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Google takes on Futurama

admin — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:14:55 +0000

On July 1st 2010 went on air the episode of Futurama called ”Attack of the Killer App” that was taking the piss of Apple by introducing the “eyePhone”, a futurized iPhone that you could install in your retina, no ad intended there, and ear. You could control everything with your eye, capture/share/store to a massive/tiny hard-drive (the cloud?). Now Futurama is known to take an idea and stretch it to the borders of the cosmos and the eyePhone was no different. Here’s a clip:

So naturally this was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this:

Now these are exciting times. Technology is running like Usain Bolt is chasing her to sell her something and the world around us is moving deeper and deeper into the Matrix and to a digital life. Everybody wants to get a piece, or even better the whole pie, of that digitalization. Google is dominating the search but wants social digital media, Apple has mobile hardware and music but wants social media and the cloud, amazon has online selling but silently wants more and so forth and so forth. This latest effort by Google, called Project Glass, is a product, even as a prototype, of that war and, sadly as many before it, this one looks really good. If nothing else it sets the path for another battle, that of interaction, display and augmented reality.
My hope is that the battles go on for ever, because the ones that will lay down wounded in the battlefield are big corporations, but the victors will always be us, the users, with all the new products and services that the battles produce.

Battle on.

Friday’s spill (14/10/11)

admin — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:09:22 +0000

Steve Jobs – A tribute… by Paul Garland

'NATA5' by Russ Mills

AT-AT in Chicago by Tony Bamber

Danton by Wieslaw Walkuski

Truth's 5th Birthday by Wim Crouwel

Imperial War Museums identity by Hat Trick

Friday’s spill (01/10/10)

admin — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:58:40 +0000

blind by Justin M. Maller and Emeric Trahand.

Speak human by Eric Karjaluoto

The Kraken by Alex Pearson

Nihon Buyo by Ikko Tanaka

death apple by Dimitri Tsykalov

Friday’s spill, sketchbook special (30/07/10)

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:00:44 +0000

Lettering Sketchbook 1 by Linzie Hunter

Frog, lily, dog, frond and stick by Helen Lovelee

Sketchbook by Irina Vinnik

Sketches by Rubens Cantuni

Moleskine 2 by Michael Murdock

Home by Tata Biserova

Platines by by laurevolume

my moleskine by Anna Rusakova

Earlyspring Fields by Mattias Adolfsson

My Moleskine by Christian Borku

Pix-Mix pt I (analogue) by Andrew Maikov

Sketchbook by Pacman23

Not convinced…

admin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:57:10 +0000

This week it was apple’s week, no doubt. The “latest creation” that was speculated for nearly six months now was finally revealed and it was the talk of the town. Before the unveiling at least. Because after the reactions were mixed at best. Personally I am not sold. I was, probably cause of the marketing, eager to jump on board and get it, all i need it was the thing held back from everybody to be shown by the man himself. But that wasn’t the case. I didn’t get the “i need this”, which in all honesty i wasn’t expecting to get, but i didn’t even get the “wow” factor.
The specs, other than the price and the battery time, left a bitter taste in my mouth. No flash, no camera, no GPS, no multitasking, no special UI/multi-multitasking. It looks good and the general consensus is that once in your hands it is a different experience and that is what Mr. Jobs kept repeating. What I say to people that haven’t seen the presentation and ask me about it is “it looks good, it is a big iPhone but its not for me” and “its for people that have a mini PC’s and have money”.
The main thing is that I am left with the feeling that moses dropped the ball. The marketing built up was text book and the noise created was phenomenal but it raised the bar too high for the presentation that it didn’t meet. But having seen the 3 finger interaction in N.O.V.A I have a feeling that we haven’t seen the end of the features and I am (hoping) thinking that it was done in a rush and a lot of “new things” will be done until the iPad will find its way to the stores and that is why i think that Steve came short.
That’s it for this weeks 15min!

P.S.: iPad? Really?
P.S.2: Sherlock Holmes was good fun and well made with an excellent Robert Downey Jr.

