Daily Mail has found a patent application made by Apple for some weird eyewear – nicknamed the “iSpecs” by some – that would turn an iPod or iPhone into a portable 3-D movie experience. From the filed application…
Alright, so… who wants to be the first person to walk around the neighborhood with an iPod covering up their eyes?...
If this is a technical issue, it’s darn just about the weirdest one that I’ve ever seen in a lifetime filled with playing with gadgets.
And I’m also reminded of Auric Goldfinger’s classic line to James Bond: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.” If this happens a third time, I’m going to have the whole thing stripped down and examined, psychoanalyzed and possibly exorcised. Or perhaps it’s some subliminal cue from my own superego that is trying to tell me something?
This morning while rewatching last night’s episode of Lost from my DVR, I did a search back through previous recordings from the past weekend, ‘cuz there were a bunch of good movies that I wanted to catch for the first time.
Somehow, my DVR also recorded a movie that I have seen before, but didn’t have schedule to record.
The really crazy thing ...
I’m just curious how many of you were some of the poor saps who camped out yesterday morning at the Apple Stores to get an iPad.
No, I’m not one of them. Fer pete’s sake, it took me six years before I finally broke down and got an iPod! Probably be just as long before I spring for an iPad (which I still think has one of the silliest names for a gadget ever :-P)...
Back in the day a lot of us cut our computin’ teeth on the Commodore 64. First appearing on the market in 1982, 14 million Commodore 64s were sold before the line was finally retired twelve years later. My sister had one. How good was it? I would often trade time on my Nintendo Entertainment System for a turn on her Commodore 64 (usually to play games like Aliens, still one of the best video game adaptations of a motion picture that I’ve ever seen). And for bunches of people, the Commodore 64 was their first entry into what became known as the Internet, via services like CompuServe and America Online.
So if you’re one of the old-skool fans of this snazzy lil’ system, you’ll be excited to know that come June you’ll be able to purchase the heavily revamped Commodore 64: packing a wazoo of new ...
3-D printing is starting to become quite a commercially viable technology. And now a smart-thinkin’ dude named Enrico Dini has raised the game bigtime with the D-Shape printer: a large-scale printer that consumes sand and along with magnesium-based glue, can churn out furniture, sculpture… and even entire buildings!
Dini suggests that in the future, his technique could be used to quickly establish a base on the Moon by supplying it with native lunar dust and building required structures from there, instead of hauling material from Earth.
Hit here for more about the D-Shape printer, which will probably be pretty cheap when it comes to market… but the cost of the ink cartridges will be insane! 😛...
The nearby town of Greensboro has already been competing hard to be the “test bed” city for the Google Fiber ultra-high speed Internet. Now Winston-Salem has entered the race. All over the country medium-sized cities are doing things like changing their names to “Google” and other stunts so as to win the bid.
Ummmm… why?
Even if Google Fiber is 100 times faster than regular broadband, what good will it be? Within the winning city the Internet might work at blazing-hot speed, but the “normal” speed of the outside world will be a debilitating bottleneck. At least until Google Fiber gets rolled out sufficiently enough to take on a bulk of the data traffic.
It’s like trying to win a contest for an SR-71 Blackbird without having a runway to launch it from. No doubt that it’ll look real purty sitting in your backyard, but what’s the use if ...
Not since I first began finagling with web pages in 1995 have I been so intrigued in a markup specification like the forthcoming HTML 5. Among other things it aims to get rid of embedded Flash video and similar presentations with a simple video tag.
(Meh. Don’t particularly care for that one just yet. I don’t really see what the problem is with Flash, other than it won’t work on iPhone and other mobile devices but that’s an issue of Flash’s interactivity colliding with touch-screens.)
Anyhoo, Neil McAllister has an in-depth essay about HTML 5 and what we can expect from it at the InfoWorld site. Well worth reading even if you’re just a casual tinkerer with HTML....
Heaven only knows how many alternative energy schemes have been proposed over the years, only to watch all of ’em that come to mind fail to deliver the promised goods of cheap, clean power.
But having read about it for the past few weeks, and now seeing what was unveiled yesterday by the company, I think there’s a LOT of potential in what Bloom Energy has come up with.
Imagine ten years from now, having a brick-sized energy server supplying all of the electricity to your house. No power lines or anything. A few weeks ago my house went 22 hours without power during a severe winter storm, along with 43,000 other people in this county. That would be a thing of the past, along with monthly bills from the power company.
Well, possibly. PCWorld’s website has ten questions about the Bloom Energy Server that lots of folks will ...
It’s been my favorite joke to tell during the past 24 hours…
“Lots of people are upset about the 4:3 aspect ratio of the iPad so Apple is rolling out one with a 16:9 screen in a few months. They’re calling it the Max-iPad.”
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Okay, giggles at its horrible name aside, plenty of people are wondering if the iPad is already set to be a bomb for the House of Jobs. Putting it all into perspective is Geoff Gentry: good friend and techno-ubergeek whose opinion on all matters gadget I have long held in great esteem.
Some of Geoff’s points about the iPad…
...First of all as “magical” and “revolutionary” as the iPad is, it is 1st generation technology. With Apple that means it will get better quickly. Here are my thoughts on the new product.
The Name: Yes the word pod was out there before Apple added
Think your iPhone or BlackBerry is the wave of the future? Feh! Behold the marvelous technology of 1913, represented by E.C. Hanson’s “automobile wireless telephone”. With his buggy outfitted with two telephone poles and various high-voltage insulators, Hanson could make calls from the road up to 35 miles away.
Technologizer has a fun lil’ read up on their site about Hanson’s “cell phone” and fourteen other innovations that were decades ahead of the curve. Like Thomas Edison’s idea to print a 40,000 page book that would be only two inches thick, using ultra-thin metal plates instead of paper.
(Thankfully that one didn’t see production. Lord knows that I have enough trouble with papercuts 😛 )...