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Posts from May 2009

Immersion Video from IDEO Labs

Forget about the headset, check out the 3D slippers. Amazing 3D immersion technology from IDEO Labs on Vimeo.


Sony Ericsson announces Yari, gesture phone for gaming Emos

As The Register mentions, it’s a little fantastic that these games can be played without looking at the screen. Mind you, I’m not even sure the hair is real in this ad, so let’s not nitpick. Incidentally, Yari is a Japanese word for spear: Yari (??) is the Japanese term for spear, or more specifically, [...]


Engadget have a leaked copy of the Palm Pre Gesture Guide

It’s unfinished, so the gestures appear on rough device image. Notable: Close by swiping upwards Swipe either way to delete an item from a list – seems like a wasted gesture option. Move cursor? Select Text Engadget.


Android adds Barcode Scanning for Google Product Search

“If you’re looking to price compare a product that’s right in front of you, why type out its name and dig through irrelevant results when you can just scan the barcode?” via Google Product Search For Android Adds Barcode Scanning, Just As We Predicted .


Vodafone App Store

Vodafone have announced the launch on their app store by year end in Britain, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. They’ll concentrate on apps for Symbian devices initally People will be able to buy apps and have them charged on their phone bill It’s a 70/30 revenue split between the developer and [...]


Samsung i7500 Video

Boy Genius Report have a video of the Samsung i7500, the first non-HTC Android phone. Thoughts: It has a lot of buttons There’s no sliding keyboard, and no stylus The camera is 5 MP, it has a flash It has video but it doesn’t focus It probably doesn’t have GPS “The keyboard is not really [...]


The Nokia App Store is Coming

And it’s called Ovi.


Android 1.5 Features & UI Update

The Android Developers forum has a full list of Android 1.5 features. There are some UI element updates that may break the layout of some existing Android apps: You can see in this example that the buttons and checkboxes have a new appearance. Even though these changes do not affect binary nor source compatibility, they [...]


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10 May 2009 @ 3pm

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Optus’ Scary Monster Call Caps

Adam Turner of the Sydney Morning Herald digs into Optus’ $59 cap plan and finds it wanting.