new technologies

Music Pen - Drawdio

2008-12-03T12:00:00.000-08:00

After i blogged about the "Livescribe smartpen" a few days ago, here's another cool pen!
It creates sound by drawing on a paper!

How dangerous of a driver are you?

2008-12-02T13:01:00.000-08:00

Test your driving safety on http://www.thecarconnection.com/dangerous-quiz/
Truly, i did not cheat!

Created by The Car Connection

Swiss Hits - About Cannabis

2008-12-02T12:52:00.000-08:00

Guitar Hero with Drumpads

2008-12-01T13:17:00.000-08:00

Unbelievable, how a guy plays guitar hero with selfmade drumpads.
He plays one of the most difficult tracks of guitar hero, and he takes them all!

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Livescribe smartpen

2008-11-26T13:12:00.000-08:00

Is this the pen of the future?

It includes a camera and an microphone! The camera detects the writing and predefined objects on a paper.
Notice, the record button in the video is printed on the paper. It is nothing else than a drawing.
But look here:

Motion Control

2008-11-26T12:46:00.000-08:00

The company "True Motion 3D", developed a motion controller based on the technologie of the wii controller. The controller can control six axes. Like the wiimote it detects how you hold the controller, but additionally it detects the position in a room.

What the video to understand:

iPhone/iPod Case

2008-08-19T12:25:00.000-07:00

here are three cool wooden cases for the iphone, the ipod touch and the ipod classic

order them on the Miniot Website

MacBook Pro with 4G RAM

2008-06-24T09:03:00.000-07:00

I just updated my MacBook Pro to 4G RAM ;D

I've got the version with 2.5 Ghz, 512MB videoram and the multitouch-trackpad..
and NOW 4Gigs Kingston RAM (KTA-MB667K2/4G) !!

They work really fine and already by booting up you notice that it works a bit faster...

Here a screen to demonstrate:

SFWidget

2008-06-20T04:03:00.000-07:00

I'm proud to release my first OSX-Widget!

The website of the swiss-national television offer all their "own-production-shows" to watch online.
Because mac-users don't have an embedded wmv-player in the browser, you are only able to watch the movies in a bad quality (flv).

With the SFWidget you can stream all videos available on the sf.tv-Videosite in HighQuality (640x420) and watch it in Quicktime or VLC.

Download SFWidget

LOST - Ben's passport

2008-06-02T10:40:00.000-07:00

Im a fan of the tv-show LOST.
The last days I watched the series 4-09 to 4-14
Problably you have seen them too.

If you looked very carefully you might have seen the type of Ben's passport.
It was a swiss national passport ;D

Do you recognized that?

more information on Lostpedia.com

Firefox 3 download record

2008-05-29T02:40:00.000-07:00

help mozilla to get a new world record..
all you have to do is download firefox 3 on the release day!

get it, when its out, by this link:

XBMC Plugin for sf.tv

2008-05-27T13:43:00.000-07:00

This is a plugin to watch streams from schweizerfernsehen.ch

It's my first release and the plugin is still under development.
Currently only movies from the main-video site are available.

Download the plugin, copy it into the plugin-folder and add it as a new source.

PS3 introduction

2008-05-21T15:07:00.000-07:00

some really good reasons why you schould buy a PS3 (instead of a xbox360)

PS3 head tracking

2008-05-21T14:57:00.001-07:00

Multitouch on a PC platform

2008-05-21T13:40:00.000-07:00

Transparent oled display

2008-05-21T13:28:00.000-07:00

Look exactly to see the transparency...

Headtracking with webcam

2008-05-19T14:36:00.000-07:00

Formula 1 - Barcelona HQ-Video

2008-05-10T02:21:00.000-07:00

watch it fullscreen to enjoy the quality!
fast broadband is assumed ;D

Activeboard in classrooms

2008-05-08T12:49:00.000-07:00

new technology in swiss-classrooms

Phun for Mac

2008-05-07T13:16:00.000-07:00

Phun, the 2D physics sandbox is now available for mac.

Download Phun for Mac on the Phun website

Compiz sphere

2008-05-06T22:29:00.000-07:00

a new feature for compiz-fusion!

more information on the compiz-fusion website

3D-Camera

2008-04-29T12:44:00.000-07:00

A new technologie to detect (probably) shapes...

New features in Google Earth 4.3

2008-04-29T09:59:00.000-07:00

PageRank For Image Search

2008-04-29T00:07:00.000-07:00

"Google is looking at the visual characteristics of popular images and then determining rank based on similarities between images. In the figure below, the largest two images contain the highest rank."

Microsoft needs Apple

2008-04-28T09:19:00.000-07:00

Glad to see but:
How can Steve Balmer represent his company when he use an Apple computer...

Neben der Arbeit

2008-04-25T05:21:00.000-07:00

a must see!!

CryEngine2 - Bravia Spot

2008-04-20T03:44:00.000-07:00

Impressive video shows the difference between reality and computed graphics. They used the Sony-Bravia spot as model.

