I have very specific visions of how I want to use my gadgets. They should be easy to take with me and easy to keep track of. That’s not often easy with a bag.

I’ve thought about finding a jacket and sewing a pocket into it large enough to store a netbook. I’ve thought about cutting into old jackets so I could run headphones from a breast pocket up to the collar through the inside of the jacket, so I didn’t have to mess with the cord getting in my way, or not being able to find the inside of my ear buds.

So I just saw this article on The Consumerist. About a vest with a pocket inside that the iPad could fit inside. That alone piqued my interest.

So I wandered over to SeV, aka SCOTTEVEST’s website. They don’t just have vests, they have full line of clothes–jackets, shirts, pants, etc. The vests and jackets I looked at have big, (iPad-sized) pockets and lost of smaller pockets for other things.

Wow, ever since I heard about the T101MT, I sure have been blogging about it a lot. Well that’ll change soon because…well…I got a T91MT. In a round-about fashion I won one. I should have it in my grubby little hands leaving disgusting fingerprints all over it’s glossy finish as you’re reading this, even though I don’t have it yet. You see, I wrote this bit Friday night, to be posted over the weekend while I’m on a little trip in recognition of Easter (I take the Easter Bunny’s crucifixion and subsequent rise very seriously).

I had my choice of a few netbooks, and I could have waited a bit for the for T101MT, but I didn’t. Why not? Let’s compare:

I posted an article about the T101MT earlier today. I forgot a few things:

-Interestingly, the T91MT got crap publicity and the T101MT is getting quite a lot. Can you guess why? Most articles mentioning it are speculatively comparing it to the iPad. Tech bloggers love talking about the iPad.

-Lots of these people are confused as to whether or not the T101MT has a resistive (pressure-sensitive) or a capacitive (detects human touch) touch screen. One site even said it has a “capacitive resistive” touch screen. I’m pretty sure this confusion comes out of the T101MT being multi-touch. You can have resistive multi-touch, people!!! It’s not even that uncommon. The more recent Toshiba Gigabytes, the Viliv S10 Blade, and the Asus T91MT all have resistive multi-touch screens.

Capacitive screens tend to be more responsive and take a much lighter touch than resistive screens. On the other hand, capacitive styluses aren’t that great, and if you want to do any “inking” you’d want an active digitizer first (like a Wacom pad built into the screen), but after that the next (and far cheaper) choice would probably be a resistive touch screen.

Just wanted to tack on those additional observations,

Lark

I’m a fairly new user of Google Alerts, the service that sends you a notice when they come across a word of phrase you’ve specified.

Right now my alerts are all for gadgets. I have an alert for the Notion Ink Adam hoping to hear a solid US release date and price. I had an alert on the Viliv S10 Blade until it’s pricing and features were finally released. I also have an alert on the Asus T101MT, the 10″ version of the Asus T91MT netvertible.

I had an alert set up before the T101MT was released in some European country (can’t remember, and it doesn’t really matter which), and that press release certainly triggered a flood of alerts being sent to me. The release said that the T101MT would be released in the US in April. The first big tech blogs to remark on the upcoming April release have stated that the European version is selling for 499 euro, about $675 USD, but they’re speculating that the price in the US, when it’s released, will actually be about 500 USD.

Anyone who has set up a Google Alert to follow a new gadget or device has probably realized there are two (probably more) different kinds of posts. You know what, I’ll say three kinds of posts: