Creating the worlds largest Post-it note stop motion animation can’t
be any easy feat, especially when you have to use and reposition 350,000
of those little notes outdoors.
This amazing and the worlds largest Post-it note animation to date,
has been created as as an advertising campaign for a new Melissa shoe
store in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and took 25 animators over five months to
create. Watch the video of both the animation and how they did it after
the jump.
Once the animation was complete the
public were then invited to come and write on the Post-it notes by
adding their messages of love on the notes. As the video’s theme is "the
power of love,” based on the n
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Yesterday we saw the new TouchWiz UX
user interface for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, which is the first
custom UI for an Android Honeycomb tablet, and Samsung have now released
the TouchWiz UX user interface as an over the air update.
The new TouchWiz UX upadet brings a range of new features to the
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, icnluding new widgets, and a range of preloaded
applications which include Amazon Music Cloud Player, Amazon Kindle,
and Words With Friends from Zynga, and Samsung has also added in some
enterprise solutions and services.
The update also adds in enterprise support for the Gal
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Sapphire has announced the launch of their new Sapphire HD 6950 Toxic
Edition graphics card, which Sapphire say is the fastest production
card in its class. The Sapphire HD 6950 Toxic Edition is equipped
with clock speeds of 880MHz for the core and 1300Mhz (5.2 Gb/sec
effective) for the memory.
Like the standard HD 6950, the Sapphire HD 6950 Toxic Edition boasts
true DX 11 capability and the powerful configuration of 1408 stream
processors and 88 texture processing units. Together with a Dual BIOS
feature allowing you to experiment with alternative BIOS profiles and
settings for different setups and performance tweaks.
Treyarch has this week announced that it is currently developing a
version of its highly anticipated new game Modern Warfare 3 for
Nintendo’s Wii Console. Following in the footsteps of other titles such
as Black Ops and Modern Warfare Reflex. The Wii will now get its own
version of the game developed by Call of Duty veteran Treyarch, the team
behind both previous Wii Call of Duty releases.
Smart Modular Technologies has unveiled a new addition to their range
of solid state drives this week with the launch of their new Smart
Optimus SSD. The new Optimus SSD range is available in 200GB, 400GB,
800GB, and 1.6TB storage capacities and features read/write speeds of
100K/50K random IOPS and 500/500MB/s sustained transfer rates. Together
with support for wide-port SAS capability, providing up to 1GB/s
sustained read performance.
"A product that combines enhanced endurance, high capacity, and
high performance at a good value would cause a dramatic shift in how
storage is deployed, and it would help to drive the adoption of SSDs in
the enterprise,”
Android App developers Chainfire have created a new remote control
Android application allowing users to control a Canon EOS DSLR camera
from the comfort of their Android smartphone or tablet.
The new application connects camera and Android device using USB and
enables you to take full control of your Canon EOS using a live
view. Tap the live view image to perform Auto Focus and tap-and-hold to
move the zoom and focus area. Watch the video after the jump to see it
in action and the setup required.
The capture button works the same as the
capture button on your camera, but only does "deep” presses, not "half”
press positions.
We had heard previously that Nokia would be launching the N9 some
time in September, and now Nokia has uploaded an officially countdown
clock on the Nokia N9 homepage, which currently shows the N9 launching
in 49 days, as of today.
That would give the Nokia N9 a launch date of the 23rd of September,
and although we still don’t have any official pricing from Nokia, we
have heard rumors previously that it may cost around $660 SIM free.
The Nokia N9 comes with MeeGo as its OS, and it features a 3.9 inch
AMOLED multi-touch display with curved Gorilla Glass, and a a uni-body design
and the body of the smartphone is made from a polycarbonate material,
there is also an 8 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, p
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If you are a Gmail user you might be pleased to know that Google has
just added a new Preview Pane feature to its Gmail Labs. The newly added
preview pane allows you to view whole messages rather than just small
snippets in a similar way to layouts in Outlook’s Preview Pain and also
Gmail when viewed on a tablet device.
To enable the new Gmail Preview Pane
simply login to your account, then go in to Labs with your settings,
scroll down to the "Preview Pane” in the alphabetical list, enable and
save. Once enabled you can then either view the preview pane
horizontally or vertically.
By default there is a 3-second delay in marking a conversation as
read after preview
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Microsoft announced a while back that it would be killing off the
Zune and concentrating its efforts on Windows Phone 7,Microsoft has
released an update for some of the existing Zune HD apps as well as
releasing some new Zune apps.
The existing apps to be update are the Shuffle by Album, Zune Reader,
Penalty! Flick Soccer, Email, and Echoes, and they have also released a
range of new applications.
the new apps released for the Zune include Finger Paint, Calendar,
Trash Throw, Slider Puzzle, ColorSpill, Splatter Bug, Vine Climb,
Decoder Ring, and Tug-O-Wa.
Qbo the cute open source robot created by the Thecorpora, which was
created around six years ago, to provide a low cost, open-source robot
enabling anyone to enter the robotics and the artificial intelligence
world. Has now been updated to recognise hand gestures to control the
playback of music.
Qbo has been programmed to use its stereoscopic vision and only pay
attention to hands that are nearby, successfully distinguish, in
real-time, among several hand gestures associated with several commands
including: play/pause, stop, volume up/down, next/previous song. Watch
the video after the jump to see it in action.
