Finally it’s here. It looks so cool, but there seems to be a flaw with the antenna in the new iPhone. It drops calls when you touch the bottom left corner. How could they possibly have missed this at Apple? I have a feeling that Steve is pissed.
/Baek
Our brothers in France, Arthur Schlovsky created a pretty cool microsite for Sony Ericssons Xperia X10 – check it out. http://www.sonyericsson.com/frxperiax10/
I like the way the bits inteact with the analog – totally digital vinyl:-) Not as cool as the Copenhagen X Sessions though. But hey what is??? We just launched the Oh No Ono session today… its a doosie.
If you like Arthur Schlovsky’s solution, lend them your vote at FWA, after you vote for the X Sessions:-) – http://thefwa.com/shortlist/xperia-x10-live-design-xperience
/Baek
Google ups the stakes, combining their core business of search, with augmented reality, scanning/photo usability and much more to come, it would seem. It looks very cool. It’s like the Layars app meets Google. It is launched as an app for Android phones. Check it out.
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I guess that’s why Steve got a little pissed about the drunk apple dude losing the phone and Gizmodo was raided and all that. It’s called the GPS-Phone folks.
Check the story here. Thanks to Andreas for the scoop.
http://shanghaiist.com/2010/06/07/iphone_4g_already_faked_in_china.php?gallery0Pic=2#gallery
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Just read on business.dk that Playboy will launch a 3D version of the magazine for the June issue.
This makes perfect sense. Nothing needs the 3D experience more than porn or whatever you call Playboy. The first 3D model will be Hope Dworaczyk. This is she:
I wonder how they will make the 3D experience come alive – with augmented reality on the mobile phone or with the funny glasses or maybe the old plastic holograms – all solid solutions. I kinda hope they go for the plastic. I just found an old magazine from 2001 with one of those glued in with Helena Christensen – I had to keep that for sentimental purposes:-) Does anyone know how they’ll doit?
/Baek
Just had a meeting with some of the guys who did this for Adidas, down at Sid Lee in A’Dam. Pretty cool.
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…found in a bar in Redwood. I guess the Apple developers got drunk and forgot their phone… oops – or maybe its just a clever “accidental leak”. Looks pretty good.
Check Gizmodo for more.
/Baek
Just saw this CNN special. Very interesting. Cameras recognize you gender and age and “relevant” ads are shown to you. Very Big Brother and Minority Report.
Thanks to Kristoffer Baek (my brother) for drawing this to my attention.
Another very interesting thing is Near Field Communication. This is where a terminal recognizes you mobile phone “signature”. So it potentially knows exactly who you are. This means it could call you your name, you can use it for payments, it can stream your Youtube favorites, show you ads directly aimed to you… situational, scary, invasive and extremely potent.
Thank you Arnold:-)
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For the first time ever I got QR codes (Quick Response codes) working. How did this happen. Well Sony Ericsson has done a very cool integration in the Soundvenue magazine for their X10 phone. They present additional videos and content from the featured articles directly on your mobile phone – you get this by scanning the qr code. And it actually works. I tried it so many times to no avail. BUT NOW IT WORKS. Could 2010 be the year this breaks. Hurray. I used the I-nigma app from the Android store.
Get this cool feature from SXSW eg.
/Baek
Just had my first 3D experience at the movies. Went to see Alice in Wonderland yesterday. I’ve loved Tim Burton since Beetlejuice, so my expectations were high, both for the movie and the 3D. Watching the pre-movie trailers (of How to train you Dragon, and especially Toy story 3) really got my expectations up. I was a bit disappointed with Alice in Wonderland though. Both the movie and the 3D effects – while some of it is absolutely gorgeous, some of it looks flat and blurry, and the subtitle track just looks weird floating in mid air.
So the verdict. Not Tim Burton’s best movie. 3D is definately not perfected yet, but it certainly has its moments. I think my favorite part of the movie was at the very end, where the transformed Absolom (once a caterpillar, now a butterfly) flew out from the screen and was hovering right over the person sitting in the row in front of me. And the old red&green paper glasses were so much cooler than the new ones.
/Baek