Sony Vaio P

Sony lancera en février son netbook, le Sony VAIO P. Une taille et un poids séduisant, pour des spécificités intéressantes : disque dur de 60 Go, écran LCD X-black de 1600 x 768 et caméra numérique intégrée. Plus d’images dans la suite.

Palm Pré

Présentation au salon du CES, du nouveau téléphone de Palm. Un appareil capable de rivaliser avec l’iPhone : il dispose d’un accéléromètre, d’un écran multi-point ainsi que d’un clavier coulissant incurvé. Plus d’infos dans la suite.

Il pourra se recharger sans fil grâce à un chargeur à induction magnétique appelée Touchstone. En bas de l’écran tactile existe une “Gesture area” d’où s’effectue la navigation et le contrôle des applications. Le tout fourni avec 8 Go de mémoire Flash et un APN de 3 mégapixels.

Disponible à la vente aux États-Unis dans le courant du premier semestre 2009.

Super-Thin LCD

La marque JVC présentera au CES un nouvel écran LCD full HD 32 pouces à rétro-éclairage LED avec seulement 7mm d’épaisseur : plus fin et moins lourd. Un prototype qui sera en vente dans le courant de l’année. Prix non communiqué.

Beosound 5 Multimedia

Une réalisation du célèbre constructeur danois Bang & Olufsen : une station multimédia dotée d’un écran couleur de 10,4 pouces associé à une molette de contrôle en aluminium servant de support pour l’écran.

Une manière de naviguer facilement dans une collection de CD en visualisant les pochettes, stocké sur un disque dur externe de 500 Go.
La chaîne peut se fixer au mur, se poser sur un meuble ou un pied en métal.

Un design de Anders Hermansen. Prix public : environ 4900 euros.

Motorola Aura

Le constructeur américain Motorola associe design et luxe avec la sortie prochaine du téléphone Aura. Un design à clapet rotatif, inspiré des montres de luxe avec un affichage circulaire de l’heure au centre de l’appareil.

L’écran à cristaux liquides affiche plus de 16 millions de couleurs. A noter l’utilisation de matériaux de luxe comme le verre saphir ou une coque en acier inoxydable.

Disponible à partir de 1500€.

Best Concert Visuals in 2008

An amazing collection with the best 10 concert visuals from 2008.

De lujo.

In the Long Time Coming Department

According to Internetnews.com, Google and Yahoo spiders will begin to crawl sites built with Adobe’s Flash.

“Improving how we crawl dynamic content will ultimately enhance the search experience for our users,” said Bill Coughran, senior vice president of engineering at Google.

Google will be going live with the new SWF indexing technology this week, while Yahoo plans to release it at an undetermined point in the future.

Firefox 3

Firefox 3 has just been released. Tons of improvements, specially in the performance department.

Get your copy now!.

Interactive Youtube Videos with Annotations

This is a great addition to Youtube. You can see advertisers scrambling to be the first to create something big with this. Right now it seems to be card tricks and this cup and ball demo that are filling up the most viewed videos.

Here’s how to add your own annotations to a Youtube video.

It certainly opens up a new dimension to Youtube videos.

Sony’s House Design of the Future

There are a lot of things left unanswered as far as our future is concerned and a lot of it has to do with where we will find ourselves in the course of time. One thing we have to note is that global warming and eco-friendly issues will be beside us all the way and with that in mind, we cannot help but think what companies such as Sony will have for us by that time.

Sony can help us get a glimpse of things to come and they are showing this to us with this video that gives us highlights of the future. Take a look at this video so that you will have an idea on whether to look forward to the future or simply keep on wondering what we have in a couple of years ahead of us.

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The Yellow Pages Still Do the Yapping

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Remember that old thick yellow book you have beside your telephone? Well thanks to technology, a new way of trying to serve the public and not lost the growing list of companies who need information and advertising as well has been announced.

