Posts Tagged ‘IPhone’

Introducing The Puma Index

Posted on 22 Sep 2009 at 7:21pm

Here’s the video promo for the new mildly inno­v­a­tive stock track­ing iPhone app from Puma (best known for awe­some track­wear) where your spir­its are lifted when the mar­kets are down by hot chicks tak­ing their clothes off. Kind of bril­liant in its simplicity.

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10 Gadgets That Will Make College Better

Posted on 03 Sep 2009 at 2:16pm

It’s that time of the year again, Back-to-school. I still remem­ber those days. Even though it’s been 2 years since I’ve had to go back to school, I still love this time of the year.

This time of the year also means stu­dents will want the lat­est gad­gets before head­ing off to col­lege. That’s where we come in and tell you some of the hottest gad­gets out there and what you need to make this year in col­lege a success.

Log­itech Squeeze­box Boom

Col­lege stu­dents love music, so the Squeeze­box is per­fect. The Wi-Fi radio speak­ers can stream pre­mium music con­tent from online music ser­vices, along with inter­net radio sta­tions. Some of the ser­vices offered are Sir­ius, Rhap­sody, Slacker, Pan­dora, and Last.fm. But that’s not all, it also streams music straight from a PC or Mac on a Wi-Fi net­work. For $5 more, you can add an exten­sion cable to add an iPod, PC or another source. It’s avail­able on the Log­itech web­site and will run you $300.

iPhone 3GS

The iPhone is still the hottest phone in the mar­ket and every­one wants to get their hands on the one of these devices. The iPhone 3GS takes it to another level by offer­ing video record­ing and edit­ing capa­bil­ity. While many may not like AT&T, its the only car­rier if you want the iPhone. The 3GS could end up being your go to device for everything.

Ama­zon Kin­dle DX

Car­ry­ing around those heavy text­books no longer applies with the Ama­zon DX. It’s only 19 ounces and can hold hun­dred of text­books for all your classes. You can down­load books under 60 sec­onds but most col­lege kids are also pretty savvy inter­net users, so look online, you’ll also get access to text­books from such edu­ca­tional pub­lish­ers as Cen­gage Learn­ing, Pear­son and Wiley. The 9.7-inch screen wire­less read­ing device costs $489. If you can find text­books online, then the cost of the device might not be so bad, con­sid­er­ing text­books can be very expensive.

Playsta­tion 3 Slim

Sony came out last week and made their gam­ing con­sole very appeal­ing by mak­ing it slim­mer, lighter and faster. Most col­lege stu­dents will already be in school when Sony releases the gam­ing con­sole, but it’ll be out dur­ing the first week of Sep­tem­ber, so it’s not too far away. Plus with the slim­mer design, it’ll be eas­ier to carry around.

iPod Touch 3rd Generation/Microsoft Zune HD

Apple is plan­ning to release their 3rd gen­er­a­tion iPod Touch music player. It’s rumored to be updated with a cam­era. The iPod Touch is one of the best sell­ing music play­ers out in the mar­ket, so why not get the updated version.

If you’re not an Apple per­son, then Microsoft is releas­ing the Zune HD. It’ll offer a touch­screen with a Tegra proces­sor, and updated OS. Plus it looks good enough to com­pete against Apple’s Touch.

The Zune HD will start out at $220 for the 16GB ver­sion, while the Apple iPod Touch will prob­a­bly be in the $250 range for 16GB version.

Mac­book Pro

Apple has low­ered the price for their Mac­book Pro line and also included the 13-inch in their Pro fam­ily. The 13-inch starts out at $1,199, while the 15-inch will run you around $1,699, and then the high end 17-inch, starts out at $2,499. All of the Mac­book Pros are avail­able with a stu­dent dis­count on Apple’s Edu­ca­tion Store.

Brita Ultra­max Filter

If you’ve ever lived in a dorm room, then you know you never want to drink the water on cam­pus. Most kids end up get­ting bot­tled water but that adds up and not really green. To solve that prob­lem, get a Brita fil­ter, bet­ter yet, get a Brita Ultra­max water dis­penser. It’ll give you 18 8 ounce glasses of water and has a elec­tronic gauge that’ll tell you when it’s time to change the fil­ter. The water dis­penser will cost you $42. Split it with your room­mate and you’re look­ing at $21 for a con­ve­nient and healthy water solution.

Nikon Coolpix S1000PJ Pro­jec­tor Camera

Teens love tak­ing pics of them­selves and their friends and what bet­ter way to share them right away instead of wait­ing for them to be uploaded on Face­book, than on your dorm room wall. The Nikon pro­jec­tor cam­era solves that prob­lem. It can make a 40-inch pic­ture from six feet away, show­ing your friends all the stu­pid things you were doing while get­ting ham­mered last night. It’s a fun and an expen­sive cam­era. But you pay more for the lat­est fea­tures and a pro­jec­tor on a cam­era is some­thing. The cost of the Nikon pro­jec­tor cam­era is $429 and will be avail­able soon, in September.

