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Why Did John Gruber's Talk Show Leave 5by5?
some speculation that it was to do with revenue split from the 5by5 app. I would certainly like to know.
web  tech  rumours 
10 days ago by dsankey
Steven Levy on algorithm-generated news articles
"I asked Kristian Hammond what percentage of news would be written by computers in 15 years. “More than 90 percent.”"
journalism  ai  tech 
4 weeks ago by dsankey
How Sony Fell Behind in the Tech Parade
I remember an absolutely bulletproof Trinitron tube TV my parents bought. I loved my Walkman. And I loved so much about the Playstation. But it's been downhill from there. (<a href="http://daringfireball.net">via</a>)
tech  business  sony  japan 
6 weeks ago by dsankey
An x86 PlayStation 4 could signal a sea-change in the console industry
Ars nerds out on next-gen gaming hardware rumours. "The game consoles can be subsidized and sold at a loss because each game also includes a cut for Sony or Microsoft. As long as gamers buy a handful of games, the money can be recouped. Boxes used predominantly for streaming media don’t provide access to that same revenue stream."
games  tech 
7 weeks ago by dsankey
Incremental Change Wins Apple Big Gains
apple  tech  from instapaper
8 weeks ago by dsankey
Paper: the next great iPad app, from the brains behind Courier
Courier being Microsoft's now-dead dual screen tablet thing. (<a href="http://funkaoshi.com">via</a>)
ipad  app  tech 
8 weeks ago by dsankey
The Next PlayStation is Called Orbis, Sources Say. Here are the Details.
games  tech 
8 weeks ago by dsankey
What Apple’s Money Can Buy
The New Yorker points out that Apple invests surprisingly little in R&D.
apple  tech 
9 weeks ago by dsankey
Research, no motion: How the BlackBerry CEOs lost an empire
tech  phone  canada 
february 2012 by dsankey
Apple in talks with Rogers and Bell re: iTV?!
theoretically 2 different sources, but I'll believe it when I see it
apple  tv  tech 
february 2012 by dsankey
Samsung vs. Google
Samsung is so far ahead of the other Android hardware makers it could start to pressure Google. (<a href="http://daringfireball.net">via</a>)
tech  phone  gadget  business 
january 2012 by dsankey
The Pogies Celebrate Better Living Through Gadgetry
awards for the best tech ideas, not necessarily the best products
tech  gadgets  ideas 
january 2012 by dsankey
Android: A Visual History
phone  tech  google 
december 2011 by dsankey
Screenplay Markdown Lives!
Marked, an app for creating screenplays in markdown-style syntax
writing  tech  apps 
december 2011 by dsankey
Twine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet
"Twine is the simplest possible way to get the objects in your life texting, tweeting or emailing. A durable 2.5" square provides WiFi connectivity, internal and external sensors, and two AAA batteries that keep it running for months. A simple web app allows to you quickly set up your Twine with human-friendly rules — no programming needed." Kickstarter project.
tech  hardware 
november 2011 by dsankey
Sweet emulsion: why the (near) death of film matters
heh. I used to post a lot of "death of film" stuff 5-6 years ago, when digital projection systems were just getting started, and now it's actually here.
film  tech  futuremedia 
november 2011 by dsankey
10 cool things you can do with Wolfram Alpha and Siri
you can also use it as a tip calculator, and I just got it to tell me the odds of being struck by lightning. I think this is the best part of the new phone, but perhaps the novelty will wear off.
iphone  apple  tech  phone 
november 2011 by dsankey
She Was A Camera
reflection on camgirl history. I don't totally understand why it stopped though.
web  history  tech 
october 2011 by dsankey
Hell freezes over: Forrester urges IT to support the Mac
awesome.
apple  business  tech 
october 2011 by dsankey
What's Really Next for Apple in Television
Siri as the new remote. The big problem though is that big content and the cable/sat providers still control the industry. If Apple is seen as a threat, big content can stop licensing the shows, and cable providers can make non-bundled internet accounts prohibitively expensive. But perhaps Apple is planning on buying all the studios and starting its own ISP with all that cash.
tv  tech  apple  futuremedia 
october 2011 by dsankey
Workers’ Own Cellphones and iPads Find a Role at the Office
maybe someday this trend will come north.
tech  apple  business 
september 2011 by dsankey
Scientists Reconstruct Brains' Visions Into Digital Video In Historic Experiment
This is strange and confusing. "Our natural visual experience is like watching a movie," says the lead researcher, but what they tested with was trailers. (<a href="http://waxy.org">via</a>)
brain  science  tech  ideas 
september 2011 by dsankey
Steve Jobs: American Genius
Newsweek cover article
apple  tech  business 
september 2011 by dsankey
The Technium: Theological Chatbots
brief interview with the creators of the chatbots-arguing video
video  ai  tech 
august 2011 by dsankey
The Blackberry Shift: From the executives to the urban poor
fascinating
phone  tech 
august 2011 by dsankey
Human Cloning in Japan
one of the implications of 3D printing tech is that you can make an action figure of yourself.
tech  japan  culture 
july 2011 by dsankey
How Apple became a monopsonist
apple  business  tech 
july 2011 by dsankey
OECD Report Ranks Canada Among Most Expensive Broadband Countries
canada  tech 
june 2011 by dsankey
The Clock in the Mountain
about The Long Now Foundation's 10,000 Year Clock
ideas  tech  art 
june 2011 by dsankey
iRobot contemplates the next big leap for robotics, Google’s along for the ride
want.
