iPhone Finding App Better Suited As Whistle-Activated Whoopee Cushion

thumb160x_wheresmyphone“Where Is My Phone” is a clever little app designed to help you locate your misplaced iPhone simply by whistling. But I think we can agree that there are better uses for whistle-triggered sound effect playback than finding your phone.

Turning your iPhone into a remote controlled whoopee cushion is what I had in mind. Little Worlds, the makers of the app, apparently also had it in mind, including more than one variety of fart among the dozen or so sound effects included with the download.

Here’s what’s going on: “Where is my Phone” listens for your whistle and then plays the sound effect of your choice (or your own recorded soundbite) when it hears it. The makers claim it can recognize you Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah-ing from up to 30 meters away, and I had no trouble in activating sirens, explosions and the rest just by whistling on the other side of the room.



Mystery Motorola Android Prototype Spied In Brazil

x1-android-rm-engA previously unseen Motorola Android prototype, which was apparently shown to employees of the company last week. So, what is this thing?

Giz.br editor Pedro accurately describes it as a sort of keyboardless version of the Backflip we saw at CES. The front styling is a bit more garish than the Backflip’s, but the size, general aesthetic, Android build (1.5) and software skin (Motoblur) all fit the Backflip/CLIQ mold. UPDATE: And given the familiar rear styling, we may have a (code)name: The Zeppelin. It’s apparently hitting Brazilian streets within a month—still no word on a US release.

The more pressing question is whether or not we’ll ever see this phone. Motorola’s now pumping Motoblur’d handsets out through two—count ‘em—major US carriers, and as a presumed budget piece, it’d fit nicely in either Verizon or AT&T’s product lines, if they’d have it. But stateside, we’ve got nothing—that the first pics of this prototype device showed up in one of its potential markets, as opposed to its place of manufacture, and that this market is nowhere near the US, means Motorola’s latest may never pass through immigration. Or maybe it will! My breath, it is bated.



Scosche solBAT II solar powered charger

solbatA solar charger with a 1500mAh capacity battery and 5-volt output from a relatively well known manufacturer priced at $30. That actually seems reasonable.

The solBAT II from Scosche features a standard USB output port for charging most of your portable devices and it even comes with a little suction mount case for use in the car. So what’s the catch for $30?

Well according to the user manual, it’ll take 4-5 days to charge up the internal battery using the solar panel. Thankfully, the kit also includes a USB charge cable that’ll juice up the battery in around five hours. That kind of defeats the purpose of a solar charger, though.

Whatever the case, you’ll probably want to leave this thing stuck to your windshield or anywhere it’ll get a lot of direct sunlight. And the 1500mAh battery is good for an entire charge and then some for most standard phone batteries. So in an emergency, you’d be good to go if your phone dies.

source: crunchgear.com



Sony may charge for PSN access

SonySony’s senior vice president of marketing and the man in charge of the PlayStation Network, Peter Dille, revealed in a Tuesday IGN interview that Sony is considering charging for access to the PlayStation Network. His remarks mirror an earlier indication from Kaz Hirai, Chairman and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America and would also match what Microsoft does with its online community, Xbox Live.

Dille went on to say the PlayStation Network has matured and grown since its initial launch, and that it gives up little, if anything to the Xbox 360’s service. He continues by saying that improvements will continue to be made, and while he didn’t get into specifics, he did say they will revolve around making it more user-friendly as well as enhance the user interface. Other changes will include more original programming, one of which is The Tester, a reality TV show and a game mixed into one. It will have hopefuls compete for the job of a software tester at Sony and may end up being shown on TV.

source: electronista.com



Nokia’s Ovi Maps Racing now available

ovi-maps-racingSince it looks like GT5’s still another decade or two away from release, racing gamers need everything they can to survive the wait, and this is just about the most creative way we’ve seen to do that.

At a glance, Nokia’s Ovi Maps Racing looks like a pretty simple, standard 2D racer with an overhead view, but its secret sauce lies in the map: it can turn pretty much any street in the world into a racecourse.

The game lets you chart out your heated battle using nothing more than Ovi Maps data and your finger, meaning Manhattan, Prague, or your folks’ quiet, peaceful neighborhood are all potential targets for your high-speed bedlam.



