The iPad can be used for many things, and Japanese Apple geek Shiinaneko [JP] now shows us how to transform the device into a pretty versatile plate. All you need is protective film for the iPad and an Internet connection.
Just access the web, get a picture of a plate that best fits what you want to eat, place your food on top of the iPad screen, and you’re set. → Read More
We just wrote about Twitter’s second deal from the new sales initiative, a TV. The new deal offers a 32-inch Vizio HDTV for $349.99 at Target, along with free shipping. But, it appears that the promotion code “TGTTWEEET,” which user needs to enter in the last stage of the checkout process to receive the deal, is incorrect. I actually tried to purchase the TV twice with the code and was told by… → Read More
There’s no way to begin this next story without breaking out this movie quote: “If I were creating the world I wouldn’t mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o’clock, Day One!” With that out of the way, for the first time in human history a laser was used to shoot down an aircraft in flight. Well done to the fine folks at the US Navy. → Read More
The app store train seems unstoppable. According to a Juniper Research report out today, the number of “consumer-oriented handset downloads” is expected to rise from less than 2.6 billion per-year in 2009 to more than 25 billion in 2015.
The trend, notes the report, is being driven by industry players who are seeking to emulate Apple’s success with the App Store by launching their own branded… → Read More
iChatr, a clone of the infamous Chatroulette, has been pulled from the Apple app store. Apparently, Apple isn’t cool with inappropriate use of anonymity and cannot condone the app. → Read More
The plucky little PogoPlug, which I reviewed last December, has seen a number of modest updates in the months since. All of these updates are rolled out automatically, so unless you’re following the PogoPlug blog you might never know about them. The word on the street today is that a whole new PogoPlug device is coming, called the PogoPlug Biz. It sports a white case, instead of the jarring pink… → Read More
USB flash drives aren’t the hot product that they used to be, but there’s still something cool about having 32GB of data dangling nonchalantly from your keys.
Edge Tech seem to understand this, with their latest flash drives ticking both the 32GB and the key-ring-compatible boxes. → Read More
In a lateral move that is akin to a car company selling buggy whips, MovieTickets.com will start selling movie tickets through an Xbox 360 interface, thereby allowing players to experience a thing called “real life” and perhaps take part in a common courtship ritual known as a “date.”
As you see from the description, you don’t actually buy the movie tickets via the interface but instead are… → Read More
GigsWiz, a Helsinki-based analytics service for the live music industry, has grabbed €150,000 in a seed round of funding.
The service basically helps music bands interact with their fans with a widget on their site. During the beta phase bands can collect requests from fans – “where do you want us to play live?” – through the GigsWiz tool on their websites. They can then view the data plotted… → Read More
You’re looking at one of the finest do-it-yourself projects ever to grace the Internet. It’s called the iPad Arcade, and it means to bring the arcade experience~! to an iPad near you. It combines an Apple iPad, obviously, with a Hori stick to bring the arcade to you. (Are “real” arcades even around anymore? I haven’t seen one in years.) → Read More
Following Sharp last week, TDK is the second company that announces [JP] Blu-ray discs with 100GB capacity. The discs are compatible to the new BDXL format, allowing you to store 33.4GB on each of their three layers (conventional Blu-ray hold 50GB max.). → Read More
Another day, another e-reader. Sharp, manufacturer of all things high tech (although I honestly haven’t seen them on the American market much recently) is planning to launch and e-book reader that may run on the Verizon network. The reader will use Sharp’s own XMDF (ever-eXtending Mobile Document Format) for e-book files. The company offers 29,000 titles in XMDF for Japanese readers already… → Read More
Karsa Flash Payer offers a way for content creators to monetize their online video using a bait and switch model in which payment is only requested mid-viewing, once the user is already hooked. The service was developed by UK-based Steven Carroll, the guy behind Documentary-film.net, which came very close to entering the Deadpool after he found it difficult to generate enough revenue to cover the… → Read More
Been itching for the 5-inch Dell Streak Android tablet/cell phone/slate thing? Me too, which makes me happy to pass along the word that the Streak’s pre-sale page is now up. No, you can’t order it yet, but you can put in your contact info to receive notification the second Dell’s ready to take your money. Signing up will also get your shipping upgraded to 2nd Business Day and the… → Read More
At its search event today, Google launched a new product that’s a part of Google Images: Google Image Search Ads. Basically, this allows anyone to advertise alongside Google Image searches in a new, more visual way.
