And man is Jobs brutally honest about the whole thing!
*Warning: This video contains many expletives.
[Via Gizmodo]
Category Archives: Video
iPad keynote event…in adjectives
When Steve Jobs hosts an Apple keynote event it’s a given that someone will splice together all of the superfluous adjectives used to describe the new product or service at hand. Last week’s announcement of the iPad is no exception, and this time that someone is Neil Curtis. Curtis says all adjectives used in this video were taken from the iPad keynote alone, and no scene is ever repeated. Magical!
[Via Gizmodo]
THE BEGINNING OF THE END
Lost: The Final Season is almost here. To celebrate the anticipation I will be adding new Lost-related content to this post leading up to the premiere event on Tuesday, February 2.
UPDATE: Lost: The Final Season starts tonight! Get pumped by watching two new trailers, the second of which includes a gun-toting Claire and makes you believe Juliet did the deed. Check it out and see what I mean. Following the two trailers is a Lost recap of all important events ranging from season one to season five, as reenacted by an extended Italian family (it’s hysterical!).
Tons more Lost-related content can be found after the break. Continue reading THE BEGINNING OF THE END
Discover new music: Die Antwoord
It’s time for another installment of “discover new music.” Meet the South African group named Die Antwoord. They are strange, for lack of a better word, but they are goodstrange. Their music is very ecclectic, and well, different. It can be described as rap electronica, I guess. The Die Antwoord “crew” is: “Zef rap-rave master” Ninja; “fre$h, futurisik rich bitch” Yo-landi Vi$$er; and “beat-monster” DJ Hi-Tek. They describe themselves as “a loveable, mongrel-like entity made in Zuid Afrika, the love-child of many diverse cultures…all pumped into one wild and crazy journey down the crooked path to enlightenment.”
Die Antwoord is blowing up on the Internet (via MySpace, YouTube, etc.) so they’re worth a listen. Their first album (a mixtape of sorts) will be available this February on their website for free and they beging touring Europe in April. So..what do you think?
*Warning: Their lyrics contain many expletives.
Do fabled tablets from the movies match the iPad’s prowess?
That’s for you to decide. (Music is was Strict Machine’s “Goldfrapp” if you’re interested. Looks like YouTube stripped the audio.)
[Via Gizmodo]
Obama’s “State of the iPad Address”
President Obama shared the spotlight with Steve Jobs Wednesday when the State of the Union Address coincided with the Apple iPad announcement. You knew this mashup was bound to happen. (And it’s quite good, actually!)
[Via Gizmodo]
Watch Lost’s Oceanic 815 crash in real time, 24-style
This has got to be one of the best well put together videos I’ve come across in quite some time. A rabid Lost fan took it upon himself to splice together various scenes from a number of seasons to create this ten minute collage that reveals all events (that we know of) that occuried immediately before and during the fateful crash of Oceanic flight 815. What makes it even more special is the split screen action, a la 24. This allows the viewer to follow all the crucial moments side-by-side with each other, in real time. Job well done, pyram1dhead. As we get closer to the Lost season premiere (it’s only one week away!), expect a “sequel of sorts” from pyram1dhead this weekend.
[Via SciFiWire]
Catch your spouse snooping around red-fingered with iTrust app
Do you think your spouse is cheating on you? Do you have trust issues? Is your name Elin Woods? In any case, the iTrust app is for you! It works like this: You take a snapshot of your iPhone’s homescreen (holding down the home button + the power button), open the iTrust app, select the homescreen image you just took, and tap start. That’s it. Now when someone tries to go snooping on your phone he/she will get passed the lock screen to find a frozen image of your homescreen. The culprit will think the still image is actually the homescreen and will go about pressing various apps trying to pry into private text messages or emails. All the while the app is recording his/her every move. When you get back to your phone you can open iTrust and playback a log to see what exactly the culprit was trying to find. Neat, huh? Obviously there are many ways to bypass the iTrust mirage but the concept is interestingly sneaky, isn’t it? iTrust is available in the App Store for a buck. Full demo in the video above.
[Via Gizmodo]
Augment your reality: T-shirt edition
T-Post, a monthly magazine that packs a t-shirt with every issue, celebrates their 51st issue with an interactive tee that plays the classic game of Rock-Paper-Scissors with you. How does it work? With the aid of augmented reality tech, of course. All you have to do is put on the shirt, sit in front of a webcam, run T-Post’s webapp, and watch as a spooky hand flies out of the screen waiting to repeatedly play Rock-Paper-Scissors with you. See it in action for yourself in the video above.
PSP Go disassembled in stop-motion goodness
The fellas at TechRestore have just changed the game for product disassembly captured on video in the same way Google did it with unboxing. It’s called stop-motion folks, and it rocks. Watch as the PSP Go gets stripped and put back together again in under two minutes.
[Via Engadget]
HP talks HP Slate
Remember that mysterious tablet from HP that was breifly handled at the Microsoft keynote at this year’s CES? Well HP CTO Phil McKinney is here to go into a bit more detail about the origins of the HP Slate. At its core it’s a multitouch tablet that runs Window 7; it’s the “rich media experience” that promises to set it apart from the rest of the pack. It’s set to release sometime this year.
[Via Engadget]
Pictionaire touchscreen surface merges the physical with the digital world
Out of Microsoft and University of California Berkeley comes the Pictionaire touchscreen table. It uses integrated overhead cameras to capture physical objects and convert them into digital ones to be manipulated. The Microft Surface-esque table is almost six feet long, begging for an intuitive collaborative experience. Creating digital copies of “physical artifacts” couldn’t be simpler. You place an object (say, a notebook with doodles) onto the surface, the table recognizes its presence, the overhead camera snaps a picture of it, and all you have to do is drag and drop the corner edge of the object to a new area on the table. Viola–now you have a digital copy of the notebook that can be manipulated in a variety of ways. You can drag the digital copy onto paper-sized whiteboards and use a marker to add annotations. The surface can even act as a light table to create hand-drawn copies of things. Wireless keyboards and mice are supported for text imput and image search. Though Pictionaire remains a research project, it’s good to see Microsoft and company working towards a more practical experience with the Microsoft Surface table.
[Via New Scientist; Gizmodo]