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.
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.
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.
perhaps a handy and more compact alternative to the regular X10 or iPhone for that matter. We’ll see. It is of course with all the same features as the X10, incl Android platform…
So it was the Apple Table or iPad as they chose to call it. I must admit it looks pretty cool. Its supposed to be the holder of apps, videos, photos and books. I predict that it will at least revolutionize the book market 500%. Fuck Kindle and all the other crappy digi-book readers. This is the ticket. Its supposed to be excellent for surfing the net and reading and writing emails also… We’ll see. I have few reservations or doubts when it comes to Apple living up to expectations these days. Good to see Steve back in good health too.
Soo looking forward to the coming Android smartphone from Sony Ericsson the Xperia X10… It should kick some serious ass. Even in the presence of the below phones (somparison from mashable.com). Sorry about the fruity video and horrible soundtrack though…was not consulted. But I’m getting me one of those. Need a replacement for the C905…its been years.
