Some people create paintings, some create sculptures, and yet others create music. But this guy decided to explore his love (or obsession) for Apple products. He did it by actually investing the time to organize his iPhone’s app pages in a way that each shows a distinct letter of the alphabet — and yes, all 26 letters are represented. …
[blip.tv ?posts_id=3366836&dest=-1] If you’re trying to freak out the car pool or earnestly seeking out the ultimate remote control, then do take a little time out to check this really rather good iPod touch-controlled muscle car. Dave Phipps did the deed to make this petrolhead’s remote control dream, setting the system up to control his 1969 Pontiac GTO. Enjoy the clip. …
Amazon and Apple may be actively engaged in an eBook war, but that hasn’t stopped Amazon promising a Kindle eBook app for Apple’s iPad. Details of Amazon’s iPad land grab first emerged this morning at the New York Times, which also reports Barnes & Noble to be hatching similar plans – releasing new digital readers and stores for the iPad, in addition to those already offered for the iPhone and iPod touch. …
Using a combination of night vision, radar and motion sensor cameras, GM cars will soon be packaged with windshields that highlight important information right in front of you, with lasers no less. Other cameras pointing at your face can tell where you are looking, making your own car yet another place where you are no longer safe from surveillance….
It looks like the iPhone, already a kind of digital swiss army knife, will someday have walkie-talkie capabilities and be able to serve as a kind of spontaneous hub where information can be sent automatically to everyone in the group. Patents dating as late as last November, but only unearthed this week, describe the new functions….
Hewlett-Packard has just rolled out its newest design in the way of flexible display screens, or “digital paper,” as they are sometimes called. This is part of a collaboration with Arizona State University, and it began quite a while ago but no one has seen or heard anything about it for a couple years at this point. This week, however, a Dutch blog called Hardware.info got a short video of their latest prototype. Fortunately, the presenter was speaking in English….
I’m one of the slim minority who dislikes Terminator. Don’t get me wrong, Schwarzenegger is nothing if not a vastly-talented thespian, I just don’t sit well with armed robots coming after me in the night. That said, this is pretty cool. MAGIC 2010 (that’s Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge) is a joint venture between Australia’s Defense Science & Technology Organisation and the Research Development & Engineering Command in the States, to help develop the next gen in sweet-ass robotic killing machines….
Getting off the grid may have just become that much easier. Oorja Protonics in California have developed a methanol fuel cell that could keep your wallet fat – assuming of course you have a fat wallet to begin with. The little box isn’t much to look at, but what it lacks in curves it makes up for in heart. The thing generates 5kw of energy – simply put, enough to provide heat and power for a large building. Say, a small store, or better yet, your house. …
When the iPad was initially announced, you could sum up a lot of the reaction with that common internet expression ‘meh’. Though the Apple hype train was in full effect, many people didn’t see what all the fuss was about, and it literally was only a few minutes after the keynote that the phrase ‘it’s just a big iPod Touch’ to be bandied about. But that started to change when people started to demo what magazines might look like on the iPad. Most prominent was the demo from tech taste-makers WIRED, whose vision of what an iPad magazine might look like was slick and promising. It featured an easy ‘swipe to…
Blackberries – you gotta’ love ‘em. But lets be honest: if you have one, you peer over at your friend’s iPhone or Motorola Droid with more than a little envy. Sure, that Crackberry may be practical. But even the latest version aren’t exactly pretty. That all looks set to change, if a couple of leaked screenshots are anything to go by. …
If there was one trend to emerge from the geekfest that is South-by-Southwest interactive this year, it’s that mobile location services are heating up. Though nobody’s quite sure why people are all telling the world where they are, it sure is getting popular. Case in point: Patently Apple have discovered that Apple is working on their own location-based service called ‘iGroups’….
Amazon’s Kindle service is nearly fully Mac-compatible, as Amazon today launched a beta of their Kindle app for Apple computers. The free application allows Amazon customers full access to Amazon’s electronic book offerings, and allows bibliophiles to read full books on their laptops and desktops without the use of Kindle. It is also fully compatible with the handheld Kindle readers though, synchronizing bookmarks and pages read, so that users can switch back and forth between devices without ever losing their place….
