The Falls of Yellowstone and The Best of London?
The Falls of Yellowstone and The Best of London?
© 2010 Trey Ratcliff
Stuck In Customs
The Falls of Yellowstone and The Best of London?
© 2010 Trey Ratcliff
Stuck In Customs
Best Places for Photos in London & The Lotus Sunrise
© 2010 Trey Ratcliff
Stuck In Customs
Netflix streaming queue starting to look a little stale? It’s working on that, and has signed a deal that brings EPIX’s library of movies to Watch Instantly — just not that instantly. If you’re not familiar with EPIX, allow us to refresh you, it’s a network launched last year by Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate that brings their movies home (though often unfortunately cropped and zoomed to 16×9) through a linear channel, video on-demand or internet streaming. Under this new agreement, movies from those studios can come to Netflix 90 days after they debut on the premium pay-tv and subscription VOD services. While that means streamers won’t get access to Iron Man 2, The Expendables, or Dinner for Shmucks anywhere near day-and-date with their DVD or Blu-ray releases, those kinds of high profile flicks will show up and stick around with greater regularity than we’ve been used to. The companies haven’t released further details, but rumors reported by the L.A. Times suggest licensing costs could reach $1 billion over the next 5 years. The first movies covered by the new deal arrive September 1, likely with flicks from the Star Trek, James Bond and Indiana Jones series (hopefully not Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) among them.
Netflix, EPIX deal is official; Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate movies start streaming September 1 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:32:00 EDT.
YouTube users are doing all sorts of creative things with annotations, a feature that lets them easily add interactivity to their videos.
In the past, they have created video games, a working piano and now you have an antique-style radio that has knobs to switch radio stations just like the real thing.
For best results, hit play followed by pause to let the whole video buffer locally. You can then use your keyboard keys or the channel buttons on the radio video itself to change frequencies.
It’s a clever implementation – all the music is part of the same video clip and, upon clicking the station buttons, you are merely jumping to a different location in the video.
Thanks Guy Dayan for the tip.
Your Grandma’s Radio is on YouTube
Cupertino, CA — Brace yourself. Apple is about to change its logo — again. The new corporate mark, set to roll out this summer, will be the tenth official logo for Apple in the last 13 years.
“Jony knocked this one out of the park,” said one executive, on condition of anonymity. “You can barely notice the damn thing anymore.”
Jony Ive, apparently searching for things to do now that iPad and iPhone 4 have launched, presented his new design at Apple’s quarterly Minimization Meeting last week.
In the meeting, Jony presented a minimal one-paragraph argument for making the change. “In the mobile age, we need to shed, not add. We’ve shed 24% of the iPhone’s bulk, we’ve shed Flash, and we will now shed the bulk of our logo. The leaf says all we need to say.”
“The old logo was way too complicated,” explains a graphic artist inside Apple. “Leaf, apple … apple, leaf — the eye never knew where to focus. The solution is pure Apple. Or, I should say, pure leaf.”
A new theme line, a minimized version of the old Think different line — Think dif™ — will accompany the new logo at launch. A pure brand campaign featuring the new logo is slated to run in prime outdoor media.
If all goes well, it will have minimal impact on Apple’s business.
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Jony Ive minimizes again: new Apple logo has no apple
Don’t expect to ride it on solid ground — much less water — but what you see above is indeed a hoverboard that floats. Using electromagnets embedded in the podium and a laser system to measure its position, artist Nils Guadagnin has managed to keep a familiar-looking pink plank aloft, a full five years and five months before the real deal supposedly sees common use. Give the man a pair of kicks, a car and a flux capacitor, and he’ll be all set. Video after the break.
Continue reading Artist creates Back to the Future hoverboard — that actually hovers (video)
Artist creates Back to the Future hoverboard — that actually hovers (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 17:14:00 EDT. P
Redwood City, CA — Only days after the press went bananas over Apple’s lost iPhone prototype, the copycats are out in force. A veritable flood of lost prototypes is hitting the same bar where Apple’s famously forgetful engineer made news on Monday.
Bartender Todd Gretelmann with just a few of the prototypes abandoned in his bar Wednesday night
The Redwood City beer garden, Gourmet Haus Staudt, has become ground zero for every company hoping to get the same buzz generated by Apple.
Bartender Todd Gretelmann says he’s never seen anything like it. “It’s getting tough to clean up around here at night. I’ve got more secret prototypes than I have empty steins.”
A Google engineer who “forgot” a secret Google tablet prototype last night explains, on condition of anonymity, “Apple makes a boatload of money from the buzz they generate — two can play at this game.”
A lot more than two, actually. Gretelmann says that in the three days since the iPhone prototype was left behind, engineers have abandoned so many prototypes, Gizmodo won’t even return his calls anymore. “We love our customers, but honestly, if this keeps up we’re going to have to enforce a ‘no prototypes allowed’ policy.”
According to Gretelmann, some of the companies are falling over each other, trying to have their prototypes “found” by the regular guests. He tells the story of one Palm engineer, blatantly wearing his Palm ID badge, who kept saying “I hope I remember to take my prototype home!” loudly enough that some actually moved away from his table.
Trying to restore order at Gourmet Haus Staudt (click to enlarge)
A Dell engineer flew in from Austin, had one quick beer and then quickly left — his top-secret Vostro laptop prototype still running on the bar. “It’s a problem because I can’t get my customers to take the bait on the less popular prototypes. That Dell eyesore is still sitting in my office. I have four Kin prototypes that Microsoft won’t even take back.”
“What I may have to do is just go with the flow, and try to turn it into a positive,” says Gretelmann. “I’m thinking of turning Tuesdays into ‘Prototype Night,’ so all these companies can just get it out of their systems in a single night. I can get the Salvation Army truck here in the morning.”
Until then, at Gourmet Haus Staudt, every night is prototype night.
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Redwood City bar flooded with lost prototypes as others try to create Apple-like buzz
The ZonePlayer S5 launch was an important milestone for Sonos as it attempts to bring down the cost (and raise the appeal) of its excellent whole-home music delivery system. Now we’ve got a bit of good news for those of you who already picked up a few of the $399 all-in-one wireless speakers we reviewed back in October. A 3.2 software update for the Sonos controller and iPod touch / iPhone apps will be released sometime this month letting you assign left and right audio channels to a pair of S5 speakers. The result should be impressive since the portable units can already easily fill the average room with sound on their own. The update will provide owners of multiple S5s with a temporary option for parties, especially if you decide to take the show outdoors… assuming you can still celebrate knowing that you’re listening to two-channel audio on $800 worth of speakers. Hey, at least the software update is free.
Sonos update turns wireless S5 speaker into a premium ’stereo pair’ originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 May 2010 04:45:00 EST.
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