SCC- Part 6 Wolverine

By Bayle Emlein

Matt Mardini reviewed the history of Wolverine. Despite the name, Wolverine has nothing to do with work boots and is located in Southern California.

Around the year 2000 Wolverine Data decided to get out of the computer hardware business. They looked around at what was going on and noticed that many people have decades of film, photos, negatives, and slides that had collected since Kodak invented 35mm film. The move to digital preserves pictures, without the deterioration that lowers paper and acetate quality. The problem at the time was that all the transfer technology was painfully slow.  

The Wolverine F2D converts slides and negatives quickly. A computer is not necessary, though the F2D can be used to display directly onto a computer or TV. Converted pictures can be saved to the F2D or to an SD card that you can move to a computer or other devices for displaying if you want.

The Wolverine Snap 14 box does the same for photographs. In the process of demonstrating the transfer process, Matt learned a lot about using Picasa to annotate his pictures. It also includes the possibility for cleaning up blemishes in old pictures. There is other free software for editing and enhancing digital photos.

On a completely different note, the Btunes wireless bluetooth speaker system lets you listen to your music anywhere. They have a range of 100 feet in open air and battery life for 10 hours of listening. It has a built-in speaker so it can be used to put your cell-phone into a really audible speaker phone system.