Panasonic Storms CES
Panasonic has really come into CES with great products especially the 150″ plasma television. Of course, that is not the end.
Panasonic at CES today, presented what they call the “Life Wall†in which residents may interact with the virtual wall. It is an interesting concept indeed.
The wall does not only make a fun experience for guests but it can also be used to display pictures, movies, and show what is on T.V. What do you guys think? I think this might be in a lot of homes in the future. It could be pretty easy to use and of course, cheap in the near future.
Filed under Technology | Comment (0)Invention Of the Year: The iPhone
Choosing Time Magazine’s invention of the year isn’t always an easy task — I know because I had to do it more than once. But this year, in my humble opinion, the decision was a no-brainer. Lev Grossman, who reviewed Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone for Time when it came out in June, edited the Inventions section and wrote the lead story, which I’ve reproduced in full below (Time is Fortune’s sister publication and Lev is a friend). To see the rest of the selections, you can go to TIME.com. Or you can buy the magazine.
Invention of the Year: The iPhone
By Lev Grossman
Stop. I mean, don’t stop reading this, but stop thinking what you’re about to think. Or, O.K., I’ll think it for you:
The thing is hard to type on. It’s too slow. It’s too big. It doesn’t have instant messaging. It’s too expensive. (Or, no, wait, it’s too cheap!) It doesn’t support my work e-mail. It’s locked to AT&T. Steve Jobs secretly hates puppies. And—all together now—we’re sick of hearing about it! Yes, there’s been a lot of hype written about the iPhone, and a lot of guff too. So much so that it seems weird to add more, after Danny Fanboy and Bobby McBlogger have had their day. But when that day is over, Apple’s iPhone is still the best thing invented this year. Why? Five reasons:
1. The iPhone is pretty
Most high-tech companies don’t take design seriously. They treat it as an afterthought. Window-dressing. But one of Jobs’ basic insights about technology is that good design is actually as important as good technology. All the cool features in the world won’t do you any good unless you can figure out how to use said features, and feel smart and attractive while doing it.
An example: look at what happens when you put the iPhone into “airplane” mode (i.e., no cell service, WiFi, etc.). A tiny little orange airplane zooms into the menu bar! Cute, you might say. But cute little touches like that are part of what makes the iPhone usable in a world of useless gadgets. It speaks your language. In the world of technology, surface really is depth.
2. It’s touchy-feely
Apple didn’t invent the touchscreen. Apple didn’t even reinvent it (Apple probably acquired its much hyped multitouch technology when it snapped up a company called Fingerworks in 2005). But Apple knew what to do with it. Apple’s engineers used the touchscreen to innovate past the graphical user interface (which Apple helped pioneer with the Macintosh in the 1980s) to create a whole new kind of interface, a tactile one that gives users the illusion of actually physically manipulating data with their hands—flipping through album covers, clicking links, stretching and shrinking photographs with their fingers.
This is, as engineers say, nontrivial. It’s part of a new way of relating to computers. Look at the success of the Nintendo Wii. Look at Microsoft’s new Surface Computing division. Look at how Apple has propagated its touchscreen interface to the iPod line with the iPod Touch. Can it be long before we get an iMac Touch? A TouchBook? Touching is the new seeing.
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Mister Wong, the German-based social bookmarking service that’s trying to make a splash worldwide, has optimized its site for use on the iPhone. The service will officially launch next week.
The tool allows you to choose from all of Mister Wong’s international portals, including English, German, Russian, French ans Spanish. Pretty much all the functionality you find with the online version is available on the iPhone version. It’s also released a short video to show how Mister Wong looks on the iPhone. This comes at a good time for Mister Wong, as it recently launched its English version of its bookmarking service. In related news, Google has released an AJAX search function for the iPhone.
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