Robots  tech 
may 2011 by dsankey
Jetlev lets you fly like Superman - for $99,500
aqua-superman, more like. It sprays water.
tech 
may 2011 by dsankey
Authorities in Awe of Drug Runners' Jungle-Built, Kevlar-Coated Supersubs
as in submersible boat, not sandwich
tech  drugs  world 
april 2011 by dsankey
Commodore 64 recreated
with full PC compatibility, so awesome.
tech  games 
april 2011 by dsankey
Amazon Cloud Player Lets You Play Your Music From Anywhere
anywhere is the web or android phone. Essentially costs $1/GB/year, which is decent. But this sounds like what MP3tunes got sued for.
music  tech  futuremedia 
march 2011 by dsankey
Your New TV Ruins Movies
Prolost on the superiority of plasma TVs and the need to properly calibrate LCD TVs
film  tech 
march 2011 by dsankey
Flying Robotic Swarms To Create Wi-Fi Clouds
yeah, nothing like a plague of ominous robot insects to make people feel better after a disaster
ideas  tech  robotics 
march 2011 by dsankey
Outside In
a homebrew IMAX film that uses only photographic images from space probes to create a long-take tour of the solar system. (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/101555/Aeterna">via</a>)
space  film  tech 
march 2011 by dsankey
The Technium: Computational X
Kevin Kelly is writing a lot more this year, which is great.
ideas  tech 
march 2011 by dsankey
Video: Inside Google’s Self-Driving Cars
craziness (<a href="http://waxy.org">via</a>)
future  tech  cars 
march 2011 by dsankey
Criterion jumps from Netflix to Hulu
in the US, obviously, as Canuck Netflix doesn't come close to having Criterion in it.
film  tech  futuremedia 
february 2011 by dsankey
Robot Orders a Scone in Mountain View, Ca.
(<a href="http://waxy.org">via</a>)
robot  tech  future 
february 2011 by dsankey
IBM Centennial Film: They Were There
By Errol Morris, commissioned by IBM
Film  documentary  tech  business 
january 2011 by dsankey
Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything
God damn. Next, we get our flying cars.
science  tech  future 
january 2011 by dsankey
WebTunes provides Web-based iTunes interface
want
music  tech  mac 
december 2010 by dsankey
Tablets
interesting part about "ephemeralization," or the turning of real things into software
apple  tech  ideas 
december 2010 by dsankey
Tech: NASA's Puffin: Your Personal Aircraft?
Yes motherfucking please. So cool.
tech  future  travel 
october 2010 by dsankey
First Look: 11.6-inch MacBook Air
as I expected, I'm lusting after this thing. Wish I had a reason to buy one, but I don't.
apple  tech 
october 2010 by dsankey
Canada has the priciest cell phone plans in the world
slightly above the US. What costs $67.50 here would cost $34.05 in Sweden or $13.50 in Hong Kong
canada  phone  tech 
october 2010 by dsankey
MovieReshape: Tracking and Reshaping of Humans in Videos
Algorythm automatically adds / subtracts height, weight, muscles - total craziness. Expect a lot of actors to really let themselves go now.
film  tech  software 
october 2010 by dsankey
PS3 Pushes Blu-ray Into Nearly 20% of U.S. Homes
just above the percentage that have Netflix. I read somewhere else that owners of Blu-Ray hardware are only buying 1.5 discs per machine, though, which is sad but reflects how obviously overpriced the discs are.
futuremedia  film  hometheatre  tech 
october 2010 by dsankey
A Steadicam for Your iPhone
Wonder if DSLRs are too heavy for this?
Camera  iPhone  tech  film 
october 2010 by dsankey
Smarter Than You Think - Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic
Car  tech  ai  future 
october 2010 by dsankey
Redrock announces DSLR electronic viewfinder
not sure about all this Redrock stuff. For one, it's expensive (compared to the cost of the DSLRs, if not to pro film equipment). For two, it adds a lot of bulk. But I do wish I could afford all of it nonetheless.
camera  tech  film  production 
september 2010 by dsankey
Looxcie Wearable Camcorder
always on, always recording. The documentary possibilities are fascinating. You'd look fairly dorkish though.
camera  video  production  tech 
september 2010 by dsankey
Amazon Kindle Third Generation Review
sounds pretty good. The only thing that tempts me to upgrade is the improved contrast screen. Everything else with the Kindle is already plenty great.
