Demonstration Archive

  • INQ Teams with foursquare to Bring Location to Life on the Home Screen

    Posted on May 23, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Inventec’s Dr. Eye puts Android in a pocket-sized laptop

    Inventec’s Dr. Eye puts Android in a pocket-sized laptop

    Posted on June 3, 2010 | No Comments
    Inventec's Dr. Eye puts Android in a pocket-sized laptop
    It may sound like a mid-boss in some forgotten and poorly translated NES game, but Dr. Eye (aka the N18C) is actually a sort of keyboard-endowed MID from Inventec. This chubby clamshell sports a QWERTY keyboard, a 4.8-inch VGA touchscreen, 3G, WiFi, and a front-facing webcam. Power is said to come from a "Marvell 624," which we're guessing is a 624MHz PXA310 and, while it's currently running 1.6, word is that it'll be dipped in 2.1's creamy filling in the near future. When will delivery be? Inventec has been showing this guy off since last year, and while the person doing the demonstration indicates they'll be available "pretty soon" at a price point around $400, we found this guy for sale already at a price of 2688 yuan, or about $395. So, if you're eager to get computing and prefer donuts to eclairs, we wish you happy importing.

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  • Smokescreen makes Flash content visible on iPhone and iPad (video)

    Smokescreen makes Flash content visible on iPhone and iPad (video)

    Posted on May 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Mind you, it's just a preview release, but Chris Smoak's Smokescreen does exactly what it promises: enable Flash content to play on Apple's iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad. Kind of. Here's how Smokescreen gets around using a Flash plugin as described by Simon Willison:
    "It runs entirely in the browser, reads in SWF binaries, unzips them (in native JS), extracts images and embedded audio and turns them in to base64 encoded data:uris, then stitches the vector graphics back together as animated SVG."
    While it works fine with simple animated banner ads (uh, huzzah!?), we found that Smokescreened Flash content like video and games was impossibly slow when tested on our iPhone 3G. Still, it's a start for this soon to be open sourced Flash player written in JavaScript. Check the video after the break for a demonstration or give it a go for yourselves by browsing over to the appropriate source link below.

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    Smokescreen makes Flash content visible on iPhone and iPad (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 30 May 2010 09:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Liquavista launches 8.5″ color and mono display

    Liquavista launches 8.5″ color and mono display

    Posted on May 25, 2010 | No Comments
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  • Hands-On Demo Video: Opera Mini for iPhone [Update: First Impressions, Speed tests!]

    Hands-On Demo Video: Opera Mini for iPhone [Update: First Impressions, Speed tests!]

    Posted on April 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Today was the day that pigs flew. Seemingly out of no where (or, arguably, perfectly timed to downplay all the rabble rousing surrounding some new terms added to the SDK), Opera Mini has been approved for the iPhone. It's not going to be available in the US for a few more hours, but we were able to dig it up by tinkering around with some settings and, well, pretending we were somewhere else. I'm checking it out right this second, but I wanted to give you guys a really quick hands on demonstration, along with a few early impressions and speed tests, to tide you over until it's available everywhere. Check it out after the break.

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  • Build a better mousetrap

    Build a better mousetrap

    Posted on March 25, 2010 | No Comments
    So the saying goes, "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat down your door". If that is true, Mark Fuller is about to be a really busy guy. Check out the mousetrap that Mark created using CAD, and a 3D printer.

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  • DIY: It’s a ring on a stick!

    DIY: It’s a ring on a stick!

    Posted on January 21, 2010 | No Comments
    So this doesn’t really serve any practical purpose, but it’s definitely cool. One of the frequent contributors to Make just created a captive ring demonstration using an aluminum rod and a lathe. Pretty neat stuff. [via Make]

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  • Video: HP has itself a Wall of Touch

    Video: HP has itself a Wall of Touch

    Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
    What to make of HP's "Wall of Touch"? The Wall Street Journal has a nifty little write-up of the technology, and comes away like it just shook hands with Brock Lesnar's doctors. "Thank you so much, doctor!" The fact is, despite the fact that you don't actually touch the Wall of Touch, the idea of touchscreen interfaces is no longer foreign and exotic. We're several years after Jeff Han's big demonstration, plus there was that iPhone thing.

