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Alan Cheslow
Apple filings reveal potential iPhone object ID - http://www.ilounge.com/index...
Apple filings reveal potential iPhone object ID
"As described by the patent filing, this “ID App” would allow users to identify objects, structures and other features of their surroundings by using information received by the camera, an RFID reader, or an Infrared camera. This information could be combined with current location data in order to more accurately pinpoint the appropriate database for the identification search." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
NYTimes: Best Buy and TiVo Are Forming an Alliance
From The New York Times: Best Buy and TiVo Are Forming an Alliance By BRAD STONE The electronics retailer will advertise TiVo products, and TiVo will return the favor on its subscribers’ televisions.... http://www.nytimes.com/2009... - Alan Cheslow from email
Alan Cheslow
A Twitter Augmented Reality App for iPhone - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
A Twitter Augmented Reality App for iPhone
"With the app, you can see live tweets around your location and you can even see how far away they are. To accomplish this, TwittARound uses a combination of the iPhone's compass and its accelerator-enabled GPS to determine the location of tweets and then layers those on top of a live video feed." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Great. First we have Email n'Walk. Then, as if we don't already look stupid enough, we have this. Wonderful. Really and truely. - Roberto Bonini
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Flexible "camera" fabric - Boing Boing - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
Flexible "camera" fabric - Boing Boing
"MIT researchers developed light-detecting fibers that could eventually be woven into a "fabric camera." Instead of counting on a single lens, the new system would use a web of the fibers as a distributed imaging surface." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
LG GD910 watchphone to go on sale in UK this August - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
LG GD910 watchphone to go on sale in UK this August
"The touchscreen watch phone is joined with a Bluetooth headset and video-calling capabilities, along with HSDPA internet for high-speed web browsing." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
ARKNAV Announces R-35 GPS Tracker With Built-in Motion Sensor For The Elderly - http://www.cedailynews.com/2009...
"GPS tracker features a built-in motion sensor and is ideal for movement detection or anti-theft applications with vehicles or other assets. It is so lightweight and compact that it can even be used as a stop-motion detection device for the elderly — with alerts when subjects are not moving." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Tad, Anti-Immanentizer
Do any of the flavors of Windows out right now support multitouch? Windows 7? And how does it compare with multitouch on the iPhone?
update: they "fixed" this! ( Win 7 does multitouch, but from the demos it's not as smooth as iPhone. Rotation for example "snaps" from 0 to 90 to 180 to 360. On iPhone it is smooth continuous increments. Same goes for the back and forward slide animations when flipping through pics. Jerky on win 7 and continuous smooth increments on iPhone. Also iPhone does "rubberbanding" on all transitions while win 7 doesn't. ) - vijay
Here's a good post on touch in WIn7 - http://blogs.msdn.com/e7... - Alan Cheslow
thanks for the update Tim. - vijay
Alan Cheslow
Bluetooth "Big Brother" tracks festival-goers - http://tech.yahoo.com/news...
"Researchers are using Bluetooth technology to observe the meanderings of tens of thousands of festival-goers at a top European rock festival, hoping their findings will launch a new generation of tracking devices." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
TechCrunch founder launches hardware startup | VentureBeat - http://venturebeat.com/2009...
TechCrunch founder launches hardware startup | VentureBeat
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"A year ago, TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington announced his plan to build a “dead-simple Web tablet for $200,” using crowdsourced designs from his readers. Today Arrington announced the formation of Crunchpad, Inc, a startup company with 14 employees in Singapore. Crunchpad will oversee manufacture of the device, also called the Crunchpad." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
Apple patents contextual computing technologies for iPhone - http://www.unwiredview.com/2009...
Apple patents contextual computing technologies for iPhone
"We’ve already seen some of the things, like integration between Mapping and Calendar app in recent Apple patent filings. Some new patent applications from Apple reveal even more." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
Apple patching nasty iPhone SMS vulnerability - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
"Mr. Miller disclosed a hole that would let attackers "run software code on the phone that is sent by SMS over a mobile operator's network in order to monitor the location of the phone using GPS, turn on the phone's microphone to eavesdrop on conversations, or make the phone join a distributed denial of service attack or a botnet."" - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
The Bell Tolls for Plasma TVs - http://gigaom.com/2009...
"there were 30 million LCD TVs sold in the U.S. in 2008 vs. 4 million plasma TVs" - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
Oh no! CS Inc is building a new subdivision in Bothell called Woodcress. Buyer beware!
I can't even describe how awful they are. No really, I can't, because the last time I tried they threatened to sue me for libel. - Alan Cheslow
Do a "Business Name" search here - http://dw.courts.wa.gov/index... -- search "Snohomish Superior" court, "Civil" case, "1996" year in/after, "C S" business name - Alan Cheslow
Alan Cheslow
More hotels invest in videoconference rooms to cut costs - USATODAY.com
More hotels invest in videoconference rooms to cut costs http://usat.me/?35512384 - Alan Cheslow from email
Alan Cheslow
In Spite of Risks, Strong Market Growth Forecast for ZigBee in Smart Metering Applications - HomeToys Home Technology News - http://www.hometoys.com/news_de...
