Toshiba dances on HD DVD’s grave, gets in bed with Blu-ray
Following a long a grueling battle that forced the company to bury its now-defunct “next generation” home entertainment media tech, Toshiba was left bleeding worse than a naked cheerleader in an axe murderer flick. It’s been just over a year since we all attended HD DVD’s $1 billion funeral and now it appears that Toshiba [...]
iPhone 3GS with VoiceOver Easiest Smartphone for Blind People?
According to David Pogue in the New York Times, the accessibility features like VoiceOver introduced with the iPhone 3GS make it one of the easiest smartphones for the blind and visually impaired:
First, you tap something to hear it. You can tap icons, words, even the tiny status icons at the top of the screen. As [...]
LG GW600 graces FCC on its way to AT&T
Watch out, Nokia E71x, it looks like there’s another slim smartphone gearing up to try to steal your thunder. While it certainly doesn’t appear to be able to lay claim to “AT&T’s thinnest smartphone” title, it certainly does look like the upcoming LG GW600 will be popular within enterprise circles — provided there are a [...]
Best Buy CMO Barry Judge Responds with ‘The One Type of Gizmodo Blogger’ [Ouch]
Yesterday, I did a fun post describing the Seven Types of Employees You Meet at Best Buy, complete with illustrations by Dan Meth. And now, Best Buy has responded. And they’ve been spying on me.
You’ll find this guy on his couch, sporting an ironic t-shirt with a delivery-food stain of some kind. He “commuted” minutes [...]
From Tokyo: Demo of “almost finalized” augmented reality tagging app Sekai Camera (videos)
I attended the inaugural event of the AR Commons in Tokyo today, a new initiative that’s supposed to help set “standards of augmented reality as a public environment”. In other words, the symposium is an attempt to understand what augmented reality, the mixing of the real world with computer data, really is and what consequences [...]
