Phrases Archive

  • A Duke Nuke Forever gameplay video for your Monday morning

    A Duke Nuke Forever gameplay video for your Monday morning

    Posted on April 5, 2010 | No Comments
    It’s sad, really, that we never got to play Duke Nukem Forever. I mean, it probably would have failed to live up to the hype just like Doom 3, but I like to think that it would have been fantastically entertaining. There really needs to be more FPS’s where egotistical protagonists spout out one-lines and [...]

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  • Google working on smartphone software to automatically translate foreign languages into your native tongue

    Google working on smartphone software to automatically translate foreign languages into your native tongue

    Posted on February 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Check your calendar, friends, for the first time in a long time I was just wowed by a tech story. Google says it's working on smartphone software that would automatically translate foreign languages into your native tongue. So, if you're talking to your Venezuelan pen pal, and he says, "No me gusta el fútbol americano," you can react in horror as you try to explain to him the importance of a game where more time is spent setting up plays than actually executing them is the greatest sport in the world. Porqueria.

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  • Lingo Debuts 15 New Translators at CES

    Lingo Debuts 15 New Translators at CES

    Posted on January 9, 2010 | No Comments
    51DAgfE6WWL Lingo, the maker of talking and multi-lanaguage translators, have debuted more then 15 different translators at CES. The units announced ranging from models with six languages, all the way to 52 languages — prices range from $19.95 to $299. Lingo has versions of it's translator for students well, the WorldMate 6 goes for $19.95, and includes 30,000 words, and 720 phrases in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch. It also has one touch language icons featuring the country flags, which allow users to switch easily between languages.

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  • Creative to show off ‘Zii Android mobile phone’ next month at Chinese summit

    Creative to show off ‘Zii Android mobile phone’ next month at Chinese summit

    Posted on November 15, 2009 | No Comments

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    We've been saying all along that we'd love nothing more than to see someone throw a 3G chip into Creative's Zii Egg and sell it as a pretty strong smartphone, but so far we've been hit with little to no indication of interested parties making that happen. So when we spot phrases like "Zii Optimized Android Phone platform" and "the line-up of devices on display includes a Mobile Phone platform" on an informational site for the ZiiLABS Showcase happening early December in China, our interested are definitely piqued. The event is geared towards companies who'd like to use the Plaszma platform for their products, and with any luck, some debonair decision-maker will give Zii phone a chance.

    [Via myCreative Fansite; thanks, Kyle]

    Creative to show off 'Zii Android mobile phone' next month at Chinese summit originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Apple patents some kind of pen-based digital ink thing

    Apple patents some kind of pen-based digital ink thing

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Clearly this is either an old patent or a Macguffin because whatever this thing is it's not the iPad. Basically you've got some sort of tablet app for recognizing pen input in phrases instead of in "chunks."

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  • Too expensive? DJ Hero sales ‘modest’

    Too expensive? DJ Hero sales ‘modest’

    Posted on November 3, 2009 | No Comments
    While there's no hard numbers, an analyst over at Capital Markets has called the sales of DJ Hero “modest.” Usually you want phrases like “brisk pace” and “exceeding expectations” when you release big ticket games like DJ Hero, but it doesn't seem to be happening here.

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  • SundaySky automates the multimedia e-commerce experience

    SundaySky automates the multimedia e-commerce experience

    Posted on September 23, 2009 | No Comments
    When I was in Israel two weeks ago I sat down with the guys at SundaySky. I need you to bear with me here because the service doesn't sound cool outright but once you realize the power for commerce sites it becomes amazing. Here's how it works: e-commerce sites have lots of products. Take cameras, for example. You have a few set attributes - zoom, megapixels, etc. - and the rest of the incidental information could fit in a paragraph. So SundaySky creates a video using a product image and audio from a pre-recorded pool of preset phrases ("This W camera has X and Y built-in and includes a Zx zoom lens", where all the variables are pre-recorded as well). The rest of the info appears as text in the video. That way you could talk fairly convincingly about an Olympus camera with a set of data from a pre-recorded pool and then add the small stuff as a visual. In this way you can make video out of every single item in your store.

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