The newer attraction I went to see this time was the House of the Future. I was a little unimpressed. It’s not really “House of the Future“. It’s more like “House of the Now-if-you-have-a-lot-of-money-to-spare-and-don’t-mind-the-electricity-costs“. There were just a couple innovative ways to use technology we already have now and a mass abundance of the same concepts that filled the home making electricity the blinding cost in my eyes.

This is the living room with a nice glass screen that reflects everything.

And this is the back. <: / Seems a little unnecessary to me.

This is the kitchen. There really wasn’t much innovation for the kitchen specifically. Just a bunch of older model HP Touchsmarts all over the place. I wouldn’t mind having one, but two in the same kitchen? @_@

And yes, a lot of digital photo frames EVERYWHERE. This was on the piano. I suspect they hid all the cords inside the piano. Their solution for the home was “if there is an empty space, put a digital photo frame there” and “cover the walls with huge monitors that displayed photos of real art pieces”.

Supposedly the fun part of the home for entertaining guests.

This might be the only thing I actually wanted to steal from the house. I like that the Yamahas keep the silhouette of the cello. There are lots of electric celli out there that just look like a stick. Ick.

This was the girl’s room. I think the image is project from behind and the guy there said that the screens are all controlled from the girl’s laptop so she can customize it herself. That’s kind of cool. I know how I would fill up my media wallpaper…(full sized pictures of Takeshi Kaneshiro, Keanu Reeves, and Audrey Hepburn)

Who needs all those tiny digital photo frames when you have this anyway? She also had a “mirror” which was actually a video from a camera pointed at you when you stand in front of the “mirror” and you could try on digital outfits…that’s a pretty neat idea.

A boy’s room, Peter Pan themed. This hired guy had to read the Peter Pan story over and over again while the images in the “window” and on the pirate ship sail behind him changed.

I tried out the Microsoft surface. There were a bunch there too. Sometimes it wasn’t so responsive.

Here I am messing around with it.

A dining table of four Surfaces. At one point they were all showing a video of a rock pond that rippled when you touched the surface of the “water”.

The conclusion of this home is that it would be futuristic and cool if all this was totally normal for every home to have. Like, if the prices were brought down ridiculously low and you could find all this in every home.

This was on the second floor, out of the Home of the Future. We have a couple of these at every mall now.

Play Pirates of the Caribbean Online! I ran around yelling “I’m stuck at Disneyland!” and people came up to me and said “Do you need help?” People actually play this game?!

Segway training. Funny to watch.

This is the new monorail being tested out, the Mark VII. It will officially start next Spring. It’s a cool blue metallic color with purplish tinted windows. The Mark V has been working since 1986. Don’t ask me what the Mark VI is.

Here it is running. Zoooooom.

I love the Disneyland handstamp. It smells like lemons. I keep smelling it like it’s crack. And that says “TIGGER” for your information.

Most of the time, the power goes out for a couple minutes, so I saw there, waiting to hear the whire of electricity come back again. Which brings me to point out another observation. When the power goes out, you can hear the electricity shutting down. Whenever I hear that, I wonder “what on earth was on before that would make such a sound (or the sound of the lack of it), and why is there a sound at all that you can hear the lack of electricity seeping into the wires?” It’s an eerie whiiiiiiiirrrrrrr…..descending tone..

So, I sat there, wondering what to do. I surely didn’t really want to study too much on my Saturday. I wanted to check how big the outage one.

“Crap I can’t get on the internet”

“Maybe I’ll go swimming. But I need a swim cap. Why is my swim cap so tight on me head? I need to research this online.”

“Crap I can’t get on the internet”

“…if only my PSP had battery…then I could…….crap my router isn’t even on, duh”

I ended up grabbing a Harry Potter book. The 6th one, because I was on it a couple weeks ago. But rereading it just isn’t the same.

Yes, it’s true. A capital. Wow. We don’t capitalize the word “animals” but we do capitalize Pokemon. And this word is also misspelled without the accent, I’ll have you know.

Important discovery tonight.

Yes, indeed.

At that time I couldn’t find any direct rumors about it, but in the next day engadget finally posted it (or I read it the next day) and posted the links to their past posts. It looks so pretty…

So it’s Monday and I called my local sonystyle (I am so fortunate to have one near me!) and I asked if they were unveiling new notebooks at the store today.

Her: Yes, we’re revealing the new notebooks but not all of them…can I put you on hold?

…………………….

Her: Yes we are revealing the notebooks.

Me: You said that you didn’t have all of them, what does that mean?

Her: Oh, we only have one of the shipments in and the other two will be in tomorrow.

Me: Oh okay…what is the one shipment that got in?

Her: Um…..hold on…

………………………….

Her: We aren’t authorized to say what models we have…but, another shipment just came in so we will have all three today.

Me: Oh…okay..well..in general, which model line is cheaper? The SR or the Z?

Her: Um…..we’re not allowed to talk about the pricing of models…

Me: ^________________________^

I’m excited for the 13 inchers…but the widescreen is the more expensive one I think. Gosh…and just a few days ago I was going to settle for the inexpensive do basic stuff small and light notebooks like the MSI Wind. <: (

“…are you kidding?”

I guess I do seem the type…I wouldn’t do that to my DS. I put unharmful sticker covers on mine.

