Roel Smelt: Technology

Swiss knife for your PC

Sun, 07 Dec 2003 18:32:29 GMT

Tune up utilities is a pretty amazing tool. They call it self the swiss knife...

Mon, 20 Oct 2003 21:23:22 GMT

ITunes, Now for the Rest of Us. With his usual razzmatazz, Apple's Steve Jobs introduces the iTunes music download service for Windows PCs. He also announces marketing campaigns with Pepsi and AOL that could wean people off the illegal stuff. Leander Kahney reports from San Francisco. [Wired News]

Goed nieuws. Ben nu fan van www.weblisten.com om legaal muziek te downloaden. Nu ook iTunes van Apple. Dat ziet er vast gelikter uit...

Wed, 15 Oct 2003 23:05:34 GMT

Gates: Tv en cd verdwijnen. De computer is over vijf jaar het centrale punt in elke huiskamer. CD's en televisies verdwijnen langzaam maar zeker naar de achtergrond. Dat voorspelt Microsoft-topman Bill Gates, die gisteren een werkbezoek bracht aan Nederland. ,,De computer gaat al deze functies overnemen'', zo hield de 47-jarige Gates tijdens een strak geregisseerd bezoek aan het Circustheater in Scheveningen zijn gehoor voor. ,,Het is nu al toch veel handiger om een klein mp3-spelertje in je zak te steken waarop zo'n 3000 tunes gezet kunnen worden, dan een portable cd-speler?'' Ook voor de televisie ziet Gates geen lang leven meer beschoren. ,,Door de ontwikkeling van de digitale techniek en de opkomst van adsl en breedbandkabel is internet veel beter en sneller geworden. En in de toekomst zal het alleen nog maar harder gaan. Om de twee jaar komen er nieuwe processors die veel beter en goedkoper zijn dan hun voorganger. Dat maakt binnen afzienbare termijn de weg vrij voor volwassen internet-tv. Internet zal andere media, ook kranten, op den duur domineren.'' Algemeen Dagblad [Dagelinks]

Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:36:39 GMT

Mobile Burn loves Sony Ericsson's Z600. Mobile Burn managed to get its hands on one of Sony Ericsson's Z600 cameraphones, which is essentially Sony Ericsson's T610, just with a clamshell design. They say that it's "damn near perfect," keeping many of the best features of the T610 and improves on it with a better screen and substantially improved reception. No word on when this might be out here in the US, and the handset Mobile Burn reviewed was actually intended for the Malaysian market. Read... [Gizmodo]

Dat gaat de goede kant op...

Fri, 10 Oct 2003 20:16:59 GMT

Philips verdubbelt dvd. Philips heeft met het Japanse Mitsubishi Kagaku Media een 'recordable' dvd ontwikkeld die tweemaal zoveel capaciteit heeft als een standaard dvd r. Het schijfje heeft ruimte voor 8,5 gigabytes en wordt deze week op een Japanse beurs gepresenteerd. CompuServe [Dagelinks]

Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:53:36 GMT

First 14.1-inch Tablet PC. Though they're not shipping it yet, Acer's C300 convertible-style Tablet PC has turned up on its web site. The C300 is a big deal if for no other reason than that it will have the largest screen (14.1-inches) as well as the fastest processor (a 1.5GHz Centrino) of any Tablet PC yet sold. The rest of its specs aren't bad either: 512MB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, a DVD/CD-RW combination drive, and built-in 802.11b. Read [Thanks, Christopher Coulter]... [Gizmodo]

3d laptop

Sat, 20 Sep 2003 06:51:17 GMT

De Japanse elektronicagigant Sharp heeft z'n reeds eerder deze maand aangekondigde laptop met 3D-scherm gepresenteerd. De notebook is uitgevoerd met een display die de gebruiker de illusie van diepte geeft. Afbeeldingen zijn op het apparaat driedimensionaal te bewonderen, zonder dat daarvoor een speciale bril nodig is.

Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:17:04 GMT

Sony's personal video player. A beautiful-looking video iPod from Sony that just might be the gadget we've been waiting for. Right now it's just a prototype, but a Vaio personal video player with a 3.5-inch high-resolution LCD screen and a 20GB hard drive for loading up to 10 hours of MPEG-2 video has turned up at the WPC Expo in Tokyo. Hopefully they'll get this out soon and that it'll play MPEG-4 files as well. Read [Thanks, Peter]... [Gizmodo]

Magink

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:14:49 GMT

Check out these photos of actual billboards using Magink, that full-color digital ink we mentioned the other day. Magink is the first digital ink technology to be able to display color (the rest are black and white), and can hold an image for up to 12 years without needing any electricity.
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Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:07:12 GMT

Twee weken video.... Sony zal eind dit jaar een nieuwe digitale videorecorder op de markt brengen. Het apparaat kan met zijn 500 GB opslagruimte twee weken onbeperkt opnemen. WebWereld. [Dagelinks]

BlogShares

Sat, 19 Jul 2003 17:56:20 GMT

Just hooked myself to blogshares...

