Unconventional Use Of Your Mobile Phone Accelerometer Accelerometers are not new technology since they have been around in several devices. Apple MacBook just to make one well known example. Since the launch of the iPhone it seems that every mobile phone manufacturer has gone wild with this technology. You can also find one in the Nokia N95 and Nokia has recently released […]
Modu. Make New Connections Yesterday my attention was drawn by this YouTube video: The video has been released on YouTube and as the title suggests it is a teaser. The quality of the video is pretty good and it really seems that a video professional has worked on it.Form what I can see Modu will release a very small […]
iPhone Was Not Designed To Do This I think that one of the most interesting thing in our job is trying to understand what customers do with your products. Even if you are convinced that you covered all of the possible use cases for your product/application/service you can rest sure that out there there is some crazy guy that will find something […]
Streaming Video Right From Your Phone With QIK Qik is a brand new service that wille let you stream live content from your mobile phone to the Internet. Qik delivers a simple application to install on your mobile phone that will take control of your mobile phone camera and will deliver your video stream to QIK servers. From what I can read from […]
Virtual RAID5 On The Internet Using Free Tools And Services It is amazing how sometimes people combine things together to bring to life something new. I have found this article on the Internet explaining how to build a completely free RAID 5 virtual system using only freely available software and services. This is cool. The main concept is illustrated in the picture. In order to […]
Pleo. Adopt Your Own Dinosaur! I have never looked deeply in toys innovation during these years but it really seems that there are some great new products coming to the market. One of the most interesting I have seen is Pleo coming from Ugobe. Pleo is a robotic dinosaur that is able to interact with the external world. Reading throough […]
Did You Notice That The iPhone Has A Fantastic Web Browser? Google Did! There is a great article on the New York Times that reveals the fact that Google has noticed that traffic to their sites coming from iPhone has surged during the last holidays period. You can read the original article by clicking here. I think there a lot of interesting things in this article. First one: […]
Wooden Toys Will Teach Your Children How A Network Works Since my childhood I have always loved wood toys and I am trying to instill that very same interest to my one year old child, aka Piccoletto. Searching the Internet for wooden toys I have found Brio Wooden Toys. Brio is a company with a great heritage in building wooden toys being established in 1884 […]
Turn Your Mobile Phone In A Mobile WiFi Access Point. Sometimes it happens to read some really cool idea developed by some crazy coder. We have started to see a lot of mobile phone equipped with WiFi and lot of them are running an open Operating System like Windows Mobile or Symbian. The idea here is quite simple but extremely powerful. From one side you […]
De-mystifying the technology of emotion This post could sound like an ad for Exmocare…but it’s not true. Take a look to their pages and you’ll agree with the statement: “Being better connected with -this- (our body signals) information about ourselves and our loved ones provides the first step toward the great promise of technology that works for us – […]
