Q: "Moto Q is expected to be available in Q1 of 2006" - a new small and slim (11,5mm) pda phone, this one running WinMobile 5, looks like a nice balance, the big issue will probably be battery life (already a problem on the larger version, almost a must to stick it in the cradle for a while every day)
price? anyones guess
Tuesday, November 29
Wednesday, November 23
Up to the current Wired
Ah yes, the backlog is gone, and here is a short note from the more or less current issue of Wired, 13.11
(Photo: Fredrik Solstad, located at VG.no)
History meets life
Moving all around - a mix of tour guide, cultural exchange and testingground for all in one solutions:
"The nearly two-hour tour, dubbed History Unwired, features five recordings by local residents - ranging from a glassblower to a ska musician - along with flash animations, maps, and movie clips, all uploaded onto a PDA."
Made by "the University of Architecture in Venice and MIT's SENSEable Cities Lab", using a 3g umts pda with the carrier 3 and Motorola as partners - and a reputed filesize of 50mb. Which might be easy to deliver with 3g, but it does requiere a bit more storage than the average pda has available.
A lot of this kind of solutions being tested - among other places in the Nidarosdomen church in Trondheim
The issue is how to easily link the gps information with tagged content - like the way it is done for certain gmap applications, such as LandMarker and GPS Visualizer.
Adam Curry was talking a bit about the need for time and location syncing for podcasts - mixing in a wide set of sources to make info-tainment even better. Now if there only was as many pdas with gps as mobile phones... let's give it another 12-18 months at least, then maybe there will be a nice common way to get started - and the podcasts meet with the flicker images tagged and a video snippet or five. Looking good?
(another site is on the Nile Delta Pyramids, and a flickr mashup can find Oslo)
And if you belive everything you see - explain this 'illusion'
(Photo: Fredrik Solstad, located at VG.no)History meets life
Moving all around - a mix of tour guide, cultural exchange and testingground for all in one solutions:
"The nearly two-hour tour, dubbed History Unwired, features five recordings by local residents - ranging from a glassblower to a ska musician - along with flash animations, maps, and movie clips, all uploaded onto a PDA."
Made by "the University of Architecture in Venice and MIT's SENSEable Cities Lab", using a 3g umts pda with the carrier 3 and Motorola as partners - and a reputed filesize of 50mb. Which might be easy to deliver with 3g, but it does requiere a bit more storage than the average pda has available.
A lot of this kind of solutions being tested - among other places in the Nidarosdomen church in Trondheim
The issue is how to easily link the gps information with tagged content - like the way it is done for certain gmap applications, such as LandMarker and GPS Visualizer.
Adam Curry was talking a bit about the need for time and location syncing for podcasts - mixing in a wide set of sources to make info-tainment even better. Now if there only was as many pdas with gps as mobile phones... let's give it another 12-18 months at least, then maybe there will be a nice common way to get started - and the podcasts meet with the flicker images tagged and a video snippet or five. Looking good?
(another site is on the Nile Delta Pyramids, and a flickr mashup can find Oslo)
And if you belive everything you see - explain this 'illusion'
go cyber
Wired 13.10:: "I imagine swaggering up to a VeriChip scanner while proudly transmitting my own unique, outlaw serial number: 666 ought to do nicely" - a small post by Bruce Sterling.
Interesting concept, would you be able to hack the chips, just like many people use their xbox for a lot of 'tests'.
The trend of getting an implant as a "hip" way to stand out, was featured in an CSI Miami episode (info). Guess it could cause the same kind of trouble that was discussed in relation to US passports; if only rich/special/... people have them, then making a generic "sniffer" would be a great way for criminals (and so on) to easily find targets - and that would sort of defeat the purpose; convenience and flexibility.
Frogging
Last note from the October issue of Wired (13.10); a piece called Spam Vigilantes on a different approach to fighting spam - "active deterrence". The company offer the Blue Frog, and after giving spammers a chance to 'clean their lists', they start slowly pushing back. Taking it a step to far, or the only way to get them to do it right? Sad to say that I guess it might help a bit with the slightly legit spammers, but the majority of the junk will probably still keep coming. But, here's hoping...
