Posts from the category Technology

Today January 27th Steve Jobs presented the new iPad, a device that is a mix of an iPhone and a Macbook, it runs an improved version of the iPhone OS and is a well designed tablet computer. The price is low. To Buy or not to buy an iPad The pros and Cons of an…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhpSs6frTkU This is how Apple launches new products: Step 1: Smack talk the competition. Step 2: Say “most” alot. Step 3: Compare product to something small and colloquial. Step 4: Toss in a “boom”. Step 5: Wait for Applause. Steve Jobs is a genius. __ Via Gizmodo

Illusion Labs has posted this video showing a MacBook Version of his popular iPhone game Touchgrind. this version uses the multi-touch capabilities of the MacBook’s trackpad. The developer describes it as tech demo and hasn’t committed to releasing it. Apple’s multi-touch trackpads can track up to 11 distinct touch presses.

In an interview with CNBC, Terry McGraw, McGraw-Hill’s CEO said: (minute 2:50) Yeah, Very exciting. Yes, they’ll make their announcement tomorrow on this one. We have worked with Apple for quite a while. And the Tablet is going to be based on the iPhone operating system and so it will be transferable. So what you…

Concept rendering said to closely resemble actual Apple tablet It is rumored that the New Apple tablet may be called iPad . A search in the Canadian trademark database reveals that Apple’s dummy corporation Slate Computing, LLC who previously registered the name iSlate also applied for a trademark for “iPad” under the categories of handheld…

Samsung’s laptop prototype with a 14-inch transparent OLED screen, it is like a glass. When it is off, the screen is up to 40% transparent (as opposed to the industry average of 25%). The Science fiction transparent screens saw in Avatar and Minority Report, are a reality NOW. BTW a transparent monitor like this will…

David Pogue, my favorite tech reporter reviews 2 new cameras models that merges two different worlds: The big SLR cameras that takes great pictures. The small and portable digital cameras. The Canon PowerShot S90 and Panasonic Lumix GF1 offer us: Small enough for a pants pocket. (Canon S90) A big sensor. (Canon S90, Panasonic Lumix…

David Pogue with David Carr make a review of the most popular e-book readers available in the market (to be an e-book Reader it has to use the special e-Ink that imitates ink in paper). David Pogue is a technology columnist of The New York Times. David Carr is a media and culture columnist for…

According to TUAW, Apple has placed an order with panel supplier Innolux for 10″ multi-touch screens, probably to use them in the new devices (iSlate, iTablet, or iTab). An iPod Touch has a 3.5″ screen and the Kindle 2 has a 6″ screen, so this new toy will be bigger than the Amazon’s e-book reader….

The guys from MacRumors have discovered that Apple owns the domain: iSlate.com since 2007, and the Trademark too. iSlate.com iSlate.com currently points to no website. Apple is rumored to be announcing an Apple tablet in early 2010 and given this evidence “iSlate” seems a likely candidate for the device’s name. iSlate, Registered Trademark by Apple…

This Business Card once that is used in front of a webcam displays in your monitor an Augmented Reality with a 3D grid of colored planes. These planes are updated with the colors from the video and extruded depending on the level of brightness. You can read more, print it and use it here.

This video shows the production process of the official 2010 FIFA World Cup match ball Jabulani. All Official Football Balls for the 2010 FIFA World Cup have the same weight and the same circumference and are therefore always the same size. Production capacity for the Official Match Ball for South Africa: 1760 balls per day….