Johnny Chung Lee’s name has been turning up a lot in the world of tech lately for his experiments with Wii-motes. He’s turned them into Minority Report-like computers and used them to turn normal screens into touch-sensitive ones. After seeing his latest video on Engadget, I clicked through to his website and found some of his older (2004-05) experiments. Amazing! He’s the same guy who worked on the adaptive projector, which I’ve seen before.
Check it out:
I’m telling you, some time in the near future we’ll all be buying stuff like this from his developed with Apple or MS or something…
GW likes to take a couple people with him whenever he travels…
…as he should be doing. He’s the PRESIDENT for crying out loud. And some people say this is excessive.
Engadget.com revealed on the 31st that they have been invited to an “Apple ‘product presentation for Mac’ at Apple Town Hall in Cupertino next week. The event gets started on the morning of Tuesday, August 7th, and while we weren’t promised an appearance by El Jobso, Apple was, shockingly enough, very open and clear about the fact that this is going to be a press gathering for Mac products (and Mac products only)”.
Looks like Apple will be updating the Mac before the iPod. So I was wrong about the order, but I was right saying that August 7th will be all about the Mac. Will everything else I said about the brushed aluminum iMacs be true also?
This morning the US/Canada Apple store was down (apple.com/store). It came right back up with no differences. Everything seems yo be the same. Perhaps it was just some normal maintenance, or maybe….
Notice that there is a small gap in between the two rows of products in the center of the page.
Could this be a minor mistake as they altered the code to allow a third row of products? The new updates I predicted in my last post?
When Apple moved to the new version of their site at the announcement of the iPhone, all pages were updated for the new style- except the store. It still has plain gray boxes while other pages, such as the “Mac” page to the right, have a nice gradient and larger size.
Could all these things be signs that Apple is preparing to update the store? Maybe, say, for an August 7th product transition?
Today, there are over 540,000 words in the English language: 5 times the number in Shakespeare’s time. I find this amazing. As slang and new terms like “cool”, “Internet”, “blogs”, and “Google” are officially accepted, it not only complicates our lives, but enriches them. It is predicted that by 2049, the computation power of a single, ordinary laptop will exceed that of the entire human race. Combined. Kind of hard to believe, especially considering that every 8 seconds 34 children are born, and that number just keeps climbing. At this rate, the human race won’t fit on 2 Earths by 2049. Continue reading »
Apparently the iPhone isn’t as fragile as everyone thought. PC World, among other things, dropped it onto concrete a few times and rubbed the screen with a key, but the tempered glass screen didn’t show “any visible scratches”. The only signs of damage were some scuffs on the shiny chrome sides. It seems that it actually was a good idea for Apple to use a glass screen instead of a plastic one. Goos job, Apple. You can see PC World’s video here and read their article here.
(and thanks to Engadget.com for their excellent iPhone coverage that pointed out this article and provided the picture.)
The iPhone is coming in about 5 minutes from when I’m writing this, and Gizmodo.com is doing a live unboxing at 6:15. And Engadget.com has live-updated, multi store in this post.
omg I can’t wait, not that I’m crazy enough topay that much for one, but it looks cool (shiney = good, shiney + Apple Logo = ****ing awesome). And I heard that the firts things the Apples stores will do when they get the shipments is a firmware update to add some last minute functionality like picture messaging. Cool. Kind of like what the Wii and PS3 did; they begged for an update the moment you got them out of the box and onto the internet.
Hey! I just updated the Engadget page and it says they’re letting the first guy buy one in an AT&T store in Montague, St. Brooklyn!
Russian designer Dima Komissarov has an idea of making an inflatable flash drive which would get larger depending on how many files you have stored in it. Whenever a file is placed into the flash drive the micro pump will blow up the bag around it. Of course, When the flash drive is full it will not “Blow-up” as in “Explode” it will just get filled up to the point where it looks like it’s going to pop, but then it will display an error message on your PC. I wonder if when it’s completely empty if it will deflate all the way, or if it will deflate just a little bit making the flash drive look like a normal rectangular box like shown in the picture? When this product is released I will definitely get one just to mess around with the inflation and deflation of it.
Yesterday Google announced that it planned to changed the name of its “Personal Homepage”, which lets you choose content to add to the Google main page, to “iGoogle”. They won’t change the entire Google website, only give the “Personal Homepage” section a shorter name.
As for the name itself, the “i” in the new name seems to not be in an Apple-style random naming, but mean “myself”. If you ask me, I think it’s remarkably similar to Yahoo’s “My Yahoo”, which has existed for awhile. Think about it: “My Yahoo”, “iGoogle”. Similar, eh?
Google seems to lately be becoming a sort of internet Microsoft. In the days of “Web 2.0″, what enthusiasts like to call the current age of the internet- where websites are driven by user-generate content and pushed by big companies with huge wallets like Google, Microsoft, and AOL- many websites are making what’s called “rich web applications”. The idea of these applications is essentially to have a desktop quality program that works over the web. Google seems to be leading the razor-edge of this trend. They are constantly making new services, including Google Docs and Spreadsheets, orkut, Google Maps, and now even YouTube.
I see a great future for Google. Today anyone with a free Google account can log into iGoogle to check the latest news, their email, the weather, and so much more. I predict that within 2-3 years there Google will become partners with a major phone service like Verizon, Cingular, or Sprint, to allow us to check voicemail and send text messages. And, as GPS-like technology will most likely be standard in any cell phone by that time, Google Earth Mobile will let us receive real-time traffic data and webcam feeds while on the road. Google will soon be an even more important part of our everyday lives.. even more than it already is.
When Apple moved to the new version of their site at the announcement of the iPhone, all pages were updated for the new style- except the store. It still has plain gray boxes while other pages, such as the “Mac” page to the right, have a nice gradient and larger size.
