Which advert are you going to notice more: a poster on a wall, a paint job on the back of a bus or a well toned midriff sporting a custom advertising paint job. If you say anything but the later you ain’t normal.
As advertisers have known for years “sex sells” so by painting adverts onto the regions we all want to look at anyway, it is a guaranteed way to get an advert noticed.
Virginia based company PixelOptics have developed some hi-tech glasses that could make bifocals a thing of the past. The glasses are able to switch from normal glasses to reading glasses in an instant via a flick of a switch.
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I’m always fascinated by Google Earth. I often zoom in on old haunts and places I haven’t been to for many years. I must admit, I’d never seen any practical applications until now.
According to Gadgetspy, Google have teamed up with Volkswagen and graphic card manufacturer nVidia, to develop the ultimate, future satellite navigation system.
For the first time, 3D images will be available as well as practical information about location, traffic jams, and the weather that you get with existing devices.
The problem with existing navigational systems is that the 2D display doesn’t give you a “feel” for where you are and is sometimes difficult to trust, especially for long journeys through unknown terrain. If you could have a real-time, graphical display of where you were, it could help build confidence and add a little spice to long-distance journeys, as I’m sure you can well imagine looking at the graphic.
As well as providing location, the gadget could tell you other useful information, no doubt from Google’s index, such as the location of the next gas station, hotel, restaurant, etc.
Apparently, the device is in its development phase. There are no details of price or launch date, but I have to say – I’m intrigued!
Found via Gadgetspy
I’m sure most of us have heard of Skype, the most popular VOIP calls, offering cheap PC-to-landlines calls to international countries worldwide. No doubt the quality of the service has been very good, and the rates are pretty fair and reasonable. However, have anyone considered that VOIP calls can be free?
Oh yes, there are (perhaps, not to every single destination in the world) some that are offering free VOIP calls to landlines. In addition, those non-free calls, normally have cheaper rates compared to Skype’s, when dialling to similar destinations. Basically, what I have here are three piece of cool softwares – VoipBuster, VoipCheap and VoipStunt!!
PC World decided to figure out what the top 50 gadgets from the last 50 years would be if they polled their editors and asked them their opinion. There were a few rules. “The devices had to be relatively small (no cars or big-screen TVs, for example), and we considered only those items whose digital descendants are covered in PC World (cameras, yes; blenders, no). We rated each gadget on its usefulness, design, degree of innovation, and influence on subsequent gadgets, as well as the ineffable quality we called the “cool factor.”” Then they totaled the results.
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Taking the next step in their bid to own the entire internet, Google have launched Google Base.
It takes the “tagging” concept familiar to photographers (look at flickr for an example) and applies it to data. Any data. If it can be represented in HTML, it can be stored, described and searched. The idea is you upload your data (recipie, car for sale, resume, cool idea for a new nuclear powered toaster, whatever). Then you tag it with text attributes, i.e “toaster”, “nuclear power”, “zany”.
Currently google base is a separate search but in time I’d expect base data to be integrated into the normal google search results.
As to why… ummm… why not? I guess it’s an easy way of publishing specific targeted content but I can see it getting polluted very quickly – if anybody can upload anything and tag it as anything they like, google will have some fun sorting out the data!
We did the best of Stuff Show yesterday and it was a great day out. Had a bit of a panic on the day, first I was woken up with shouts of a water leak in the loft. After fixing that (well turning the water off), rushing for the train, there was then big time security at the station which nearly resulted in me missing the 9:50 to London. We eventually arrived at the Show at 11AM and it was a full day with a load to see.
To start off with I’m just going to do a quick overview of the gadgets and gizmos on display, over the next week we’ll write up on all the best (and worst) gear we found to play with (or at least see).
I am sure most of you would have watched Star Wars before. Imagine finding yourself landed on a foreign land, or looking through the most powerful tracking system over your screen, overlook an area over a piece of land. This is what NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) World Wind has in for you. With NASA World Wind, installed users can view the moon in 3D image, with Clementine data and full place names.
According to Patrick Hogan, World Wind project manager at NASA Ames, this was the first of its kind, exploring the moon in 3D interactive environment, created by World Wind.
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