I lost quite a bit of this video but here’s a look at GestureTek’s EyeMobile system that uses a phone’s camera to create a gesture-based experience for maps and games. It worked really well and could be a way to add interesting interactivity features without adding an accelerometer to the package. Product Page ShareThis
I lost quite a bit of this video but here’s a look at GestureTek’s EyeMobile system that uses a phone’s camera to create a gesture-based experience for maps and games. It worked really well and could be a way to add interesting interactivity features without adding an accelerometer to the package.
As well as showing high-techcellphones at MWC 2008, Nokia also demoed their green tech concept, the “Remade.” The clamshell phone has an outer shell made from recycled aluminum cans, a chassis made of plastic from drink bottles and rubber parts made from old car tires. Even its screen and circuit board use techniques like printed electronics to minimize environmental impact. Vincent from Phonemag got some hands-on time and shot a video—find it below the gallery.
Although it’s a very appealing design, the Remade is just a non-functioning concept. There is, however, nothing to cease its ideas being used by the world’s handset manufacturers. [Phonemag]
Vanessa of DVice has a video up of her learning how to use these crazy jumping stilts with the people who are selling them. The stilts are definitely cool and let you get a little bit more jump than man was intended to, but things get a little tricky when you fast forward to about halfway through the video when one of the guys decides to get cocky and race a guy on a bike. Things go well at first (the stilts guy takes a head start), but he eats it hard when one of his goatman-like stilts hits a leaf. He’s OK, but it shows that these jumping stilts have a tiny ways to go. [DVice]
This news is slightly bittersweet for me, since I just switched to Adobe Lightroom last week, mainly due to the unbelievably sluggish performance of Aperture with even my modest library of images. Now, I don’t want to get into the usual debate over whether all of Apple’s “features” — of which there were 300 in Leopard […]
This news is slightly bittersweet for me, since I just switched to Adobe Lightroom last week, mainly due to the unbelievably sluggish performance of Aperture with even my modest library of images.
Now, I don’t want to get into the usual debate over whether all of Apple’s “features” — of which there were 300 in Leopard and now 100 in just this one program — are really significant enough to be considered as such. At least, I wouldn’t want to if Apple didn’t bill these 100 features as not only new but “dramatic.” The drama must be why they’re charging you $99 to upgrade the program you already paid for, and which was so inadequate they had to release this new version after they got leapfrogged by Adobe. Honestly, a lot of these “features” are things that should have been there in the first place, like variable zoom levels for the loupe or being able to customize keyboard shortcuts. Aperture is now looking like the best choice for RAW management, but I’m not thrilled at having to shell out for Apple’s initial sloppiness. Press Release [Apple]
These Microsoft logo mashups are getting out of hand. Om Malik puts the Om in GigaOM so when he says, “The deal’s big sticker price is intriguing — leading me to believe that Microsoft wants to pull an Xbox on its mobile phone business,” I hit the lever on my office chair that makes it so […]
These Microsoft logo mashups are getting out of hand.
Om Malik puts the Om in GigaOM so when he says, “The deal’s big sticker price is intriguing — leading me to believe that Microsoft wants to pull an Xbox on its mobile phone business,” I hit the lever on my office chair that makes it so it stays in the upright position, allowing me to give those words my full attention.
So as Windows Mobile is aimed in the general direction of business users, Microsoft might just be looking to create a device for the gamers and hipsters that want a fun phone. Om says,
Having realized that its traditional approach is going to relegate it to business market, Microsoft is taking a non-Microsoft tact, just like it did in the gaming console business. The reason for this deal is more than just acquiring “consumer expertise,” as the company kept repeating yesterday. Danger’s software-as-a-service technology can offer “Microsoft Services” such as Search, Windows Live Mail and Messenger on the Danger platform, using it to compete with Google Android.
This is a bold move and what better way to compete with Android than nabbing the company that Android developer Andy Rubin helped build?
Mechanic Darren Nixon recently got a rude awakening when he was arrested at gunpoint because a bystander and a team of British police both mistook his 4GB Phillps MP3 player for a pistol. Amazingly enough, the ordeal wasn’t cleared up with a easy “It’s an MP3 player stupid”—in fact, Nixon was taken back to HQ, swabbed for DNA, fingerprinted, and thrown into a cell based on suspicion. Naturally, the whole ordeal has left Nixon shaken and disillusioned with his local police force. Hey, at least he didn’t get shot. Update: Additional photo after the break.
As well as showing 
Vanessa of DVice has a video up of her learning how to use these crazy jumping stilts with the people who are selling them. The stilts are definitely cool and let you get a little bit more jump than man was intended to, but things get a little tricky when you fast forward to about halfway through the video when one of the guys decides to get cocky and race a guy on a bike. Things go well at first (the stilts guy takes a head start), but he eats it hard when one of his goatman-like stilts hits a leaf. He’s OK, but it shows that these jumping stilts have a tiny ways to go. [
Mechanic Darren Nixon recently got a rude awakening when he was arrested at gunpoint because a bystander and a team of British police both mistook his 4GB Phillps MP3 player for a pistol. Amazingly enough, the ordeal wasn’t cleared up with a easy “It’s an MP3 player stupid”—in fact, Nixon was taken back to HQ, swabbed for DNA, fingerprinted, and thrown into a cell based on suspicion. Naturally, the whole ordeal has left Nixon shaken and disillusioned with his local police force. Hey, at least he didn’t get shot. Update: Additional photo after the break.
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