Saturday 11 June 2011

Re-Incarnation of electronic music

And we thought windows surface is the future of human machine interface aka HMI. Reactable had manufactured an amazing DJ desk called Reactable Live, which has redefined not just the future of music, but the future of HMI. Check out this live demo video


Its amazing to know that this idea came into being as far back in 2003 before gradually evolving into a viable commercial product.

Friday 10 June 2011

Real Life AngryBirds


This setup was organized by T-Mobile for promotion of their smartphones offerings. They always come up with great ideas for advertisement, take for example, their previous marketing stint which again, was organized to benefit from public's involvement.



In a similar promotional stunt, McDonald recently installed a huge billboard on a high street corner in Sweden where anyone could play a ping pong game on it using their smartphone. Heres the video for your delight

Want an iPhone4 for just under 30$ ?

Want an iPhone that omits no radiations, has zero carbon footprint and makes no noise pollution. Best thing is, rather than requiring exhaustive maneuvering, and muscle strain it helps you loosen up and relax.




It was obviously not that hard to guess that this is actually a cuddly cushion. Head over to www.iCushions.net if you would like to get one for your self.

Tuesday 7 June 2011

Meaning of insanity - FarCry 3 (Game Play Video)

Far Cry series stands out as the best game with most vibrant colors, realistic visuals and gripping storyline in any first person shooter out there. This is why both FarCry and FarCry2 have won Game of the Year Awards from numerous bodies. Watch this awesome game play video of Far Cry 3, the upcoming sequel in this franchise, courtesy of GameTrailers.com.

iOS5 coming to your nearest i[Device]

iOS5 was unveiled with 200 new features, at the WWDC 2011 (Apple's World Wide Developers Conference, Jun 6-15). See their official website for more details.


The most bragged about feature was the Notification Center, but this seems to have been copied from Android. They have obviously improved the idea with animated overlay notifications bar that will haunt you even while playing games. For some this might turnout to be a likable new feature.

A nice addition is iMessage that will enable text & multimedia messaging through the WiFi, saving your network costs. Rest of the features include improved Mail, Calender, Reminders & Browsing experience. On the go Camera and Photo manipulations and all new game center. Take a look at following video of official iOS5 demonstration.


They are also promising to set your iDevice free of any connections like with your PC and allowing you to link  with peripherals like TVs. This is their strategy to make you spend more on their supplementary accessories.

All in all, the new version promises to make your iDevice a lot more productive. Thankfully, iOS5 will be released for iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 and not just for iPhone 5, iPad and iPad 2.

COD MW3 Gameplay Demos

Checkout these gripping game play demos of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 from E3 2011, courtesy of www.GameTrailers.com.


I would say theres not much of extraordinary improvement upon previous installments but nonetheless, these new missions will keep us on the edge of our seats.

Monday 6 June 2011

Life size Mechanical Hummingbird

AeroVironment is an american organization that specializes in scientific research to develop futuristic solutions mostly for govt sectors and defense authorities. It is important to note here that world's first electric car prototype was developed by them. Their main focus however, is unmanned aircrafts and they have recently showcased a DARPA funded breakthrough project called Nano Hummingbird


We can imagine what can be achieved with an unmanned aircraft that looks, acts and weighs exactly like a hummingbird. Especially when its able to hover, fly up to 11miles per hour, withstand 5mph gusts, easily maneuver indoors and outdoors and sport an on-board camera. Close quarter Surveillance obviously!

Have a look at following public showcase video 
  

Also have a look at this video to see how the project evolved from experimentation


 Oh and it can even do a 360 degrees flip.