Entries Tagged as 'gadgets'

Friday, November 7th, 2008

iPhone as Serious Musical Instrument?

There have been a few iPhone apps that suggest where things are heading, not necessarily with the iPhone as musical instrument (it is still a small toy) but with musical instruments of the future. The multi touch, inertia driven interface at larger scale is going to be very interesting as well as the proximity and [...]

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

What Will Console Social Virtual Worlds Really Mean

From Gary’s original post on personalizemedia.
Interesting times ahead - the Console space finally collides with the Social Virtual World space as Sony and Microsoft race to be first to offer non-closed beta, ’social (read: commercial) virtual world’ front ends to their ‘trojan horse’ consoles. Will they start to reap the benefits of a very large [...]

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

When Game Consoles Get Serious

I love my little black DS-Lite. It has made several global plane journey’s a lot more bearable with its cute ‘grind’ games, sims, racing, stories and good old brain trainer. I also do serious tech music too and of course have the full Logic/Reason/Live Macbook Pro rig as well as some cool ‘retro’ emulators like [...]

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 [...]

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

MEFCON 2008 - What a stupid question to ask?

Courtesy of Michael Ball:
“Is there a market for feature-length films on the mobile phone?” I asked Tomas Gewecke, new President of Digital Distribution for Warner Bros., at the US Mobile Entertainment Forum Conference MEFCON last week.
You’d think, by the audience reaction, that I just confessed to running over his dog.
Warner cut a deal recently with [...]

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Virtual World bursts into Mobile World

Following on from the watercooler post last week on Second Life running on a Samsung phone it is interesting how in the last month we have virtual worlds appearing on mobile devices at every turn - iPhone etc: below. Will May 08 be known as the month Web 3.0 (the real time, social virtual world [...]

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” [...]

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Cracked iTouch/phone Used in Marketing Campaign

The Digg community are having fun with this one from Engadget. A bona-fide top press and poster ad for the iPhone/iTouch in the states shows the large front screen of an iTouch that has been jailbroken or hacked Now this just shows you that Apple have really gotten their ‘tie-it-down’ attitude all wrong - [...]

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 [...]

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Becks gets a golden iPod!

Yes Lady’s and Gent’s you heard it right… After completing his 100th soccer/football game for England, everyone’s favourite high-pitched voice sports star, David Beckham has received a gold plated iPod touch from his team mates to celebrate the occasion.. The thing is worth over $1,600.00 aussie dollars.. And fortunately they didn’t skimp on the iPod [...]

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

The Richest Mobile Platform Ever?

We have been using our iPhones to do some strange things here at LAMP over the past months. Most of the coolest apps come from the very active community of developers already delivering some great apps via the installer application that runs on unlocked iPhones. Some of us are remarkably running PlayStation 1, Nintendo Entertainment [...]

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

coffee table data visualisation

Not sure whether this could be defined as a gadget - but it’s my object o’ the week in any case. Not sure about form, and I’m certainly not sure about function but, at the end of the day, it’s a sweet way to see what your feeds are doing in a physical sense (and [...]

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Google Usage on the Apple iPhone has shocked the search engine giant.

Google on Wednesday said it has seen at least 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset on the planet - a revelation so astonishing that the company originally suspected it had made an error in its statistic collection.
“We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check [...]

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Musion Eyeliner - the ultimate cool sip

Ok Lamp’er here is the Rolls Royce of cool sips, Musion Eyeliner.. This is the best 3D holographic projection system known to man, it was invented in 2001 and put into production in 2004.. You may of seen it working, although on TV and in 2D, when the various news broadcasts talked about the Prince [...]

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Apple brings Facebook to the iPhone

Well, With the introduction of the new 16GB iPhones and 32GB iPod Touch today, Apple also released a couple of new iPhone Ads to air in the USA. Apart from the fact they never mentioned the new iPhones in the Ad, I found it interesting that they are starting to promote online social environments. [...]