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Business cards with video footage

admin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:09:08 +0000

Well now, what do we have here? It seems that advertising is going up a step at a time. The new thing for promoting your business seems to be business cards with video footage on them. rCard Multimedia has created a concept called EDG. Just a little bit thicker than an average business card, this baby comes with an LCD screen, a speaker and video playback controls.

This kind of promoting works well when words aren’t enough and you pull out the business card and show your client the product in action. Using a mini-USB the giver can upload videos on the card and the receiver can download additional PR content. For me, this concept does it. Like they say, images speak louder than words, and if this kind of business cards “sell” products, than we will see it everywhere.

From $17.50 to $29, you must be sure that your product is worth buying when giving away a card like this.

X-ray Vision, not just a superpower anymore

admin — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:21:49 +0000

This thingy is for all of us that wanted to have superpowers like superman or just wanted to see beneath the clothes of girls. Oh no, wait! That was me. In case I am not alone in this, then you would definitely love this contraption.

In the David Steele catalog it appears that the secret of X-ray vision has been discovered. This X-ray Vision Camera Lens can be attached to almost any camcorder and works like and infrared filter. It is based on the fact that most clothing can allow light and infrared light to pass through the fabric, and this light is reflected back through the clothing. And what we see is the reflected normal light mixed with the infrared light, and the lens can filter the normal light out. This way the clothes will look transparent or semi-transparent.

I for one, would find this fun for about a day or two, then I would start to go out with girls and see how underneath the clothes feels like. And for a couple of days of fun, $199 is a bit too much for me. Over and out!

50 years anniversary of Tennis for Two, the World’s First Graphical Videogame

admin — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:49:19 +0000

I don’t know about you, but I am mostly old-school to the bone in almost everything. This article I wrote is about something real old-school: old-school gaming. 50 years ago Dr. William Higinbotham, at the Brookhaven National Laboratory was cooking a simulation of bouncing balls and missile trajectories that could predict the paths objects could take. Boring until now. But in the middle of the process he thought he might apply this to tennis. And thus he created Tennis for Two, the world’s first video game. The circuits and components too a few days to design and the actual machine was built in about three weeks.

On the 28^th of October, 1958 the game got its first test by a public. But it wasn’t average public, as the game didn’t get patented because it was made in a federal-owned lab and the rights for the game would have belonged to the government. But, in some way, Dr. William Higinbotham is the godfather of video games.

The Darth Vader Toaster

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:49:15 +0000

For me there are three kinds of news: important news, stupid and useless news, and last but not least, news that put a smile on your face. The thing I am going to talk about in the lines below is from the last category. I needed a reason to smile today and here I have it.

Presenting, the Darth Vader toaster. It’s for all you Star Wars fanatics out there. I am a big fan of the series, but I am not sure about this one. If I buy this one, the next thing will be Star Wars toilet paper. This toaster is just a toaster that burns an impression of Darth Vader on your slice of bread and nothing more. Oh yes, and it’s black and it has the Star Wars emblem on it for $54.99 to make sure you get it first.