communications
Software
9:25AM Chris Oaten | If you haven’t caught on to the phenomenon that is Google Wave, it’s probably about time you did. It’s Google’s game-changing application combining email, live collaboration and messaging, which goes only a small way towards explaining its potential. About 100,000 people have been invited to its beta workout. Here’s a snippet from Attack of the Show, via Techcrunch, that might help bring Wave’s potential into focus.
Google Makes Wave With Limited Release
9:25AM Chris Oaten | If you haven’t caught on to the phenomenon that is Google Wave, it’s probably about time you did. It’s Google’s game-changing application combining email, live collaboration and messaging, which goes only a small way towards explaining its potential. About 100,000 people have been invited to its beta workout. Here’s a snippet from Attack of the Show, via Techcrunch, that might help bring Wave’s potential into focus. 
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Fastest Data Connection In Space Comes From The Moon
8:40AM Jesus Diaz | Right now, data is arriving across 384,300 kilometres at 100MBps (as in megabytes per second, not megabits), dwarfing every home internet connections out there. That’s a total of 461GB of data transmitted per day, thanks to this moon-orbiting device. More »
Networks
A Skyscraper So Tall Builders Can’t Use Walkie-Talkies
3:10AM Jesus Diaz | If you want to build a skyscraper 2,275 feet (693 metres) tall, you will face engineering challenges comparable to those of the Space Shuttle just because its sheer size. One of them is communications. When the unbelievable Burj Dubai started to get really high, the construction workers discovered one problem that seems obvious now: their walkie-talkies stopped working as they climbed the structure. More »
Design
FuChat Concept Phone Detects Then Displays your Emotional State
9:41PM Kit Eaton | The FuChat concept phone is pretty, and kind of half-phone, half-Chumby as its surface is a concealed display used to show widgets: from weather displays, to showing a “keep out” sign on your door. But the emotional-sensing aspect got me intrigued. FuChat would be able to analyse your voice and body temp and guess at your emotional status… then display it back to you, supposedly enhancing the emotional aspects of communication. That sounds appealing, until you wonder what it’d be like to have a damn phone telling you you’re bloody angry in the middle of an empassioned rant to the ex. As well as being designed to hang on door handles or stand on desks, this thing would have to be “smashed onto the floor-proof” too. Just a concept. [Tuvie] More »
Gadgets
RhythmFish Helps Your Goldfish Say “I Love You” (or “You Suck”)
12:45AM Wilson Rothman | RhythmFish is a suction-cupped USB webcam concept that sticks to the side of a fishbowl, tracking the movements of your little shiny-scaled compadres. Sensors inside the bowl measure the “currents” made by fish swimming, and your computer combines both data feeds into a visualisation meant for “inter-organism communication.” Talking to goldfish? From the looks of the invention, I thought designer Sangmin Bae had seen one too many Terry Gilliam flicks, but on second thought, he may just be addicted to American Dad. [Coroflot via OhGizmo] More »
Phones
11:13AM Nick Broughall | The other day we saw a mobile phone watch that you could almost be comfortable wearing out in public. Well, here’s another one, although whether this particular model passes that “seen in public test” we’ll leave up to you.
It’s a tri-band GSM phone with a 1.3-inch, 128 x 160 screen, Bluetooth, built-in camera, MP3 playback, voice recording, 6 hours talk time and up to 150 standby. It even comes with a stylus for easy navigation, and will cost the bargain price of $399.
I don’t want to hate this product too much – as a child I always longed for a watch I could use to speak to my friends covertly without my parents knowing. But somehow, somewhere between childhood and becoming an adult, that dream died.
Hit the jump for a full-feature list, which just strikes me as overkill.
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Another Mobile Phone Watch To Help You Look Like A Dick (Tracy Impersonator)
11:13AM Nick Broughall | The other day we saw a mobile phone watch that you could almost be comfortable wearing out in public. Well, here’s another one, although whether this particular model passes that “seen in public test” we’ll leave up to you.
It’s a tri-band GSM phone with a 1.3-inch, 128 x 160 screen, Bluetooth, built-in camera, MP3 playback, voice recording, 6 hours talk time and up to 150 standby. It even comes with a stylus for easy navigation, and will cost the bargain price of $399.
I don’t want to hate this product too much – as a child I always longed for a watch I could use to speak to my friends covertly without my parents knowing. But somehow, somewhere between childhood and becoming an adult, that dream died.
Hit the jump for a full-feature list, which just strikes me as overkill.
More »
Networks
