Entries Tagged as 'Cool licks'

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Google’s own web browser; World meet Chrome!

Google is developing its own web browser based on the open source framework webkit engine, which is also used by Apple for its Safari web browser and interconnecting applications such as mail, dashboard and itunes.
The browser called Chrome (Page not available to the public yet as of 02/09/08) has been built with speed, security and [...]

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Night of the Living Dead - “ReAnimated!!”

The 1968 cult classic, Night of the Living Dead is being remade or “reanimated” in a first for the film industry.
Mike Schneider one of the project coordinaters and lead animator explains:
“Night of the Living Dead Reanimated is a mass collaborative re-envisioning in which artists from around the world select scenes from the original 1968 film [...]

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

So Much More Than Fun!

One day my drum student Amanda walked into her lesson, sat down at the kit, and played a fast single-stroke roll - a skill she’d never demonstrated before. I asked Amanda if she’d practiced a lot in the past week. With a sheepish grin on her face, she admitted, “No, but I played [...]

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Basic ‘real time’ Lip Sync Arrives in Second Life

Its been a long time coming but finally the new Second Life client 1.20 has a new advanced feature hidden in its client/debug menus (advanced/character/enable lip sync) - the ability for the mouth to move roughly in time with the live voice passing through the avatar. Combine this with the already included gestures and you [...]

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

The connected future of the car.

LAMP has been advocating the ideals of an integrated content strategy harnessing the virtues of traditional and emerging technologies for a while now and as every new piece of technology emerges, this strategy evolves and comes to incorporate the reality derived from the trend. Today we hear about GM’s OnStar communication diagnostic system , [...]

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Look For Apple Store in a Movie

Motion picture studio watchers in southern California report that teams from Apple’s contractor are now arriving to quickly build a partial retail store set inside a sound stage for filming an unknown movie. Apple’s stores have become an icon representing technology, cutting-edge architecture and the social scene, and could be used in a film in [...]

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Finally, TV gets more social

New technologies focusing on the convergence of TV and community continue to turn watching TV into a social activity. The connected TV experience is aimed at providing remote users with a joint viewing experience - chat, vote, comment, or just watch your favorite shows with other fans or distant friends.
The idea of transforming an experience [...]

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

NASA’s computers brought down by biological virus!

We’ll i’ll let you read the heading again — nope, it’s not a joke. Apparently millions of tiny, hairy, reddish-brown creatures known as “crazy rasberry ants” - crazy, because they wander erratically instead of marching in regimented lines, and “rasberry” after Tom Rasberry, an exterminator who did battle against them early on, are causing quite [...]

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Apple actions location based mobile content patent

A much publicised patent application published in December 2007 revealed that Apple had explored allowing handheld owners (such as the iPhone) to place orders from local stores. The system would, for example, allow customers to order a drink with the press of a button on their iPhone which would then notify them when their order [...]

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Real or not Real… The effect of Digital Media…

The following clip you are about to see has a Ripley’s Believe it or Not feeling to it. Apparently its straight unedited footage taken from the CCTV of Raffles Place Tower building in Singapore.
It was posted on the internet a few weeks ago and like a piece of viral media, has completely overwhelmed the asian [...]

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

GTA IV earns half a billion for Take-Two in one week

Grand Theft Auto IV, Take-Two Interactive’s crown jewel of the sandbox game series, reportedly sold over 6 million copies of the game for Xbox 360 and PS3, earning the company over $500 million dollars in the first week alone.
Sales of the Grand Theft Auto games have historically been very swift, with composite NPD and VGcharts [...]

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Yearly American Television Watching Equals 2,000 Wikipedias

Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, has a fascinating post on his blog about the sheer amount of brain power invested in television and, in specific, the amount of time we spend watching advertisements. According to Shirky, Americans spend the same amount of brain power watching television advertisements [...]

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Cross Media Social Network Film Marketing …the Spongecell way..

An interesting video with the creators of the new pilot web site from Carnegie Mellon University, called Spongecell. Spongecell. brings together the interactivity of social networking to product marketing and promotion campaigns. An interesting example was the Yari Film Group in the USA..
Yari Film Group sees 40% opt-in
“We wanted to promote our movie “Final Season” [...]

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Significant personality overhaul for XBox 360 controller..

Watch this space…. I am just filtering through a lot of information that has just surfaced about the next generation XBox 360 controller that Microsoft maybe working on.. When I get some conclusive evidence, I will post it up, but in the meantime here is the “general” synopsis…
Firstly I have no idea about the physical [...]

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Mossberg on the future of online-media

Walt Mossberg, the Wall Streets Journal very well connected editor of “All Things Digital”, was invited to the Finnish Embassy in Washington DC this week for a talk organised by Andy Plesser of beet.tv fame.
His comments on the future of online media is extremely interesting especially his comments on slow broadband. He also dropped a [...]