digital media

Design

Infinite Book Looks More Like An Infinite Brochure

12:20PM Rosa Golijan | We’re certainly excited about how we’ll view digital media in the future, but this particular concept design is my favourite. The Infinite Book is a funky reader with a hinge for endless folding of pages to vaguely mimic newspaper reading. More »
Gadgets

SanDisk Snuffs TakeTV, Leaves No Trace of Fanfare

10:29AM Adrian Covert | Poor TakeTV. This past Fall, it launched just ahead of the flood of media extenders that bring PC content to the TV. And while many felt it worked decently, it couldn’t keep up with the big dogs in the end as Sandisk confirmed today they killed the TakeTV line…in mid-May. Additionally, they shut down the Fanfare media portal attached to it. But with Slingcatcher supposedly around the corner, I have trouble getting too sentimental. [NewTeeVee] More »
Entertainment

Hulu Launch Imminent But Will It Suck/Rock/Matter?

4:29AM Wilson Rothman | Hulu, the joint NBC/Fox online video service, may very well be launching any minute now, if sudden attention after months in quiet beta is any indication. We reviewed it last November (along with Joost and Miro), and we’re still not sold on it. Our last experience was chock-full o’ ads and didn’t have nearly enough of the Battlestar episodes and SNL sketches we wanted. Still, as long as NBC holds its convenient little grudge against iTunes, it’ll have to be a place for us to check for the latest TV shows. The question is, will we go willingly? [Alley Insider; Hulu] More »