Archive for May, 2009
Sony unveils new PSP Go – UMD dead?
May 30th
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Sony today anounced the UMD-less new PSP Go. A smaller PSP device with slide out gamepad. The PSP Go won’t replace the PSP-3000, but will exist along it. This seems equalt o the strategy of Nintendo, which is marketing it’s new DSi along the DS-lite.
The new device replaces the UMD with 16 Gigs of storage along with an unknown cardslot. Besides that it sports bluetooth functionality which is said can be used to tether up with your mobile phone. The new device is, even with its slider formfactor, very thin.
The most interesting part altough seem the smaller formfactor combined with the kiddier gamepad. This looks much like the faded Mylo (only without keyboard). Read the rest of this entry »
Novatel Mi-fi 3G router: Social networking gets new dimension
May 29th
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The Novatel MiFi 2200 (read mobile WiFi or my WiFi) is a mobile router, that uses WiFi to share the mobile 3G connection. This is not new (for example Linksys has some 3G routers), however the MiFi don’t use a wall socket to operate.
Actually it’s a mobile WiFi network you can put in your bag (or even in your wallet, due to it’s credit card size) and use it if needed. So you are carrying a cloud of internetacces with you, which you can share with coworkers or everybody around.
This will be a great product (with the right plan) to set-up temporarily or moving networks. So social networks can get a new dimension.
Google Wave: the new way to communicate
May 29th
Google has given a developer-preview of its new service called Google Wave. With the new service, Google is looking to change the way we use internet to communicate. Google Wave gives users the ability to work together on documents. Not only office documents, but also multimedia content like photo’s, video’s and audio. It is a way to combine e-mail, chat, photos and feeds from around the web and present it in a more collaborative environment than what we used to now.
All our content and information sources have become too segmented right now. Google Wave is, just like email, a protocol. With this protocol Google hopes it will eventually replace some of our uses for e-mail. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft surface meets videomixing: Vplay
May 29th
VPlay is a live video mixing tool, an interactive system based on a Microsoft Surface. It allows one or multiple users to manipulate video in real time. This also means mixing en editting video, manipulating video effects, import video’s and images and do it al with just your hands touching and making gestures on the surface. It’s a Microsoft Research project, meaning the project will not necessarily become a product. But it is a very interested implementation of the Microsoft Surface. Read the rest of this entry »
Zune HD official now, what will it do for you?
May 28th
The new Zune HD with OLED, capacative 3.3" multi touch screen
The Zune HD was finally and officially anounced yesterday. Rumours were all over the place like if it would be a phone, if it would be pink or called pink…you remember?
The specs have be bumped as far as there’s any comparison with earlier Zunes:
- 3.3 ” OLED capacative touchscreen (2 times whooha!) with a 16:9 480×272 resolution
- 720p HD-output via HDMI docking station (sold seperately)
- Built in internetbrowser with multi-touch and tap-to-zoom functionality (familiair with iPod Touch we guess)
- Wi-Fi (not clear if it will be a/b/g/n) which streams media right from the Zune music store
- Built-in HD radio receiver with can receive HD channels besides the standard radiochannels (not clear if this HD channels will work outside US).
- Comes in silver and black
- Built-in accelerometer
- Touchscreen QWERTY keyboard Read the rest of this entry »
Kind of oldskool “augmented reality”
May 26th
Treasure trove: An Egyptian style mural adorns a wall in Los Gatos, California.
Remember the days that graffiti was a villain art form for creative rebels who were trying to express themselves in any way? It was not allowed and you could be punished for it. It still kinda is, but it is already much more appreciated in city’s like for example Berlin (it is even a integrated subject of the tourism guides!). Keep that thought of native graffiti, put it in a blender together with kind-of-augmented-reality, a lot of artistic skills and let it blend! Read the rest of this entry »
Google street on a bicycle
May 21st
The Google Tricycle
is the Google’s traditional solution way for a hightech problem. This way Google street can also be possible for places where the Google car couldn’t come. Google makes our world smaller and smaller. We can plan a holiday and virtually already try it out even before we have ever been there. Not only the roads, but also the little spots what could make your holiday even more exclusive and unforgettable. Just an example… but here a picture and a video Read the rest of this entry »
