Don’t know what to watch tonight? Check out Jinni then. Using something they are calling Movie Genome,Jinni sets up attributes to movies and TV shows,and then determines what you may like based on different keywords or even what mood you are in. Having played around with it for a bit,I am liking it quite a bit. It’s got a pretty cool interface,and a simple way to rate movies you have seen or don’t think you would be interested in. The entire system is a bit similar to Pandora,where that tries to figure out what sort of music you like,this tries to figure out what movies/TV shows you like. If you want to read more about it,check out TechCrunch’s extensive write-up.
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Remember the Droid ads that Verizon was reported to be running yesterday? Well Boy Genius Report has managed to get his hands on Verizon’s Motorola Droid. Initial thoughts he has is that the phone is nearly as thin as the iPhone 3GS,but still has a full-ish QWERTY keyboard,which is “pretty usable and has a soft-touch rubberized finish”. It’s got a huge,capacitive display that is “the best screen we’ve ever seen on an Android handset”. And it’s running Android 2.0 on “the fastest Android device we’ve ever used. (It’s running a TI OMAP3430 processor)”. Not bad at all,but will be looking forward to the full review which should be up soon (hopefully). (Found on Boy Genius Report)
A couple more details have leaked out about the Dell Adamo. Business Week is reporting that the laptop will be priced at about $2000 (YIKES!),but it will be the thinnest laptop in the world at just 0.39″,and if that isn’t cool enough,the front lip has a “heat-sensing strip on the lip that,when swiped with a finger,glows white and automatically opens the aluminum lid.” Inteeeeerrrrrrrreeeeessssttting…so there’s a motor that opens the lid? The other thing being reported is that the laptop will be unveiled on October 22nd (how many of you think that it’s a coincidence that Windows 7 launches on the same day?). (Found on Engadget)
PC manufacturers are trying to push multi-touch capabilities into personal desktop and laptops,without fully understanding how to use it best. HP,it’s NOT comfortable to keep your arms straight out touching your monitor to control the stuff. Most laptop manufacturers,your screens are already small enough without me covering it up with my hands even further. 10/GUI is a project that is developing a truly usable hardware and software interface that fully incorporates a 10 finger multi-touch system. And it looks set to be really really good if one of the major OS companies (i.e. Microsoft or Apple) decide to implement it. Maybe you keep two GUI versions,one to be used with keyboard and mice,and the other with multi-touch and you can toggle between the two? Bold move Verizon. This is a very direct attack against Apple’s iPhone,from the use of “iDon’t”to the very Apple-esque white backdrop and shadow under the text.
At this point,I’ve pretty much vowed never to switch back to Windows for my laptop. I am just too settled into my Mac life. But man oh man does Dell’s new Adamo XPS look stunningly thin. It’s just 9.99mm thick. Annnnnd….that’s all we know about it. no seriously. There isn’t even a picture of the screen or keyboard,let alone specs and performance of the laptop. But it’s super thin? And has what appears to be a USB port,headphone,and Firewire 400 (or charger…)? (Found on Engadget)
PhotoSketch looks set to be a brilliant tool turning amateurs into Photoshop pros. Using simple scrawls of the type of picture you want,with labels for your drawing and background,PhotoSketch goes out,pulls images that meet those labels in context,and then tries to do it’s best to compose a photoshopped picture pulling all those individual pictures together in one amazing move. Check out the examples below that include the original scrawl and the output from PhotoSketch. Awesome. Here is a link to the site on Tsing Hua University outlining the concept by the students who made it. (Found on Gizmodo) That is one sweet looking flexible-screen concept laptop. OLED multi-segment screen,a loud speaker,full WiFi and USB ports,not bad at all. If anything the only fault I find is that the vertical device has a wire plugging into the front of the “laptop”. If anything it should be on the back,and honestly,it shouldn’t exist at all (wireless power anyone?). It probably will never come to light,but it’s still fun to dream. | |||||
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