Sat, 19 Jul 2003 17:46:32 GMT

The truth about XML. Systems powered by the Extensible Markup Language may prove to be the standard for sharing information between businesses, but experts at McKinsey explain why most CIOs won't make the leap in the near future. [CNET News.com]

Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:45:42 GMT

Sony Breaks Ground With New PDA. Sony's latest Clié handheld computer packs a lot in an eye-catching, sleek, compact form factor. Sony was able to do so with a new proprietary chip that analysts have praised as groundbreaking. But will customers pay $700 for it? By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]

Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:02:41 GMT

Lancering 14 Google Startpagina's. Even handig om bij de hand te houden. Jeroen van de Wiel heeft niet 1, doch maar liefst 14 startpagina's over zoekmachine Google gemaakt. Lancering 14 Google Startpagina's [Dagelinks]

Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:02:17 GMT

Definitief einde Netscape?. Is het einde voor de Netscape-browser dan toch definitief nabij, zo vragen internetdeskundigen zich af. Amerika Online had de browser na een slechte periode overgenomen, doch ontslaat nu de vijftig mensen die zich er mee bezighielden. BBC NEWS | [Dagelinks]

iBuild

Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:32:50 GMT

Funny - Create your own home online and let it build in reality. But why in Almere...?

Thu, 05 Jun 2003 16:30:53 GMT

Nieuwe Internet100.nl staat klaar. Zoals elke week, nu al anderhalf jaar lang, staat de nieuwe Internet100.nl klaar, met daarin de honderd aardigste/opmerkelijkste links van de afgelopen periode. Tijdbesparend, omdat zo beginnende en gevorderde internetter in no time bijblijft met wat er gaande is. Tips kunnen makkelijk aangedragen worden voor het nu 192 leden tellende panel dat wekelijks oordeelt over de nieuwe suggesties. Plus dat de kliks van de wekelijks duizenden bezoekers geregistreerd worden en meetellen in de bepaling van de volgorde. Deze week gestegen naar nr 1: Zeeslag spelen op internet. www.internet100.nl [Media24]

Thu, 29 May 2003 06:54:50 GMT

The iGesture.

Apart from the intermittent bouts of carpal tunnel, we're pretty happy with our mouse (Microsoft's Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer, if you have to know), but Wired reports on a company called FingerWorks has an idea for eliminating all that repetitive strain: hand gestures.

FingerWorks sells two types of products. The iGesture pad is about the size of a standard mouse pad. The TouchStream keyboard functions like a regular keyboard, but also incorporates the same gesture-sensing technology, eliminating the need for a mouse. The gesturing interface works like this. To open a file, a user rotates a hand as if to open a jar. To close a file requires the opposite rotation. To cut a piece of text, pinch the fingers together, and to paste, flick the fingers outward. To zoom in, expand all five fingers, jazz-hands style. Contract the hand to zoom out.

The article doesn't say what gesture the iGesture uses to send a file to the trash, but we're betting that it's something like flipping the bird. Or at least it should be.
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[Gizmodo]

Sat, 17 May 2003 22:56:47 GMT

The Eyetop.

A new pair of sunglasses called the Eyetop that comes with a mini-LCD screen attached that can accept a signal from any audio-visual device such as a portable DVD player, video camera, or a laptop.
Read [Via I4U]

[Gizmodo]

Sat, 17 May 2003 22:56:11 GMT

This DVD Will Self-Destruct. Disney found a way to rent DVDs without needing a system to get the discs back. Using self-destruction technology, Disney will begin 'renting' DVDs this August that become unplayable after two days and do not have to be returned. [Wired News]

Fri, 16 May 2003 11:25:36 GMT

Succesverhaal Dell blijft maar voortduren [WebWereld]

Fri, 16 May 2003 00:55:36 GMT

David Davies: WAP RSS Browser Radio tool. David has created a new tool for Radio UserLand: "What it actually does is to use Radio's aggregator data from all my subscribed-to favourite RSS feeds and convert that to a set of WAP files. I can then browse these files with my WAP phone." Screenshot. [UserLand Product News]

Tue, 13 May 2003 19:29:05 GMT

Double-jointed laptop prototype from Intel.

From Intel, a prototype of a double-jointed laptop code-named "Florence" that resembles a convertible Tablet PC, but with an extra twist (literally):

Florence will be able to work like a regular notebook with a keyboard, or users can enter data using a pen. The machine will include a variety of input-output ports such as USB (universal serial bus). One of two sets of hinges built into Florence's chassis, allows a person to open the screen and turn it into a writing tablet. This transformation is achieved by folding back the screen--rotating it backward nearly 360 degrees--so that its cover touches the bottom of the chassis. An additional set of hinges separates the keyboard from its bed so that it swings out from underneath. These hinges allow the keyboard enough movement to fold over a portion of the screen.

Read [Thanks, Mike]

[Gizmodo]

Opblaasbare tent

Tue, 13 May 2003 19:25:24 GMT

Is this where we looking for this summer. An inflateable tent...

Haakse Zeedijk

Mon, 12 May 2003 20:56:39 GMT

In the plain from Brazil to Amsterdam I was reading about this initiative: De Haakse Zeedijk. Very smart and feels like a synthesis...