LG 4G device gets bragging rights

lg_lte_2The rest of the world is catching on rapidly but overall, Japan is still the world’s most advanced society mobile society. That being said, you’d assume that the first 4G (LTE) device to get an official certification from Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications must be coming from one of the many mobile companies over here, but it was South Korea’s LG who got the bragging rights [KR] for that today.

Just look at how proud the model in the picture is holding said certification in her hands. The Korean company will sell not a handset but a 4G-compatible data modem, the LD100, in Japan. Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo is ready to distribute the device in its home market (Docomo said just in November 2009 it will kick off 4G operations in Japan in December this year).Docomo (and other Japanese carriers) have been conducting 4G field tests in Japan for quite some time now, and you can expect the data modem to be among the first 4G devices available later this year.



Google Chrome OS Tablet Concept

Google-Chrome-OS-Tablet-300x236Google have created some concept drawings of Chome OS running on a Tablet style device. The video is more focussed on what the operating system could look like rather than the functions of the tablet it’s self.

The video shows a number of multi-touch features where windows are dragged around as objects and resized according to the needs of the program running. As well as showing various browser windows being dragged around it also shows how the Chrome OS will be able to multi-task where two windows are on display at the same time with data moving between each window.

Currently the video just shows how the interface “might possibly” work although I am sure Google will be looking at the best ways for the user to interact with a tablet device. When compared to the iPad it appears that Google [GOOG] are heading for a more versatile approach to an operating system compared to the iPad which is kind of fixed at what it is capable of.

Some things Google are considering are as follows…
* Keyboard interaction with the screen: anchored, split, attached to focus.
* Launchers as an overlay, providing touch or search as means to access web sites.
* Contextual actions triggered via dwell.
* Zooming UI for multiple tabs
* Tabs presented along the side of the screen (see Side tabs)
* Creating multiple browsers on screen using a launcher

Unlike the iPad which will see the tablet device on a single unit, Google will be working with several hardware manufacturers to create various hardware for their Chrome OS tablet version to run on.



Humans Spider-Man-style wall climbing ability developed

spiderman_ZTnbj_54Stickybot robotic lizard was perhaps the first practical attempt at mimicking the Spiderman’s tact of walking up the walls with utter ease. Since then we’d hoped that someday this sci-fi act of self-adhesives would be made real, and today, with the efforts from Cornell University we may be just close to experiencing it. The scientists in Cornell University have developed a palm-sized device that could let humans walk on the walls.

Made in layers of metal and silicon wafers, the sticky device is based on the principle of surface tension which allows two wet, flat surfaces to stick together. According to the developers, the added benefit of the devices now created is that it, unlike the previous attempts of the same, has more controlled stickiness, i.e. the stickiness of the device can be switched on and off. The device for now can only hold up to 10 grams of weight, but by increasing the holes in the surface layer, the developers believe, stronger adhesive force could be managed.



Samsung First with Bluetooth 3.0

sig-samsung-s8500And here we have it: what’s likely to be the world’s first Bluetooth 3.0 phone courtesy of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). According to the filing’s description, the “compact and slim” Samsung GT-S8500 is a touchscreen slate phone with a “high resolution” 3.1-inch OLED sporting a TouchWIZ UI and quad-band GSM/EDGE radios. The advantages of the 3.0 Bluetooth spec approved in April are faster throughput (up to 24Mbps) and more frugal power usage — both welcome advances in modern media-playing handsets. Although it’s not stated we can assume an official launch in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress.



Dell Latitude 13: a thin-and-light for big business

dell-latitude-13-for-businessDell is serious about its thin and light class of machines judging by its ability to churn out these lovely lappies from its Adamo design studio. Today we’ve got the Latitude 13. Oh sure, it looks almost exactly like the Vostro v13 for small businesses but this is Latitude brother, Dell’s mainstream business brand. As such, it comes fully IT-ified with a preinstalled Citrix client, easier virtualization options, and baked in know-how for system image and software update distribution. So it’s not really new, but it’s still “the world’s thinnest 13-inch commercial client laptop,” according to Dell and that’s gotta be worth a second look when it begins shipping in a few weeks.



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