You remember Batman Forever right? The movie that singlehandedly caused the career decline of Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Nicole Kidman, and Jim Carrey. The one cool part about the movie was the design of the Batmobile. This is why Bob Causey set out to recreate it. Causey’s version of the Batmobile has the retractable hard top and three LCD displays. Check out the full gallery below:
Sony is best known for the manufacturing of headphones. One of the latest additions to their line of headphones are these Bluetooth, noise-cancelling headphones pictured above. They have USB charging capabilities and 8-12 hours of playback time when on Bluetooth.
The DR-BT100CX inner ear headphones (pictured at the top left) has the 8 hour playback time and the the outer ear DR-BT101CX headphones at the top right have the 12 hour playback time. The headphones will be available sometime soon in Europe at an unknown price.
IBM has created computers that can beat other humans in chess, but now they are planning on building a computer that can beat you at Jeopardy. The system is called the Watson and it will use artificial intelligence to index information related to questions asked on Jeopardy. The computer must be able to buzz when it knows the answer fast enough and even take into account the analogies and puns used on the show.
Samsung Electronics has announced that they will be using the Google Android operating system for their I7500 mobile phone. Some of the specs built in to the phone include AMOLED touchscreen, HSDPA 7.2Mbps, GPRS/EDGE based on 850/900/1800/1900 frequencies, 3.2″ screen, 802.11b/g WiFi, GPS, and 3.5mm headphone jack.
Earlier this month I wrote about how executives at AT&T are working very hard to keep the iPhone gold mine exclusive on their network. USA Today has it that Verizon just might be able to convince Apple to add the phones to their network too. AT&T and Verizon will most likely be playing a game of tug of war with Apple until 2010.
For those of you that are concerned about Steve Jobs’ health, you will be glad to hear the Apple CEO has been very involved with the negotiations when they began several months ago.
If Apple accepts Verizon’s terms, AT&T would take a big hit. It would be good for consumers because they would have more choice. A lot of my friends are on Verizon, but a lot of my family is on AT&T. Personally I would be able to find out which carrier would be more worth choosing based on how much I talk to each person.
If the iPhone switches to Verizon, would you switch from AT&T? Leave a comment.
Vodafone Spain has become the first provider to start selling the HTC Magic, powered by Google Android. According to BGR, the cost of the Magic ranges from 19€ with a 62€ monthly plan to 199€ with a 21€ monthly plan. Anyone that wants one of these in the U.S. can expect the phone find its way to T-Mobile sometime in the near future too.
Last week I wrote about how former Facebook co-founder Owen Van Natta will become the new MySpace CEO. Now it appears that News Corporation will be hiring former AOL executive Mike Jones as the COO of the social networking company as well.
“Michael’s operational insight and knowledge of the social media market will prove to be a valuable asset as we set out to evolve the MySpace product offering,” stated Jon Miller, Chief Digital Officer of News Corporation. “From a product perspective, there’s no better choice than Jason, who is highly regarded as an incredibly talented innovator, media executive and leader, all qualities I know will greatly benefit our team and our users.”
Miller is the former head of AOL which is where he most likely met Jones for the first time. I have a feeling that this won’t be the last time that News Corporation will poach executives from AOL. MySpace founders Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe are still negotiating other leadership roles within News Corporation.
News Corporation has also hired Jason Hirschhorn as the new Chief Product Officer of MySpace. Hirschhorn was President of Sling Media Group before attaining this position.
Comfort Software Group has developed software that replaces the standard keyboard built in to touch-screen PCs. This is not your typical QWERTY touchpad keyboard.
The Hot Virtual Keyboard has a gesture that can change the cases or insert spaces between words. Buttons are programmable so that it becomes easy to copy and paste words. Other buttons can be programmed to instantly launch designated applications. Auto-complete is built-in for seamless typing. There is even an option to change the color theme of the Hot Virtual Keyboard.
Some of the benefits of having a on-screen keyboard replace the generic keyboard on a touchpad PC revolve around making processing information much, much faster.
For example, let’s say that you work in a warehouse or distribution center and you want to find out how many boxes were shipped and processed. Sometimes you have to have multiple applications running in order to do the inventory tracking. The Hot Virtual Keyboard hot keys set for the different running applications will make it easy to switch back-and-forth as well as copy and paste data at a rapid pace. This is very important when you are working in a challenging and fast-paced environment.
There is also configurable mouse gestures and macros that can be set-up. The download comes with about 40 different styles of keyboards and can be downloaded for the low price of $29.95. This is especially low considering the benefits you will instantly see by downloading the Hot Virtual Keyboard.
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