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google earth
The UBiqWindow: Google Earth Hologram Device You'll Want
If you can forgive the crap music, you'll just love this video of Google Earth mashed up with a hologram machine. This is real, and I want one very, very badly. By combining a 2D mid-air projection system and motion sensors, the device gives you a gesture-based interface for exploring the world. The term "badass" springs to mind. [UBiqWindow via GED via GEB] More »
sony ericsson
Sony Ericsson C702 Toilet Test Is Gross, Yet Intriguing
Nowhere in the specs of the Sony Ericsson C720 does it say that it's completely waterproof—just dust and splash proof. And if there's one thing that a toilet does well (at least when we use it), it's splash. This could be one of the more disgusting tests imaginable for a phone. Seriously, are you going to use it now, because the CDC thinks otherwise. [bka]
laptops
What Doesn't Break a Toughbook Makes It Stronger: How They Test the Hell Out of Them
Deep in the northwest corner of Kobe, Japan, there's a factory hidden away among green rice paddies, and sleepy farming villages of tiled roofs. If you were to travel here, to Takatsukadai—the middle of nowhere—you'd find Panasonic's Toughbook plant quietly making notebooks with the world's lowest failure rate. Well, not so quietly, actually. They employ a regimen of over 500 different tests, smashing, dropping and soaking Toughbooks, with over a thousand sacrifices each year. This is where I learned how the old computer plant manages to pull it off, miraculously, almost all under one roof. More »
4:00 PM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Tim Hornyak
5,405 views,
46 comments
Latest by n/a: Legally, they cannot say they test the hell out of them (Anyone that's been in a DC Subway station should get that reference..) " Notebooks also go on racks at the Kobe factory, and are given massages. Using Panasonic-branded handheld massagers (what more »
sony
Wow. Stan Glasgow, at dinner last night with a few journalists, told us that Sony plans to network 90% of all of their products, thousands of models, by 2010. It's a matter of getting content on and between devices. He said that the goal was to have it happen automatically or with a click of a button.
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Sony Goal: 90% of ALL Our Products Networked By 2010
Wow. Stan Glasgow, at dinner last night with a few journalists, told us that Sony plans to network 90% of all of their products, thousands of models, by 2010. It's a matter of getting content on and between devices. He said that the goal was to have it happen automatically or with a click of a button.
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7:55 AM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Brian Lam
3,078 views,
21 comments
Latest by rimplestultskin: why has big brother found his way into all these new convenience features? more »
blockbuster
Blockbuster Drops Bid for Circuit City, Making Future For Both Unsure
We were excited for the merger talks between Blockbuster Video and Circuit City, as that union could create a probable entertainment behemoth, and we don't mean like Paula Abdul. Sadly word is coming down that Blockbuster is pulling its offer for Circuit off the table. Apparently it was ultimately decided that the match wasn't a good fit for Blockbuster's shareholders, so the plans have been scrapped. What could have been an awesome two-front retailer now means Blockbuster has to find new ways to catch up with Netflix, and Circuit City has to keep its head above water without any help. Bets on what happens next? [Forbes]
iphone ringtones
What's more awesome and annoying than regular music ringtones? Video ringtones. iFoneTec has developed VideosTone, which lets you play back a standard formatted-for-iPhone video whenever someone calls. You can pick different ones for different people, like Devo for Lam and Ricky Martin for Jesus. We've been trying to try this app for ourselves but our download from Installer.app keeps timing out. The people on ModMyiPhone have had more luck getting Coldplay to dance on their phones, apparently. [ModMyiPhone]
Video Ringtones For iPhone Revolutionize Answering Your Phone
