Nov
22
Posted on 22-11-2007
Filed Under (Inventos) by martin

In this post I will comment about “new inventions” and sort of things that I received lately in my inbox.

#1 Amazon re-invents the book

This is just way too much hyped for me. I guess I’m one of those “old school guys” that still prefer the wooden pencil and those books that can be touched, opened, smelled…
But Oh yeah, I can imagine that this would be great for that obscure toilet undergrounds, or for reading in an airplane where there is not enough room to carry the whole 007 book series. Here Eduardo from alt1040 explains why he thinks Amazon Kindle will not gonna work. (spanish)

Amazon electronic book reader
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#2 Sony with their “smile detector” camera

The new Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T200 has face-recognition technology and fires the shutter when all the people in the photo smiles.

smile detector

Cool, isn’t it ?

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Nov
19
Posted on 19-11-2007
Filed Under (Mobile, Inventos, Video) by martin

This last three days I’ve been sick and most of the time at home so I’ve been quite bored. Then I found the time to do two things:

  • Making a plastic hoder to film from the car with my mobile (this one is the video that I’m presenting below)
  • And the second: Turning and old window into an Acoustic blinded one with cheap materials. I have to work a bit more to present this entry…

Video thumbnail. Click to play
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