In response to fan outcry that the film looks only marginally like the anime series, and everyone else's outcry that it generally looks terrible, 20th Century Fox has fixed Dragonball. Rumor is, the title has been changed to Dragonball Evolution--an idea supported by Fox's registration of DragonballEvolutionMovie.com. I think everyone agrees that the biggest issue with Dragonball was that its title was not offensive enough to creationists, so that's fixed. Next....
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Of all the new portable technologies I’ve adopted over the past couple of years, USB thumb drives are near the top of my list of useful, convenient accessories. I carry one in my pocket at all times, and am constantly looking for new applications to put on them. At this point in the continuing evolution of these devices, you can get so much capacity for so little money that you don’t have to feel restricted to collecting only tiny applications on them. In case you haven’t yet adopted a USB thumb drive and put good applications on it, here are...
This morning’s Good Ideas Salon focused on Digital, exploring new ways in which individuals and brands are storing, sharing, and archiving their online narratives. The panel, moderated by Piers Fawkes (PSFK), included Claire Hyland (Electric Artists), Johanna Beyenbach (Naked), Mike Arauz (Undercurrent), and Noah Brier (Barbarian Group) and touched upon a range of topics spanning from the evolution of virtual identities and collaboration to mobile technologies and the relivening of analog through digital. Our next event, Good Ideas in Social Media, will be held at Naked’s offices on Thursday, December 4th. For details on the full series and tickets, click...
Introducing the Nokia N97, the next generation high-end mobile phone from Nokia. Described by Nokia folks as a "handheld computer" this device is a pretty comfortable high-end phone. It has a tilting (resistive) touch-screen display, and is the first N-series phone with a QWERTY keyboard. It has 32 gigabytes of memory, expandable to 42 GB via 16 GB memory card. It has a digital compass, a 1500 milliamp battery, and DVD quality video capture. It's extremely comfortable to hold, easy to use, and represents a solid solid evolution of the Nokia smarthphone line....
Today Facebook announced the launch of their latest privacy-taunting feature, Facebook Connect, giving its members the option of using their log-ins to share and see their friends’ activities on a vast network of third-party sites. Now, when users are streaming videos on Hulu or reading the SF Chronicle, for example, they’ll be able to broadcast their doings to their circle of ‘friends’ simply by logging into their Facebook account. While the web is already abuzz about the potential backlash from the service, NY Times points out its significance in the evolution of social media: Supporters of [Facebook Connect] say such...
Over at his personal blog, toy designer Barry Kudrowitz, a PhD candidate of the MIT Toy Lab, breaks down his design process for the Nerf Atom Blaster from the original concept — a palm-sized foam ball projectile called the Hand Popper — to production. I actually think the Hand Popper is a good deal neaterthan the finished product. The Atom Blaster [Wonder Barry via MAKE]...
In a world of knobs, buttons and switches, this gesture-based light switch seems like a major evolution: it can control multiple lights at once, with a flick of the finger shutting them on and off, while a circular motion dims. It doesn't say if an insistent tapping would initiate rave mode, though. Alas, it's only a concept for now, but I suspect we'll see these for real sooner or later. User Interface Concept Light Switch [Pet Invention via DVICE]...
