Gallery: Nokia's Flagship N95 Launched Internationally
Depending on how it works, I'd consider this instead of an iPhone...if it ever comes state-side.
(Please, when you leave your Lam is a Fanboy posts below, make em original and entertaining.)Friday, March 23, 2007
Hammer Storage's 2TB Network Drives Are Big Like a Large Object
This Hammer (don't...) Storage myshare NAS seems to be one of the few home and small business units to offer up to 2TB of storage. The unit itself takes 2 hard disks to form anywhere between 320GB and 2TB of storage, with an extra USB expansion port in the back for printers or even more space. Best of all, the NAS has Gigabit Ethernet and RAID 0/1 support, so the performance will be (theoretically) pretty solid.
The 1TB version is on sale now for $499, and the 2TB will be shipping in August. We're always looking for more storage for all the crap we amass from being on the Internet 18 hours a day (we went on a Batman comic downloading spree last week).
Product Page [Hammer via Electronista]
Touchscreen Smart Mirror: Widgets in the Mirror
A team of students at the University of Waterloo, lead by William Lam (no relation to our Brian Lam), have designed a touchscreen Smart Mirror. Widgets can be placed on the mirror and it can also play music, video and more. Check out the video above and see for yourself.
Multi Touch User Interface
Jeff Han demonstrates—for the first time publicly—his intuitive, "interface-free," touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated ... all » intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure. Han is a research scientist for NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 09:32) closeup of usage of multi touch interface
longer presentation at TED Conference
Human Computing - by Prof. Luis von Ahn
ABSTRACT Tasks like image recognition are trivial for humans, but continue to challenge even the most sophisticated computer programs. This talk introduces a paradigm for utilizing human processing power to solve problems that computers cannot yet solve. Traditional approaches to solving such problems focus on improving software. I advocate a novel approach: constructively channel human brainpower using computer games. For example, the ESP Game, described in this talk, is an enjoyable online game -- many people play over 40 hours a week -- and when people play, they help label images on the Web with descriptive keywords. These keywords can be used to significantly improve the accuracy of image search. People play the game not because they want to help, but because they enjoy it.
Firedoodle - Turn the web into a whiteboard!
Firedoodle - Turn the web into a whiteboard!
And add intelligence to bookmarking while you're at it...
Welcome to Firedoodle
When you install Firedoodle, you add a whiteboard to every web page you visit using the Firefox Browser. This is great for reviews, jotting ideas, or just goofing off. You can also mark your place on looooong pages so if you need to leave and come back, you can easily pick up where you left off. It's easy to use and you can even save your highlights or placemarks if you register so they don't disappear when you close Firefox. You can find help here covering everything the add-on can do, or keep track of development on my personal blog.
Flickr Multi Parameter Search
FlickrCash -- Fastr Flickr Searchr Savr Sharer
- multi parameter search with negative keywords (e.g. "flowers -bees")
- saved searches with rollback (to save your work selecting thumbnails)
- shareable lightboxes with ratings (to enable clients to give feedback to designer)
- we'll display the maximum number of thumbnails your screen can hold
Computer-Generated Image Looks Exactly Like a Beautiful Woman
It's hard to believe, but you're looking at computer-generated image of Korean actress Song Hye Kyo, created by Indonesian CG artist Max Edwin Wahyudi. To create this stunning shot, he used a combination of digital sculpting and design application Pixelogic Zbrush and animation modeling software Autodesk 3DS Max.
Now that's one remarkable piece of artwork—showing that the holy grail has been reached: computer-generated imagery of the human face that's indistinguishable from reality.
Making of the Korean Actress Song Hye Kyo [CG Arena]
Experimental Touchscreen Makes iPhone Look Like a Toy
The main draw of Apple's iPhone is its touchscreen interface, which can respond to two points of contact. What if you could have a touchscreen with an infinite number of points of contact? What would that do for computing as we know it? How would that change life as we know it? These are but a few questions raised by the ongoing research of Jeff Han, whose work at NYU might not only make him YouTube rich, but might put him in the same category as the Edisons and Farnsworths of the world.
Han has already sold a screen to one of the branches of the military. Companies are already developing rival technologies to prevent Han from cornering the market. And to top it all off, a video of Han feeling up his screen for the cheering mob.
Flexible Battery Charges in a Minute, Lasts for 1,000 Recharges
Scientists at Japan's Waseda University have developed a new new polymer-based battery, which not only charges in less than a minute, but also lasts for up to 1,000 recharges. The cool thing about the superthin (200nm-thick to be exact) battery is that unlike previous polymer-based batteries, this one won't won't self-discharge. All we need to do now is get it inside our favorite kit.
Flexible See-through Battery Power [GizMag]
prediction: Wii will win (beat MS's XBox and Sony's PS3)
it's already doing breakout sales and kickin' PS3 and XBox butt. This is one of a steady stream of "mods" that I've seen and is another case example of "open source" involving the community of users by allowing them to build-upon, rather than being proprietary and restrictive. This happened for Palm when they allowed the community to develop apps for the Palm OS. bravo for the "small guy" (nintendo) -Augustine Wii Loop Machine utilizes Wiimote to manipulate beats
Friday, March 16, 2007
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