Now who says Windows Phone 7 isn’t fun and dandy? Now they’re getting 3D browsers, whether you like it or not (and whether you need I or not). This comes courtesy of SurfCube. SurfCube turns the browser into a ‘fake’ 3D experience of sorts, with favourites on “top,” and history and settings on the “sides,” while the front face of the cube is the browser itself. You can get around with swipes and flashy tilt gestures, and for $1.99 on the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace you won’t need to rob a bank to have 3D browsing on your phone.
This is a short film made of paper craft, by Leo Bridle & Ben Thomas.
“Train of Thought was made as our graduation film from The Arts Institute at Bournemouth. Although we used digital compositing software, all the animation and models were done by hand, not with CGI. The film took approximately 9 months to complete, from storyboards through to the final edit.”
The music is by Portico Quartet arranged by Jack Wyllie”
No, not a new boy band group from Korea or Taiwan, but a high-end enthusiast motherboard with the “Big Bang” tagline. It’s going to support Sandy Bridge, and it’s going to have eight [8] PCI-Express slots, and eight [8] USB 3.0 ports, and three [3] BIOS chips. That’s how crazy they want it to be. Read more…
Here’s an MSI netbook based on Zacate, AMD’s new processor for killing Atom. Surprised, but it’s unveiled in a small Taipei-based event, which will be officially known to the world in CES. the Wind U270 netbook is an 11.6-incher with a 1.6GHz Zacate processor, 4GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive and no optical drive to speak of. Other specs include a VGA output, two USB 2.0 ports, a single USB 3.0 socket, a Kensington lock port, 4-in-1 card reader, Ethernet jack and an overly glossy 1366 x 768 resolution panel. Courtesy of Netbook News’ hands-on, we’ve spotted a traditional chiclet keyboard, a split mouse button (huzzah!) and a trackpad that may very well not exist if it were any smaller. MSI wasn’t about to spill any details on a ship date or price so we’ll still need to wait for CES.
Intel has announced a new SSD. Nothing fast that’ll kill SandForce, but something that’s extremely small which Intel hopes to give a fight to Toshiba. Intel’s just announced a new SSD 310 line that offers spectacularly minimal 51mm by 30mm by 5mm dimensions, while retaining X25-class performance (up to 200MBps read and 80MBps write speeds).
It’s snowing, and your car can’t move, but what about your bicycle? It should be the same, right? Well not really. If you don’t have stud tires, then a bunch of zip ties should do the trick. One of the cyclists at Dutch Bike Co. was caught without studded tires when it started snowing in Seattle. However, with some MacGyver trick, the problem is solved.
“I can accelerate, brake, and corner with aplomb, even on the vile snowpack/sheet ice mix the plows leave in the bike lanes. The zip ties dig nicely into the hardest packed surfaces, but they’re thin enough not to bounce the bike around at low speed or on short pavement sections. “
Last time manufacturers usually unveiled their products wholly before CES, but this time around, they all prefer to tease instead. Today we see yet another tease from Asus. What we see above is a USB 3.0 port embedded within a very slinky keyboard panel, which itself seems attached to a touchscreen display (with Android buttons!) up top. It’s looking more like a tablet PC (presumably with a pivoting screen) than a tablet, which is corroborated by other images at the source link. Two devices are included in this teaser picture set, with the other looking like it has a slider keyboard. We’re not sure what this thing really is though. Well, we’ll just have to wait for CES 2011.
Since many had hacked Kinect to do all sorts of stupid stuff, why not mod it to do some real actions? That’s what this new hack is all about. The Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California demonstrates its Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (FAAST) technology in this World of Warcraft for Kinect demo. Yes, using Kinect to wave your hands around and control your World of Warcraft hero.
Using open source software and smarts, the eggheads at USC can control some of WoW’s simpler actions—movement, spellcasting, targeting—with the Xbox 360 add-on. FAAST is designed to be used with off-the-shelf game software and can be configured to work with different titles. So the future of the mouse is your hand and your body?
Call of Duty: Black Ops has been the fastest selling video games of all time, but that also racks the title a good spot in Jack Sparrow’s territory. The FPS game is now one of the most downloaded games, illegally.
TorrentFreak, a BitTorrent news site reports a scary 4.2 million download for Black Ops. That’s a very big number considering that the game has only been out not so long ago, and already beaten Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (3.96 million downloads), Mafia II, and Mass Effect 2 to take the notorious throne.
Looks like NFC chip will indeed go quite big in 2011, as Samsung announced that its new near field communications (NFC) chip now comes with embedded flash memory for next-generation smartphones. Fancy a Galaxy S2 with Gingerbread and NFC? Mass production of the NFC is slated for the first quarter of 2011, so we should be able to see these NFC chips being used in smartphones launched during 2011, at least the third quarter. Read more…
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