Play that funky music waving boy July 19, 2012 | Damon | Leave a comment Just came across the V Motion Project by Assembly which is a pretty cool use of the Kinect for creating music. Check out this music video with some dubstepping-hand-waving-DJing shot on the streets of Auckland,NZ. “This project combines the collective talents of musicians, dancers, programmers, designers and animators to create an amazing visual instrument. Creating… Read More
The Peer Reviewed version of the Numbers behind kickstart with info graphic July 16, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Jeanne Pi sent me this via email just a bit ago. I remember reading her first post thinking the numbers seemed a bit unfounded. I know know this because I wrote a kickstarter scraper and thus see a lot of flow day to day. Well Jeanne hear the same from other people and decided to… Read More
How to opt out of Apple iOS advertizing.. Instructions from Apple. July 14, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment I have not really encounter this, at least yet, so I’m not bothered to do this, but then again, perhaps I do not use the type of applications that would flood me with iOS Apple ads. If you are, Apple has provided a way for you to opt out. Here are the steps and links..… Read More
Build the home of your dreams hands free July 12, 2012 | Damon | 2 Comments When out in the San Francisco/Silicon Valley tech scene it is not the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) industry I hear about leading the charge in technical innovation. It is the chatter of the millions given and insane evaluations of those either in the cloud, selling user data, social, gaming, or insert buzz word here. Yet… Read More
Augmented Reality date with a Japanese Pop Icon July 12, 2012 | Damon | Leave a comment Using what looks like an Asus motion sensor and a pair of Vuzix video glasses, a Japanese hacker has created an augmented reality application that allows one to interact with Hatsune Miku, a Japanese virtual pop icon.… Read More
Epic driving on the Streets of San Francisco from DC SHOES: KEN BLOCK’S GYMKHANA FIVE July 9, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment I have been living in the Bay Area since 92 when I left England and the Air Force to study Architecture at UC Berkeley. As such, I know the streets if San Francisco pretty well now. All the years I have driven (and motorcycled) in SF, I have always wished I could punch it a… Read More
SimCity social… I did not like, but that does not mean it’s bad July 8, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment It only took 10 min of trying SimCity Social to realize this is not for me. Perhaps because I’m a pretty hard core fan of the original game, this pop version is simply a turn off. Perhaps if I was 8 years old… Naw, not even then. Thats pretty harsh I know, but that just… Read More
Pokemon battery indicator for your iphone. just because. And something for Android July 6, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Thats right. You can get your very one Pokemon battery level indicator for your iphone? Why? Really, you have ask your self that? Because Pokemon are the bomb man! heh.. the bomb. How old is that saying? Anyway, I figured I would post a link to where you can download the pokemon battery theme. Found… Read More
They are taking iGoogle away. Do not want! July 5, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment I rely on iGoogle. Its my default page. I love it because its simple, clean, fast. Have my RSS feeds, mail, comics and weather. Its great. And now Google is going to kill it end of next year. Damn. So why is Google doing this? Not to make friends thats for sure. On the google… Read More
How to set Chrome as your default browser on your iOS iphone ipad July 2, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment I installed Chrome over the weekend. It seems ok enough although a bit slow. However, I found that I had to remember to use it. So I decided to really commit to it and set it as my default browser, through jailbreak of course. First off its not fast despite what they say. In fact,… Read More
Preview of the new Microsoft site. Metro with dynamic media response June 29, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Well this is a treat. Via reddit I checked out a preview of the new Microsoft.com preview website. Its pretty clear they are all in with Metro, and also all in with 1 view from many devices as demonstrated by the use of dynamic media response. {Update} Seems they have this redirecting now. Shame. The… Read More
5 Years of the iPhone. Reflection of a day 1 user and jailbreaker June 29, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment I was one of the first people to get the first iphone. The funny thing is, I really did not want it. I was attending a conference that got a special deal to buy the first batch of phones. $600. Ug. I was going to sell it after the conference, only to have the price… Read More
Today is back to the future day. And still no skateboard June 27, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment IT’S FUTURE DAY! For those that do not remember, or did not see the movie back to the future, Doc set his DeLorean to a future day. And that is today! What do we do with this news?? No idea. {UPDATE} Just read in Mashable Turns out this is a hoax. The actual date —… Read More
Google Now to compete with Siri, and it might be better through prediction June 27, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment This is something I have been expecting.. A simply AI system that learns from your behavior to make voice interaction smarter. Think of it as autocorrect for your SaaS personal assistant. If you tend to call your SO on the way home from work often, then the next to time you say; call so and… Read More
As bad as it looks for Facebook, its much worse for Zynga June 26, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Its pretty well know that Facebooks stock dropped pretty low after its first launched. However, in the last few weeks, it has been crawling back from its low of $26.50 a share closing today at $33.10. Once cannot say the same for Zynga. After today’s announcements of new games and initiatives, Zynga stock actually dropped… Read More
Google learn to watch youtube. See’s a bunch of cats. Ready for Reddit! June 25, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Google created the largest neural networks for machine learning by connecting 16,000 computer processors. And what did they do with all this power? Watch videos of course. Presented with 10 million digital images found in YouTube videos, what did Google’s brain do? What millions of humans do with YouTube: looked for cats. From the NYT… Read More
Classic Warlords game ported to ipad iphone. And they kept the 8 bit looks. June 25, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment Yet another port. The old 90’s game Warlords by Infinite Interactive Pty, Ltd. for PC, Mac and Amiga has been ported to iOS. Fun. Same game play, join the war to conquer Illuria in this classic fantasy strategy game. Choose any combination of up to eight humans and AI players to be battled for control… Read More
Rumer says Google will release a $199 7 inch Nexus tablet June 25, 2012 | perivision | 1 Comment This is full on rumor, but heck, sounds legit. This is coming from Gizmodo AU As rumoured, Google’s going to announce a 7-inch, Nexus-branded tablet called the Nexus 7. According to the leak, it’s built by Asus, with a 1.3Ghz quad-core Tegra 3 processor, GeForce 12-core GPU and 1GB of RAM with two different storage… Read More
Tiananmen Square? Siri is silent on the matter. June 20, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment At the recent World Wide Developers Conference, one of the new feature shown off the expansion of Siri’s language capabilities to Mandarin and Cantonese. Must reviews are fairly mixed; noting the sounds is mechanical and comprehension is limited to fairly basic sentences. Tienanmen Square. From VentureBeat. As China Real Time says, Siri responds to questions… Read More
A potential Android equivalent to Siri called Robin. And you can get it now, but it only useful for driving June 17, 2012 | perivision | Leave a comment My Android is stuffed away right now, so I had to test on my tablet, but all and all, its seems to work, MOSTLY as seen in the video. I did have a few issues with Robin understanding me, but 80% of the time, it worked pretty well. Check the video at the end. Everything… Read More