Seriously. This is one OS — found on the F480 — I saw at MWC that could even be considered a competitor to the iPhone. Compared to this, the X1 looks like it was designed by a committee of narcoleptics. Samsung TouchWiz & F480 [PhoneScoop] ShareThis

Seriously. This is one OS — found on the F480 — I saw at MWC that could even be considered a competitor to the iPhone. Compared to this, the X1 looks care about it was designed by a committee of narcoleptics.

Samsung TouchWiz & F480 [PhoneScoop]

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Proof: It wasn’t a total sausage celebration. There was sausage, obviously, but it was chorizo. It has been said that there is no celebration like a CrunchGear celebration because a CrunchGear party never comes to an end. This, friends, was true about our strange little meet-up in a weird paella place near the Fira last […]

Proof: It was not a total sausage celebration. There was sausage, obviously, but it was chorizo.

It has been stated that there is no party like a CrunchGear celebration because a CrunchGear party never comes to an end. This, friends, was true about our strange little meet-up in a weird paella place near the Fira last Wednesday where I got to meet some cool entrepreneurs with actually interesting products and the venture capitalists who love them.

The event started inauspiciously. The original location I had found fell through at the absolute last minute and I sent everyone down the street to an odd place that I had lunch at the previous day. We trekked up to what was apparently once an attic and was now a hot, kind of tight upstairs dining room. We started the night off with beers and a local then ordered tapas for all. I wandered from attendee to attendee — more on them in future posts — and put some faces to the shining lights of Barcelona’s tech scene which is quite vibrant. No where have I seen anything quite like the products and projects some of the attendees are working on, which made me glad I got to meet some of these guys away from the show floor.

Thanks to everyone who showed up and please drop me a line with more information on your begin up for inclusion into MC, TC, or CG in the next week or so.

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LEDs are popping up in all sorts of home products these days. Now, I’m no interior designer, but I know that lighting can really make or break a space. With that in mind, here are 10 ways that anyone can utilize LEDs in their home (plus one way to outfit your wardrobe). And by anyone I mean people with eccentric tastes that don’t mind blinding headaches and pissing off their neighbors.

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Between iAno - the newly released iPhone app that turns your cellphone into a piano - and the earlier released PocketGuitar, which does much of the same but with a guitar, it is only a matter of time before we see the first iPhone band. That’ll be awesomely groundbreaking, and what we ask is that you send us the video. We’ll post it, we promise*. Back to the present, iAno installs on Jailbroken iPhones and offers a fully functioning multitouch piano, as you can see in the great video above. A four-octave keyboard is represented in iAno, and the arrow keys at the top are used to navigate around. The software was put together by a developer going by the name of Mr Aardvark, and he managed to pack in polyphonic sound that grant five key presses to be heard simultaneously. Sweet.

Mr Aardvark also plans on updating iAno with a complete 88-key keyboard, switchable sample sets, recording and playback, as well as support for loading .MID tracks. Well, what are you waiting for? Get composing.

*If it isn’t a steaming turdfest, and it involves a great tune selection, e.g. Bohemian Rhapsody. This isn’t legal advice—I’m not even an attorney. [Technabob]

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Hark! Someone over at NeoGAF.com spotted the above image on the official PlayStation website, hinting at the possibility of in-game XMB (Cross Media Bar) messaging. The text states, “Talk to others during game play, state hello anytime you’re online, or have a video chat with an Eye camera, USB Camera, or headset.” The image was […]

Hark! Someone over at NeoGAF.com spotted the above image on the official PlayStation website, hinting at the possibility of in-game XMB (Cross Media Bar) messaging. The text states, “Talk to others during game play, say hello anytime you’re online, or have a video chat with an Eye camera, USB Camera, or headset.” The image was pulled off the server rather quickly. So long and Godspeed, Lego-head avatars.

The general thought is that the feature will be officially announced at Sony’s Game Developers Conference next week in San Francisco. Members of the NeoGAF forum didn’t seem too uppity about it, as this feature’s been thought to have been on its way for some time now. We’ll hopefully know for sure next week.

PS3: Ingame XMB confirmed [NeoGAF] via PS3 Fanboy

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We suspected this, but now it’s clear that NVIDIA’s end game when it picked up PhysX-maker AGEIA was to integrate physics processors into graphics cards. Right now, they’re porting the PhysX engine over to run on GeForce 8s, and it’ll be a simple software download, bringing some additional physics-crunching juice to current cards. The next step is a GPU with an onboard specialized physics processor.

For one, AGEIA’s standalone PhysX cards haven’t really broken into the mainstream computing. Throwing their chips onto NVIDIA’s graphics cards would push adoption, and by Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang’s reasoning,

“encourage people to buy even superior GPUs. It might—and probably will—encourage people to purchase a second GPU for their SLI slot. And for the highest-end gamer, it will encourage them to purchase three GPUs. Potentially two for graphics and one for physics, or one for graphics and two for physics.”

So yeah, they’re definitely coming. [Tech Report via digg]

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Fernando Orellana and Brenda Burns have teamed up on a neat project, which involves a robot logging and re-enacting dreams of a human subject. Brainwave patterns and eye movements during dozing will be monitored, depending on what’s logged, the robot will alter its behavior accordingly. Sure, this isn’t dream enactment proper, but it is as close as we are going to get in the not too distant future. The robot, dubbed Sleep Waking, will function in two main ways. Jump for the video.

Its head will be controlled by the eye position of the subject, e.g. if you’re eyes are looking left, Sleep Waking will move its head to the left. The second behavioral control will rely on EEG information. Using an algorithm, the creators discovered a set of brainwave patterns, to each pattern a pre-programmed behavior was assigned. When a match is made with the EEG readout, Sleep Waking will carry out the designated action.

The creators hope that their work is seen as a vision of the future, where one’s dreams are able to be enacted accurately, and dream scenarios are recorded just as pics are now. It’s an interesting concept, and we want whatever Fernando and Brenda are drinking, but our dreams are most prone to get us into a whole lot of trouble. Some things are just best left inside the old brain chamber. Frankly, what we did to that elf woman/unicorn in our dream time would surely have us dumped for obvious reasons, fired for doing it whilst we should have been at dream work, arrested for violating bestiality laws and punched in the wiener because Mr Elf/Unicorn was thoroughly displeased in reality. Man, that dream was tripping. You can catch Sleep Waking on February 16th at the Exit Art exhibition. [We Make Money Not Art]

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