New Game Lets YOU Land a Plane on the Hudson
January 31, 2009
A new game called “Hero of the Hudson” challenges you to try your hand at a Hudson River landing. Can you do what US Airways pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger did (minus, of course, the pressure of lives at risk and realities of actual flight)?[Source] Mike
iPod finally in bath on The MP3 Mirror
January 31, 2009
Music, thanks to lots of modern-day portable MP3 players, can stay with us wherever we go and as far as we go from our home PCs. However there are still places unreachable for digital music and they are closer than you might have imagined. The territory of our baths, where all the electronic Gadgets and gizmos are banned, is at the same duration precisely the place where we want them to be. enlarged and boring minutes while staying in the bath are best for watching TV or listing to the music. But waterproof TV will cost a fortune, so here is a way out as Antonio Lupi sees it. that is a mirror, equipped with an iPod. Finally, we can use it safely in the bath![Source] Mike
iPhone Becomes a Noise Meter
January 31, 2009
iPhone is a device with practically unlimited possibilities and potential. Well, the hardware of iPhone is brilliant, however, what makes it a real wonder device is the abundance of applications and software that have been pouring in for the past several months.A new cool application called Noise Meter transforms your iPhone into a portable noise meter. The application is marginally simple. You start it and thereupon tap the big round button and voila.What I liked about that application is that it gives you human understandable data. whether you are a pro, you know what a dB means but what about mere mortars? So, the application simply gives you the level of noise in plain English. Namely, noise levels are grouped as chases:0-20: Quiet, suitable for living and sleeping20-40: Comfortable, suitable for office40-60: Busy, suitable for business60-80: Bustling, suitable for traffic80-100: Noisily, suitable for factory>100: Terrible, don’t stay for healthAs soon as I downloaded the appli…
More than one million Joost iPhone apps downloaded
January 30, 2009
Joost announced that more than one million iPhone and iPod Touch users have downloaded the free Joost application from Apple’s App Store.
Over their Wi-Fi connection, iPhone and iPod Touch users can use the global web video service’s app to enjoy thousands of hours of movies, comedy, drama, music, documentaries, sci-fi and sports.
Ssince the Joost iPhone App is ad-supported, similar to the web-based version, that service is free to all the Apple’s mobile device users.
[via MSNBC][Source] Budi Putra
iPhone, the most popular gaming platform
January 30, 2009
Apple’s iPhone, along with the BlackBerry Curve, have replaced the RAZR and low-end flip phones as the most popular gaming platforms, according to comScore.
The report additionally said that iPhone owners accounted for 14 percent of mobile game downloaders in November, with 32.4 percent of all iPhone users downloaded a game in the month, compared with a market average of 3.8 percent.
[Cellular News via PhoneMag][Source] Budi Putra
Colorsonic MP3 Player
January 30, 2009
Here’s a different way to form you look at MP3 players in the future - the Colorsonic MP3 player will display its playlist using a choice of colors, where individual colors would represent a specific music genre. Assuming you want to play songs from more than one genre, all you need to do is choose a couple of colors from the wheel and you’re good to go. The Colorsonic is currently in its project phase at the moment, featuring special software as well as a colorful website that allows public to log on and trade color rings. Designer Rhea Jeong came up with the Colorsonic concept during an internship with Samsung, and we’re keeping our fingers crossed that the Korean electronics giant will react positively to that concept by churning it out from manufacturing lines.
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[Source] Mike
Phone Booth Is Now An Aquarium
January 30, 2009
Artists Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino decided to do something special for the Lyon Light Festival in France by turning an unused old school phone booth into an aquarium. that is pretty interesting as it lends a surreal look to the surrounding environment, and most phone booths these days are redundant due to the proliferation of cell phones in our society. What are some of the other abandoned/neglected public property that can be turned into quirky pieces of art? The only problem with these booths are you’ll need to retrain the city council workers to include fish-feeding times into their daily city chores. Come to think of it, to have that beside a bus stand or train platform would be ideal as there is something therapeutic in seeing fish swim about.
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[Source] Mike