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
… that is an iPad of course! Watching this film about Alice in Wonderland on iPad makes me crave even more… it shows how Apple add new life to an old fairytale utilising the iPad-tech to enrich the experience.
/iben
In the future more and more important services/sites will be aggregations of content such as Huffington Post. Services, based on the user’s own preferences either because the user seeks them out herself or based on bespoke content tailored to each person’s taste.
Now, Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake has developed a new site called Hunch which provides customized recommendations. Hunch proposes a concrete and customized recommendation for all kind of topics and refines its results by asking you questions about both the topic itself and who you are.
LIKE HAVING A FRIEND
Increasingly, the Hunch technology will learn the individual user’s personality and preferences like a friend who over time will get to know your taste, so she can provide trusted advice.
/ iben
Never mind I figured it out myself – it will be a silly glasses solution… Go Heff.
/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:-)
/Baek
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
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.
Watch the full product presentation here: http://www.apple.com/ipad/#video
I know I already commented on Bo Bechs cookingschool when the first version ment for mobile phones came out. I love it and I use it quite often. My other half was making porkroast for his christmas party with the boys and he used Bo’s video. HOWEVER, now the i-phone app is here and it’s as yummy as the chocolate cake! The screensize oviously making this video experiense amazing. Go to your app store and search for “kokkeskole”.
/Katrine
‘Hello?
”Anybody knows what to do here?’
”This looks like the loneliest place in the world’
Are some of the common phrases I’ve read among my Google Wave friends.
The wave is here and I jumped onboard a couple of days ago as a beta-tester. Quite a few friends have joined the wave too and we are all still trying to find out its potential: Will this be the killer app replacing e-mail and all the other digital online platforms or is this just a not that userfriendly hype?
LET ME IN
What took me by surprise was how fast peope picked up on the Wave eventhough there is still a lack of critical mass. I started out with 8 open invites so my friends and network could join. These were quickly distributed. Two days after I received another 8, and I posted an open invitation on my Facebook status. Within less than an hour the invitations were all gone. One of my Facebook friends even texted me to be sure he was let in.
WAVE TOOLS
From Technically Personal the ultimate list of Wave apps and gadgets
/ iben
