Combine augmented reality, a helicopter and an iPad/iPhone and you get the AR Drone from France based Parrot. The helicopter has four fans that allow it to fly in any direction. It streams video from the cameras mounted on its front and bottom back to the controlling device. The software on the phone includes controls to increase and decrease the altitude of the drone and tilting the phone controls the motion.
Steve Jobs just announced the release of the New iPhone 4 which features a front facing camera for video calls ( wifi only ). It also comes with the new Retina Display, which is the sharpest, most vibrant, highest-resolution phone screen ever, with four times the pixel count of previous iPhone models.They also have tons of new features that you can view in their site, It will be available for sale on June 24th but you can pre-order on June 15th. for full details check out Apple
Together with co-director Cory Strassburger and Ming Hsiung, they produced a motion magazine cover and feature spread for Viv Mag – an all digital magazine, which would allow us to create content that will be able to live on the iPad and other tablet devices where digital magazines can live.
VIV Mag has produced an all motion digital magazine cover and feature spread for the Apple iPad. It’s interesting seeing the different directions printed magazines are trying to take to figure out what’s going to work on the iPad and other tablet devices.
Zeal Optics In cooperation with Reco Instruments has developed a snow goggle with integrated “Head Mounted Display” system. With the push of a button the rider can call up data right in front of his/her eyes and like a jet pilot display information such as speed, altitude, temperature, time, GPS location, and stop watch. The jury considers the “Transcend Goggle” an excellent example of applied “Wearable Technology” and selected it as the winner in the category Accessories.
11:33AM “We’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts — we want to make the best tech, but have them be intuitive. It’s the combination of these two things that have let us make the iPad.”
11:32AM “This is a magical device, at a breakthrough price.”
Publisher giant Hearst released more details for the Skiff Reader, its self-produced e-book device. The new model is one of the largest e-book readers ever at 11.5 inches and provides a 1200×1600 touchscreen display better suited to magazines and newspapers. Its use of e-paper is equally new: rather than glass, it uses an LG-made flexible steel foil that resists shattering. The reader doesn’t have a release date or pricing, but unlike the Kindle it will be available in Sprint’s retail shops when it releases sometime later this year.