03 min 26 sec
The Economist
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
iPad Camera Kit Secrets... Microphone Magic
iPad camera connection kit, sold to quickly and easily import photos and videos from your camera, iphone and ipod has some undocumented secret features. It turns out that you can connect high quality studio USB microphones, and is also fully compatible with the iMic device for even NON-USB mics and audio input from mixing boards etc. Suddenly your "Magical" Apple Tablet becomes a Field recorder & a Podcast recording, production and upload studio!
Alesis iO Dock
Introduce your entire music studio to your iPad. iO Dock is the world's first professional audio interface for iPad.
Happy Toy Machine Allows You To Build Your Own Plush Toys
The TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley audience choice winner today is Happy Toy Machine, which allows you to design and create plush toys online.
The site allows adults and children to customize their plush toys by colors, size, body parts, shape, type, build and more. When you are satisfied with your design, you can actually have your creation built and sent you. It’s sort of like the Build-A-Bear on steroids.
Price ranges from $30 to $50, which is comparable to Build-A-Bear’s prices. The startup says the design element of the site is designed specially so that children can interact with the site and be able to design toys on their own.
In the future, the company would like to partner with video games or other entertainment properties to leverage Happy Toy Machine’s platform.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity
About this talk
Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data -- and at times vast numbers of people -- and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video assembled from crowd-sourced drawings to the "Wilderness Downtown" video that customizes for the user, his works brilliantly explore how modern technology can make us more human.
Toyota announces new Prius V and I take a look at geeky toys inside
Got a smartphone? Soon it'll be connected to your car and Toyota shows just how in its new Prius V
Monday, May 23, 2011
Livescribe Releases Connect, Puts Ink In The Cloud
Livescribe smartpens allow you to record and send the ink you draw or write on paper. They also record the surrounding audio so you can sync the audio with the drawings, something that’s great for students, reporters, and anyone who goes to meetings regularly. For a while, they had little apps that could run on the pen including a very cool piano app that allowed you to draw a piano and then play it on the page.
Now, however, they’ve added an interesting new feature: Livescribe Connect, a system that allows you to send entire pages to multiple recipients including Twitter users, Facebook, Google Docs, and various other cloud services. We got a quick hands on and were able to talk to the company about future plans.
How does Connect work? Well, you draw or write something and then draw an underscore. You then write a one or two word command (“Twitter,” “email joe@joe.com”) and then select a portion of the page or a set of pages. Then, when you sync the pen via USB those pages automatically go to the people or accounts in question.
The major concern is that the Pulse pen isn’t wireless yet so the utility is somewhat limited. However, it looks like a wireless pen is in the offing and the features and dead-simple interface make up for some of those shortcomings.
Erick and I hung out with the Pulsonian Commander, Jim Marggraff, on Fly Or Die a few weeks ago and got to talk about the new product.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
AsiaD Set for October in Hong Kong–Here’s the Mossberg-Swisher Guided Video Tour
As BoomTown noted in January, the D: All Things Digital conference–after an initial foray into smaller, niche Dive events–has been mulling going global next.
So, my longtime partner in digital crimes, Walt Mossberg, and I–along with D biz honcho Lia Lorenzano–headed to China in January to visit some possible locations for our first AsiaD.
And now it’s official: We’ll be doing an event October 19 to 21 in Hong Kong.
While we are still working out all the location logistics, Walt and I are already hard at work with our Dow Jones partners there to bring the magical mystery tech tour that D has been here to the audience there.
It will be a pan-Asian event, bringing in speakers and demos from all over the region, as well as inviting some key U.S. digital players to be interviewed in what is clearly one of the most important markets going forward.
We’d welcome any feedback, of course, as well as suggestions.
And we’ll keep you updated to our progress too. As with big D, which is set to take place May 31 to June 2 (and has been long sold out), we’ll be posting reports and videos of AsiaD.
Until we can say more, here is a video of moments from the visit Walt and I had there, including a helicopter tour of the vertical city, delicious dumplings and, of course, a whole lot of tech:
Gotta Share! The Musical & others
For our latest mission, a musical breaks out at the GEL Conference in New York. A speaker is suddenly interrupted by a man who refuses to turn off his cell phone. This is the fourth in our series of Spontaneous Musical projects.
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