Nin­tendo DSi

Nintendo’s most pop­u­lar hand­held gam­ing con­sole will def­i­nitely make the breaks between classes a lit­tle more fun. No one really stud­ies in between classes right? So, why not pull out your DSi and con­tinue your saved game until it’s time to head into Econ 101. The hand­held con­sole will run you around $169.99 and is avail­able now.

Shure Pro­fes­sional Headphones

I’m a big fan of head­phones and when Shure, known for their ear phones, released three pro­fes­sional head­sets, I wanted one. They’re avail­able in 3 dif­fer­ent mod­els. Prices for the pro­fes­sional head­sets ranges from $59.99 for the entry level head­set, $99 for the mid level head­sets and $199.99 for the higher end model. They’re def­i­nitely worth grab­bing if you’re going to cram for exams and papers. Might as well lis­ten to your music comfortably.

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An Insider On the Apple Tablet

Posted on 15 Aug 2009 at 11:02am

I never fully believed the Apple tablet was real beyond dreams, until I heard these words over my phone: “Hey, it’s . I may or may not have sat in some Apple meet­ings for the tablet.”

I was dri­ving, and swerved a lit­tle bit, even though both hands were on the wheel. Some­one honked at me.

What was that?”

They repeated themselves.

I switched on Blue­tooth and pulled over to the side of the road to hear the story. You see, ear­lier in the day I’d given my phone num­ber out to some­one who sent me a cryp­tic email want­ing to talk Apple. This must have been them. (Later on I ver­i­fied to a high level of cer­tainty that they were in the posi­tion to have access to the infor­ma­tion and after talk­ing to them for over an hour, I believe them to the same level of certainty.)

The device, which I’ve held mock ups of, is going to have a 10 inch screen, and when I saw it looked just like a giant iPhone, with a black back— although that design could change at any time” they said, “with the same black resin back, and the famil­iar home but­ton.” That’s obvious.

But it will come in two edi­tions, one with a web­cam and one for edu­ca­tional use.”

Edu­ca­tional use?

They con­tin­ued to explain the device as some­thing that would sit between an iPod/iPhone and a Mac­Book, and would cost $700 to $900—“More than twice as much as a net­book,” they said.

To make up for that cost and make the device more than just a big iPod there was, this per­son claimed, there was talk of mak­ing the device act as a sec­ondary screen/touchpad for iMacs and Mac­Books, much like a few of the USB screens that have come out in recent months from Chi­nese com­pa­nies. Very interesting.

They went on to say that although the project has been going on under var­i­ous names between four and six years, the first pro­to­type was built around the end of 2008. Adding, “The time to mar­ket from first pro­to­type is gen­er­ally 6–9 months.” That would place the device’s release date in this hol­i­day sea­son. (Update: John Gru­ber and Jim Dal­rym­ple believe the date is fur­ther out, how­ever.) They then said, “There was a ques­tion of what OS the device would run, too.” (Other peo­ple I’ve talked to have implied this remains a huge secret. Update: in vari­a­tion. Obvi­ously, it’ll be OS X.)

My call dropped on some windy road off Sky­line Drive. Fuck­ing AT&T.

Later, I asked, was there a code name for the project?

Yes….”

I thought about it for a sec­ond, googled the term, and it all made sense.

Don’t pub­lish that name, please,” they requested.

Don’t worry, I won’t.

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Hot Women Sport A Blackberry, Not The iPhone

Posted on 09 Aug 2009 at 5:32pm

Move over iPhone, women in Hol­ly­wood and the enter­tain­ment indus­try don’t really care for your sleek look and multi-touch capa­bil­i­ties. Here are 12 of the hottest women in the world car­ry­ing a black­berry over the hyped iPhone.

12. Jen­nifer LopezBlack­berry Bold

11. Kristin Cav­al­lari – Black­berry Curve

10. Lau­ren Con­rad – Black­berry Curve

9. Emma Wat­son – Black­berry Bold

8. Rihanna – Black­berry Curve

7. Halle Berry – Black­berry Curve

6. Kim Kar­dashian – Black­berry Curve

5. Eva Mendes – Black­berry Bold

4. Jes­sica Biel – Black­berry Curve

3. Scar­lett Johans­son – Black­berry Curve

2. Alessan­dra Ambro­sio – Black­berry Curve

1. Adri­ana Lima – Black­berry 8700 (She needs to update hers, but does it really matter)

Pic­tures from Celebrity Black­berry Sight­ings, Coolspot­ters, and Allure.