Anyway, here are the unboxing pictures because I do love a good unboxing!

The sleeve comes off…

Lift the lid and slide the stand out!

Cleanly packed tight. 1 xl leather covered ear hook. 2 rubber + metal tipped ear hooks of 2 sizes. 2 different sized ear plugs.

Cute pull-out flap! The charger is magnetic so it snaps into place onto the charging spot on the earphone. You don’t have to worry about it unplugging near the site. Also comes with a USB wall charger! Score…at first I think I could maybe use this with other usb peripherals…but…after researching it’s probably best not to mix things up because it might break them @_@.

Maybe I’ll just brush a little of my clear + gold flaked nail polish on…^_^,.

The new Jawbones are pretty hot. They also have some neato noice cancelling system too. Droolz.

Apparently, if you get a ticket for using your cell-phone with your hands (which is against the law now starting July 1, 2008), then you can get $20 off a new Jawbone purchase. What’s this? Reward for breaking the law? How about the people that haven’t broken the law and want to buy one? Fun promotion but pretty backwards to me. Someone have a ticket they want to share with me?

I saw this movie last Friday. It was amazingly great. I loved it! It’s almost as good as my Pixar favorite, Finding Nemo. Actually, there are so many good Pixar movies that it’s really hard to choose a favorite. I don’t really know why I choose Finding Nemo over the others. Maybe because it’s in the ocean and has a great soundtrack (but so does A Bug’s Life). I love the Finding Nemo ride at Disneyland too! Omg, best new ride Disneyland has had since Indiana Jones. No kid. None of those stupid new dark rides they have now with no ingenuity. If I want to ride a dark ride, I’ll go on a classic, not one about hollywood with cardboard cut-outs.

Anyhow…this wasn’t meant to be a rant about Disneyland. hehe.

This movie makes you love older technology and drool over new technology as well. Wall-E is a loveable machine that brings a new perspective about the things we take for granted around us. Wall-E’s love, EVE, is a spicy character, reminiscent of Angelina Jolie. The movie has a message, maybe two or three, about wastefulness, love, and the growing inability to tear our eyes away from our glowing lcd screens.

Oh, and this movie made me cry. You know a movie is good when it makes me cry!

omgomgomgomg…the demo is finally out for PS3! I’ve been waiting and waiting for this game…and I was hoping a demo to be out…and it is! Yay! I haven’t picked the similar game up for PSP yet, but I loved the Open Tee 1 that came out when the PSP first came out. New outfits and characters…totally for me @_@. I’m holding off on getting new PSP games because I haven’t finished Crisis Core yet…I’m there right before going to Nibelheim and we know what’s going to go down there.

So after shopping at many stores and department stores, I found nice ones but there were not perfect enough. Either too old style looking, or had something missing that I needed…had one good thing but a bad thing also…

I’m kind of picky because I want a nice wallet, not just some wallet I can use.

So…I decided I’m going to try to make my own. <: x

This is my mock-up. I have tons of ideas. You know what it’s almost like? It’s like adding on plug-ins to something that works great, but could use a little more.

The front. Not too big. I’ll add a clasp later on. I’m thinking envelope style!

You can see some notes here. The window will be a clear plastic. The sides of the credit card part are going to be large elastic cloth, not regular cloth. That way, the material will expand to the number of credit cards it contains. The base is also removable if I don’t need that many cards a certain night and I want to reduce the bulk.

This is something I’ve always wanted to make for myself. I’ve seen this in a few special wallets, and more recently in the Betsey Johnson wallets. So much space! The closure will be the button and string kind, like those kinds folders. You can see the drawing on the previous picture. Maybe fake button and string (with actual velcro or snap closure), depending how fastened it will stay. I’m going to have to experiment with it, but that detailing is going to be super cute. I haven’t seen it on any wallets (and maybe there is a reason for it @_@).

And the cash.

I’m so poor!

Yeah…I’ll probably keep looking at it…adding a strap here, attachable panel using zipper sounds interesting right? …or…usb thumb drive pocket…

I was at the mall a couple days ago and I saw the little promotion Apple is having. Buy a computer and get an ipod free! (Rebate of $299). Apple is unique that they can do things like this easily. It is enticing, isn’t it?

So I thought to myself…hmm….what would it be like if I actually got a little apple notebook…

and suddenly, it dawned on me

I would be the evil stepmother of the Mac.

Do your work and I’ll hide you under my bed when you’re done. And I’ll focus on all your faults. And never give you credit. And don’t forget the garden. Then scrub the terrace, sweep the halls and the stairs, clean the chimney. And of course there’s the mending and the sewing and the laundry… Oh yes and one more thing, see that Lucifer gets his bath.

Well…at least I recognize that Cinderella is really pretty. Heh.

My little Mac-ella.

Anyhow, I’m not in a real need for a new lappy. My ultra-light (ultra-light by standards 4 years ago) Fujitsu is working fine, just that the reformat cds that came with it aren’t working. If I gave it a fresh reformat it would work better. Honestly I don’t have to travel that much and use a notebook. So I’m okay for another year. Next year…I should be looking at a new notebook with a bit more brains though. 512mb of memory doesn’t cut it!

P.S. The title of this post is from the movie, Cinderella. It was made in 1950. 1950!? I can’t believe such an old movie still gets played so much and shown to kids every generation.