Handwritting detection for the iphone

2008-04-18T10:38:00.000-07:00

thnx to dellamic for showing me this feature live

Google Earth - photo textures

2008-04-14T23:30:00.001-07:00

add your own photos as texture on google earth buildings

Playstation 3 Portable

2008-04-14T23:27:00.000-07:00

Building a Google Gadget

2008-04-01T04:57:00.001-07:00

Google Docs Offline

2008-04-01T03:09:00.000-07:00

not yet for @ll, but a first step ;D

XBMC on Mac OSX

2008-03-27T15:22:00.000-07:00

You can download the latest Release on osxbmc.com

ATI PingPong Demo

2008-03-27T15:05:00.000-07:00

Test your GPU-Performace with the new ATI PingPong Demo...

What is work?

2008-03-23T12:03:00.000-07:00

Gorgeous video about "whats work?"

(video is in german)

Google Zürich

2008-03-11T10:59:00.000-07:00

Here's a cool video about the new Google offices in Zürich!

I can't embedd the video in this blog, so try this link:
Video (heute-online.ch)

Doodle 4 Google

2008-03-11T10:30:00.001-07:00

See how "Dennis Hwang", Google's official Doodle designer, draws a Doodle for Google.

New animations for compiz-fusion

2008-03-11T10:25:00.000-07:00

Blu-ray 6 times faster

2008-02-15T03:56:00.001-08:00

Sharp presented new Blu-Ray laser-diods which are smaller and have a 6 times faster writespeed then the current lasers.

Flash on IPhone/IPod Touch

2008-01-16T08:29:00.000-08:00

The new bookmarklet iTransmogrify allows you to watch embedded Flash content from webpages on your IPhone and IPod Touch.

To try it out klick here in the IPhone Safari and watch the embedded Flash movie down the text!

Installation:
To install the bookmarklet, just drag the link to your Safari or Firefox Bookmarks, IE users should right click and choose “Add To Favorites…” After adding the link, sync your iPod.

Multitouch interface

2008-01-16T08:16:00.000-08:00

Make your own (cheap) multitouch interface...

ZHAW takes off

2008-01-12T02:34:00.000-08:00

The engineer Roger Ruppert develops with his company "Ruppert Composite" and the support of the ZHAW a innovative airplane called Archaeopteryx.

Watch the story here

MacWorld Expo 2008

2008-01-09T13:31:00.000-08:00

I know this is a strange post for a ubuntu-blog, but this time I make an exception.
I'm not far away to buy me a new notebook... and yes it would be a macbook (pro)!

The MacWorld Expo 2008 is starting at the 15. January and I'm very expectant to see Steve Jobs show at the Keynote, when he's presenting all the new products.
It's a really exciting spectacle every year.

To see what I'm talking about go to "all about Steve Jobs" where you can watch earlier Keynotes.

Ubuntu "Hardy Hero" - Themes

2008-01-09T13:01:00.000-08:00

The next Ubuntu "Hardy Hero" is in development and a lot of users are hardly working on a theme refresh.
You can find some gorgeous example on the Ubuntu Wiki

PS: Ubuntu 8.04 alias "Hardy Hero" is comming on the 24. April

IPhone applications on IPod Touch

2008-01-05T10:38:00.000-08:00

Some Hackers found a way to run IPhone applications on the IPod Touch. All you have to do is "jailbreak" your IPod Touch and download the applications with the AppSnapp-Installer.

You can find alot of "jailbreak" instructions in the web...
For downloading the IPhone apps go here:
AddSources-Guide

XBMC Plugins

2008-01-02T07:37:00.000-08:00

Scripts are dead, long live Plugins!

A new technology called Plugins comes to Xbox Media Center XBMC.
Plugins are also written in Phyton, but they are much faster and more stable than scripts.
Using the right plugin you can stream media from Stage6, JooX, ZDF, Youtube and many more directly to your Xbox.

Download Plugins
Installation Guide

Gnome with full RGBA support

2008-01-02T07:01:00.000-08:00

Some people out there are still thinking, Gtk+ hasn't alpha-support...
A genius programmer called Cimi created some examples to show you the opposite

Picasa 2.7 Beta

2007-12-10T09:46:00.000-08:00

Google released today a new Linux version of the photomanager Picasa. The most important change is the implementation of the upload-function for webalbums.
The programm is still running with wine...

Installation:
You can download the installation-file or you can add the "Google's Linux Repository" directly to your paketmanager.

Download for different Linux platforms
Google's Linux Repository

Turn off the light

2007-12-08T06:09:00.000-08:00

Switzerland and Germany turn off the lights for 5 minutes!
make a little step to protect our earth and get involved
for more information go here

Xbox Media Center XBMC

2007-12-07T07:25:00.000-08:00

the famous mediacenter for the xbox is comming on linux
the video shows you the xbmc running on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn..

Awant Window Navigator AWN

2007-12-07T03:38:00.001-08:00

nice dock for linux desktops
includes a lot of plugins and now supports "stacks"

you can find install-guide and plugin-overview on the AWN-Wiki

Crysis Engine

2007-12-07T02:13:00.000-08:00

pretty cool video shows you the power of the crysis engine
really delicious!