books  ebooks  tech 
august 2010 by dsankey
BitTorrent Releasers Are The New Kids On The Piracy Block
inside baseball with the movie bootlegging crowd
film  futuremedia  tech  internet 
july 2010 by dsankey
New Amazon Kindle announced: $139 WiFi-only version and $189 3G model
coming in late august, to Canada as well. Essentially: smaller, lighter, better screen (still monochrome), better battery life, available in dark grey body, and CHEAP. $140 is getting down there.
ebooks  tech  gadgets 
july 2010 by dsankey
RC Helicopter filming
crazy footage from strapping a DSLR to a remote controlled chopper. I want one!
film  production  photo  tech 
june 2010 by dsankey
USB typewriter goes 'clackity clackity clack DING' (video)
use a typewriter as a USB keyboard for your iPad. That is so great. (via <a href="http://iphone.funkaoshi.com/post/697765976/usbtypewriter-demo-via-engadget">I'll iPhone you</a>)
ipad  tech  ideas 
june 2010 by dsankey
Introducing the Mondo 2000 History Project
potentially the first chapter, by RU Sirius
history  tech  ideas  books 
june 2010 by dsankey
Apple adds video calls to iPhone
(I'm sure you've already seen this everywhere.) Not in Canada for launch - will come to us in late July. Question is, will it be on Wind?
apple  iphone  tech  canada 
june 2010 by dsankey
Blind Spots: Here's What The Biggest Tech Companies Suck At
brief and generally on point.
tech  business 
june 2010 by dsankey
Vgo Telepresence Robot
love the pictures. Can't help but think that someone got a full body amputation.
robotics  tech  awesome  comedy 
june 2010 by dsankey
D8 Video: Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Adobe Flash`
"a technical decision"
apple  tech  ipad 
june 2010 by dsankey
Wacchen
re: instapaper for video. Awesome. Now it needs a plex/boxee plugin (altough come to think of it, I could load up the saved videos page in the PS3... hmmm!)
video  tech  web 
may 2010 by dsankey
Pinboard - Bookmarking Physical Locations
I love pinboard. It's so nice to have a bookmarking site that actually develops new services.
web  tech 
may 2010 by dsankey
Give My Creation... Life!
Open the Future on the Venter Institute announcement that it had created a self-replicating synthetic organism
future  tech  science 
may 2010 by dsankey
Google TV
Big announcement at Google's currently running dev conference. So many questions: why a text search i.e. keyboard interface for a living room setting? What will the hardware be like? Will it ever come to Canada?
futuremedia  tv  google  tech 
may 2010 by dsankey
Kindle 2.5 hands on: social networks, passwords, and more
sounds like a decent update
ebook  books  tech 
may 2010 by dsankey
Why I Hate 3-D (and You Should Too)
Ebert has some bad points, some good ones. I'm not a big fan of 3D either: the fake conversions suck, as do the headaches and the higher prices. But the idea that 48 frames per second will be 4x better is foolishness.
film  tech 
may 2010 by dsankey
FP Tech Desk: Rogers unveils data pricing plans for Apple's iPad
"Canadian iPad users will be able to purchase a 250MB data plan for their iPad for $15 per month, while a 5GB plan will cost $35."
ipad  apple  canada  rogers  tech 
may 2010 by dsankey
Lala music service shutting down
unfortunately, now it doesn't look like Apple was working on a cloud music service, but rather buying up the competition.
music  tech  apple  business 
april 2010 by dsankey
Thoughts on Flash
from Steve Jobs. I love it when Jobs writes these open letters. If only he would read them while puffing his pipe by the fireside?
apple  iphone  web  tech 
april 2010 by dsankey
The Data-Driven Life
on the rise of personal data tracking
tech 
april 2010 by dsankey
The dream of a reading machine
Futurist-inspired fella built a prototype e-reader, a "Readie", in the 30s.
books  ebooks  tech  history 
april 2010 by dsankey
Testing the Kobo eReader
The Post reviews the Kobo, the Indigo/Borders backed eReader
ebooks  tech  hardware  via:http://iphone.funkaoshi.com/ 
april 2010 by dsankey
Apple releases new MacBook Pros
but the 13" doesn't get the i5, it's still stuck with lousy Core 2 Duos. Pity the little ShrimpBook.
apple  hardware  tech 
april 2010 by dsankey
Panasonic announces Micro Four-Thirds camcorder
the AF100, not yet available ("end of 2010"), but a significant step. Better bit rate than the GH1 etc., pro audio in, time code, two SD card slots. Aimed at prosumers I guess. I'm very curious about pricing.
camera  film  video  tech 
april 2010 by dsankey
Canadian researchers reveal online spy ring based in China
botnet contains "almost every e-mail sent to or from the Dalai Lama’s offices in 2009", amongst many other things
tech  spy  world  canada 
april 2010 by dsankey
Techies Fume Over iPad's Hidden Weakness
it overheats and throws up a disconcerting warning message.
ipad  apple  tech 
april 2010 by dsankey
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