Apparently, the online market is growing and this is a clear sign that providing service in the form of advertising across print, online and mobile platforms. With the apparent growth of the market, the Yellow pages sees this as an opportunity to expand its market by penetrating the advertising needs of the online communities today.

Yellow Pages chief executive Dudley Enoka said his company was in talks with several other online players regarding partnerships, and he expected announcements would be made shortly.

He said customers were increasingly looking to diversify their advertising across print, online, voice and shortly, mobile platforms.

“We’re immensely proud of our heritage as a business based in print and we are still seeing excellent growth there.

(Source) Stuff.co.nz

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Who Needs People in Commercial Advertising?

One thing you will notice in advertising these days is that many companies look at the available talent in the market to cast in commercial productions. But the real question is, do you really need to pay high costing ads to make sure that they get the right mix in producing these ads?

There are various ways to get through commercial advertising and this can be done through creative wizardry. You just have to think outside the box, use resources like technology and representation in other forms such as this one which makes use of balloon dolls that can capture the whole essence of the product being advertised.


Levi’s – Dolls
by YforYerom

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THINK IT AND IT WILL HAPPEN

An Aussie company is gearing up to release a computer headset that allows people to control video games using only the power of their minds.
In short, this cool little device features 16 sensors that measure electrical impulses from the brain, enabling machines to register facial expressions, emotions and even cognitive thoughts by visualising them. […]

Apple adds to Nike Plus.

Apple filed a patent last week for a “fully fledged digital liefestyle fitness companion” reports Apple Insider (via Zeus Jones). I must admit being a regular(ish) user of Nike Plus I’ve always thought a heart rate monitor would be great (being an old fart and all). I’m not sure what some of the other monitors […]

Location-Based Gaming Fun

First the Wii inspired a bunch of folk to get off the couch and get active with gaming. PS2 and Singstar realised this yonks ago. My eight year old desperately wants Guitar Hero… now gaming with GPS enabled phones gets kids outdoors again. UK-based LocoMatrix has developed a number of
location-based games kids can play outdoors […]

Google Analytics Benchmarking Data

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Google Analytics have released the beta of Benchmarking reports. See the full article here. You’ll need to Opt in to share your data anonymously though, which is a fair trade.

So now you can compare your travel site with the industry average. Sadly no way to compare via country, only “Category” but it’s nice to compare. The more sites that opt in the better the results will be. Give it a few months for all the major players to opt in before you start to use the benchmarking as gospel.

Lenovo says Apple is just “hot air”?

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New, trendy, and flashy products are often ripe targets for competitive ads. I always secretly enjoy when one company directly targets another via their advertising, despite knowing that a more creative (and ultimately more effective) solution most likely exists.

Lenovo seems to have had enough of the ever-so-popular Macbook Air, and takes a shot at it with the release of their new ThinkPad X300. Not only do they say “everything else is hot air,” but they even go as far as to loosely reference the Apple typefaces, gradients, and button styles of apple (below). It kind of takes the whole Mac vs. PC thing to a whole different level.

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Interactive Cube


 

This amazing cube is the first cubic interactive gaming platform in the world. In the video, one of its many games: The Fentix Cube, an emulation of the always grand Rubik’s cube.
 
Via: TrendHunter.

Facebook Add To Friends QR Code

 
This is bloody great.
Facebook app + QR code. Sounds like someone playing ‘cool shit mashup’. But here something’s been made that is much greater than the sum of its parts.
It’s really simple. You add the Facebook app. Click ‘make my tshirt’. And you’re pretty much done. A custom QR code t-shirt is generated that you […]

Dentsu Elevator Pitch

Posted in the category of It-Doesn’t-Need-To-Be-Done-But-When-It-Is-Done-It’s-Pretty-Damn-Cool, mega advertising conglomerate Dentsu of Japan has an interesting little SWF embedded on their website – a visually synched representation of the lifts being used in their building, shown in real-time:

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Amazingly, browsing their otherwise pretty dry site, I read they service a total of six THOUSAND clients.