Red Herring Blog: At the risk of future embarrassment, I’m convinced that Sony’s PSP portable PlayStation is the harbinger of things digital to come. The current model of the PSP may not be the version that blows the doors off the competition—Sony may not be the company to execute on the idea successfully—but it includes several features that will redefine […]
PSP: The Next iPod
Film Downloads
BBC News: A UK website is to offer the internet’s first legal film download service. Wippit, which already sells music downloads, has announced plans to provide movies that users will be able to keep, from this summer onwards. Some US sites offer films which can be downloaded legally for viewing within a time limit but cannot be stored. Wippit founder […]
I’m Single
Yenra: Swedish lifestyle company Singelringen has launched a finger ring for singles. Meaning the single ring in Swedish, Singelringen is for a burgeoning number of singles who are keen to identify one another as romantically unattached. With sharp declines in marriage rates over the last few decades, single people are not only growing in number but also in influence. Signs […]
TV On My Phone
BusinessWeek: Video-on-the-go has long been a dream of cell-phone companies worldwide. Carriers have spent the better part of a decade building networks capable of carrying fast video streams, partly in hopes of boosting profits by hooking customers on clips of pop singers and soccer goals. But just as those networks are starting to work well enough that consumers might actually […]
Muscovie’s Molecular Jewelry
Iconoculture: Live for the rush … and proud of it? Muscovie Design jewelry is stylish, even subtle, molecular-based jewelry that lets adrenaline, serotonin, and caffeine junkies wear their passion. The sterling-silver earrings, rings, and necklaces sprout circles embedded with brightly colored acrylic. The arrangements represent the molecular structures of six different “substances that affect mood” – and they’re chemically accurate, […]
Virtual Trading In A Real World
Wired News: Sony Online Entertainment, the developer of massively multiplayer online games like EverQuest and Star Wars Galaxies, is the first major U.S. publisher to facilitate the buying and selling of virtual goods. Late Tuesday, the company unveiled Station Exchange, an auction site that allows players to spend real money on virtual weapons, armor, coins and new, high-level characters. The […]
Best Campus
Yenra: Vista del Campo, a student housing development on the University of California, Irvine campus, was named Best Student Housing Apartment Community by the National Association of Home Builders. The award went to the complex’s architectural firm, KTGY Group, for the 1,488-bed community developed and managed by American Campus Communities. “The University appreciates the spirit of cooperation between the developer, […]
RFID Trains
ITWorld: Efforts to introduce electronic-ticketing systems in Germany’s huge mass transit sector have moved forward with the successful testing of a smart card system that combines RFID (radio frequency identification). T-Systems International GmbH, the IT services and infrastructure arm of German telco Deutsche Telekom AG, has developed an e-ticketing system in collaboration with the German Mass Transit Authority (VDV), which […]
mobuzzTV
PicturePhoning.com: MobuzzTV is mobile video entertainment tailor made for cellphones, a channel which broadcasts “daily visual snacks to the content curious generation”. Its available through (European) operators or by downloading online. See how to page. It’s fast, it’s fun, it’s cheeky, it’s irreverant. It’s fabulous. It’s exactly what mobile entertainment should be. It’s about art, it’s about tech, it’s about […]
This Phone Recognises My Speech
BusinessWeek: A wireless phone’s main function is converting human speech into digital signals and back again. So why not harness handsets’ speech-processing ability to solve a problem nearly everyone encounters when using cell phones for e-mail or other data applications? I’m referring to the difficulty of entering text on a dial pad, which speech recognition can remedy. Manufacturers are finally […]