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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.

finger bookmark

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:07:25 +0000

(via insipire me now)

January 27th is (once again) apple’s day

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:12:22 +0000

Apple has officially announced that on the 27th they will be announcing their latest creation, most likely a glorious iSlate/iTablet mini pc, large iPhone/iPod device, and i am left here wondering do we really need one. I mean what is the need that it is supposed to cover? What is the demographic? What worries me the most is that its going to be beautiful, very easy to use, fused with the golden touch of Steve Jobs comeback – which he is trying to bring to life for quite a while now – and with really intuitive and original interface, and by being all that will force my badly fire-walled brain to marketing and gadgets to decide to overcharge my credit card to buy it. So while i am really eager to see all the novelties the “new creation” is bound to bring i really hope that it has a really good practical use, a need to fulfill, even though i didn’t know i had that need

NEC 43″ Curved LCD

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:04:00 +0000

one laptop per child

admin — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:56:00 +0000

one laptop per child with design by pentegram