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  • Video: EyeController for iPhone/iPod touch + Marvell Plug Computer

    Video: EyeController for iPhone/iPod touch + Marvell Plug Computer

    Posted on January 8, 2010 | No Comments
    By request from one of our readers (see, we listen!) I zipped over to Marvell’s booth to check out the Plug Computer and got the added bonus of a demonstration of EyeconTroller, an iPhone/iPod touch/computer app that manages media. You can drag and drop media files into various containers, which will play back those particular [...]

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  • MIT creates technology that lets you use the Force

    MIT creates technology that lets you use the Force

    Posted on December 11, 2009 | No Comments
    This might be the display you are looking for. The MIT media lab just announced the creation of a new display technology that will read your hand gestures in order to manipulate images on the screen. While it's not *technically* the Force, it's still pretty cool.

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  • Microsoft Germany: Sprechen nicht von Apple!

    Microsoft Germany: Sprechen nicht von Apple!

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Microsoft’s PR folks in Germany have officially asked journalists not to use or talk about Apple products during their events. Why? Because one journo said his iPhone kicked ass. 9to5 has a translation of the German story which essentially amounts to a Microsoft asking a journalist not to use his Apple products at an event. “While [...]

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  • Amidio’s Touch DJ app stuffs a turntable into your iPhone (video)

    Amidio’s Touch DJ app stuffs a turntable into your iPhone (video)

    Posted on November 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Not kosher with getting a handset tailor made for DJing? How's about transforming your existing iPhone into that very device when the mood strikes you? Hailed as the first true DJ MP3 iPhone / iPod touch app in the world, Amidio's $19.99 Touch DJ program (available now) enables users to independently manipulate two MP3 or M4A files, including scratching, looping, positioning, equalization, effects and pitching. The "visual mixing" requires all sorts of tapping and sliding, but the on-screen UI seems pretty elegant from what we've seen. The only real knock on this is that there's currently no way to get music from the iTunes library into the program; instead, you'll be forced to reload tracks into the app's own MP3 library. Still, for those looking to ditch the hard case and waltz in with a pocketful of boogie, this ain't a half bad option. Check the demonstration vid after the break.

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    Amidio's Touch DJ app stuffs a turntable into your iPhone (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Nokia N900 video shows off 3D gaming, YouTube shenanigans, and more

    Nokia N900 video shows off 3D gaming, YouTube shenanigans, and more

    Posted on October 9, 2009 | No Comments

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    Not satisfied with a video of the Nokia N900's browser, an in-depth look at its Maemo 5 operation system, or even a glimpse of it playing the odd SNES game? Then fear not, 'cause the device is on the scene at the now-happening Maemo Summit, and it's thankfully been caught on video once again for those not lucky enough to be in attendance. Highlights this time around include a look at the device's 3D gaming capabilities (demoed with a Marble Madness-type game called Bounce Evolution), and a demonstration of the device not only playing YouTube videos in a browser, but within a thumbnail in the Maemo interface -- not exactly the most practical thing in the world, but it sure is impressive on a mobile device. Head on past the break to see the whole thing for yourself.

    [Thanks, Welly]

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  • Live demo of Toshiba voice translation software

    Live demo of Toshiba voice translation software

    Posted on October 7, 2009 | No Comments
    Boy howdy could I use this thing at CEATEC today. Running on a Windows Mobile handheld, Toshiba has a real-time voice translation demonstration. It worked quite well. How much longer until we get the Star Trek universal translators? Video inside!

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  • Augmented Reality example at CEATEC

    Augmented Reality example at CEATEC

    Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
    sekai-camera-demoAugmented reality is all the new buzz, I guess. I don't know, because I only have an iPhone 3G -- mine's missing that important "S" indicating it's the new model on which augmented reality can actually execute. But at CEATEC today I saw some Sekai Camera examples in the real world. My experience wasn't entirely positive: find out why.

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