness" in this mightiest of blogs Mr. Wankmeister!
If only Tyler had employed his vanishing twin, Chimera Hamilton, as the ghost writer instead of that hack Coyle. I would definitely have paid full price to read that riveting tale of consanguinity.
you are a wanker/ go suck on some chamois cycling shorts
Armstrong is a doper, finally someone has the courage to expose him, instead of riding the Palos Verdes climbs – what climbs? You are right no one has had the Balls to tell the truth about cycling doping – yes they have all been to scared in the past. Its TIME –
Courage? Seriously, WTF? The word of Landis and Hamilton is worthless. These two POS got caught, then continued to lie about it, suckered their loyal fans into donating money for their defenses, and fought the doping authorities through every possible proceeding and appeal. Then, when they have been roundly defeated and are flat broke, they write "tell-all" books and NOW we are supposed to take their word that they are telling the truth? That's not courage. That's their lame attempt to avoid working at an LBS changing tires and fixing brakes on WalMart bikes. I would have said McD's, but McD's won't hire known druggies.
And what truth needs telling about doping? We already know the truth: 99.999% of the pro peleton was doping for decades. Now that there is a test for EPO and there is the bioloical passport program, the sport has at least a veneer of being clean. But by all means, if it make you and all of the other sanctimonious blow hards feel better, pick an arbitrary date back in the 80's and vacate every record of every race winner. There, now you have cleansed the past of all the cheating. Feel better?
Thanks. I'm happy to do my part to keep the feral cats from shitting in your juvenilicious sandbox that you so kindly share with us.
You owe me a keyboard too. AND some new shorts. After I spewed folgers in delight through my nose onto my keyboard, my sphlinter let loose a torrent of liquid guffaws. Thank you.
I laughed, I coughed beer all over, and I laughed again. Especially amusing is your obsession with the penis. Cheers.
HaHa is this why there are photos circulating of our Tyler's circumcised penis in his Phonak kit…….http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2010/4/27/1272371366008/Tyler-Hamilton-006.jpg
This (My Penis) is supposed to be 'humourous'- correct? Even with my disorder- I recognize that it's been done to death without one piece of originality. It's easy to copy- but to create something 'new', that would have been invigorating… TY…
Wow, way too much effort for the humor return. Not funny, except for "penis".
How can Tyler write 'My Penis' if he is SUCH A PUSSY ????
I don't get it.


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I uploaded another 340 photos for those who are interested. They cover the remainder of the time we were in England. They start about Harlech, Wales through London. I have not named them yet, nor the ones from the last batch. I will be sure to let you know when I finally do. Which really means, you shouldn't look at them until I have them all named!
Another day in paradise. We keep plugging along. We finally gathered all our possessions from rented space into the nest today. At least we have the account closed with U-haul storage now. They seem like good people.
Our washer was delivered today. Our large purchases from Lowe's are now complete. Frigidaire has reaped some income from our purchase of a refrigerator, washer, and dryer. (I also learned yesterday I have spelled refrigerator incorrectly all these years. I spelled it refridgerator. Darn English language.) Interestingly, the man who delivered the blessed washer asked where in Utah I was from. He deducted it from my 801 cell phone number. I confessed my wife was from Kaysville and he admitted he grew up in Layton. Small world. I found out he is now an ordained minister whose sermons go over the trucker radios. I wouldn't have thought of a ministry over the radio, but all the best to him. I found out he wasn't allowed to attend LDS services growing up, and then did when he could. He joined the church and then his mother moved to Oklahoma. He had some questions that he apparently asked the Bishop and the Bishop couldn't answer them. I don't know if he didn't want to hear the answers or if the Bishop just wouldn't or didn't take the time. He gave me the three main questions and his e-mail address. I have dropped him an e-mail to confirm the address and then have to start putting together the answers befitting his situation. Here they are in a nutshell. If you would like to write with suggestions on how to respond, I would appreciate it.
