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Opinion: David Lynch on watching movies on mobile phones
The last days we have again got the whole shebang - mainstream media praising the great idea, the movie conglomerates already counting the money (but the writers still on strike), the yay-sayers on the gadgets megasites frolocking and the pilot fish bloggers on their sites joining in with the song…
But wait a minute! What is so great about watching a movie on a cigarette box size display that was originally created to be experienced on a silver screen hundred times bigger with professional sound equipment providing the surroundings…
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OLPC: Give One Get One
MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte’s “OLPC program” has started delivering the long awaited One Laptop Per Child computers in the US and Canada.
We have recently seen how greatly these small computers were received by children in Africa and how cleverly features have been designed into it. They create mash networks between them automatically so that children can communicate with each other, can change from color to B&W so that the display is still readable outside in bright sunlight and you can - a key feature in many countries for which this computer is intended - recharge its batteries without electricity from the grid. But most importantly we’ve seen the joy and fun the children had while using the XO laptops.
So this month until November 26, OLPC is offering a “Give One Get One program” in the United States and Canada. And it works like this…
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Images: IPhone Hacks
For those who can’t wait to get “their” Apple iPhone or if you just want to get a closer look - there is a “Flickr group” with hundreds of images of iPhone screen-shots and hacks.
Have a look…
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Gadgets: Night Reflective Tires
For US company “SweezSkinz” black tires were yesterday.
Their line of bicycle tyres (BMX, cruiser, mountains, kid) are colorful during the day and reflective through the night - combining safety with style. In difference to other add-on products the rubber of these tires itself is reflective.
Have a look at some of their “patterns” below. Upper row is day-view and lower row shows how the same tires look in the night…
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Gadgets: Segway Ferrari Edition
Still looking for the latest geeky present (for your son / daughter) and a Ferrari is out of reach…
Well how about this one: The Segway PT i2 Ferrari Limited Edition
Segway has together with the famous Italian car maker Ferrari created a special limited edition version of
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Fun: The HP Printer Hack finds new friends
Just wait a little while and then tell it to some other people - Works with jokes and seemingly still on “Digg.com”.
This time its the good old prank to change the display message on HP (and other printers) with a little program. But script kiddies wake up - no perl needed to do this as mentioned in the “latest version” of this joke. There is since long a “small .Net application” around that does the job even with a configuration window for your message…
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Electronic Paper: LG Philips demonstrates color A4-size E-Paper
LG Philips LCD, the world’s second largest liquid crystal display maker, has developed the first A4-sized color electronic-paper.
The flexible display panel which is 35.9cm across its diagonal and just 0.3 millimeters thin can display up to 4096 colors. The company says that the images displayed are comparable in quality to printed pages. The e-paper panel only uses power when the image changes on the display.
…Like the black and white flexible display, the color version uses a substrate that arranges Thin-Film Transistors (TFT) on metal foil rather than glass, allowing it to recover its original shape after being bent. This model includes a color filter coated onto the plastic substrate, allowing it to display color images.
LG.Philips LCD’s use of metal foil and plastic substrate rather than glass substrate makes…
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Video: Mobile devices of the future
Intel has just recently shown its new generation of a “mobile (UMPC) platform” at the IDF in China that was only briefly demonstrated at the CeBIT earlier this year.
The new “handheld PCs” available later this year will be far more powerful than the current devices but the major steps forward by size, processing power, battery life and displays are expected for 2008.
At the same time Intel introduced its vision of future devices with the video below. Great ideas, we really liked the watch-like device…
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Research: Perceptive Pixel’s multi-touch display (2)
There is a new video of Jeff Han’s latest multi-touch display online that can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure.
It looks like that we might build one of these displays for an upcoming project soon. Watch this space for more detailed information…
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Image: Your next server room
Mobile data centers seemingly are getting “en vogue” but none looks as good as this one.
Rackable’s new system called “Concentro” stacks up to 1,200 two-socket servers into a standard 40′ x 8′ shipping container. The system has enough power to give you a top 200 supercomputer overnight, uses water to keep cool, and can be outfitted with a mix of server, storage, and networking hardware. And power consumption, space, and specialized data center costs seem to be the hottest topics at the moment for customers with massive server needs.
With the use of shipping containers it becomes relatively easy for companies to install a data center in an area with cheaper energy or to set up a data center in record time when demand increases. Currently suppliers of such solutions expect the…
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