Live coverage of the live coverage of the unveiling of the latest creation

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:42:01 +0000

This is a Live coverage of the live coverage of the unveiling of the latest creation by apple as seen in the updates over at http://live.appleinsider.com/
The event starts in about 20 mins.
And the most anticipated thing is “the most important thing I ever done”, as quoted Steve Jobs to have said, to be revealed.Just a small reminder that this is the first product presentation Steve Jobs is going to have after his 6 months medical leave for leaver transplant.
Also Steve jobs has been trying to bring an iPad device to life for nearly 15 years now.
Ten minutes now…
Wonder what the big surprise will be, i mean with all the thing speculated so far what hasn’t been said?
I don’t wish i was there, but it sure would be nice to have a video feed
Putting some music on, it’s nerve racking
4 minutes now
I really wish it will be really useful to me so i have a reason to overcharge my credit card for it.
Again
off we go…
under the tunes of what i got by Sublime
The man is on stage…
No feed form the feeds for a while now, i think they are down.
They are back.
Steve jobs is spitting numbers.
248 stores and not one in Greece
Now talking about a device in the middle, between smartphones and laptops
Apple insider is down.
Good thing i have a back up
And its name, iPad
iPad is very thin and you can change the home screen. It provides the best browsing experience you’ve ever had.
You can manipulate the page with your fingers
Danm i wish i had visual
It has a big onscreen keyboard and it has iTunes store built in
Nothing exciting so far
Opening a beer…
Feeds are down again…
Apple is the #1 mobile device maker in the world.
It looks like the iPad supports flash!
flash support, if true, is good news
still nothing mind blowing, maybe the expectations are too high?
It’s a slate that looks like a larger iPhone. There’s a home button, an aluminum bezel like a MacBook, a glass screen. Your able to personalize your home screen however you want. You can browse the Web with it — Steve says it’s the best browsing experience you’ve had
802.11n WI-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1. Accelerometer & compass, speaker microphone, 30-pin connector. Battery. What is the battery life of this device? 10 hours of battery life. Applause! Take a flight from SF to Tokyo and watch video the whole way on one charge. In addition, over a month of standby life. Set the iPad down, goes to sleep automatically, walk away and come back in a month and it still has a charge.
Green friendly
so far mainly a great video and internet experience
still hoping…
It will support unmodified apps from the app store, which means that you can run the same apps you run now on your iPhone
If developer spends some time modifying, they can take full advantage of the large touch-screen display.
Gameloft is presenting games now, Nova in particular.
NY Times is up now.
The main target is supposed to reading on the iPad, NY Times is a big thing to come supporting it.
NY Times says: Been at this for three weeks, and excited to pioneer new journalism.
“new journalism” being the key phrase.
Now showing off Brushes for on-screen painting, with playback of the paint processes, cool but nothing mind-blowing yet.
It seems to be fast, both processing and display wise.
Come Steve give a reason to more dept on my back.
Steve is back on presenting iBooks, with EPUB format support.
It’s Phil Schiller’s and iWork turn now.
It will have wi-fi, but 3g only to some models?
And he is shown some US specific data plans for the iPad
14 $ for 250 MB per month
“We think it’s a phenomenal offering. So what about internationally? We hope to have our international deals in the June-July timeframe. We think we can do a lot in June, we’ll start on that tomorrow. However all models are unlocked and use GSM micro-SIMS.”
And he wraps it up with the price?
It starts at $499 (not $999) for the stripped one
the 3g, 64GB is $829
“Within about 90 days we’ll be shipping 3G models. Soon you’ll be able to get an iPad in your hands for just $499.”
Now accessories, keyboard dock, case…
It looks and it sounds great so far but I don’t think I am sold, maybe I am not in the exact target group
It looks like a big iPhone, in all aspects. I don’t see anything really new for me other than being bigger. Maybe more for students and executives, excel working people.
I mean don’t get me wrong I want one I am just not sure I need one, or at least what I need it for
That’s it, it’s over.