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Archive for the 'Gadgets' Tag
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Mobile Phones: Putting the numbers to scale
Tom Libretto, vice president of Forum Nokia, provided some insides at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in Redwood City, California this Monday. Comparing the volume of Apple’s iPhone shipped to Nokia’s shipments of phones he said:
“…Since the launch of iPhone in June, Apple has shipped 5 million to 6 million of the devices, paling in comparison to Nokia’s device shipments…We’ve done that [volume] since we’ve had dinner on Friday…”
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Gadgets: The RC Rubber Duck
From our completely useless but great department: Here comes the remote controlled Bath Duck…
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Games / Multi-touch screens: The Fentix Cube
We came across the name Andrew Fentem a few times when we did research on multi-touch screens the last years. The Fentix Cube one of his most recent work is the first cubic multi-touchscreen games platform. In the video clip below the Fentix Cube has been programmed to emulate a Rubik’s cube puzzle…
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Humor: Button Paradox
The text on the buttons reads:
Red button: The blue button is true
Blue button: The red button is false
Nice idea…sorry already sold out last night
via “Etsy”.
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Gadgets: Your own personalized doll
A company in Taiwan will create a 100% handcrafted 3D doll from your photo. The dolls are on average 13-15 cm tall, made from PVC and are waterproof.
The company says on their web site that the design and production process of a doll takes about 5 – 7 working days. You can order your…
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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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LevelHead: Open Source AR game
It started off as a residential project at the “Medialab Madrid” called “Unprepared Architecture”. Julian Oliver - the developer behind LevelHead - worked together with designer Simone Jones during June 2007 in Madrid on this “experiment in augmenting architecture“.
While not a game or avatar at that time, the work consisted of a three-dimensional animation that is inscribed on the projection of a 5cm x 5cm cube moved by the user. By now Julian Oliver has turned it into a prototype for an augmented reality game…
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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: A Tee that shows where you can connect
This T-Shirt will show you if you can connect to a wireless network without checking on your computer. The animated display on the front of the tee detects 802.11b or 802.11g signals and displays the strength to yourself and everyone around you. The glowing bars on the front of the shirt dynamically change as the surrounding wi-fi signal strength fluctuates…
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