Vmax, the company that owns Magic Jack has announced that a new version of Magic Jack will be coming out in about 4 months. The new Magic Jack will cost the same as the old one did, about $20 if ordered directly from Magic Jack and about $40 if purchased through Wal-Mart or other retail outlets. The new Magic Jack will work with cell phones and will instantly connect with any cell phone that comes within range which is about 150 feet. It will then connect the cellphone to the internet just as Magic Jack now does for regular types of phones, by passing your regular carrier such as T-Mobil or Att~T or whichever carrier you are using and route your call through the internet instead of through your regular carrier. The range is sufficient to cover a 3,000 square ft home. Needless to say, the cellphone carriers are quite upset by this and are trying to get the FCC to declare them illegal but so far the FCC has declined to make any ruling on the matter. We will know how it all comes out by about March or April and whether the new device will be allowed or not. If the FTC does not rule in time the devices will be marketed and hopefully on the announced time schedule. While we are on the topic of new devices, I just bought a new device that projects digital video to a TV or VCR or camcorder or Digital VCR. It has 2 USB ports, an HDMI port, and a cat5 port allowing it to connect to a network. That means I can record digital video and watch it on any TV. Projecting it on to a big screen TV sure beats the old projectors because you don't have to shut out the lights to see it. Another advantage is it's small size, only 1 1/2 inches high and 3" wide by 4" long. It will accomodate 2 hard drives of any size. A pair of 2.2 terrabyte drives can store hundreds of hours of video. I also have a computer video card that lets me watch TV or digital video on a computer. It will record any TV show or video and save it to a hard drive. With that set up I can record video to an external hard drive and then plug it into the projector and take it anywhere such as to a seminar. A 27" flat screen TV is easily viewable in most conference rooms and some have really big screen TVs. I did a show last week on a board room TV screen that was 8 foot by 10 foot. That's really big.
