All posts by Scott Meisner

Ustream finally gets the go-ahead for its Live Broadcasting app

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Ustream has had its Viewing Application available for iPhone users to download for some time now.  Unfortunately, Apple restricted this app from allowing Ustream users to broadcast live video from it to other iPhone Ustreamers and to web browsers on PCs.  Today Apple has finally lifted this restriction and is allowing these capabilities to flourish on both iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G (which, of course, do not have a video-supported camera).  The new Live Broadcaster Application allows users to stream live video from their iPhone over 3G or WiFi to other iPhones and to anyone with a browser directed to Ustream’s website.  Also, note that the application features a “local” record mode that seemingly allows iPhone 3G owners to record and store 320 x 240 video and upload it to YouTube, Facebook, etc.  In other words, it turns your iPhone 3G into a video camera–huzzah!  The app is available for free right now.

Note: I’ve tested the app and the live broadcast on the computer is very laggy.  If you happen to give it a try, share your experience with it in the comments below.

[Via Engadget; Gizmodo]

PS3 update brings PSP mini support, data transfer abilities

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PS3 minis by PlayStation.Blog.Europe.

True, the PS3 just received a firmware update that brought Facebook integration, among other things.  Impending update 3.15 brings more capability and functionality to the user.  It brings a PSP minis emulator to the PS3; this will allow you to bring over and play the PSP minis you’ve purchased on your PSP to the PS3.  (PSP minis are bite-sized downloadable games for the PSP.)  Keep in mind, if you purchase a PSP mini game on your PSP you will be able to download it and play it on your PS3 for free.  Also included in the update is a data transfer utility that allows you to transfer all your saved data from one PS3 to another.  Right on!

[Via Engadget; PlaystationBlog]

Microsoft Office 2010 box art

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With the Microsoft Office 2010 beta out and about, the box art managed leak itself out into the public.  Remember, Office 2010 will release in the following verisons: Starter, Home and Student, Home and Business, Standard, Professional and Professional Plus.  Couldn’t make just one flavor, could you Microsoft?  Office 2010 is expected to release this June.

[Via Gizmodo; Hexus]

Music video: OK Go: “WTF”

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OK Go is jumping off the treadmill and into a strange new world with their lastest video titled, “WTF.”  It uses the same “datamashing” or compression artifact technology used in Kanye West’s “Welcome to Heartbreak” music video.  OK Go is expected to drop their next album, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky, this January.  “WTF” is available as a single on iTunes.

[Via KanyeBlog]

Music video: Shakira – Did It Again (Featuring Kid Cudi)

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Sure, I’ve already posted the music video to Shakira’s “Did It Again” when it first came out.  But here’s a new version featuring Kid Cudi in the remix.  And look at it this way: this just gives you a reason to watch Shakira shake her hips and jump around on a bed again.  Win-win.

She Wolf is in stores now.

[Via KanyeBlog]

Surface recognizes the third dimension

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Microsoft Surface learns a new trick with the Lumino Project.  Surface has always been able to recognize physical objects when they are placed down.  With the newly constructed (and still being tested) Lumino blocks, Surface can recognize when a number of blocks are stacked on top of each other, and these various three dimensional orientations can correspond with different outcomes.  Watch the video above to see examples.  Though these examples may seem juvenile at the moment (re: checkers), the researchers can see this kind of technology being implemented in the future by architects and engineers.

[Via Gizmodo]

Creepy clock design

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This clock features an LCD face that plays a 12-hour loop of an old guy telling the time by painstakingly erasing and re-recording each minute as it goes by with nothing but an eraser and a marker.  At the moment I’m kinda second guessing that there really is a man trapped behind the clock telling the time for us..

This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009.

[Via Gizmodo]

Experiment: Public urination bin

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The Wheelie Bin Urinal, designed by Stephan Bischof (from England, obviously).

This “Wheelie Bin Urinal” is a provides a place to go potty in the street, and it’s ingeniously disguised as a trash can.

For now, it’s just an experiment to see if (and when) people would use these trash can-turned-urinal stations when they’re out and about.  In fact, “early prototypes of the bin were installed on busy roads in the Lewisham borough of London, in which people’s frequent interactions with the bins were documented.”  You gotta see this to believe it after the break.

[Via Gizmodo; DesignBoom]

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PS3 Slim dipped in 24K gold (you know you want one)

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The customization pros at Computer Choppers have completed their latest creation with the 24-karat gold Playstation 3 Slim.  Only 5 models have been made.  Though pricing details have not been shared yet, expect this baby to be a fortune; 24-karat gold iPhones start at $1,399!

[Via Gizmodo; HotBloodedGaming]