Interesting concept, would you be able to hack the chips, just like many people use their xbox for a lot of 'tests'.
The trend of getting an implant as a "hip" way to stand out, was featured in an CSI Miami episode (info). Guess it could cause the same kind of trouble that was discussed in relation to US passports; if only rich/special/... people have them, then making a generic "sniffer" would be a great way for criminals (and so on) to easily find targets - and that would sort of defeat the purpose; convenience and flexibility.
Frogging
Last note from the October issue of Wired (13.10); a piece called Spam Vigilantes on a different approach to fighting spam - "active deterrence". The company offer the Blue Frog, and after giving spammers a chance to 'clean their lists', they start slowly pushing back. Taking it a step to far, or the only way to get them to do it right? Sad to say that I guess it might help a bit with the slightly legit spammers, but the majority of the junk will probably still keep coming. But, here's hoping...
games all over
Micro is a real 80-ies revival, reminds me of the good old Game & Watch, real simple controls, small form factor and high "lookie here".
And considering that there are (last number I heard) over 700 different Gameboy games released so far, it is no wonder there is room to make yet another wrapping for the system.
And as for taking another step in the 'battle' with PSP: the wifi offerings - get it rolling with Mario Kart, at home with your own net or for free at some hotspots. How cool is that? Wonder if it will work on campuses having wifi for students? That would be great, local yet mobile and disconnected. No option for using Picochat with wifi - but could be coming up.
And the service is being used; 52 000 of the first week sales of 112 000 units in the US played online. Need to try it, just have to find a suitable hotspot.
And considering that there are (last number I heard) over 700 different Gameboy games released so far, it is no wonder there is room to make yet another wrapping for the system.
And as for taking another step in the 'battle' with PSP: the wifi offerings - get it rolling with Mario Kart, at home with your own net or for free at some hotspots. How cool is that? Wonder if it will work on campuses having wifi for students? That would be great, local yet mobile and disconnected. No option for using Picochat with wifi - but could be coming up.
And the service is being used; 52 000 of the first week sales of 112 000 units in the US played online. Need to try it, just have to find a suitable hotspot.
Dirac - hiDef free for all
Dirac Video Codec: "However, the BBC would like to collaborate with the Open Source community, academics and others to produce an open codec."
The digital future of video in general is going through a lot of changes, with announcements and services coming in almost faster than the game release the last months. There is Google Video, Yahoo adding content such as HotZone, Motherlode for satire, the video IPod and ITunes stores - with new Quicktime 7, various vod schemes from the major US networks - and most likely a new WMP lurking in the bushes.
Set against that backdrop the BBC-initiated Dirac project makes a lot of sense, we as consumers love video - consider the average amount of hours spent watching television each week (Norwegian daily average of 2h 22min - including non-viewers) and the rapid roll-out of broadband makes HDTV and DTV seem like a sidetrack more than the future.
Why get things mass delivered if we can get it during the night, or while at work - and then watch it during the evening or at our leisure. Only a fraction of content being viewed is live, and only really sports need the timeslot to avoid giving away the results in other channels.
News segments are often repeated several times in different programs, and partial time-shifting should not be a major problem - except of course for certain instant events such as verdicts and 'on going' situations with rapid developments (ie hostages in Beslan)
Is it time to reconsider the TV - is it going to turn even more into "just another screen"? With nextgen game consoles and net content taking up a majority of the user-time?
Stay tuned!
(and the spellchecker still thinks Google is a misspelling... hey mr brand manager...)
The digital future of video in general is going through a lot of changes, with announcements and services coming in almost faster than the game release the last months. There is Google Video, Yahoo adding content such as HotZone, Motherlode for satire, the video IPod and ITunes stores - with new Quicktime 7, various vod schemes from the major US networks - and most likely a new WMP lurking in the bushes.
