A UK company started up by a distant relative of the inventor of the toilet, has created a new handheld GPS device that allows you to locate and then get directions to the nearest toilet in the UK.

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Here’s a funny clip featuring B. Gates and S. Jobs – and a surprize guest from the 80s.

And talking of the past and B. Gates, here’s what he once said about the Mac: more…

It’s been a bit quiet at the iPhone front (but then, everything after a hurricane feels quiet). But Apple has released a little teaser commercial:

Goldman Sachs concludes that the iPhone will give Apple a whole new piece of the revenue pie:

the number of potential iPhone buyers is equivalent to 75 percent of the installed base of current iPod owners

You can listen to parts of the presentation and Q&A session.

Actioncorp has analyzed Steve Job’s keynote frame by frame (no kidding), and found some new facts.

Have you been toying with the idea of getting yourself an iBook or, gasp, MacBookPro, but have put off the decision because your current Windows laptop still does the job? Let the following film be an inspiration for that you can have both – and do something for your body, too.

Good weekend, everybody!

(Back from the sun. Since 100% of you requested that I should post some pictures from the trip, I will naturally oblige. Just not yet )

If you think that the USD 236 to switch to the iPhone is too much, have a look at this iPhone commercial.

…oh, and if you just cannot wait for the iPhone, you can buy yourself an almost-look-alike Prada phone. Less features. But hey!

The first hypedust has settled. I was amazed at some rather strong reactions. Some commentators flared at the high price tag, seeing a demise in society per se.

Others say it is just another phone. One that does exactly what many other phones already can do.

Only few have actually seen, let alone played with, it. In a previous post I mentioned one of those lucky ones.

Since then the projected costs of the iPhone have been estimated. Projecting a whopping 50% margin. Which means that Apple has a lot of leeway if they should decide to enter a price war.

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Boy, is there some hype going on. Imagine, the world`s biggest software company is about to deliver it`s new operating system (revenue generating system?), but everyone is talking about a phone.

Opinions are of course divided – as they were when the iPod was first introduced. But here I found one lucky guy that actually got to play with it. And posted a video.

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The last two weeks have been nothing short of crazy. A documentary we had started working on in 2003 finally draws to a close. Today we showed it to our main supporter, who stated that it was an important historic film. That felt good.

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Anyway, I have no problems confessing that I am a gadget freak. That is gadgets that promise to make life easier. I also have no problems admitting that I am excellent at losing my way, when driving to the unknown (hey, I even managed to get lost inside a lighthouse). Combine these two with my seeing an offer for a GPS wayfinder, an you won’t be too surpized to hear that I am now a happy owner of a Garmin c550.

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About a week ago I received my replacement p910i. I have read rave reviews about it and was mildly excited what I finally held it in my hands. It weighs a bit nicer in the hands, with a more round feeling that the privious 810. the keyboard has undergone a very sucessful re-design, the buttons are easier to push. The jog-wheels no longer works on 3 axises, but 2 – something which one gets used to ever so quickly.

The phone has a whole lot of switches and buttons, some of them are a bit too easy to push accidentally. With the flip closed, you get of course the normal 12 number keys, plus 5 cursor keys, 4 option keys, and 6 keys spread around the edges of the phone. This is not a simple just-use-it phone.

Switching on the p910i, the first downturn comes. It feels like it takes a full minute for the phone to boot. The menu has been re-designed, and at first I did not understand the logic behind the structure. Why, for example is the calendar on the main menu, but for the to-do-list I first have to go to the Office folder?

The phone crashes frequently, especially when using slightly more demanding applications, such as taking photos, or playing back video. In normal use (like making some calls, and checking e-mail once per day), I need to do a sorft re-boot at least once a day. Last week the phone was used on a film, where it was supposed to play back a small video file. On about every second take we had to wait an extra two minutes for the crashed phone to re-boot. I find this unacceptable.

Ringing SonyEricson, I get the tip that I should update the phone’s hardware…

Why, oh why do I need to update a phone that I received only days ago?

Why, oh why does SonyEricson think that every p910i user has a PC?

That’s right, you cannot update your phone on a Mac. Actually, you cant do anything on a Mac, they jsut do not talk together (except for simple Bluetooth file transfer that sort-of works, ocasionally and slow).

Sometimes I cannot make outgoing calls. First after a re-boot does the phone work as a phone again.

For a phone that has been delayed for many months, I find it amazing how unstable it is. Considering the price-tag I think that SonyEricsson should feel ashamed. Not recommended.

About a year ago I first heard about the Red Camera Project. A group of dedicated people were working on making a beyond-high-def, affordable cine-style digital camera. At that time it just sounded too unreal. But since they have had a stand at the NAB, the project has gained a lot of momentum.

Personally, I took the project way more seriously when I found out that Graeme Nattress (maker of the famous filter packages for Final Cut Pro) was involved.

Some more information has been released, and they are planning on shipping the first cameras early next year. If only half of the specs make it to the finished product, it will be one amazing camera. Spotting more than 4k worth of resolution (compare this with standard definition’s tv of about 0.5k and the new hi-def of about 1k, and this by itself becomes a killer cam) at a price of $17.500, plus a f300/t2.8 lens for $5.000, you should get a working camera package for the price of a high-end DVcam system.

But the camera offers more than just resolution power. The camera will offer frame speeds of up to 60 fps (and down to 1 fps), and even higher speeds when lowering the resolution. Speaking of lowering, it will be possible to either downconvert from the full chip size (which has the same size as an 35mm gate), or to use only part of the chip. It will shoot in a variable number of formats from uncompressed RAW down to, yes, DV.

I am sure looking to their release of the first working models towards the end of this year. Might just be the successor to our trusty (if 4:2:0) DSR-570 DVcam.