Art & Animation quality in India

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Lately we had been reviewing design concepts implemented on consumer durable product, web applications and standalone applications. Many interesting and highly creative design and interactive screens are being produced over the Web and Print. Many European and Asian countries and America produce good quality Art and Animation work and India being in the art industry for a very long time showcasing their culture and history in an elaborate visual effects.

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Lately the talent is let out to the world and one such work we came across is from SPORG Media Studio who specialize in Children's book and Pre-Production and more studio on the list are Frame Flow, EFX and Digital Magic are a few companies who cater to some of the digital effect services for the entertainment industry. The movie Spiderman 3 had some of its digital effects done in India.

Reinventing the Desktop

Introducing the PANO, its not a CPU, it does not have any memory, no applications, no software mosting importantly no operating system. Pano interacts with any input device like the Keyboard, Mouse, Monitors, Speakers and other USB devevices over a computer network. PANO interacts with a virtual server which runs on an operating system it can be a Windows XP or the latest Vista. The Pano consumes very less energy compared to its counterpart the Desktop boxes. Its a neat looking device and the design of the Pano is crafter by Whipsaw, who is best in the industrial design business.

Adobe Media Player

Adobe® Media Player™ is a desktop media player that offers useful features for viewers to manage and interact with their favorite content, and features for content publishers to define branding and advertising in and around their content. The Adobe Media Player will be one of the first Apollo applications from Adobe.

Adobe Flash Player is the high-performance, lightweight runtime client for delivering content and RIAs within the browser. Adobe Media Player is a desktop media player that offers useful features for viewers to manage and interact with their favorite content, and features for content publishers to define branding and advertising in and around their content. The Adobe Media Player is a cross-operating system application built using Apollo.

The Adobe Media Player is expected to ship before end of 2007, coinciding with the first full release of Apollo.

i-sobot the world's smallest robot


Japan's based company Tomy, an established name in toy making has come out with i-sobot which happens to be the world's smallest robot. The robot is packed with 17 micro actuators and a gyro-sensor and it wieghs 350g. i-sobot robots are produced in 2 colours one in white which is for domestic use and the other in black which is avilable for export. The robot is expected for sale very soon.

Do not worry! TEMPO is here!

All of us make a common mistake while using the computer and that is delete important files accidentally. We the users are spoilt to an extent where we do not have the time or the energy to clear our trash can option and instead just delete shift+del the files.

Ok now for TEMPO, what does it really have to spend our $$ on it. This cool to look at and simple to use device is an external hard drive which stores the files which are deleted. TEMPO is designed and developed by Franco Cagnina. The device can also be used as an external hard drive with TEMPO having 25GB of space at its disposal. The LED on the TEMPO indicates the available storage space on the device.








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Microsoft strikes Gold with the LucidTouch

If you think that Microsoft's journey into the development of natural user interfaces has stopped with the availability of Surface, then think again. The Redmond company is hard at work in a collaboration with Mitsubishi Research to produce LucidTouch. Speaking at the Financial Analyst Meeting 2007 in July, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, underscored the fact the upcoming 10 years in computing evolution will be focused – among other things – on developing natural user interfaces.
Touch is a compelling input modality for interactive devices; however, touch input on the small screen of a mobile device is problematic because a user’s fingers occlude the graphical elements he wishes to work with. LucidTouch is a mobile device that addresses this limitation by allowing the user to control the application by touching the back of the device. The key to making this usable is what is called pseudo-transparency: by overlaying an image of the user’s hands onto the screen.

World's smallest and lightest ear-phones

A happy moment for all listening to music on the move. Klipsch have been producing high-end precision speakers for 60 years and are continuing to do the same and proved yet again with the launch of the IMAGE earphones.

The IMAGE earphones shods a oval silicon tips and Klipsch claims that the silicon provides very seal and efficient in noise isolation and better low frequency response and that means good bass in your ears. Klipsch's signature color nad has high gloss black wires. The IMAGE comes with a 50 inch long vinyl wires and this high-end earphones retails for about $349. We assume the product will be launched sometime this year.

