A proper skydiving Midsummer pole.

A Midsummer Day with out any Midsummer songs can’t be accepted, that’s why Daniel
was in charge for the singing.

After have been eating good food, taking something to drink and singing some snaps songs
we needed to do something else  – Why not Paragliding after a car

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Man it has been a very long time since I were in NYC. I really miss the culture, the architecture, the city, the people and talking English (Yeah I really love the English language).
Last time I were in New York I was visiting my two brothers who live there (well one of my brothers moved back to Norway after have been living and working in NYC for a very long time). That was my very first time visiting the US (… yeeeah, that’s true )

Wow – The City is amazing – Since I live in Sweden I could only imagine how New York was like. You know when you are watching a New York Maffia or Action movie you get the idea that the city will be full of criminals and you will get robbed as soon as you just touch the sidewalk with your foot that is actually not your foot but it could been your foot and now when you have stepped on the ground with your foot which is now dirty,… but didn’t I say that it wasn’t your foot…?

Sorry guys, got a bit carried away there for a sec

This is what happens when you are tired and beaten up by all the pollen that is in the air.

Ok, back to the subject. One thing that hit me was all the cars. Why in the H*** do people have cars? The city is almost undrivable. People who have cars practically runs down in the morning and literally jumping into the car, put the pedal to the metal and races to work, hoping that they don’t get stuck in the traffic jams which is a normal phenomenon in New York City .

There I stood, in one of the world’s most amazing cities together with my uncle and two brothers, so what did we do?
One thing that had to be done was to take a ride in a Yellow cab, you know the famous yellow cabs that you always see in a typical New York movie. We did probably one of the longest city walks of all time, starting from a area called Dumbo. We walked on the Brooklyn bridge (which is a very good looking bridge btw!) and straight into Manhattan, did a tour through China Town, took a picnic in Central Park, visited the awesomest store in the entire NYC, the B&H PhotoVideo Store. B&H, the mekka for all the photo/video/tech fanatics. It takes at least one whole day to go through all the stuff that B&H are selling in the store, that’s one place you must visit when you are in NYC.

I really looking forward to the next trip to the US, maybe I’ll even do a road trip on the West side of the country.

I’ll update this post with more pictures, hopefully tomorrow.

To not miss this amazing event I went to twit.tv which is hosted by Leo Laporte.
Leo runs many different high quality podcasts with the main theme: Technology.

I’ll mention some of the shows he is hosting: Security Now with Steve Gibson, This Week in Tech with friends, The GizWiz with Dick DeBartolo (from MAD Magazine), etc. Leo and his crew covered almost the entire CES 2010 Event (and yes I said almost, because there was many halls and floors and each hall was several football fields large, over 20’000 exhibitors and approximately 150’000 people). Yeah Baby that Event was INSANE I tell ya!

Ok, enough chit chatting and bring in the list.
This list is my personal opinion of the gadgets and hightech gizmoz I really like (and some of them will I probably buy when they will get released) and I saw from the event via Live streams and articles from engadget and several other sites as well.

1. Boxee Box

Boxee is a multimedia software which is developed so you can enjoy entertainment from the Internet and your computer on the tv.
Boxee is developed from the open source project xbmc.
During the CES 2010 event in Las Vegas Boxee announced the Boxee Box which is a Boxee in a hardware solution instead of software+pc/mac that you needed before.

With it’s cool design of a cube going through the table and a good price tag 150-200$ this will be a awesome product… and I’m going to buy one

2. Nexus One aka Google Phone

The Nexus One Googles first mobile phone. People have talked about it, people have waited for it, people have drooled after it and now it’s here, ok only in the US so far.

I’m not sure if I’m going to buy it because it’s the first phone from google and my experience with newly released devices is that it will have some sort of children’s disease. We’ll just have to wait and see what the public will tell to the world about this new phone.

In the end I really like this phone for it’s speed, sleekness and what engineers have done to it (what I’ve seen and heard). Hopefully in the future the Google phone will be a strong competitor to Apples iPhone.

3. Ford SYNC (MyFord and MyFord Touch)

Ford were the keynote during CES 2010 at Las Vegas Convention Center. Introducing their new technology Ford SYNC or the new name (what I’ve heard) MyFord and MyFord Touch.
SYNC is a ease-to-use car connectivity/communication system, you can operate popular features as the MP3-player, Bluetooth and USB drives with a simple voice command.

SYNC include features as:
* Hands-free Calling
*911 Assist
*Music Search
*Vehicle Health Report
*News, Sports and Weather Forcasts
*Real-time Traffic
*Turn-by-Turn Navigation and much more.
To get more info about this amazing product you can visit SyncMyRide.com.

4. Panasonic 152″ 4K3D Plasma TV

A another product that was very popular among the companies was 3D technology. LG, Samsung, Panasonic, JVC, Sharp, Sony, Philips and many more.
Two Tv:s stood out from the rest. The first one is Panasonics monserous 152″ 4K 3D Plasma Tv, 152″! 4K! Insane I’ll tell ya.
The second thing that stood at the CES 2010 Event was the worlds thinnest LED-backlit LCD from LG, were a talking about amazing 6,9 mm thin.

All I can say is WOW.

5. Eye-Fi 802.11n Pro X2

The Eye-Fi have been around for a while, but during the CES event they announced a updated version, the Eye-Fi 802.11n Pro X2. This card will only be sold in 8GB sizes and is a Class 6 card which means more speed.

The idea behind the Eye-Fi is that while out shooting for example and you are near a WiFi-hotspot the card will upload its contents to a specified ftp or storage center and delete the content after it has been uploaded successfully.

I had one problem though and that was getting the tickets, one for me and one for my sister. It was sold out everywhere, I checked via the Internet at the different cinemas here in the city but no luck so far. It was in that brief of moment I thought to myself that I need to check again and with a bright light (you know that special “from the heaven light”, yeah that one ) appearing from the screen and there they was, two seats to Avatar 3D almost middle row and middle column, it couldn’t be more perfect than that.

I was so stunned afterwards, the story, the characters, the enviorment, the 3D effect (which was the first time for me), bahh I wish it was reality =).
I can tell you that I still haven’t recoverd from that night.

This last rows are to those who haven’t seen the move yet: GET YOUR BUTT OF THE CHAIR AND GO SEE AVARTAR or AVATAR 3D!

Cheers!