Google Japan just released this short animated feature that shows how Google Maps’ Streetview function actually works (if you didn’t already know).
via The Jailbreak.
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Microsoft Parody!
26May09I am sorry microsoft… but this is funny and it needs to be shared around.
if you have not figure it out, i am not loyal to microsoft, apple, nokia, samsung, phillip, sony, etc etc. … X_X … my head is hurting trying to remember the companies at once.
I have posted the original video early… but at the moment to lazy to find it for you all. but i am sure just google search and it pops up. 
Video parodies Microsoft’s vision of the future » VentureBeat.
140 insights about Twitter.
26May09140 Insights From Twitter In 140 Characters Or Less.
70 – 140…
I know what you’re thinking – that’s only 70, the title promised 140.
I love this statement for a blog which its goal is to have 140 insights. Read some, below is the top ten.
1. Good news travels fast.
2. Bad news travels even faster.
3. We are addicted to what’s new – not just news, but in each other’s lives.
4. There are a lot of meta discussions on every single social platform on the Internet, and Twitter is no exception.
5. We’re teaching everyone to get creative with linking.
6. Popularity is not trust.
7. Limiting yourself is a challenge in and of itself.
8. Sharing our lives is a natural.
9. The mundane, aggregated, can actually be interesting.
10. You can get to know people 140 characters at a time.
My Name is E !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
13May09why is it that my vision is either one step behind or one step ahead? LOVE IT!
INNOVATION JUBILATION TRENDS
08May09
Restaurants | Kogi Korean BBQ sells their signature tacos primarily through two trucks in the Los Angeles area. In order to know where to find them, customers follow Kogi on Twitter, and it’s not unusual to find hundreds of the company’s 19,000+ Twitter friends lined up and socializing while awaiting their turn at the Kogi truck. More »
Automotive & parking | In the greater New York area, Central Parking System and other parking companies offer half-price parking for Smart fortwo owners. The service, which is a partnership with Smart USA, is based on the notion that drivers shouldn’t have to pay full price if their car only takes up half a parking spot. More »
Q & A | Led in part by Flickr cofounder Caterina Fake, Hunch is an online decision-making tool that gets to know a user through his or her answers to seemingly random questions. Based on those answers, Hunch aligns users with other people that are like them—their twinsumers—and can offer personalized answers to complex questions like: “Should I go to medical school?” More »
Mobile telephony | New Jersey-based Rentobile provides a wide selection of the latest cell phones for rent on a monthly basis so that consumers can try out various devices without being limited by a long term contract. A Netflix for phones, indeed. More »
via trendwatching.com’s May 2009 Trend Briefing covering INNOVATION JUBILATION.
Nano styling
05May09old news recycled… for those that has not seen…
Macbook Nano concept. back in 2008. It is getting to be a bit star trekkie… i ain’t complaining, i grew up on that show.
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Cell-o-redito debate
05May09Is this idea new or old? Five years working within a team for intel’s future tech trends we predicted that phones should have credit card info…and of course the big debate is how dangerous to put everything in one basket.
Already there are countries (finland + Japan) that allow you to wave your phone to pay for food and transportation. but in America our major fault is security. The lawsuit of misplace phones+devices that has your information in it. And worst the psychology of your mind to perceive money from a phone verses a card. one of the many reasons why people are in debt with their credit card. the weight and feeling of giving cash leaves a higher impact of you spending your hard earn money than handing a weightless piece of plastic that never change in weight or size when you earn or lose money.
but overall this is a new avenue of wireless currency that will not replace credit cards or cash but compliment it for improving local business or local convenience like parking meters. I have not read it but heard about the book Everyware by Adam Greenfield which goes into further exploration into this subject.
so in reminder: “a great idea is simply an idea on paper… innovation is not just about ideas but the ability to turn great ideas into reality… ”
via yankodesign
The device in size of a credit card 54×85,6 mm will replace all those. Moreover it can work as:
- Video phone. Before making a call you can choose an operator of a mobile communication.
- All credit and discount cards that you have. The built in program will prompt an optimum variant for discounts at the given payment place.
- The remote control for any device. It can simultaneously display a teleschedule and recommendations of your favourite site.
- Keys from doors of houses and cars you have an authorization to.
- GPS-system that can automatically upload aerial photos from the Internet.
- Library, video- and music shop. You can read, listen to and watch all that at your choice. Go to a public online library or buy all that you want in any shop of the world.
- Gaming device with support of network gaming (remember that you have a GPS and the virtual reality becomes quite real).
- Even your computer that works with any operational system that is being uploaded through the Internet.
For any actions connected with safety (payment, opening of a door, …) the device authorizes you by reading your fingerprints.
Designer: Dima Komissarov
AUDI D7 insane headlights concept
04May09
so overall… reminds of that Chrysler crossfire….the only improvement is the headlight concepts. In personal preferences i prefer cars that has a sharper back end…but A+ on the lighting treatment!
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New way for E-INK–video style
04May09
A new display technology could make electronic paper look more like the real thing. Conventional ink on paper has a much higher brightness and black-and-white color contrast than electronic paper. The new display, made by researchers at the University of Cincinnati, in Ohio, is designed to match the brilliance and contrast of paper. “We’ve demonstrated a technology where you have the brightness of paper, and color has the same saturation that you expect from printed media,” says electrical- and computer-engineering professor Jason Heikenfeld, who led the work, which was published in Nature Photonics.
The pixels also switch between black and white within one millisecond, making the technology suitable for video (LCDs currently switch in a few milliseconds). A slower refresh speed of tens to hundreds of milliseconds is one of the main issues plaguing current e-paper.
So far, Heikenfeld and his colleagues have made rigid black-and-white displays that reflect 55 percent of ambient light–far more than any electronic-paper products currently on the market. White paper reflects 85 percent of ambient light, so it looks much brighter than Heikenfeld’s system. But Heikenfeld says that the technology could be used to make full-color flexible plastic displays that have more than 60 percent brilliance, and higher-grade materials and manufacturing processes should eventually make his device almost as bright as white paper.
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Samsung projector phone
01May09Friends no longer have to gather ’round the laptop to watch the latest YouTube video. A Samsung phone doubles as a projector, displaying still or moving images up to 1.2 meters wide. The phone incorporates digital light-processing technology from Texas Instruments, in which images are projected by hundreds of thousands of microscopic mirrors in an array. Samsung plans to release the phone in Europe this summer; it’s already available in Korea.
Courtesy of Samsung
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