Eli Manning’s automagical condo (3)
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Say hey, that’s New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning, also known as my new fantasy football quarterback since about halfway in to the first quarter of the Patriots-Chiefs game when Tom Brady’s leg exploded along with my dreams of a good season. Anyway, Electronic House has an interesting piece on Eli’s New Jersey condo. It’s apparently an exercise in automated simplicity, as most of the gadgets and doodads are controlled via a customized interface that ...
Augmented Reality? The Tuttuki Bako box needs your finger to play with virtual characters (5)
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Who needs Augmented Reality Cybermaid Alice? Bandai Japan plans to release a palm-size cube in the middle of next month that lets you stick your finger into it to interact with the beings and things contained in the box. The so-called Tuttuki Bako, Tuttuki Box, features a display that shows a digital replica of your finger once you put it into the hole in the right side of the device and start moving. Users can ...
Chumby now supports Pandora Radio (12)
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A recent update to the net-connected Chumby device adds Pandora Radio as an option under the Music menu. Check out the above video for a quick demonstration of everything. It’s pretty straightforward – you’ll need to reboot your Chumby to get it to show up initially but once that’s done, you’ll find the Pandora option amongst the other available music sources. Then, simply enter your Pandora username and password and you’ll have access to your ...
Design for Ageing (1)
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One of the workshops I was involved in at Summer Davos was on ageing. I was quite shocked by some of the data that the World Economic Forum had printed in a report that was released at the session. While I was well aware that the western nations, along with Japan, are experiencing a rapid ageing of the workforce, I had not appreciated the actual figures. The number of working age people supporting those over ...
MySpace Music Streamed Its Billionth Song “A Few Days” After Launch (13)
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It took iTunes nearly three years to get to 1 billion song downloads. MySpace Music streamed a billion songs in just a few days after it launched on September 25. And while this isn’t a fair comparison (songs on MySpace are free to stream; on iTunes users were paying $0.99 each), it’s an incredible milestone. What MySpace won’t say for some reason is what the billionth song was, or when exactly it was streamed (which ...
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Devlin D said:
Holy freaking crap that is a lot of ads displayed!
Facebook Co-Founder Departs To Build "Productivity Suite" (43)
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Rumors started to leak earlier today that Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz (right) and colleague Justin Rosenstein were leaving to start their own company. Facebook has since confirmed the rumor to us with a simple quote from Mark Zuckerberg: “Dustin has always had Facebook’s best interests at heart and will always be someone I turn to for advice.” Fortunately, Rosenstein (who formerly worked at Google as product manager of Google Page Creator) has posted more information ...
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Chip R said:
Facebook in the corporate software market actually scares me.
CBS Testing Social Viewing Room: Watch Stuff With Strangers And Talk During The Show (27)
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CBS Labs, which has been testing new HD streaming products, has also rolled out a labs version of a new product called Social Viewing Room. The idea is that you show up to the site, pick a show that’s on right now, and watch it with your friends or whoever is there. You can comment, LOL or take quizzes for points. The link is live, but I’m not able to see any actual shows going ...
Totilo gropes the PS3 keypad, reveals nothing (1)
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Stephen Totilo of MTV Multiplayer fame had himself a fancy hands-on session with the PS3 keypad today and this is what he had to say about it. I pretend-typed some messages using the device, but I did not have time to input anything into the PS3. Like the 360 keypad, the PS3 add-on is designed to ease console user’s efforts to input messages and passwords. The add-on was light, adding no significant weight to the ...
Forget Vista: 10 OSes That Could Change Your World (18)
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One interesting thing about the software world, I find, is that there is a trickle-up system for innovation. Things like live searches, better task bars, and the much-debated widget/gadget/dashboard idea often have had their seeds in smaller OSes or pieces of software. Designers will find a way to work something in their program that others may be able to adapt to something bigger, and thus the snowball begins to grow. Some of the OSes (perhaps ...
XKCD raptor attack simulator (3)
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Deeply geeky. As if the nerdy humor and nerdier meta-humor of XKCD weren’t enough, this enterprising coder (apparently with a little too much time on his hands) created an interactive simulation of the raptor attack scenario brought up here and solved here. It takes a little imagination for those squares to look like raptors — although it’s not a stretch for yourself … oh, burn! It ain’t exactly new or groundbreaking, but hey, it’s Friday. ...
