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Stargate Universe Second Half of Season 1 Trailer

by thomasfitzgerald on 11. Mar, 2010 in Entertainment

This looks absolutely awesome…

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1000fps Pedigree Commercial

by thomasfitzgerald on 03. Mar, 2010 in Advertising, Design, Entertainment, Technology, Video, You Tube

Check out this amazing commercial for pedigree, shot at 1000 frames per second on the Phantom.

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Windows Phone 7

by thomasfitzgerald on 16. Feb, 2010 in Microsoft, Technology

Credit where credit is due, Microsoft have done a good job with Windows Phone 7. It has to be one of the most original interfaces for a Phone I’ve ever seen. What’s more, they resisted the urge to blatantly copy the iPhone  like everyone else. It certainly looks a hell of a lot better than most of the Android Phones out there. While I’d never give up my iPhone I think Microsoft have taken a good step in the right direction. Of course by the time this is released, Apple will have released iPhone OS 4 and the goal posts will have moved again, but it’s good to see someone else thinking outside of the box for once.

[UPDATE]

Having seen the hands on demo video over at Gizmodo I’m less impressed. Apparently, according to Giz anyone who’s not impressed is just stupid, so I guess I’m just stupid then. But childish gadget blogging aside, while it looks nice and slick in the carefully edited and faked official demos, the hands on unit looks flakey and difficult to use. It seems that they’ve created something that’s very clever from a design point of view but the implementation hasn’t been fully thought through. Many elements look too small for fingers. In many of the screens too it’s not immediately clear that you’re supposed to scroll across, as there doesn’t seem to be any visual clues. I can’t help but think that some of the animations are much too long too. They’re nice, and animation to add visual clues is cool, but some seem to just add delays. In fairness, it’s a long way away from being released, so I guess much of this could be beta issues, but still.

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The Muppets: Beaker’s Ballad

by thomasfitzgerald on 13. Feb, 2010 in Entertainment

And now for something completely different….

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Charlie Rose Discusses the iPad

by thomasfitzgerald on 07. Feb, 2010 in Mac

Charlie Rose discusses the iPad with Walt Mossberg from the Wall Street Journal, David Carr from the New York Times, and Michael Arrington from Tech Crunch. It’s an interesting discussion and devoid of any outlandish expectations or bashing you usually get from a post apple launch discussion. Worth a watch. (Via TechCrunch)

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The iPad

by thomasfitzgerald on 28. Jan, 2010 in Apple

There’s so much I want to say about the iPad but I just haven’t been able to get my thoughts together yet. Mainly because I’ve been battling a nasty virus which has left me drained, but that’s a whole other story. I think a lot of the complaints from people are eerily reminiscent of when the iPhone launched and a lot of people were to preoccupied with moaning about what it doesn’t do that they forgot to take a good look at what it does do.

Here’s something I wrote when the iPhone was first introduced. Just replace iPhone with iPad and iPod with iPhone and you’ll see the pattern. I think the iPad is a truly revolutionary game changing device. I think it will take concepts first introduced with the iPhone and bring them to the world of general computing. There’s lots I want to say and once I’m feeling a little better I’l put my thoughts together properly. For now though, here are some things I reccomend you read, as they echo my onw sentiments on the iPad.

Scott Kelby’s excellent piece on the iPad and why the nay sayers have got it wrong (again)

HardMac on why the lack of Flash is not that big a deal.

John Gruber’s Various Thoughts

Lonley Sandwich on why the Aspect Ratio is 4:3

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Incredible CGI Shuttle Animation

by thomasfitzgerald on 26. Jan, 2010 in Design, Entertainment, You Tube

I just came across this incredible CG animation of the remains of the Space Shuttle after a mythical disaster, floating in orbit. What’s incredible about this is that it’s all done in 2d. There’s no 3D animation here other than what I presume is the use of 3d layers in After Effects.

(Via Gizmodo)

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Remote Control SR-71

by thomasfitzgerald on 18. Jan, 2010 in Entertainment, Toys

This has to be the coolest remote control airplane ever.

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