Oh whow this is really nice… The iPhone uses its front-facing camera to track the head of the viewer. Since it knows where the head of the viewer is it can actually simulate a 3D display as can be seen in the video below… is that a cool piece of software or what?
Also on the iPad:
The words ‘hacking’ and ‘hacker’ are used in many context nowadays. I like this definition on Wikipedia:
In home computing, a hacker is a person who heavily modifies the software or hardware of their own computer system. It includes building, rebuilding, modifying, and creating software (software cracking, demo scene) or electronic hardware (hardware hacking, modding), either to make it better, faster, to give it added features or to make it do something it was never intended to do.
Now we all know people who actually ‘hack’ equipment (in the definition given above) but there are also people who treat their body as a piece of equipment. They actually operate on themselves and make bionic modifications to their body. They are called ‘biohackers‘ and they are performing ‘transhumanism‘. How fascinating. Here’s a quote
She does her own surgery, with a scalpel and a spotter to catch her if she passes out, and an anatomy book to give her some confidence she isn’t going to slice through a vein or the very nerves she’s trying to enhance.
from this article. Read and think about the concept of regarding your body as a device you can tweak… fascinating… Now let your imagination run wild… What would you like to add to your body if you could? Drop a comment if you have a really cool idea. I would like a device that automatically records everything I hear or see with a recording time of around 1 hour. So 1 hour after the recording I can still back it up to some external device using bluetooth… or maybe a USB connector that I implanted behind my ear. So much cool stuff you could do…
Oh wow. You really have to see this for yourself. Is this a cool app or what? Unfortunately I don’t come across much Spanish still from a technological point of view… this is really cool. Download it for free from the AppStore.
Whoahaaa… Good collegue Eric told me he was fiddling with his Samsung Galaxy S phone and he heard a ‘camera snapshot sound’ and got a message ‘Screen captured. Saved as image file.’
Reproducing how he actually did that wasn’t successful. Googling for the phenomenon showed a lot of links that requires the Android SDK to be installed… Browsing a little more showed a link to this page that describes how to do it from the phone itself. It’s really easy:
For this to work you probably need to have Froyo (Android 2.2) installed on your Samsung Galaxy S. This trick may (or may not) work on other Android phones with Froyo installed. Please try it out and leave a comment that indicates if this works on your phone as well. Thank you.
Here’s (the resized) result. In this case I started the camera application pointed it at my desktop (the fractal you see in the background) and I opened the menu of the camera application:
He he he, I don’t really need this but I think it is a nice gadget… the Table Connect for iPhone.
Oh wow, I have a new phone. It’s an android phone. The samsung Galaxy S. I had the phone lying around for a month but now it’s finally activated. Still reachable under the same number though. That’s why I had to wait.
Oh boy what a pleasure to work with. It has swype text input. This allows you to just swipe your finger or in my case my thumb over the keyboard. Single finger and fast text input. Very convenient.
Although I do like apple products and I was definitely considering to go iphone4 I decided to go android. First of all: I already have an ipod touch which is basically an iphone without the ability to make a phone call. So getting the iphone would not really be a new experience. So I go for the both worlds option. iOs and android. Let’s see what will turn out to be the better choice. So far so good: I love the samsung galaxy S.
Ben ik nou gek? Word ik gewoon oud? Of ligt het toch niet helemaal aan mij?
Now take a look at this: Mike Davey built a Turing Machine. And what a beauty it is… What? Don’t know what a Turing machine is? And you don’t know who Alan Turing is? Well no one special: he just happened to kickstart automated computing by formalizing algorithms , computability and programmable machines as we know it today. That’s all. Jeez what’s wrong with you?
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Here are some more videos of different programs the Turing Machine is executing.
Oh my goodness, take a look at this. You like to play the old fashioned boardgames like Settlers of Catan? Yet you don’t want to appear as the oldtimer that you actually are? Maybe you should go OLED like some researchers of the Queens University did. Digital game pieces rock the world. Check the article on cnet and watch this great video. They use projection in the video but you’ll get the idea
This will make a lot of games more exciting… well except for solving a puzzle since you can just throw the pieces on the table and let the oleds display the image correctly. 
Oh My Funny Goodness… take a look at this. As a huge PacMan fan I love everything that has the friendly yellow round gobbler on it… but to be honest… this is a “little” over the top. Still… it’s cool…
More pictures can be found at Zu Zu Top. What? You want to play PacMan now? Here you go!
Whahahaa… nice. The EFF (electronic frontier foundation) has filed a request at the DMCA to allow jailbreaking of Apple’s iPhone. Users must be able to install any software they wish.. not just the software apple approves of.
Just this week apple removed any voice-based application from the App Store to protect their exclusive deal with AT&T because it “duplicates features that come with the iPhone”. This just proves the necessity of people having the right to install any software they want.
Soooo Apple had to respond to the DMCA why jailbreaking would be bad…. well.. hold on tight.. according to Apple the iPhone is not just a phone… it’s a weapon of mass-disruption. I call “FUD“
Now this has to be the ultimate mod for a macbook. EdsJunk cracked his MacBook open and added a second monitor to it. So instead of the dull backlit apple logo you can now display anything on it. Here’s a video of the result… oh boy…
Mijn goede collega Harry stuurde onderstaande foto van het display van zijn onboard navigatie systeem voorzien van een logisch analyse.
Dat is nog een eens Pech op de Weg !
Omtrek van de aarde is +/- 42000 KM
Dus….
Ik moet nog ongeveer 100 keer een rondje rond de aarde en dan kom ik tussen Laren en de Vechtbrug in een file van 8 KM en….
er is geen alternatieve route.Schat ik kom wat later !
Today I talked about how cool it would be if you could have all your books on an ebook reader with my friends Karel and Bas. It’s definitely something that we would love to have. Amazon just released the Kindle 2 ebook reader. However that would require you to carry around another device. But if you are the lucky owner of an Apple iPhone you can get the Kindle reader for free on your iPhone. Matthew Miller wrote a nice article on this and has some beautiful screenshots. This seems pretty useable but unfortunately the iPhone will drain its power while on a Kindle only a page change requires power. Here’s a nice video of the Kindle 2 and the Kindle software on the iPhone…
It seems the ‘home computer’ of the old days is making a comeback. Asus is pushing its EEE line of small embedded computers. After the EEE netbook they also released an EEE desktop computer. The new product in line is an EEE media player, presented at CES 2009. A computer integrated into a keyboard (like the homecomputers of way back when) but this model also features a small display.
Here’s a nice preview of the product.