Set against that backdrop the BBC-initiated Dirac project makes a lot of sense, we as consumers love video - consider the average amount of hours spent watching television each week (Norwegian daily average of 2h 22min - including non-viewers) and the rapid roll-out of broadband makes HDTV and DTV seem like a sidetrack more than the future.
Why get things mass delivered if we can get it during the night, or while at work - and then watch it during the evening or at our leisure. Only a fraction of content being viewed is live, and only really sports need the timeslot to avoid giving away the results in other channels.
News segments are often repeated several times in different programs, and partial time-shifting should not be a major problem - except of course for certain instant events such as verdicts and 'on going' situations with rapid developments (ie hostages in Beslan)
Is it time to reconsider the TV - is it going to turn even more into "just another screen"? With nextgen game consoles and net content taking up a majority of the user-time?
Stay tuned!
(and the spellchecker still thinks Google is a misspelling... hey mr brand manager...)
Boston rejoice? The Force is strong
MoS, the Museum of Science in Boston is having a Star Wars themed/related exhibit: "LukeÂ's original Landspeeder from Episode IV is on public exhibit for the first time"
Pretty interesting for fans of the epic saga, but also seems like a great exhibit for getting kids involved in technology; "including two large Engineering Design Labs, where visitors build and test speeders and robots."
No specific information on how long the exhibit will be open, but tickets are available until the end of April 2006.
Now, how to find a valid reason to pop over to the US and Boston in specific...
Pretty interesting for fans of the epic saga, but also seems like a great exhibit for getting kids involved in technology; "including two large Engineering Design Labs, where visitors build and test speeders and robots."
No specific information on how long the exhibit will be open, but tickets are available until the end of April 2006.
Now, how to find a valid reason to pop over to the US and Boston in specific...
Disco
Idol is still running - and for some reason Norway and Sweden are in opposing sync; they send it during the fall, while here it is a spring show.
Why this comment? Because I caught five minutes of the swedish edition a while back, and one of the judges just jumped out of the screen: "Claes 'Clabbe' af Geijerstam" an older gentelman, previous radio and tv personality and most importantly DJ. He did an awesome voice-intro to one of the disco songs. Along the lines of the Podfather when he gets into the groove. Party. Get it on!
And then there is the new version of the old tale: from water to wine was a miracle, but when kids sneak a bit of spirits from their parents and try to hide it by adding water - you end up with "from spirits to ice" as soon as you try to chill the 'vodka'. [from news-comedy show "nytt på nytt"]
Why this comment? Because I caught five minutes of the swedish edition a while back, and one of the judges just jumped out of the screen: "Claes 'Clabbe' af Geijerstam" an older gentelman, previous radio and tv personality and most importantly DJ. He did an awesome voice-intro to one of the disco songs. Along the lines of the Podfather when he gets into the groove. Party. Get it on!
And then there is the new version of the old tale: from water to wine was a miracle, but when kids sneak a bit of spirits from their parents and try to hide it by adding water - you end up with "from spirits to ice" as soon as you try to chill the 'vodka'. [from news-comedy show "nytt på nytt"]
Monday, November 21
three weeks?
dang, where did they go? could have sworn I had a list of posts to get done, and yes - they are in the pile next to the screen, will give it a shot later today (just finished six reviews and a bit of regular work)
...and the sun needs to come out tomorrow and remove the rest of the snow up here, already gone downtown...
...and the sun needs to come out tomorrow and remove the rest of the snow up here, already gone downtown...
Wikipedia - the real and the important information
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is a role playing game, or rpg. For the pc. (and xbox). But still it has a wikipedia entry, with more than 150 (estimate based on Firefox page info) links to other related entries.
Wow. Truly a source for all kinds of information - way, way beyond anything you might find in a regular encyclopedia. Truly a fascinating endavour.
Wow. Truly a source for all kinds of information - way, way beyond anything you might find in a regular encyclopedia. Truly a fascinating endavour.
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