What's more awesome and annoying than regular music ringtones? Video ringtones. iFoneTec has developed VideosTone, which lets you play back a standard formatted-for-iPhone video whenever someone calls. You can pick different ones for different people, like Devo for Lam and Ricky Martin for Jesus. We've been trying to try this app for ourselves but our download from Installer.app keeps timing out. The people on ModMyiPhone have had more luck getting Coldplay to dance on their phones, apparently. [ModMyiPhone]
10:00 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Jason Chen
6,765 views,
57 comments
Latest by n/a: ahhh this is awesome. My name is joe and im only 13 but i figured out how to convert the video ringtones to my iphone from my computer. Since a lot of people are having trouble with this more »
video
Chronotopic Anamorphosis: a Fancy Name for a Trippy Video Effect
This crazy video is the test of some new video software that had a clip "digitally manipulated by fragmenting it into horizontal lines and then combining lines from different frames in the display. The result is a distortion of the figures caused by their motion in time, or, as Brazilian researcher Arlindo Machado calls it: chronotopic anamorphosis." My money is on this becoming a plugin on the next generation of Photo Booth, because it's certifiably badass. [Vimeo via Kottke]
4:40 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Adam Frucci
5,819 views,
55 comments
Latest by n/a: reminds me of how the Nobodies in KH2 move. more »
pocket camcorder
DXG-567V Camcorder is HD-recording, YouTube-ing Flip Cam Rival
DXG's new 567v looks designed to join Flip cam lookalikes in the YouTube camcorder game. But this candybar form-factor camera packs in a 5-megapixel CMOS sensor and records at 1280 x 720 pixels HD resolution at 30 frames per second: meaning it's far beyond YouTube's video requirements. Recording to SDHC cards, it also comes with all the cabling to connect it to your TV and has ArcSoft TotalMedia editing software in the box. Available now for $179. Press release below. More »
cyberlink
CyberLink Uses ATI Card To Transcode Four 1080p Video Files Simultaneously
The fashionable thing these days is to take the tremendous processing power of graphics cards and put them to use when you're not utilizing them to render games. CyberLink, for one, has come up with a pretty ingenous method to take an ATI or NVIDIA card (in their case, the demo was on an ATI Radeon 4850 512MB card) and convert four 1080p MPEG-2 movies into MPEG-4. Simultaneously. As long as you've got a pretty fast video card, all you need is a copy of CyberLink PowerDirector 7 and you can be doing this too. We hope this is the kind of thing Apple's going to be putting into Snow Leopard. [TG Daily]
chinese farmer
Chinese Farmer Flies Self-Built Airplane, Doesn't Wet Pants
Seeing as we crapped ourselves twice from just watching this clip, it's a wonder that this Chinese farmer manages to keep it together while flying this death-trap through the skies. The camera only points rearwards at the guy's crotch, but that's probably to show what gigantic balls this guy must have. The guy built this thing out of what looks like dirt and spare parts from broken aircraft, which is pretty much something we wouldn't want to be riding up 300 feet in the air. This reminds us of Mr. Woo, the Chinese Robot Farmer, who built working robots out of stuff he's found at the junk heap. [YouTube via MAKE]
3:20 PM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Jason Chen
17,849 views,
104 comments
Latest by ARVash: [www.ifgogo.com] Just found out, this is real. It looked greenscreened, but I was WRONG :O. more »
ps3 video
Sony's Playstation 3 Movie Download Service to Launch this Summer
We had a rumor about this news back in April but as part of a new corporate Strategy Update, Sony has just confirmed it: video downloads will come to the PS3 "this summer". That's first in the US, with a Europe and Japan roll-out later in the year. Plus, Sony will expand the service across their other video-enabled products, which means the PSP and video-enabled Walkmen. There're some other interesting snippets in there too: like the fact that by 2011 90% of Sony electronics will be "network-enabled and wireless-capable." Read on for the full press release. More »