“This allows you to reach hundreds of million of users who are searching on Google on a daily basis,” director of Search products Ben Ling says. And Google Images is actually doing… → Read More
Last week Twitter’s Earlybird took flight with its first deal, tickets for “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” a film from Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films. Today, Twitter is unveiling its second deal from the new sales initiative, a TV. The new deal offers a 32-inch Vizio HDTV for $349.99 at Target, along with free shipping.
As we wrote in our previous coverage, Twitter is… → Read More
Today at Google’s search event in San Francisco, Vice President of Search Product and User Experience, Marissa Mayer, announced a revamp of Google Images — the company’s image search product. The service garners more than a billion pageviews a day for Google, Mayer said.
Director of Search Products, Ben Ling, then took the stage to show off some of the changes (which we previewed here). First… → Read More
Tokyo-based Japan Trust Technology (JTT) today announced the CHOBI CAM G200 [JP], a video camera whose main selling point is that’s very, very compact (47×17×47mm) and light (34g). → Read More
Today at a special press event in San Francisco, Google is showcasing some of the latest features that will be rolling out on its search engine. The event will be starting shortly, and from the decor it’s clear that the focus of the event will be Google Image Search. One announcement will almost certainly be a new look for Google Images, but we expect to hear much more. My live notes from the… → Read More
We’re here in San Francisco for a Google Search event. It’s not yet clear what this event will be about, but we know Marissa Mayer will be on hand to show off some new things. One of those things definitely looks to be a revamping of Google Images. Google has been bucket testing changes to the service over the past week or so.
The room we’re in has walls covered in a mural with large pictures. → Read More
Honda isn’t exactly the first Japanese car company that comes to mind when thinking about hybrids. Toyota, thanks to its Prius and hybrid Lexus line-up, won the general populus a few years back, but Honda is set to make another run with the third generation of Honda Civic Hybrids along with a new line of electric vehicles.
These new lines should start hitting streets in both Japan and the US… → Read More
If your dreams of becoming a world-class director were crushed the day you realised that the footage from your iPhone 4 was too shaky to be viewable, then chin up, buddy: here’s a little project that can solve that problem for under $30. → Read More
The Dell Streak, the 5-inch tablet that won the hearts of the technorati last month, is coming to the US and we had a chance to play with it over the past few days. The Android-powered tablet is no iPad but a worthy entrant in the tablet olympics. → Read More
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13457383&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=ff9933&fullscreen=1 Helloooo nurse. This physics engine, called Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0, was created by Thiago Costa and essentially simulates real-life physics in a completely realistic way. This demo shows a piece of charcoal breaking and spreading as it… → Read More
http://revision3.com/player-v6420 Cali Lewis brings you her full review of the new Droid X and Apple’s press event results in free cases for iPhone 4 owners. GeekBeat #11 has all the details. → Read More
Ever sent or received an email that was just screaming to be misunderstood?
There’s a good chance you have, and if not it will happen some day – just trust me on that one. Unless …
Canadian startup Lymbix thinks it can help you avoid situations that come out of misinterpreted textual communication with the launch of a new service called ToneCheck. Think of it as an emotional spell-check… → Read More
Cloud-based game streaming service Gaikai has taken an investment from Intel Capital and Limelight Networks. While it’s unclear how much Intel invested, the firm could have been one of the un-named partners in Gaikai’s $10 million funding round in May.
Gaikai offers a server-based, cloud-gaming technology that streams games, allowing users to play any game inside the web browser. Gaikai’s game… → Read More
Online gaming service Raptr has just dropped its beta tag and launched its 1.0 release, and it’s safe to say that it’s finally living up to its mission statement: to make it easy to play games with your friends.
A year ago, Raptr rolled out a multi-protocol chat client that allowed gamers to see what games their friends were playing (this included support for both PC games and console games).That… → Read More
A new data network arrived on the scene today. LightSquared will be a wholesale only, net-neutral 4G-LTE network that combines with satellite to provide nation-wide broadband wireless access. The aim is to have LTE cover 90% of the population by 2015, with the remainder being covered by satellite. → Read More
Mark Angelino, formerly vice president at IBM and President at Sprint, was responsible for the adoption of Salesforce’s sales, call center and platform services in North America from May 2009 until last month.
As you can tell from the screenshot above, he left Salesforce.com in June to become Senior Vice President at another company, but he played coy and marked his new employer’s name ‘Guess… → Read More
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