Archive for the ‘Toys/Devices’ Category:
Flash is (or is not) coming to the iPhone
Somewhat of a sore spot for Flash and iPhone developers, the hope that the Flash player would make its way to the iPhone is still very much up for debate. A recent quote from Adobe CEO, Shantanu Narayen, has some left some believing it’s very much on its way and others thinking it’ll never make it.
“It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating,” [Adobe CEO Shantanu] Narayen told Bloomberg Television at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver.”
Some claim the Flash Player could never be written in a way that would sit well with the ARM processor. The power requirements of running such an app would be too much for a mobile device. Others have said it’s a political/business decision on Apple’s part.
Who knows. I just hope it finally makes its way to the iPhone platform. I think it would open development up to a lot more people that don’t feel like trying to wrap their brain around Objective C. Apple still has very strict control over what applications make it to the iTunes store, so the concern about quality of apps shouldn’t be an issue.
I personally feel that it’s more political than anything else. But, I’m a cynic.
WordPress for iPhone
Just testing WordPress for iPhone…
Microsoft Surface Parody
One day, your computer will be a big-ass table…
Tsukuba – nonsense instruments
8BitBoy – Andre Michelle
Karsten Obarski invented 1987 – twenty years ago – the MOD format for his Ultimate Tracker running on Amiga computers. Since then, countless songs are created, especially for the demoscene.
MODs have special attributes. All samples are stored in 8bits and the number of voices is limited to four. To have something similarly to chords, the three notes of it are repeated very fast. This makes MODs sound so freaky.
Finally 8BitBoy brings those songs back online.
Neural Interface – Controlling objects
Pretty sick. The applications are endless!
Helping the handicap and assisting astronauts is cool and all, but what about as a TV remote? Just think, you’d never have to waste your precious energy pushing those remote control buttons any more. If the consequence of sloth is only a pit full of snakes, bring it on.
iPhone hacked?
Security researchers claim they have found a hack to get confidential data from the iPhone.
By creating a malicious html page, and then pointing the phone’s Safari web browser at it, the hackers were able to access all sorts of private information from the phone. Not good news for private individuals – but even worse for organizations when you consider that recent research estimates that more than 50 percent of staff regularly copy files from the corporate network to their personal storage devices.
Read the full article here
(from watchyourend.com)
iPhone, Will it Blend?
iPhone advertisement remix
Driver’s License as Ableton Live MIDI Controller
DVD Jon – hackin’ the iPhone
Jon Lech Johansen, aka “DVD Jon,” claims he has activated an iPhone without service through AT&T. Although the phone function doesn’t work, everything else does. Johansen says the purpose of this little exercise was for people that don’t wish to enter into a 2-year contract with AT&T and would rather just use the iPhone as a pimped out iPod.
Visit Jahansen’s blog for more info and downloads
There’s other ways of doing this too, which involves purchasing and then canceling a prepaid plan from AT&T.