How this kind of situation ever happened or why it appeared in a local German newspaper is beyond me. In any cases, whether this is fake or not, I don’t really care. I just know the whole situation is hilarious.
[Via Geekologie]
Filmed during a recent rugby competition at “Le Stade de France” in Paris, the following footage was captured in HD by Vimeo user David Coiffier at 1000 Frames per second. Check it out! The jello shot looks particularly amazing.
A Japanese cellphone provider plans to sell a waterproof, solar-powered handset later this year. The firm says it will be exclusive to Japan, but the technology appears to be particularly useful for some developing nations.
Manufactured by Sharp, the device is set up so that solar power can recharge the battery to 80% of capacity. Providers KDDI say a 10-minute charge is enough for one minute talk-time or two hours on standby.
KDDI hasn’t released any images, but the picture shown here is reported to be the phone in question. It appears the flip-screen design takes advantage of the larger displays on Japanese phones (for easier text message reading and writing) by using the outside of the phone as a large solar panel.
The initial marketing of the phone will be based on its environmentally-friendly credentials with a reduced need for electricity consumption. However, given that it appears to be an otherwise low-spec device with few features, it would seem a good fit for developing markets where electricity sources can be scarce, unreliable or prohibitively expensive, particularly in countries with reliable sunlight levels.
Festo, a company we’ve featured here on [GaS] in the past for their extraordinary work on various forms of strange robotic organisms, is back with a new video showcasing the latest toys out of their development labs: two robotic penguins, a robotic hand… and a robotic wall. Yes, you read that right: A friggin’ robotic wall! I don’t know about you guys, but being surrounded by walls like this would totally freak me out. Oh, they may look fairly inoffensive for now, but one day, these things might be programmed to crush you at the slightest nod of their owners. Ok, maybe not, but the thought is still disturbing, right? Video after the jump.
In this funny (and actually poignant) 3-minute talk, social strategist Renny Gleeson breaks down our always-on social world — where the experience we’re having right now is less interesting than what we’ll tweet about it later.
Can you get any geekier than Bohemian Rhapsody played by an orchestra of vintage gadgets? I think not. From the YouTube page:
Please note no effects or sampling was used. What you see is what you hear (does that even make sense?)
Atari 800XL was used for the lead piano/organ sound
Texas Instruments TI-99/4a as lead guitar
8 Inch Floppy Disk as Bass
3.5 inch Harddrive as the gong
HP ScanJet 3C was used for all vocals. Please note I had to record the HP scanner 4 seperate times for each voice. I tried to buy 4 HP scanners but for some reason sellers on E-Bay expect you to pay $80-$100, I got mine for $30.
[via Arbroath]
By Casey Lynn
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
Seeing Oprah start “tweeting” made me realize a few things:
If this means that Twitter is now officially “mainstream,” then perhaps the old school Twitter geeks will remember the time B.O. (Before Oprah), much in the way many remember Facebook more fondly before their parents discovered it. I once saw a shirt that read “I Had an iPod Before You Knew What One Was,” and luckily a service has popped up to allow Twitter users the same kind of affirmation.
Just as Twitter asks the simple question “What are you doing?”, herebeforeoprah.com asks: “Was ____ here before Oraph?” Just type in a Twitter username and find out if that person has the appropriate cred. Though if there is now going to be a mass geek exodus from Twitter, might I recommend Flutter? It’s the next craze in “nano-blogging” – because a lot of people don’t have time to twitter.
By Casey Lynn
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
Is it July 15 yet? The new trailer for Half-Blood Prince is pretty awesome. So far it looks to be a great thing that David Yeats (director of Order of the Phoenix) is back for this one, as the dark aesthetic seems to be similar, which is fitting for this particular story. Just from the trailer, I think that visually this one will be great to see in IMAX.
Underwire points out that this trailer was released around the same time as the new Transformers sneak peek. Which one are you more excited about? (Note: “Neither, I’m too excited about Star Trek and/or Terminator” is a perfectly appropriate answer.)
Some new footage of the upcoming Transformers 2 movie has just hit the web today, and the whole thing looks pretty darn awesome. While the first minute is kind of funny, there’s nothing really exceptional about it. But if the remainder of the clip is a good indicator of what we’ll be seeing in movie theaters, fans should be in for a great treat. Check it out.
A simple pair of polarized 3D glasses, a 10′ x 10′ x 10′ white room, and $600,000 worth of projector and computer equipment, combined with the smarts of the folks at Eon Reality, results in one insanely real experience.
[Via Newlaunches]