"New forecast in the latest edition of the WTRS Wireless Sensor Network Technology Trends Report projects strong market growth in the smart metering market for ZigBee chipsets to reach 68% CAGR, over the 2009 to 2014 period." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
BMWs show gas prices, weather | The Car Tech blog - CNET Reviews - http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13...
BMWs show gas prices, weather | The Car Tech blog - CNET Reviews
"Keeping up with the trend of offering external data connections in cars, BMW announced the addition of gas prices, weather forecasts, and stock indices to its existing Google Maps connection." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
Mobile Phone Sales to Decline Over Next 5 Years - http://gigaom.com/2009...
"Mobile phone sales are going to decline sharply over the next five years, to the tune of 1.04 billion devices, according to Informa Telecoms & Media. In its new report, “The Financial Crisis: Analyzing the impact on global mobile markets,” the research firm has revised its forecast for device sales over the next five years down by 14 percent." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
Jabra Go 6400 and Pro 9400 with capacitive touchscreen base redefines overkill, want - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
"The 2.4-inch capacitive LCD displays caller ID, call records, and lets users switch between their mobile, desk, and corporate softphones via a spin of the carousel." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
USB 3.0 PCs Coming Soon as First Host Controllers Appear -- Nikkei Electronics Asia -- July 2009 - Tech-On! - http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article...
USB 3.0 PCs Coming Soon as First Host Controllers Appear -- Nikkei Electronics Asia -- July 2009 - Tech-On!
"One development that seems likely to accelerate USB 3.0 commercialization is NEC Electronics Corp of Japan's shipment of a host controller - the world's first, according to the company. Samples shipped in early June 2009, and volume production at about a million units a month is expected to start in Sept this year." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
Philips on a rejig, to move away from consumer electronics - http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2009...
"In a shift in its India strategy, Philips Electronics has decided to move away from consumer electronics to medical, health and wellness products." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
OLED mini projector prototype for mobile phones using a series of lenses developed - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
"this new prototype doesn't need an additional illumination system, instead relying on a lens system to project images produced by an OLED onto a screen or wall -- making it both smaller and more energy efficient." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
ZigBee Alliance announces ZigBee Green Power - http://www.cocoontech.com/portal...
"The ZigBee alliance has announced ZigBee Green Power, a feature set which will allow energy harvesting, meaning certain devices will be able to to run without battery, amd still support ZigBee/ZigBee Pro." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
Scientists create first electronic quantum processor - http://www.physorg.com/news165...
Scientists create first electronic quantum processor
"A team led by Yale University researchers has created the first rudimentary solid-state quantum processor, taking another step toward the ultimate dream of building a quantum computer." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
Sense Networks gets $6M in hotly contested deal for “tribe” advertising | VentureBeat - http://digital.venturebeat.com/2009...
Sense Networks gets $6M in hotly contested deal for “tribe” advertising | VentureBeat
"Sense crunches all the incoming data it gets from Loopt and other services it partners with, to find insights about “tribes” and “clusters” of people, and their patterns of behavior" - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
Samsung's 12 megapixel M8910 Pixon12 cellphone tries to make your camera obsolete - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
Samsung's 12 megapixel M8910 Pixon12 cellphone tries to make your camera obsolete
"Sammy's handset has been put through its paces ahead of release, stacked up against the likes of a Canon A620 and a 350D SLR. The phone does quite well, producing images as good or better than its compact competition" - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
I was just looking at this. Good color and detail at least in relation to a PnS cam. My next phone will definitely be determined by the quality of the camera, as I realize that I take 90% of my photos with my G1, since it's always within reach and can upload to the net instantly. - Adrian Culici
If it's a WinMo phone, I'll be all over it too. - Anika Malone
Alan Cheslow
Schematic's Cannes touchwall identifies users via RFID, almost escapes gimmick status - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
Schematic's Cannes touchwall identifies users via RFID, almost escapes gimmick status
"The main innovation is the identification of specific users through the swipe of an RFID badge, allowing multiple users to operate the display simultaneously with personalized data and "social" functionality." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
BodyTrace’s bathroom scale lets you broadcast your weight to the web | VentureBeat - http://digital.venturebeat.com/2009...
BodyTrace’s bathroom scale lets you broadcast your weight to the web | VentureBeat
"You can monitor your weight patterns by looking at the web site or look at a chart on your phone. But you can also share it with people you know." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
Gizmodo - Always Innovating Half-Netbook, Half-Tablet Ships In July, Still $300 - Always Innovating Touch Book - http://gizmodo.com/5302418...
Gizmodo - Always Innovating Half-Netbook, Half-Tablet Ships In July, Still $300 - Always Innovating Touch Book
"a sparingly-spec'd touchscreen device with a detachable keyboard, embedded Linux OS and impressively low $300 price" - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
Gizmodo - Full HD Video Recording Coming to a Cellphone Near You - omnivision OV5653 - http://gizmodo.com/5302468...
"The OV5653 enables 720p recording at 60 fps and full HD 1080p at 30 fps" - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
Alan Cheslow
Apple App Store: Overpopulated with Apps Nobody Uses - http://mashable.com/2009...
Apple App Store: Overpopulated with Apps Nobody Uses
"81% have less than 10,000 users, and an astounding 54% of applications have less than 1,000 users." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet
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