Crazy iPad case January 5, 2011 | perivision | 2 Comments When I first saw this for a second I thought it could have been a joke, but no, this is real, and I can actually see the usefulness of such a case, but I’m sorry, I cannot see walking around in what looks like a baby carrier ‘just’ because I’m too busy to find a… Read More
Power of SocialMedia gets a golden voice homeless guy a job January 5, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment This has been spreading all over the place in just the last 24 hours. In fact, by the time I finish writing this (and you reading it) I will bet he already has a number of gigs and will be doing the morning show circuit. This popped up on YouTube yesterday and took off. Its… Read More
Watch live TV on your iPad or other tablet January 5, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment It was only a matter of time. You can already control your TV (with ComCast) through the iPad, and HULU has been doing this for a year. This is not a breakthrough as much as an indication that cross platform media is going to be more and more common place. Comcast Corporation today announced plans… Read More
iphone GSM command codes; tip #3 January 4, 2011 | perivision | Leave a comment I had to clear my iphone of forwarding information and was not sure where what the code was. So I did a bit of digging and found a list of them.. And I present them to you.. I have not tested them all but I will try a few and see what happens. *3001#12345# and… Read More
Best Tech Wishes in 2011! December 31, 2010 | Damon | Leave a comment 2010 was a great year for the more innovative technologies that interest me and 2011 is looking to be even better. It is a few hours until midnight and before I dash out for New Year Eve, I felt a look at the 2011 tech crystal ball was in order. Here are my top three… Read More
Drunk posting with Alcowebizer. Happy 2011 New Years!! December 31, 2010 | perivision | Leave a comment This is fun. Remember that site that will change any webpage to a lolcats page? Well here is one for us bloggers who have to work on NYE. Like me!! Its a pretty clever little project from Alcowebizer. Enjoy!! Here is the first one at level 1.0 Here is another at 1.5 Not Bad. Each… Read More
You can now make video skype calls on iphone via 3G and wifi. December 29, 2010 | perivision | Leave a comment Skype now supports video calls on the iphone 4 and 3gs over wifi and 3G. I have yet to test this, but the new version of skype will let you make skype to skype video calls over wifi and 3G. This is supported on the iphone 4 and 3gs, NOT the 3g. But I’m going… Read More
How to connect, tether, your ipad to your iphone December 28, 2010 | perivision | 1 Comment Just got an iPad eh? But did not get the 3G version? Thats ok right? Just connect to WIFI. But if you do have has WIFI when your travel? Well, there’s an iPhone app for that. Jailbroken of course. I wrote about using GPS on your ipad a few months back. To use GPS you… Read More
Review of WebGL Camp #2 2010 December 27, 2010 | Damon | 1 Comment Earlier this month was the second WebGL Camp in Silicon Valley. Organized by Henrik Bennetsen (CEO of Katalabs) and Christian Greuel (Manager of SRI Geovisualization Center), the camp is a developer focused event that aims to bring together the people who are writing the WebGL spec with those who build projects on it for some show and tell.… Read More
Review of the Sun-Plugged Solar powered backpack for smart phones. December 24, 2010 | Damon | 1 Comment Recently I acquired a Sun-Plugged Max Solar Backpack. I have had solar powered devices before and never found them to be all that useful beyond anything novel. The Sun-Plugged backpack however has become a resource I use everyday now. The battery is super light and with the tons of adapters, I can recharge my iphone,… Read More
Watch Flash video on your iPad with Skyfire December 22, 2010 | perivision | Leave a comment Yup. Skyfire for the iphone came out a while back and it was so popular, its pretty much crashed their server. They got it back up after awhile. So the next big wait is for an iPad version. And its out. Here is the direct link to iTunes. Its 5 bucks. Not bad if you… Read More
Augmented Reality is getting hype, but is it real? Forrester thinks.. meh. December 22, 2010 | perivision | Leave a comment Most of the points in the Forrester report is for the mostly spot on, and this is coming from someone who created Virtual Reality Apps back in the beginning and knows what overhype looks like. I think a good definition of what Augmented Reality for mobile is; should be considered. Back in mid 2009 I… Read More
iPhone Tip #27 Make your iphone 3G run a bit faster December 21, 2010 | perivision | Leave a comment There are still a bunch of iPhone 3G users out there. I still use mine despite having access to quite a few phones now. However, my phone has been going slower and slower.. What gives. Well, since I run SBSettings I can monitor the memory usage of the phone, kinda of like task manager from… Read More
Hands on Lego Augmented Reality December 20, 2010 | Damon | 7 Comments The augmented-reality (AR) “Digital Box” application for Lego made by augmented reality company Metaio came out in Lego stores world wide earlier this year. I got the chance to play with this for the first time at a Lego store at Northpark Mall in Dallas, Texas. See video here Augmented Reality Legos. Hold up selected boxes… Read More
Cheat codes for Simcity deluxe for iPad December 19, 2010 | perivision | 33 Comments I just downloaded simcity deluxe for iPad and started playing. It feels a bit glitchy with memory management, but so far no crash. So the first thing I’m going to start working on are the cheat codes. I have just started to mess with it so if anyone else has already made progress with the… Read More
Recycle your car and get $1000 for it. Really. Has to be running December 19, 2010 | perivision | 4 Comments So the time has finally has come to retire my car from college. I had a 1987 VW Cabrio and loved it. Great for when I was playing gigs and simply driving around in the sun. Although that car was still running ok, it was clear that it was due for something major to fail.… Read More
Translate text in realtime on the iphone with Word Lens: a form of augmented reality December 17, 2010 | perivision | 3 Comments Word Lens just came out today and the buzz is pretty crazy. The fact it was on CNN could have something to do with it. The app is pretty darn sweet, much like PicTranslator except it works with live video. In other words as you look at the text on your phone, the letters are… Read More
Review: Testing out the Google Body Browser, tips for viewing on older computers December 17, 2010 | perivision | 6 Comments I update my Chrome browser to give the Google Body Browser a test drive. I really wanted to test it on the Google CR-48 Chrome OS laptop, but you cannot update to a Beta version of Chrome, and as you will read, there is no point anyway. So I gave it a shot and it… Read More
Augmenting the Reality of the Black Eyed Peas December 16, 2010 | Damon | 3 Comments Saw this poster for the Black Eyed Peas and it didn’t work. As an augmented reality developer and fan of BEP, I had to fix this. Here is the video I made of Augmenting the Black Eyed Peas Time. Android apps used in this example are Google Goggles and Junaio from Metaio.… Read More
Web3D + Body = Google Human December 15, 2010 | Damon | 34 Comments I was at the WebGL Camp today at SRI and the WebGL team from Google gave us a sneak peak at a web3D medical application called the Google Body Browser. (video) After watching the video at the link, one can quickly see the possibilities of how this could help anatomical education. As promised; an initial… Read More