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Paris 26 Gigpixels

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:21:31 +0000

Amazing hi-res, zoom friendly panoramic views of Paris, have a play.

http://www.paris-26-gigapixels.com/index-en.html

My personal favoroute is the zoomed in view of the Eiffel Tower, you can even see the little peeps looking back at you through the telescope

iPhone 4.0 will multi-task

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:09:05 +0000

According to sources close to Apple, the company will be introducing multitasking support to the iPhone in its 4.0 firmware release.

Whether Apple will allow for similar functionality on the iPad is unknown. The lack of multitasking in the device has been a major point of complaint among users of the iPhone, and of potential purchasers of the future iPad. Both gadgets only allow for one application to be used at a time, something that Microsoft has been poking fun at recently.

The only complaint that we have heard more times than the lack of multitasking, is the exclusion of Flash from Apple mobile devices. Apple will not move from that point, but on this front it will give that market what it has long been asking for.

Anyone and everyone who has jailbroken their iPhone has had multitasking for some time, as the iPhone can support it quite simply. Apple has merely been blocking a simple software fix. Why?

Explanations tend to center around battery life and phone performance. More applications running will lead to lower battery life, and already taxed mobile processors might not be able to handle the load. However, with the newer, more powerful iPhone 3GS only one of the issues remains problematic.

It is very late, but as they say, better late than never.

Playstation ‘Move’ Demo

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:38:48 +0000

If you’re a gamer, you might have heard about yesterday’s news about the PlayStation Move, Sony’s answer to the Wii Remote and Microsoft’s upcoming Project Natal motion controller. In a demonstration yesterday, the company showed off the device, which utilizes remote-like controllers and the PlayStation Eye camera to capture your movements and turn them into actions on the screen.

Check out the video below for the demo.

Robotic Humming Bird

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:24:58 +0000

Amazing engineering, robotic hummingbird in flight.

Green Man in Tokyo Video

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:14:11 +0000

The green man from a crossing sign goes for a walk around night-time Tokyo, really nice.

tokyoglow-low from Nathan Johnston on Vimeo.

DSI goes 3D

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:42:40 +0000

Originally posted by Rubbishcorp, this video shows how a face tracking technique on the Nintendo DSI can be used to give the viewer a 3d view, unique to portable devices.

ePad, like the iPad but more ‘amazinger’

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:20:21 +0000

TV station E4 clearly loves Apple. This spoof promo video is currently running regularly between shows.

Taking its cues from Apple’s iPad video but giving it a cheeky E4 twist, it’s almost enough to convince us to watch an episode of godawful youth soap Hollyoaks.

Twitter Outage

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:05:57 +0000

Many Twitter users are experiencing a problem today – their timelines haven’t updated in hours and as of yet there’s been no word from Twitter HQ.

At 8.35 GMT (over six hours ago at the time of writing) new tweets dried up for me and (judging by a Twitter search) lots of other users.

Not all accounts are affected and even those who are can still happily tweet and see replies – still it’s a major problem and is crippling Twitter for many.

This is a familiar problem – Twitter has these glitches from time-to-time – but after six hours you’d have thought Twitter might have noticed and updated their Status Blog with a reassuring update that they were aware of the problem and were working on a solution. Alas no, they’re silent.

As Twitter becomes a utility for increasing numbers of people, it really can’t afford to be complacent with service faults. The fault may have emerged in the middle of a weekend night at Twitter HQ in California but do they not have 24-hour service engineers? If not, why not?

iPad UK Prices Revealed

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:59:45 +0000

Technology website Geeky Gadgets has received an insider tip detailing how much the Apple iPad will likely cost when it goes on sale in the UK. Currently, the UK Apple website still shows US pricing and a footnote reading: “Please note, pricing is in US dollars. International pricing will be announced at a later date.”

The unconfirmed source reported that the tablets would be priced as follows:

16GB WIFI will cost £389
32GB WIFI will cost £439
64GB WIFI will cost £489

There were no indications of how much the tablets with both WIFI and 3G would cost but there were suggestions that UK consumers can expect the iPad to launch in April.

We will update as soon as we hear anything more official.

What does your web site sound like?

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:07:25 +0000

File under “strange and delightful” — CodeOrgan is a Flash app that turns any web page into music.

It analyses the text in the body of the supplied URL and follows an algorithm to render that site into a musical composition. It chooses a drum pattern, synth style and key based on the contents of the page, and plays back the associated music via the “Play this website” button.

After analyzing your URL, you have the option of sharing your results on Facebook and Twitter. The creators, UK-based ad agency DLKW, also report being busy working on an embeddable version of CodeOrgan as well.

I think http://www.madeintheuk.com sounds rather funky in code organ