Mar
13
2008
DirecTV Video-On-Demand to Be Half Satellite, Half World wide web Next Quarter [
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According to the Wall Street Journal, DirecTV is testing a new video-on-demand service that depends on both the customers’ satellite dish and their internet connection. To be launched in the second quarter, the service will use the satellite to send a limited number of movies to store in all DirecTV DVRs, for instant on-demand playback, while the rest of the movie catalog will be available not-so-instantly using regular ground-based broadband. Movies like Kevin Costner’s Waterworld will be sent on VHS tapes via regular mail from DirecTV’s office in Madagascar. [WSJ]
The Wi-Fi-enabled BlackBerry Pearl, which was previously 
Ten years of vocal training is a high price to pay just to carry out the celebration trick of being able to shatter a glass with your yelps, but what if we told you that you could do the same thing with a gadget? All you have to do is take a glass, set it in front of an amp+mic system, and manage to match your singing to the resonance frequency of the glass. Once you do, you’ll be out $1.95 and your friends will be briefly amused. Of course, if you wanted to do it the old-fashioned way, it’ll be even more impressive. [
Design student Alvin Aronson has rethought our interaction with digital timepieces by making a robotic LED/LCD display, with parts that slide in and out to form numerals. So, really its more a “physical digital” clock, rather than properly analog, but you get the point. Once you see the video of it gently transitioning its display between two time says, you’ll be just as filled with gadget lust as we’re.
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