Hollywood has gone crazy for 3D, every other movie appears to be “in 3D”, but is this really a revolution or is this just another fad? Sortable.com has taken a look at the 3D movie industry to see if 3D is here to stay or if the bubble is about to pop!
Here’s a theory we propose: rather than spending money on 3D technology development, the entertainment industry really needs spend more time on holographic TV development. Forget flat screen, get your media floating in mid-air like R2D2 in Star Wars (only in HD), and that’s a step in the right direction. In Japan, they already have concerts with nobody on stage, but just a holographic video of a performer. Yes, they have branded computer-generated musicians that sell-out venues.
Swatch has released these pretty awesome touch watches that merge the company’s watchmaking reliability with touch technology. Seems like more and more we’re gravitating towards replacing buttons with touch-sensitive technology. It’s probably a step in the right direction.
The more bottlenecks we can eliminate in striving towards making the integration of life and technology seamless, the better our lives will be. That idea is probably at least worth considering, unless you’re anti-technology or afraid of the unknown, which you’re neither. Right?
Swatch Holiday 2011 Collection
Swiss fashion brand Swatch presents Swatch Touch 2011, a colorful new collection of trend-setting timekeepers with big-screen LCD dials and a touch-sensitive zone in place of pushbuttons.
Swatch Touch 2011 models give touch-screen access to six digital functions: time (2 zones, t1 & t2), date, chrono, alarm, timer and beep. Users sweep through the functions with ease using finger-taps and sideways scrolls—no pushbuttons—and can activate the screen’s built-in backlight to assure readability under all conditions. Revealing Swiss-made quality throughout, Swatch Touch’s 2011 curved plastic glass display and coloured LCD present Arabic numerals in a big, stylish font designed to fit the shape of the watch. Ergonomic in every detail, the smooth integration of the watch head and strap makes Swatch Touch 2011 a real pleasure to wear.
By far the biggest numerals on the Swatch Touch 2011 screen are the seconds: animated like the seconds hand on an analog watch. They are constantly changing, alive, giving rhythm and a pulse to life in the digital age. They are, in fact, the “heart” of the watch—Swatch on the move.
Swatch Touch Black, Swatch Touch Camouflage, Swatch Touch Pink, Swatch Touch Blue, Swatch Touch Purple and Swatch Touch White are all $140 each.
First of all, iOS 5 for your iDevice introduces 220 new features, so it’s totally worth the upgrade. However, if you’re using a 3GS iPhone, iOS 5 will probably run pretty sluggishly on your iPhone. Most iDevices (iPhone 4, iPad, iPod Touch) will run jailbroken iOS 5 fine).
Second, you should know about a tethered jailbreak: this means you will have to use redsn0w to enter DFU mode and have it “just boot tethered” every time you power cycle your device. In other words, if your iDevice gets turned-off, you will lose all jailbreak features until you reconnect it to a computer and use redsn0w to boot it back into jailbroken mode. This is really kind of a hassle when you’re installing Cydia apps that require you to reboot, but once you’re setup, you can enjoy the benefits of a jailbroken iOS 5 and just respring the device to flush out the memory (RAM not the data stored on the iPhone solid-state drive).
Important Note: iPhone users, if you rely on an unlocked baseband you MUST stay away from iOS 5 update, it will eliminate your unlock as it will upgrade your iPhone baseband to one that can’t be unlocked. The iPhone Dev-team will release Redsn0w 0.9.9b5 to let unlockers able to upgrade to iOS 5 with preserving the unlockable basebands. This has been the deal since the first iPhone jailbreak in October 2009.
At any rate, once you have the software, it’s pretty easy to jailbreak. Just back-up your device in iTunes first, then hold shift or control (depending on if in Windows or Mac Os X) and browse to the downloaded iOS 5 firmware and perform a restore on the device. Once the restore has finished, go through the new prompts on the phone and select “restore device from previous back-up.” After that, just launch redsn0w, click on “Extras,” manually select the iOS 5 IPSW, then go ahead and jailbreak your iPhone. Questions? Leave a comment or Google it.
Check this out. Stefan Ellerich | Site | Contact, took the time to make their own pseudo MacBook Pro using an iPad, wooden case, marker, velcro, bluetooth keyboard and their cat (as you can see from the image below). Wacky wild stuff.
