simplicity

In the wake of Google's acquisition and temporary burial of Simplify, Seattle-based HomePipe has launched a similar free service that lets users stream their full iTunes library over the air to their iPhone or Android phone.

HomePipe launched in March with a new take on remote computer access. While consumer services such as LogMeIn or corporate technologies like Microsoft's Remote Desktop Services offer full keyboard-video-mouse, or KVM, access to your computer, HomePipe reasoned that mobile-phone users mainly want their data--for example, to show pictures or read documents locked away on a home PC.

On Thursday, HomePipe updated its … Read more

Once again, simplicity wins above all else--in this case, of all things, manifested in the form of a miniature flashlight.

It seems as though a new LED keychain flashlight comes out almost every day, but who's buying them all? We've had them at various times, but they always end up being too bulky or impractical. Then we saw the "LockLite," which addresses both issues.

Red Ferret says the device, made by True Utility, turns the key itself into a flashlight by embedding it in a case that also houses a bulb and battery for less than $… Read more

Readers of this space may know that we've been called (gasp) closet Luddites. So after a post yesterday extolling the virtues of simplicity, one of our colleagues thought we'd appreciate this as well: In this day of phones stuffed to the gills with features and functions, MIT's Technology Review recently wrote an article titled, "Motorola's Dumb Phone."

Designed for developing countries, the Motophone bears some resemblance to its famous Razr cousin but is intentionally devoid of many bells and whistles. Yet to achieve its power-saving and easily read screen, it employs an "electronic … Read more