The end of the new testament states, 'The End of the Prophets'. If it is the end, why do we have Joseph Smith or any others afterward? A typical evangelical question posed. I will have to establish what a prophet is, what prophecy is, and that even the Savior himself was a prophet. Then we can build from there. Certainly cannot forget Revelations stating that to have a testimony of Jesus is to have the spirit of prophecy.
The second question dealt with the old testament stating there was no God before, and no God afterward. If we believe that, how can we believe in a separate Godhead and other 'Gods'? This one is a bit more tricky to build common ground. I will have to revisit and do homework. This is another common protestant question designed to create doubt.
Lastly, the question probably most difficult, and one I may not answer as I intend to go in order and discuss them slowly. For the doctrines really don't make it clear and it is one of those areas of gray. I have my thoughts lined out but they are mine and not really to be shared. Besides, I cannot back them up with doctrine and I don't think he is interested in statements of latter day prophets. But, once we become God in our little world elsewhere, is it given to us, or do we create it. Next, what do we do once we have our own world or universe?
Coming back down to earth. We found a dead mouse behind some drawers. Amanda was not happy. I just laughed. After all, being a country boy you might as well say I grew up with mice. But we did work out a deal. I remove the mice, dead or alive, and she changes the diapers. I don't like diapers, she doesn't like mice. Boy, am I glad we got that worked out!


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It's necessary to get your Kia Sportage's struts checked on a regular basis due to the fact that they carry so much of our car's weight and help the suspension work properly. Here at Kia of Bradley near Crete, IL 60417 we'll check your Kia Sportage's struts, so you get a safe and quality drive every time you get behind the wheel. We'll make sure everything from the coil spring, to the shock absorbers and the steering knuckle are tightly in place and functioning in high form. To avoid the high cost of replacing your struts down the road, let us inspect them for you today at Kia of Bradley!
Your struts actually perform a multitude of functions to keep numerous parts in order. When you are driving, struts support the weight of your car and even help adapt to uneven roads, so you get a smooth and steady ride. The shock absorbers keep everything in the cabin at level, while the steering knuckle helps to keep you from spinning out on those sharp turns. All of these parts work together to give you a safe drive, and our service team here at Kia of Bradley will thoroughly check every one of these in an efficient and timely manner. You'll be in and out of our service department in no time thanks to our skilled technicians and state-of-the-art repair equipment.
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Every week I look forward to being mugged by an invisible assailant right in plain view of others. I have always found this gentleman thief, though thorough, to be fair. Maybe you've been robbed blind by this same perp. Its name is Wednesday, a.k.a. "New Comics Day." I like this perp.
Some people do not…and by people I mean "Satan." He has decided that this New Comics Day will be complicated by evil and external forces. Storms, Floods, Rat Plagues and Halloween stand between you and giving us your money this Wednesday!
Usually, we here at Forbidden Planet are Pro-Satan, or at least Satan-ambivalent. This time, the big S has gone too far. This Wednesday, we need you to be very brave and come on back to the Forbidden Planet. We need you to shop for comics for Christ. Or for Satan. Whatever, we just want to make sure you get your comics. [Editor's note: This post was obviously written before we had to shut down for a week due to storm-related power outages. Sorry about that. Clearly Satan won this round.]
After 73 years, someone has finally figured out how to stop Superman. In this week's Action Comics Annual #1, not only do we get to stare at Superman's crotch and wish it was red, we also get to see the showdown between Superman and Kryptonite Man! There have been SEVERAL Kryptonite Men over the years, some with sleeves and some without. This NEW, Post Crisis, Post New 52 Kryptonite Man has not only NO SLEEVES, but no ARMS! BWA-HA-HA! He has some sort of Kryptonite arms! AH! SCARY!
Speaking of scary, Steve "30 Days of Night" Niles and the AMAZING Glenn Fabry have a new horror comic out this week from DC called Lot 13! It sounds great! THAT will really show Satan who's boss! Jesus wants you to buy blood-puking horror comics! Jesus also wants you to buy Masters of the Universe: Origins of Skeletor #1 this Wednesday, too. Or Satan does. I forget…hum.
