Ok, first thing that flashed in my mind “Why didn’t I invent this!”.  Such a cool concept from Japanese designer Yuta Watanabe.  He calls this as the “peg pencil”.  It’s his version of a mechanical pencil made of spring activated (and re-modified) clothe’s pin.  You can all see most of his recent work on his website http://www.yutawatanabe.com/.  Really creative work showcasing the Japanese creative mind.

Ayayay!  I wonder how Yuta thought of the peg pencil.  I am arround clothe pins all my life and yet it has never come across to me that this can morph into something really cool.  Step up for Yuta and loud high-fives.

Anyway, back to tech stuff.  Did you know that Apple has once again upgraded their clip iPods?  Their 1GB model now retails for $49 while their new clip iPod 2GB model retails for $69.  Not sure if it’s in apple stores yet, but yes, I will be in line for one of the 2GB babies the moment it hit shore.

Now the only thing that I am yet to discover is if I can juggle all these iPods I have on a single iTunes program/account.  I think I read from somewhere before that it’s a tricky setup.  I have the 512MB 1st Gen iPod Shuffle, an 80 GB 5th Gen video iPod, a 4GB nano… yeah yeah… many pods there, but we’re three in the family and you know how it is.  Sometimes one just ain’t enough in this dang multi-tasking world.

Fearless prediction:  by the end of the year the clip iPods will reach 8GB at $69 a pin.  Tech is getting cheaper as we speak, is it a good idea?  For the early adopters… hahaha (wink wink).

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