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Nokia's MOSH

Nokia's new service, called MOSH. It stands for Mobilize and Share. The alpha version has been around for a while now and the beta version was released officially recently.

So, what is MOSH all about? It is another social networking site dedicated for mobile devices. You can share and manage digital contents, including images, videos, audio, applications, games and even documents. Basically it is like YouTube, Flickr with additional support to other content types.

You can manage your contents on the web via
http://mosh.nokia.com. The access to this beta version is still restricted. You need to enter password to access it. The password is ALLACCESS. I have no idea why it is still password-protected since many people know it already.

ORKUT with the new look

The popular social networking site ORKUT will release its new interface soon. The service over the years has introduced better user experience to access and utilize their website at its best potential. The users can now post pictures and videos and not just text scrap. The users in America have a tab called Friend's map" and enhances user experience by giving them the ability to search for friends based on area they are based out of. We could also see a blogging option from ORKUT.

SanDisk to launch CLIP

SansaDisk launches CLIP. Its a tiny mp3 player with the same OLED screen and comes in 1GB and 2GB capacity priced around $40 and $60 dressed in Black, Red, Pink and Blue. There is no provision to expand memory. The Sansa CLIP is due for launch sometime in September.

India's First Touch Screen Phone

Tata Indicom and Samsung collaboratively have come together to produce India's First Touch Screen based dual sim smart world phone. Set to capture the Indian market, the dual SIM card phone contains 2 SIM slots, unlike the regular GSM phones. The features loaded onto the phone is a Large 2.2" TFT touch screen, 1.3 Mega pixel camera, micro SD card slot, MP3/ AAC+ Player with A2DP Bluetooth support.

The phone also features Handwriting recognition, File viewer, Sketch Memo, advanced organizer capability with functional screen. The handest supports data speeds of upto 153kbps through the Tata Indicom network and can be connected to your laptop via bluetooth. It is priced at Rs 11,999/-

Age of Conan’ wins “Best Online Game” awards at Games Convention 2007

Funcom and Eidos’ highly anticipated massively multiplayer online game ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’ has been awarded the prestigious, official ‘Best Online Game of the Show’ award at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany. The trade show is one of the largest gaming conventions in the world and by far the largest in Europe, with all of the major upcoming game titles represented.

'Age of Conan' is consistently mentioned as one of the most anticipated PC games in development. It has received numerous magazine covers and awards, including 'Best MMO of E3' awards from IGN, GameSpot, GameSpy and Yahoo.

'Age of Conan' is a key title in Microsoft's Games for Windows line-up, as well as being a showcase DirectX 10 title for nVidia. The game is currently in general Beta and you can sign up at ageofconan.com.

Cooliris

Cooliris Previews v2.4.2 for Firefox gives you the power to browse and share the web faster than ever.

• Preview web links, images, and videos without even clicking.


• “Stack” previewed items into temporary bookmarks to review. (details)


• Instantly send links to friends and family with just a click.


• Automatically subsearch Google, Wikipedia, et. al. by right-clicking on any phrase


• Customize Cooliris to control preview window activation (mouseover, CTRL-hover, 1-click, click icon), time delay, size and placement.

Cooliris Previews is free to download and use, and does not contain any adware or spyware whatsoever.

Bioshock the new game in town

No this is no review of the game but an information to gamers that BIOSHOCK will truly shock you with its amazing detail in visual effects. Our future posts will carry detailed review and updates of this game, BIOSHOCK. Here are some of the screenshots from the game.

iPhone unlocked

The iPhone is finally cracked and AT&T looses its exclusive hold onto the iPhone. Be it T-Mobile, Verizon or any cellphone carrier around the globe, the iPhone will work. No its not any David Copperfiled its a user friendly application from iPhonesimfree. The team from iphonesimfree.com had been working on the hack since the launch of the iPhone and have succeeded in their effort to crack the iPhone.

The unlocking process took a couple of mins according to Engadget.com. The phone had a T-Mobile sim card inserted into the iPhone and the T-Mobile name showed up on the carrier service display. The EDGE service of the same service was activated and also checked and the Iphone worked fine. I can imagine how many of them are lined up for this hack.