Breaking: Creative’s Flip Video Clone Leaked Online reseller JR.com is listing a new mystery-cam from Creative, called the Vado, which promises to be very similar to the super successful Flip. The specifications read like they have been lifted from the Flip itself: VGA cam, one-button recording,…
On the internet reseller JR.com is listing a new mystery-cam from Creative, called the Vado, which promises to be very similar to the super successful Flip. The specifications read like they’ve been lifted from the Flip itself: VGA cam, one-button recording, good low-light performance, two hour recording on a 2GB, direct upload to YouTube or Photobucket, 2x zoom, rechargeable AA batteries and a built-in flexible USB connector. The only differences seems to be that the Vado has a 2″ LCD against the Flip’s 1.5″, and that it will be available in both silver and pink. Even the price is the same, at $100.
The picture above is a Photoshop job: There is no product shot as yet. You can see a screengrab of the errant page below, just in case the original goes offline (and we suspect it might). We’ll be keeping a close eye on this. As they state in Streetfighter II: “Round One: Fight!”
The Peterson BB-1 BodyBeat attaches to your finger/random appendage, sending tiny rhythmic pulses that you can feel on your skin. The non-aural stimulation will give you a silent way to count measures while playing the piano… and since you’ve to use your fingers to do that, you’ll have to clamp this to somewhere else. The question is where?
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Cellphone software developer Flick has created a neat add-on interface which mimics that of the iPhone. The skin contains a lookalike front end which acts as a launcher for Windows Mobile applications. You can flick from screen to screen or…
Cellphone software developer Flick has created a neat add-on interface which mimics that of the iPhone. The skin contains a lookalike front end which acts as a launcher for Windows Mobile applications. You can flick from screen to screen or press an icon to make it jiggle. The application – iSwish – even supports iPhone Summerboard themes.
Most interesting, and also most broken, is iZoom, an attempt to implement multi touch on a regular touch screen. Apparently, a touch screen can detect multiple presses but they are ignored in favor of the main one. The Flick team uses these phantom touches to create version of Apple’s pinching effect, along with the “flick and toss effect”. You’ll see it at the end of the video.
Flick staff are allowed to work on personal projects on company time, and this is one of them. There will be a demo for download on May 27th, and hopefully one day it’ll end up as a full product.
Engineers at Eyebeam, a New York arts and technology center, are drastically reducing the cost of ownership for multitouch tables by taking them open-source. Schematics for the Cubit, a multitouch tabletop display, are available online for people who want to make a scaled-down Microsoft Surface for one tenth the Surface’s price.
The Cubit is a boxy tabletop with a clear surface. All a potential multitouch table owner needs to get started is a webcam with an infrared filter and a small image projector. Plug in the webcam, install the Cubit software, turn on the projector and start touching.
Eyebeam fellows Addie Wagenknetch and Stefan Hechenberger stated they were releasing the Cubit in order to “prove that anyone could build [a multitouch table].” Besides offering the designs and software online, the two are selling DIY kits that include parts and instructions.
The Cubit was on display at the Maker Faire, along with several other open-source multitouch projects. Though open-source has long been focused on software, it looks like DIYers, like Eyebeam andBug Labs, are now taking the philosophy into the realm of hardware as well. [Technology Review]
Apparently, the only thing crazier than Crank 2: High Voltage’s plot (Jason Statham survives falling a thousand stories from a helicopter, thanks to his super adrenaline heart, which is stolen by a really old Chinese dude, and his mechanical replacement needs to be constantly zapped, hence the awesome title) is the cameras they’re using to shoot it. They’re straight from Best Buy and Circuit City: Canon’s $1000 HF10 and XH A1 (now about $3500), though they’re shooting with up to 12 simultaneously, and plan to destroy loads of them throughout the process.
Interestingly, they moved away from using another RED camera because of the size and the fact that they can be as fussy as 35mm film cams. So there’s definitely a pro market for $3000 pocket-sized Scarlet beyond the obvious prosumer angle—it’s small, cheap and shoots at an insane res. The other takeaway is that consumer cams have really gotten to be pro, or nearly pro level, which is a great thing for the rest of us. Though Crank 2 might not be. [Collider, Thanks Steve!]
Today at Maker Faire 2008, MacGyver creator (and real life inspiration) Lee David Zlotoff announced he has a huge budget MacGyver movie in the planning stages.
Zlotoff mentioned he somehow ended up with the motion picture rights years ago (extremely uncommon), giving him full control over the film. While few specifics were mentioned, and no formal announcement has been made, its extremely promising that the man with the power to make the film is getting the ball rolling. The question is…do you bring back Richard Dean Anderson as old MacGyver, or bring in a younger, Christian Bale-type to reprise the role of makeshift gadget god? [Maker Faire on Giz]
On the internet reseller JR.com is listing a new mystery-cam from Creative, called the Vado, which promises to be very similar to the super successful Flip. The specifications read like they’ve been lifted from the Flip itself: VGA cam, one-button recording, good low-light performance, two hour recording on a 2GB, direct upload to YouTube or Photobucket, 2x zoom, rechargeable AA batteries and a built-in flexible USB connector. The only differences seems to be that the Vado has a 2″ LCD against the Flip’s 1.5″, and that it will be available in both silver and pink. Even the price is the same, at $100.
The Peterson BB-1 BodyBeat attaches to your finger/random appendage, sending tiny rhythmic pulses that you can feel on your skin. The non-aural stimulation will give you a silent way to count measures while playing the piano… and since you’ve to use your fingers to do that, you’ll have to clamp this to somewhere else. The question is where?
Engineers at Eyebeam, a New York arts and technology center, are drastically reducing the cost of ownership for multitouch tables by taking them open-source. Schematics for the Cubit, a multitouch tabletop display, are available online for people who want to make a scaled-down 
Apparently, the only thing crazier than Crank 2: High Voltage’s plot (Jason Statham survives falling a thousand stories from a helicopter, thanks to his super adrenaline heart, which is stolen by a really old Chinese dude, and his mechanical replacement needs to be constantly zapped, hence the awesome title) is the cameras they’re using to shoot it. They’re straight from Best Buy and Circuit City: Canon’s 
Today at Maker Faire 2008, MacGyver creator (and real life inspiration) 
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