Apple Insider has scrounged up an Apple patent, filed in late 2007, that just, you know, immediately clicks. It’s for instant media sharing during iPhone calls, and it makes plain old video calling look downright boring.
This diamond engagement ring is now hidden, patiently waiting for treasure hunters as its owner—29-year-old rejected man Anthony Gardiner—gets ready to tell clues about its location via Twitter.
The Wii will soon get camera-based, Project Natal-like motion sensing—at least for one fitness game—courtesy of Ubisoft. It’s just too bad the “Your Shape” promo video had to come out today.
HTC’s hipsteriffic invitations for a June 24th event in London contained precious few clues (DUDE’S WEARING A ROSE), but the Economic Daily News is now reporting something totally reasonable: it’s for the Hero and Lancaster, HTC’s presumed next Android phones.
New device categories almost invariably fall between preexisting ones. Sometimes they find a useful niche, like netbooks. Other times, they seem like obsessive compulsive attempts to fill a tiny, intentional gap in the spectrum of consumer electronics. Like MID phones!
For us Hulu-deprived antipodeans, this is a bit of a non-issue. But nontheless interesting, asked if Hulu would ever charge for content, Jonathan Miller recently said, “in my opinion the answer could be yes.” Who, exactly, is Jonathan Miller? The Chief Digital Officer of News Corp, which owns 27% of Hulu. Ha ha, shit.
In the warm afterglow of E3′s various motion-control debuts, Nintendo’s MotionPlus Wiimote add-on—priced high and no longer ahead of the curve—isn’t as enticing as it once was, leaving the company in defence mode. For example:
Our friend Elaine in China sent us a report that Chinese police use umbrellas to thwart camera crews from shooting video at Tiananmen Square. Here’s a whole CNN report of the protest’s 20th anniversary, replete with government-endorsed in-yer-face umbrella madness:
Kotaku just got word that Nintendo plans to release a black Wii console (plus controllers and accessories) in Japan—the first colour other than white to be offered.
