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UPDATE 5/12/10: The Evo will go on sale on June 4th and will cost $199.99 with a contract.  4G access will run you an additional $10/mo and the ability to act as a mobile hotspot will be an additional $29.99/mo. Original Post: OK, Sprint has tried to kill the iPhone several times. The Instinct, the Palm Pre, the HTC Hero, and now the HTC Evo, the first phone in America to run on a 4G network.  But, something tells me that they may have actually pulled it off, this time.

In July of 2009, Ghost Inc. launched g.ho.st , a beta cloud computing site for the public.  For those who don't know; cloud computing is the collaboration of multiple computers that share resources, but provide a seamless operation for the end user.  What was interesting about g.ho.st was that it offered the end user a "virtual desktop computer" that they could access from any computer with web access.  Essentially, you would login to their website and gain access to your own personal desktop where you could access your files, or run web-based applications, etc.

So, when we last spoke, I was kind of hard on society for failing to provide us with our flying cars. Well, it turns out that Martin Aircraft Company Limited is launching the Martin Jetpack as a commercially available device, this year. The device will run on regular gasoline, so no worries about purchasing jet fuel. It will travel about 31.5 miles at an impressive 63 MPH. Apparently, it may be possible for the device to travel faster than that, but FAA regulations required that Ultralight Aircraft travel at a speed of 63 MPH or slower. The device is also capable of reaching an estimated altitude of 8,000 ft.

We have all been exposed to some science fiction vision of the future that promises us the ability to pop up a video screen and speak effortlessly towards it as if we were having a face-to-face discussion. Usually, this future reality is accompanied by autonomous robots and flying cars. I had to ask myself, are we really that far away from this future that we have envisioned for ourselves? So, today I installed Skype onto my computer for the third time. If you are not up to speed on Skype, it's essentially a souped up Instant Messenger. It's souped up because it allows you to also place free "phone" calls to other Skype users. Or, if you feel so inclined, you can pay a bit extra and place real "phone" calls to landlines. But, where Skype differs most from your standard home phone is that if you have a web cam attached to your computer, you can also place video calls to other Skype users. It is this function that has brought me back to Skype for the third...