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  • Video: Nearest Subway App Overlays Virtual Maps on Real World

    Video: Nearest Subway App Overlays Virtual Maps on Real World

    Posted on July 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Forget Google’s Street View, which overlays a view of the street in front of you on… the street in front of you. No, for a look at what augmented reality applications can really do, and just why a compass is so useful in the iPhone 3GS, take a peek at New York Nearest Subway. The application [...]

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  • Twitters Enters Meatspace: The End is Nigh

    Twitters Enters Meatspace: The End is Nigh

    Posted on July 8, 2009 | No Comments
    TwittAround is a terrifying new iPhone application which will actually overlay tweets on the world around you. It is an Augmented Reality Twitter Viewer which uses the iPhone 3GS’ location services to pinpoint your position and then queries the built-in compass to see which way you are looking. Finally, it takes location-stamped tweets and overlays them [...]

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  • Gadget Lab Video: iPhone 3GS Picks up the Pace With New Features

    Gadget Lab Video: iPhone 3GS Picks up the Pace With New Features

    Posted on June 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Now that I’ve had an entire weekend to tinker with the new iPhone 3GS, I can officially tell you it’s pretty damn sweet. (That’s what the “S” should stand for — way cooler than “Speed.”) My favorite feature? The improved 3.0-megapixel camera, now with video-recording capability. As you’ll see in the video above, the new camera [...]

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  • The iPhone 3G S has landed

    The iPhone 3G S has landed

    Posted on June 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Yes, the major media figure on the Internet has an iPhone 3G S. On initial examination, I'd safely say that this if you're planning on getting an iPhone with a new contract, go ahead. The price is right and the features are great. Everything on this phone is snappier - Maps especially - and the auto-focus and video uploads passed the wife test who said that this is what she's been looking for from the iPhone from the beginning. Looks like someone is going to have to upgrade someone.

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  • WWDC 2009: Apple gets serious

    WWDC 2009: Apple gets serious

    Posted on June 8, 2009 | No Comments
    So we got the big reveal: a new iPhone, some hidden tricks in Snow Leopard and the iPhone OS, a lot of rumor run-up and, most importantly, a Jobs-less keynote. In the end we saw another incremental keynote, a session of chest-beating (Palm’s “18 Pre apps in its app store” slide got quite a chuckle [...]

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  • New iPhone 3GS: 3MP Camera, Video, Compass and Voice Control

    New iPhone 3GS: 3MP Camera, Video, Compass and Voice Control

    Posted on June 8, 2009 | No Comments
    Amongst many announcements at the WWDC in San Francisco, the big one has finally been revealed. Apple has unveiled a new iPhone, called the 3GS. The new model will come in two sizes: a 16GB model for $200 and a 32GB model for $300. The big surprise is that Apple won’t be killing off the current iPhone [...]

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  • Shots of the new iPhone’s interface surface

    Shots of the new iPhone’s interface surface

    Posted on May 31, 2009 | No Comments
    The world woke this morning to the sight of some of screens from the iPhone 3.0 firmware, proving that we must remain vigilant every single day until WWDC next week. Perhaps tomorrow we’ll see images of the iPhone’s biomimetic skin? These pictures show the compass - in photorealistic color - and a few of the sub [...]

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  • Volleyball-playing robot has Mac mini brain, heart of a champion

    Volleyball-playing robot has Mac mini brain, heart of a champion

    Posted on May 29, 2009 | No Comments

    Volleyball-playing robots may only come around every ten years or so, but they at least bring along some fairly big improvements when they do show up -- like actual mobility, in this case. Of course, "volleyball-playing" is still a bit of a stretch. The bot is actually designed to be more of a training aid, with it making use of a range of sensors, built-in GPS, a compass, and an iSight camera (all linked to a Mac mini) to track down balls and set them up for spiking drills. As you can see in the unfortunately short video after the break, all of that more or less works as advertised, although it seems that we'll still have to wait quite a while for the inevitable robot vs. robot match.

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