If you don’t get broadband in your crib, you might have missed the global movie phenomenon titled, “Avatar.” James Cameron did it again and cleaned up at the box office with a staggering $2.039 billion earning worldwide. Which converts into Rands at an incalculable, 15, 6646 billion ‘Rond.’ He over took his own previous record for Titanic as the biggest box office, money earner in history. The biggest thing to come from this success however, is the emergence of the 3D generation. The cinema experience will never be the same again.
According to Ster-Kinekor, the financial impact ($$$) of the new generation 3D films has been so great that most pundits advocate this format will become the standard for cinema-goers.
This animation by Keiichi Matsuda seems like a pretty reasonable vision of what the next iterations of augmented reality will bring. In his vision of the future, media saturates the physical world, and ads pervade everything.
The shape of the flash drive is designed according to main functions of this device: collecting, accumulating and acquiring information. The curvature of the flash drive’s case also makes it easier to disconnect the flash drive from the computer’s USB port.
A little display located on the flash drive’s case shows the volume of data already stored on the drive. Depending on how the flash drive is programmed, this information may be shown as a percentage of total storage capacity, or in megabytes used; also, certain symbols or writings may be displayed there.
The way of presentation of the displayed information may be changed using the menu activated when the flash drive is turned on.
Inside the Intel booth at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show, the Internet was displayed in double HD. Running on an Intel Core i7 processor, the touchscreen measures 9×9 feet and vividly displayed in 1920 x 1920 resolution, dynamically pulling in 500 nuggets of information, photos, tweets and blog posts from the Internet.
With Google Music Search just released today, the quintessential search engine and the force behind the much-discussed Andriod now has a new function under its belt, creating an all-encompassing Google experience. Don’t remember the title of that ear bug or that song you really want to download from last night’s club spin? Sweat not, just key in part of the lyrics or anything you can remember and Google will be able to churn up results with an instant play option with help from MySpace and Lala. While Yahoo already has a similar service offered prior to Google, for the Google fanatics this would be an evangelizing bonus.
Ever wish your iPhone could look as good as you do in that Gucci suit with those matching Gucci loafers? Well, it still can’t…. But your iPhone can be laced with the Gucci Beats! Luxury brands have seen a bit of trouble amidst the recession earlier this year so they are vamping up their marketing efforts to move some serious product this holiday season. Gucci’s answer? Create an app for one of the worlds most popular hand held devices of course!
GoodMorning! is a Twitter visualization tool which shows about 11,000 tweets collected over a 24 hour period between August 20th and 21st. The tweets were harvested to find people saying ‘good morning’ in English as well as several other languages.
Audi is setting new Augmented Reality standards with their latest A4 Configurator. Using Microsoft Surface supposedly soon in dealerships, the Configurator allows users to build their ultimate A4 in an immersive 3D environment. Showcase at this year’s IAA - the world’s leading automotive fair, it allows you to configure an Audi A4 simultaneously by changing the car’s paint finishes, rims and by selecting and coloring style package components.
Thursday 8 October 2009 will remain a memorable and auspicious occasion in South African calendar. The Silicon Cape Initiative Launch witnessed 500 plus delegates in support of what will undoubtedly grow into South Africa’s next largest, exportable commodity. Politicians, entrepreneurs, VC’s and web 2.0 savvy fundies enjoyed a morning of interactive creative-genius listening and participating in ensuring that we do what’s necessary and plan ahead.
“If you feel like your coworkers just don’t ostracize you enough, these fuzzy bear and rabbit USB hand warmers are sure to do the trick. “Why does that guy have his hands jammed into a stuffed animal’s esophagus?” they’ll ask.”
“If you feel like your coworkers just don’t ostracize you enough, these fuzzy bear and rabbit USB hand warmers are sure to do the trick. “Why does that guy have his hands jammed into a stuffed animal’s esophagus?” they’ll ask.”