dyson
James Dyson Drops the Crap Out of His Own Vacuum Repeatedly
Besides getting the entire video history of Dyson Vacuums as narrated by the world's most boring voice, Crunchgear also get James Dyson to simulate what it would be like to drop the crap out of his own vacuum. The actual "drop test" machine was broken. See how confident Dyson is in his engineering that he's willing to do this on camera. Can we get Bill Gates doing this to an Xbox 360 on video? Or Jobs to a MacBook Pro? [Crunchgear]
5:00 PM on Wed Jun 25 2008
By Jason Chen
3,803 views,
37 comments
Latest by MePerson: So when he starts making cars, we'll be able to drop our cars, too? more »
dyson vacuums
A Video History of Dyson Upright Vacuums
Crunchgear went on a trip to Dyson's headquarters in Malmesbury, England and caught this video of an incredibly soporific employee narrating the entire history of their upright vacs. If you can listen to five minutes of this guy, you'll get a very cool journey through the adventure of cleaning up crap from your carpets. Super neat for fans of Dyson to see how they refined yours from the first few models. [Crunchgear]
gps
Mio's Knight Rider GPS Test Drive Video
I got a sneak peek at Mio's new Knight Rider GPS, and it's more fun and cheesy than I expected. As you can see in the video, William Daniels, the original voice of KITT, guides you as you cruise the streets, fighting crime. Flashing red LEDs are synced up to the speech, and the screen marks your location with a Pontiac Trans Am icon. My favorite part is that is has 300 names built-in when you're done pretending that you're Michael Knight and you want KITT to call you by your real moniker. It'll be $270—a bit less than we thought—when it's out in August. [Knight Rider GPS]
6:00 AM on Tue Jun 24 2008
By Benny Goldman
24,027 views,
39 comments
Latest by n/a: I are confused -- the part where is he says "Michael, where would you like to go today" sounds like KITT/Daniels, but what about the part where it says "turn left, then take the next right?" That can't be him, more »
olpc
First Footage: Same OLPC XO Boots Both Sugar and Windows XP
This is the first footage of the same XO OLPC doing a dual-boot of Sugar Linux and Windows XP—something skeptics have said wasn't going to happen. Soon, XOs will ship with both Sugar and XP for Boot Camp-style dual-booting options. They will never come with only XP, though the team is working on adding more of the Sugar functionality, like the mesh network and the fun sharing apps, to the Windows side. Once again, little PCs are coming to the rescue of Windows XP. More »
12:01 PM on Mon Jun 23 2008
By Wilson Rothman
9,768 views,
15 comments
Latest by glaeven: i hate to say this, but its an improvement. sugar is just awful. sorry olpc. more »
Camcorder Pen
4GB Camcorder USB Pen Captures Your Thoughts On Paper, Video
Camcorder pens often sacrifice the whole "writing" thing in the name of capturing video, but this one from BrickHouse Security does write, and has considerably bigger storage capacity than previous video pens, too. It's a big pricey, but if you're into the whole Maxwell Smart lifestyle it could make a nice, voyeuristic addition to your repertoire. Two hours of battery time per charge, 30 hours of audio and/or video (4GB), and a potential restraining order are available to you for $250. [BrickStone Security via GeekAlerts]
gaming
Wii Wheel and Wii Fit Board Combined to Make Racing Simulator
If you've already got a Wii Wheel and a Wii fit but are too cheap to buy an actual racing wheel with pedals, Nintendo Wii Fanboy has a good way to combine the two to accomplish kinda the same thing. All you need is a PC, a couple apps and the ability to follow written instructions, and you too can be the proud owner of that thing you see in the video above. The only thing we suggest is that there's some short of wheel block type things to prop up the balance board so it doesn't feel like you're flooring it all the time. [Nintendo Wii Fanboy]
12:00 PM on Fri Jun 20 2008
By Jason Chen
3,555 views,
9 comments
Latest by n/a: @Gujustud: Yea, I've been using Windows all my life. Hell, if I was a total Mac fanboy, I wouldn't choose to run XP via bootcamp. Well, it's nice to know you're a MS fanboy more »