Unbelievably sweet $12,000 all-carbon-fiber road bike (7)
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I was just saying yesterday how my bike could probably use an upgrade — This seems like a logical step up. At $12,000 (and that’s before you customize it), the Ascend and its country cousin the Arantix aren’t really bargains, but at 1.8 pounds(frame only, that is), it’d be like riding a cloud around. The unorthodox “Isotruss” lattice style of woven carbon fiber obviously has less mass, but as the material is stronger than steel, ...
Neuros releases demo video showing chat room superimposed over live TV (1)
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The Neuros set-top box is an open device allowing anyone to modify it anyway they see fit. One example is demonstrated above that I’m wondering if it’s more of an annoyance than anything else. Granted, maybe it’s the source material, ’cause a group TV chat would have been great back in Lost’s heyday. Now that the latest from Neuros is shipping, we should see more of these apps. All I want is an RSS feed ...
Pulse Laser: Infinite Zoom into Milk (5)
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In 1977 Charles and Ray Eames made a documentary film called Powers of Ten. The second half of the film includes a slow zoom into a man’s hand, right the way through cells and molecules all the way down to an atomic structure. It’s extraordinarily engaging, beginning at a familiar human context, and visualising something desperately distant and unknowable. About a year ago James King brought a book to my attention from a series called ...
Draganflyer: your personal six-rotor UAV (1)
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While I personally am a fan of micro-dirigibles as opposed to the (IMHO) wasteful helicopter-type UAVs, this is certainly an awesome version of the latter. Its multi-rotor setup enables some serious agility, as you can see in the videos. If you’re filming, you might need some serious image stabilization, although it’s easily good enough for recon or aerial photography. There are several cool mounts for popular camera form factors, and I’m sure with a little ...
Facebook Recruits Street Troops To Grow in Germany (9)
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Facebook may be the world’s largest and fastest growing social network, but apparently Germany remains a tough market to crack for the company. The site is just ranked 19th on Alexa’s Top 100 list for this country, ten positions behind StudiVZ, its local clone. While Facebook currently has a German user base of 800,000 (according to the site’s ad placement tool), StudiVZ boasts a membership of over 10 million, making it the largest social network ...
MySpace Music Puts The Industry On The Right Track (16)
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I’ve spent the last few hours this morning using the new MySpace Music product - searching for music, adding it to playlists and my profile, and listening. It’s far from perfect (more on that below). But MySpace has done something incredible at a big picture level: they’ve created both a compelling music experience for users as well as a realistic, long term business model for labels and artists in a world where recorded music moves ...
paiTouch: Virtual boob simulator for the iPhone (1)
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Although the iPhone didn’t turn out to be a superhit in Japan, some local programmers have come up with interesting ideas for the device in the last months, i.e. to use it as a futuristic tagging and information terminal. Now anonymous Japanese blogger technohippy [JP] (who just calls himself an oppai enjinia - boob engineer) comes up with paiTouch (boobTouch), a breast simulation for the iPhone. Technohippy already released his simulation as a Google gadget ...
Letseat.at Makes It Easy For Restaurants to Serve Up Their Own Websites (10)
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Sometimes the same old restaurants get old and you want to find something new. It’s easy to do some research in big cities with the help of CitySearch and Yelp, and even easier to find websites for larger restaurants like The Cheesecake Factory to help you figure out if the food selection is what you’re looking for. But what about those smaller, family-owned restaurants that get lost in the shuffle because they don’t have a ...
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Uno de esos sitiecillos pa' copiar y adaptar al merca'o suena bien de vdd.
Tiny keyboard with retractable USB cord (1)
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Either this hand model has some serious glandular issues or that, my friends, is a tiny keyboard. The aptly-named “Super Tiny Keyboard” from Brando is probably aimed at keyboard-less UMPC owners? Maybe for in-car PCs? Whatever the case, it’s got a USB zip-cord, so whatever device you plug it into will have to have a working USB port – so cell phones and PDAs are out. Actual dimensions are 6.7 x 2.9 x 0.6 inches. ...
Leading Widget Platform Widgetbox Launches Blog Network (2)
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Widgetbox, one of the web’s largest widget creation and distribution platforms, is launching a new blog network and becoming a destination site in the process. Widgetbox’s homepage will now feature 29 blog channels ranging from parenting to technology. Each channel will include a lists of the most active stories in the network, as well as a leaderboard rewarding the most prolific and popular writers. Leaderboards use a normalized acceleration algorithm to ensure that content from ...
