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iOPS BlueQ Digital Audio Player
So here we have the iOPs BlueQ, the DAP formerly known as Q18. Obviously equipped with a color screen (1.8-inch, 262k colors) and (supposedly so) runs for about 30 hours when playing audio (MP3/WMA). Most "unique" feature would have to be the bluetooth support, enabling us all to jam through our 70s'esque living rooms, kicking furniture through the plastic ceiling and all that - without being bothered by those nasty headphone wires. It remains to be seen if iOPS can actually crank up the capacity volume to the respectable 4GB level (as promised before) - but all in all, the BlueQ doesn't look half bad. Some will call it a toy, others are likely to nickname it "fatty". that's the way life is, even for DAPs. At least it's smaller than a coffee mug......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source The Man Who Created The Look And Feel Of 'bladerunner'
Easily in my all-time top 10 pantheon of movies, "Bladerunner" blew me away when I first saw it. I watched the long-awaited "Director's Cut" last year and though it was a much more understandable narrative, oddly enough it wasn't nearly as compelling a film as the original version. Perhaps the suits in the executive suites get it right once in a while. But I digress. A documentary, "Visual Futurist: The Art and Life of Syd Mead," premieres this coming Sunday, July 23 in Los Angeles......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source Download and burn movies
Go grab them......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source Record 103-inch Plasma TV
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd, the maker of Panasonic brand electronics, said on Monday it hoped to start selling the world's largest plasma television by early next year. Measuring 2.4 metres by 1.4 metres and weighing 215 kg, the 103-inch panel is bigger than a double-sized mattress and almost as heavy as an upright piano. The world's largest consumer electronics maker has yet to set the price but Matsushita's 65-inch plasma TVs, its largest available now, sell for about $7,500 in Japan......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source Blu-ray Disc
The format offers more than five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs and can hold up to 25GB on a single-layer disc and 50GB on a dual-layer disc. This extra capacity combined with the use of advanced video and audio codecs will offer consumers an unprecedented HD experience......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source DeFrantz musical picked for N.Y. festival
"The Man in My Head," a one-man rhythm-and-blues-laden tour de force starring Obie Award-winning actor Darius de Haas, was written by DeFrantz (book) with Berklee College of Music Associate Professor Michael Wartofsky (music and lyrics). The show was one of 14 musicals invited to receive full stagings at the festival, a celebration that introduces the next generation of modern musical entertainment to producers, artists and young adult audiences. Premiering more than 30 musicals, with more than 100 concerts and special events, 300 performances and 1,000 performers, spanning a range of genres from rock, hip-hop, and avant-garde, the New York Musical Theatre Festival bills itself as the biggest musical theater event in the United States. This year's festival will take place from Sept. 10 through Oct. 1 in sites throughout New York City. The protagonist of "The Man in My Head," Drew Durango, wants it all: a loving relationship with a rock-steady African-American man, solid friendships with Chelsea party boys and a way to share his world with his Granny in Indianapolis. But after seven years living in New York, he still hasn't quite figured it out, careening in and out of love and entanglements with a handsome but closeted attorney, a Zen-like children's basketball coach, a sister on a mission to find a husband, a hard-partying Harlem Hospital nurse and his nephew from the Midwest......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source Latest iSoft Information
Pricing and availability have not yet been announced. We'll keep you posted as more information becomes available......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source Watching TV Could Help Your Parenting
The ITV1 series Driving Mum and Dad Mad returns on Monday (17 July), and will follow a new set of families as they try out the "Triple P" parenting programme. This was devised by Professor Matt Sanders from The University of Queensland in Australia, and aims to improve children's behaviour by rebuilding positive relationships, tackling discipline and setting rules and limits. Teams from both universities are collaborating on The Great Parenting Experiment which will run alongside the series, wherein parents of 3 - 9 year old children will be asked to watch the shows and try out its advice for themselves. Funded by the Respect Task Force, the study will test whether, by adopting the ideas suggested, mums and dads can improve their children's behaviour and reduce their own stress levels. Dr Calam, of the School of Psychological Sciences, explained: "One group of families will simply be asked to watch the programmes and put into practice what they see, whilst another will be given additional support. Everyone will receive a free self-help workbook at some point during the study......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source The Pig and the Box
This is a kids' book. I don't know about the mental age of your kids, but mine find it hilarious. Even more so before they found out I made it. Now they just think I'm scary. Scarier. Anyway. The Pig and the Box is about a pig who finds a magic box that can replicate anything you put into it. The pig becomes so protective of it, and so suspicious of anyone that wants to use it, that he makes people take their copied items home in special buckets that act as. well, they're basically DRM. It's like a fable, except the moral of the story is very modern in tone. I made the book after hearing how the entertainment industry in Canada is keen on teaching young kids about how to "respect" copyright. That was a bit heavy-handed, I thought, and otherwise despicable. Preying on small kids, brainwashing them so they believe what you're doing is honourable and good. Feh. So I wrote this book partly as a response to that venture, to counter-act the confused ideals that young'ns are being exposed to these days. Also, I wanted to write potty humour......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source A-VCS-tec Challenge
The original game consisted of seven levels, but most of the people I spoke to never played the game beyond level one. As "The Gauntlet" was the most known level I decided to create a more arcade-like version of only that first level for the VCS which would contain different graphic-sets and increasing difficulty. Beneath the gameplay I wanted to enhance the technical side of the game. I thought that for example the zooming-effect of the pyramid should be smoother and the game should use the larger color-palette of the VCS (128 colors compared to the C64's 16 colors). I also wanted to include a scroll-text in the introduction sequence as I hadn't seen this effect on the VCS before. During the development of the game I had some memory left and decided to include the second level "The Stairs", too. You can choose to play only "Gauntlet" levels or "Gauntlet" and "Stairs" levels alternating now......... Posted by: Gina Permalink Source |
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