Join Is Apple getting serious with AppleTV?
AppleTV is getting serious, and smaller. In today’s fall event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed the new AppleTV and stunned many with how small it’s really become. A little larger than his palm, the new AppleTV comes with HDMI out, WiFi, Ethernet and is about 75% smaller than it’s predecessor.
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$10 Off at Think Geek
Think Geek are offering a $10 discount on all orders over $30. It’s a Fathers Day promotion but hey, who says you can’t buy something cool for yourself. When checking out use the code THXDAD, offer is valid until close of play 11/6/10 so get your orders in now: Think Geek.
Let these Red Robots be your guide
I have to admit that I have never heard of Santander’s Group City in Madrid before, but it is certainly one of the most advanced places that I have ever seen.
Apparently this is the location of one of the largest banks in the world, and is employed by about 5,500 people. You can imagine that is easy to get lost in this massive place, which is why the robots were called in.
Yes, that is what these red round robots are. They are “Interactive Guest Assistants” with a screen in front of them to ask the visitor where they want to go. They will then take you to the conference room or wherever you wish to be going. Do not let the perspective in this photo fool you, these robots are only a little higher than the average person’s knee.
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Man swallows evidence: A Kingston thumb drive
Have you ever seen The Incredible Hulk movie? Not that bad one starring Eric Bana with its strange editing, but the halfway decent one starring Edward Norton.
I bring it up because in the film, Dr. Banner (Norton) is about to become the Hulk, but he has some valuable information on a thumb drive. In order to protect the valuable data from his enemies and himself, he decides to swallow it. After he calms down from becoming the big green monster, he later regurgitates the thumb drive.
I’ve always wondered if someone could swallow a thumb drive, barf it up, and use it later. It would appear that we are going to find out as someone actually did this, in real life. Find out the situation after the jump.
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Flyfire Swarming Display: Top Secret MIT Project?
I’ve always thought about how cool it would be if bees could swarm into shapes, like they do on cartoons. Think of that one school of fish in Finding Nemo. With the bees example, I would imagine it would be a cross between the nano-swarm in Michael Crichton’s Prey or the smoky monster from Lost.
Apparently, some people are working to create a swarming display over at MIT’s SENSEable City Laboratory. This program, dubbed Flyfire, uses a lot of micro helicopters with multicolored and controllable LEDs. As they come together, they can form a 3-D display.
Normally, this is the point where I explain that there is a video of this product after the jump, but the video from my source went offline shortly after they posted about FlyFire. Is this technology meant to be some sort of top-secret project that somehow got leaked? You might want to check my Source to see if the video has re-posted.
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Sign of the Technological Times: Funerals Online
Watch the video here to the left and you will see a sign of the times. This is the pitch video for Funeral Resources, a service that allows you to broadcast the funeral of your loved one online.
I suppose we are getting to the point where we need a service like this, as Chris Hill, the man in the video, says: “there are many valid reasons why one would miss a funeral, such as travel costs and illness”. It would have been better if he would have just said those reasons, and not have the unnecessary captions repeating in text exactly what he is saying. I swear, it’s like watching Larry King Live.
You will notice how Chris talks about how “there are some people that you just don’t want to have there at the funeral”. You want to know what’s sick? He’s right. However, I think it would be cold comfort to give that questionable relative or friend a password so they could watch the funeral online.
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Light Touch takes virtual interfaces to a colorful level
Light Touch uses a laser driven, interactive holographic display
Man, it seems like years ago that a small company in Israel introduced us to a light projected keyboard interface. If you remember it, it displayed a red keyboard template and the projector was able to determine what key the user was pressing and translate it to text on a screen. This enabled the user to completely get rid of a physical QWERTY keyboard and provide extra space on the desk (which I could use considering I’m using two keyboards at the moment). But Light Blue Optics is taking it to a whole new level with Light Touch, a complete keyboard and display interface which brings computing to just about any surface.
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The Ring Wall is world’s largest touchscreen
I’m going to be visiting Vegas in a little while for CES, and I heard that the Vegas Hard Rock Cafe has a huge touchscreen that I just have to see (and touch, of course).
That particular touchscreen is 18 feet x 4 feet, but the Ring Wall in Nurburg, Germany is 45 meters long and two meters high. It has 15 high definition projectors for up to 34.5 million pixels worth of display. Nice!
So, what can we put on this Ring Wall touchscreen? How about anything we want! Just think, I could probably fit all the icons for every iPhone app! I’ve included a video of the Ring Wall after the jump so you can see it for yourself.
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