We better pick up as many horror comics as we can in order to play the field. I'll be picking up the latest Ghostbusters Ongoing #14, then Vampirella #24, Happy #2 and, uhm, New Mutants #50…those are horror comics, right?
I KNOW! The perfect compromise! Mars Attacks Holiday Special #1 should keep both sides of the religious fence appeased. Besides, I think the Martians are agnostics.
There is positively no storm, nor flood, nor rat plague that could keep me from Happy #2, A + X #1 or Ultimate Spider-Man 2 #18.
And no amount of Trick or Treaters is going to prevent me from picking up T-Shirts, figures, trade paperbacks and spectacular comics. As a matter of fact, neither Hurricane Sandy, Jesus/Satan, Rat Plagues, nor apathy will stop me from getting my butt to the Forbidden Planet and letting that perfect thief, Wednesday, from picking my pocket!
NEXT WEEK: Rebuilding New York City after Hurricane Sandy using only the lessons we can glean from comic books.
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That very British voice you've begun hearing on Maine Things Considered belongs to our newest reporter, Tom Porter, who comes to us after a prior stint as a reporter at WVTF-FM, a public radio station in Roanoke, Virgina.
A native of Birmingham, England, Tom comes from a family of British journalists. He worked for nearly eight years at Bloomberg Television and Radio in London as a reporter and news producer. He is also trained jazz pianist. Tom has a bachelor's degree from the University of London and a master's degree from Kings College in London.
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Sweets Gift Guide: Carrie's Picks for Holiday Gifts
I eat amazing sweets all year round, but that doesn't mean I don't love getting some as gifts during the holidays. I also like getting (and giving) cool sweets accessories, like vintage-style glasses that make my ice cream eating feel oh-so-classy, or my trick to professional looking cake decorating.
Salt & Straw Delivery
This Portland-based ice cream company is known for its interesting flavors (think foie gras or mincemeat) but the Favorites Gift Pack is a home-run for any ice cream lover, adventurous or not. Flavors include Stumptown Coffee & Bourbon, Chocolate with Gooey Brownie, and my favorite, Sea Salt with Caramel Ribbons. Available online.
Size Marked Pastry Board
Forget trying to handle rulers or tape measures with sticky or floured hands. This pastry board has the size for most standard pies and tarts written right onto the board. So useful and, in natural hardwood, visually appealing too. $69.95, available online.
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The gift that keeps on giving. At least through February.
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Glass Ice Cream Bowls
Eating ice cream in front of the TV feels much more classy when it's done out of one of these vintage glass bowls. Extra long spoons would be a nice touch. $3.99 each, Available online
Flour Cookbook
I don't get up to Boston very often, which is a shame because that means I rarely get to eat the treats at Flour Bakery + Cafe. Luckily chef and owner Joanne Chang has published many of her recipes in this cookbook. Homemade Pop-Tarts anyone?
Levain Cookies
We recently asked the owners of Levain Bakery in NYC to share their top picks at the bakery. And while I'll definitely be trying new items as per their recommendations, there's nothing I'd rather see on Christmas morning than a box of their cookies. The giant cookies are super delicious—don't let Santa eat them all. Available online or at their bakery locations.
Pattern Press Set
This is one of my secret baking tools. The Pattern Press Set comes with 14 assorted shapes—you just press the shape into the top of your cake, then trace the outline in frosting or sprinkles. Voila, a beautifully decorated cake that looks like it was done by a professional. $6.99, available online.
Recchiuti Chocolates
I'm not sure why people mainly give chocolate on Valentines Day—it's a pretty awesome gift year round. The Faves Gift Box from San Francisco chocolatier Michael Recchiuti is packed with flavors like Fleur de Sel Caramel, Key Lime Apple, Key Lime Pear, Candied Orange Peel, Peppermint Thins and Peanut Butter Pucks. Divide them up for stocking stuffers or make one person happy under the tree. Available online.
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