Rather than read me banging on about the various features of the Motorola RAZR 2 check out this video from Shinymedia. Two lasses show off the new features on the RAZR re-incarnation although as they point out the vibrating touch screen feature - hauptics - is a bit difficult to demo in a video! A warning about the video is that your eye will be drawn away from the RAZR 2 by the garish ‘rose ring’ worn by the faceless presenter. Apart from the ring, enjoy!
Despite the eagerly anticipated release of Halo 3 not being until towards the end of the year, just in time for the Christmas present shopping season, Microsoft arranged for a sneak preview for invite-only gamers. The lucky group got to presumably play a version similar to the public beta version out on Wednesday.
However the game got mixed reviews from the group with the graphics receiving particular negative feedback. Nick Puleo, editor at Evilavatar.com, said,
The graphics can use some work…They’re not much different than the previous Halo.
Despite any misgivings the group may have about the game, we’re sure it’ll still sell like the proverbial hot cake come release time. It’ll be interesting to see what the responses are during the beta test too. Anyway to keep you Halo freaks happy (that’ll be us too!) here’s a video of a leaked beta of the game.
We decided to ignore obvious input/output jokes and just state the facts. Well the facts are that you plug it into a USB port and it humps your laptop. Thats about it really. It’ll probably amuse your work colleagues for a couple of hours and help you wile away a lazy afternoon at the office. Anyway here’s a great video of the little pooch in action.
Two things in the video amused us. One was the plastic cover on the USB connector, presumably to ensure no viruses were transferred. Secondly we’d love to know what the pop up message was on the laptop when the doggie got going - some sort of buffer overflow we guess.
This is what I call innovation. Back in my day we used a blackboard and chalk but it seems that future generations won’t have to get their hands dirty. This digital drawing board it’s not only clean and easy to use, as you can se it acts as a environment with predefined rules. Besides being cool this is a huge help when teaching physics classes or when you need simple animations to show your point.
Though it might take a while until we see this kind of hardware in the schools near you, it’s sure that technologies like this or derived from it are going to make our life better. What do you say about it?
After similar events in Turkey. This seems to keep happening to YouTube due to copyright scandals and calumniator content. Until Google bought it, this was not that much of a big deal but since then all who have something to gain from it can hit Google long and hard on the Youtube subject.
The ban was now established in Thailand, it seems YouTube editors refused to remove some offensive content, even though authorities from Thailand requested it in numerous occasions. As you well know this is not a first, YouTube got banned in the past in countries like Brasil and in state schools in Australia, for similar causes.
And legal matters are not the least of YouTube’s concerns now. Derived from all this copyright problems the video service from Google is facing a great deal of other sites of the kind offer video material that YouTube can’t show anymore. Here are a few examples AllSP or TV links or many more of the same sort that steal a increasing share of YouTube’s visitors.
YouTube is certainly traveling in some black waters, will be Google able to pull it off?
This short movie shows my exact point of view regarding Second Life, the MMORPG that lets you play… another life. I can understand why you want to be a hero and kill beasts and such, but why would you want to have a second life? One life is one too much for some people.
The new concept Nokia 888 is design by Tamer Nakisci, the Nokia Design Award, winner. And I say the award is well earned as you as you can see in the movie below. The phone is fully flexible and can take any shape, it’s even designed to ‘remember’ certain shapes ( some sort of presets), for example you can send a message to your boyfriend/girlfriend and make his/her phone take the shape of a heart.
Besides you can use the phone as a bracelet, make it turn into a clip-shape to carry it easily or make it ‘wave’ when somebody calls you. To do all this the battery is liquid-based an the display is flexible and servers as a touchscreen. With these features the phone will serve as a GPS device, PDS, alarm clock, electronic wallet and many more.
It all looks nice and high-tech but this is just a short preview of what technology has in store for us, phones like this won’t be on the market for at least a couple of years if not more.
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