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DJ Mixer">The iPhone DJ Mixer

Posted on 08 Aug 2009 at 1:52pm

Ten Futuristic Computer Concepts

Posted on 07 Aug 2009 at 8:06pm

Appar­ently when it was sug­gested to build a Home Com­puter, the trade ana­lysts pre­dicted that there would be a demand for only 2 PCs a year. Times have flown and look where we are now! In a fam­ily of four with mod­est means, we own 2 desk­tops and 2 Lap­tops! The point is, we have seen many cre­ative con­cepts in lap­tops and PCs on YD over the years. Agreed many are far­fetched, but dream­ing big is a part of the cre­ative process. Here is a look at Ten Futur­is­tic Com­puter Con­cepts that we hope get realized.

10) Mac­Book Touch by Tom­maso Gecchelin

High­lights: flex­i­bil­ity in form-factor via iSpine tech­nol­ogy, flex­i­ble OLED screen, and Magic Dock that exter­nal­ize ports to keep the appear­ance clean.

9) HP LiM (Less is More) Con­cept by Jef­frey S. Engelhardt

High­lights: use of Bam­boo fab­ric across the alu­minum frame of the PC, 19″ trans­par­ent touch OLED screen along with a wire­less key­board, vir­tual trackpad.

8 ) Evolve Mod­u­lar CPU by Vas Obeye­sekere of Point Innovation

High­lights: trans­forms between mobile and home com­put­ing con­fig­u­ra­tions and can expand or con­tract its mod­ule based com­po­nents to meet any user’s needs.

7) Mac Folder by Tryi Yeh

High­lights: a re-worked User Inter­face that resem­bles the iPod Touch or iPhones’, super-slim multi-touch screen.

6) Dual Screen Com­puter by Yong-Seong Kim

High­lights: a large slot behind the LCD dis­play that can accom­mo­date the note­book thus allow­ing you to use it as a desk­top, notebook’s screen trans­forms into a sec­ond dis­play in por­trait mode.

5) Can­vas by Kyle Cherry

High­lights: designed for those in the cre­ative arts fields, offers a wide are for workspace.

4) The Nap­kin PC by Avery Holleman

High­lights: Uses e-ink and RF tech­nol­ogy, designed for group col­lab­o­ra­tions, has pens like mod­ules that trans­mit info to the base sta­tion PC, processed info is dis­played on the nap­kin which is actu­ally e-ink paper.

3) Book Lap­top by Kyle Bean

High­lights: it show­cases the trend that we have become so depen­dent on tech­nol­ogy and the vir­tual world, that we have for­got­ten about the REAL one that we live in.

2) B-membrane by Won-Seok Lee

High­lights: built-in pro­jec­tor that removes the need for a sep­a­rate mon­i­tor, a mem­brane key­board that appears when needed, inte­grated opti­cal drive, pro­jec­tor can beam ambi­ent lights.

1) Sony Vaio Zoom Note­book Con­cept by Eno Setiawan

High­lights: thin glass form fac­tor, touch­screen holo­graphic tech­nol­ogy, screen is com­pletely trans­par­ent and the key­board goes opaque when switched off.

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wife punishes “thier way”

Posted on 03 Aug 2009 at 4:57pm

If you think you can cheat your wife and get away then you bet­ter be really clever because oth­er­wise you’re gonna end up bit­ing your fin­gers on the road like the fol­low­ing exam­ples. These are bunch of images to show the reality.

Ouch…
Paint Job
Nice Car Dude…
Good Luck “Dawg

The Best One!

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10 unusual and creative t-shirts

Posted on 23 Jul 2009 at 6:27pm

Cre­ative and unusual t-shirt designs that will spice up anyone’s wardrobe.

Philips LED T-Shirts

Devel­oped by Philips, Lumalive inte­grates a flex­i­ble array of mul­ti­color LEDs into a piece of cloth, which allows the cloth to dis­play graph­ics, text, and ani­ma­tion.

Intern T-Shirt

These creative t-shirts were given out to new interns at the JWT New York advertising agency.

Animated Pong T-Shirt

Simply pop two AAA batteries into the concealed pack, push a button and voila! Cool animated glowing retro gaming on your chest.

Hang­over Baby T-Shirt

Baby Car­los from the movie Hang­over is now on a t-shirt.

Res­i­dent Evil Zom­bie T-Shirt

Awe­some t-shirt from Cap­com that can turn you into a zom­bie.

Bikini T-Shirt

Unique t-shirt design for the sum­mer from Japan.

Six Pack Abs T-Shirt

Geek Hand Sign T-Shirt

We all have seen the gang­ster hand signs thrown to show gang alle­giance, but have you seen the geek equiv­a­lent? This is one for the web devel­op­ers and coders out there – the < head > tag.

Chalk­board T-Shirt

Express Your­self! Write, draw, erase, and repeat…

Venet­ian Blind T-Shirt

The string is not a print, but a real string, which you can pull to open the blinds.

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