This is so shameful. Watch as these colorful Mission Viejo Microsoft Store employees try and act out a clearly routinized dance to “I’ve Got a Feeling.” Ah, it’s not like an Apple Store would try something like this. What..they wouldn’t!
[Via Engadget]
Seems like Facebook is infiltrating all of our favorite gadgets these days: computers, cell phones, iPods, and now video game consoles.
Facebook capabilities are now available on the Playstation 3 today via the (free) 3.10 firmware update. Sony is pressing that this is the first of many Facebook features coming to the PS3. For now, FB on PS3 will enable users to share their Trophy and Playstation Store activity in their Facebook News Feeds. Also, publishers are given the option to send game-specific information from the console to users’ News Feeds. Other Facebook features, basics such as status updates and photo sharing, are not included with this update. Hopefully future updates will bring these features to life. For now, Sony advises its users to make use of the PS3’s browser to log-in and fully utilize Facebook that way for the time being. Other new updates with 3.10 include a new way to orgainze and view your photos in a gallery and customization options in your PSN Friends List (you can color your PSN ID).
And don’t forget: also available today (via a free download) is the Xbox 360 dashboard update that includes full-blown Facebook integration, Twitter, last.fm, and Zune (video) marketplace additions with HD (1080p) instant-on streaming. What are you waiting for? Get social network’d.
[Via Engadget; Playstation EU Blog]
In a strange attempt to advertise its new 2010 REGZA SV LCD TV series, Toshiba sent “an ordinary living room chair” into outerspace. Check it out!
Facts about the shoot:
• The shots were taken at a staggering 98,268 feet above the earth using Toshiba’s own cameras
• To reach the altitude required and to conform with Federal Aviation Administration regulations, the weight of the rig had to be carefully managed to a weight of no more than four pounds
• Tied to the rig was a specially created full-sized model chair made of biodegradable balsa wood – the chair was made by a company called Artem and cost about £2,500
• Launch coordinates of the rig were – 119 degrees, 14 minutes by 40 degrees, 48 minute (12 miles North-East of the town of Gerlach, Nevada)
• The quality of the footage from the Toshiba IK-HR1S cameras was: 1920×1080 pixel count; 1080i @ 50hz; 100 Mbps
• The temperature dropped to minus 90 degrees when the chair reached 52,037 feet
• The chair took 83 minutes to reach an altitude of 98,268 feet where it broke and took just 24 minutes to fall back down to earth with the rig.
[Via Engadget; Gizmodo; Toshiba.uk]
All you have to do is press the opening of the lung flute to your mouth and blow into it about ten times (short breaths, like blowing out birthday candles), and viola! The enclosed reed that “flaps back and forth” when you blow into the tube manages to send vibrations into your chest which in turn dislodge excess mucus. Neat-o!
Today, doctors in Japan use the $40 Lung Flute as a tool to collect sputum from patients suspected of carrying tuberculosis, and in Europe and Canada it’s used to help test phlegm for lung cancer. Clinical trials in the U.S. have shown that it is at least as effective as current COPD treatments. At press time, Hawkins expected the device to receive FDA approval any day, and says the reusable device could also provide home relief for patients with cystic fibrosis, influenza and asthma.
Designed by Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz of CuteCircuit.
The GalaxyDress provides a spectacular and mesmerizing effect being embroidered with 24000 color LEDs, it is the largest wearable display in the world. Constructed using the smallest full-color LEDs that are flat like paper and measuring only 2 by 2 mm.
Says the duo: “The circuits are extra-thin, flexible and hand-embroidered on a layer of silk in a way that gives it stretch so the LED fabric can move like normal fabric with lightness and fluidity.” They add that the dress uses the same amount of electricity as two household bulbs.
Poor little girl. She can’t stop sneezing!
Why call on diagnostics extraordinaire Dr. Gregory House? Because according to the TV doctor she is in fact not sneezing; rather this “sound coming of out her mouth” (my words) is a tick. The mystery lies in how it all started just two weeks ago at a sleepover and why it hasn’t stopped since that fateful night. Sound off in the comments below with your own diagnosis.
[Via YouTube via Today]
Travis Barker (of Blink 182 fame) has gone ahead and remixed another song (adding to his repitoire that includes Eminem’s 3AM, Lil Wayne’s Lollipop, and Solja Boy’s “Crank That”). This time its Drake’s “Forever,” which features slick verses from Lil Wayne, Kanye West and Eminem. Says MTV News:
“Working strictly off an a cappella track, Barker crafted his “Forever” mix from the ground up, spending a week tinkering in the studio with his production partner, Sweatshop. The main goal, he said, was to build a drum line that matched the constantly shifting mood and tempo of the song…”
Man this guy’s good.
[Via MTV]
Some are calling Gaga’s latest video for her new single “Bad Romance” “her best yet,” and I tend to agree with these sentiments. Though her music video for “Paparazzi” was very unique and stands out in its own way, “Bad Romance” just feels bigger and, well, better. The costume designs, the choreography (with a nod to MJ’s “Thriller”), and the overall production design of it is flat out superb and entrancing. Take a look for yourself and enjoy Gaga and her, erm, eccentric-ness.
Trillians, by MAYA Design.
This is a short film (a fast paced preview of a larger effort) by MAYA Design created to put some perspective on the invisible but fast approaching challenges and opportunities in the pervasive computing age.
[Via Gizmodo]
Though this advertisement for Nokia’s N900 smartphone lacks any surmountable presense of said device there’s something about it that I really enjoy. Take a look, if you dare.
[Via Gizmodo]
Goodbye creepy really strange non-sensical really pale you scare me zombie girl. Hello normalcy. Palm has decided to take a more traditional route to advertising with its new Palm Pixi WebOS-enabled smartphone. And I like it. Because it doesn’t disturb me like the Palm Pre ad campaign did many a-time.
The Palm Pixi will be made available on Sprint for $99 on November 15.
[Via Engadget]
“That’s what I think one of the great things about Avatar is; it’s not just a movie, it’s a universe.”
OK, I’m officially pumped to see this movie.
[Via Wired]