You know those shopping sites where you have the option to view clothing you’re thinking of buying “on a model?” Of course, everything looks great on the model, but for all you know, she’s six feet tall and weighs 90 pounds. Some on the web shopping sites have a virtual model feature where you pick a model based on body type (for instance, you might be given a choice of triangle, upside triangle, or hour glass - but what if you’re more of a rectangle?), height, skin tone, hairstyle, etc. I’ve never found this kind of feature to be useful because the model never looks anything like me.
In Japan, Avielan Company has developed software for a virtual fitting room called Awaseba that lets you create an online model of the real you rather than a cartoonish avatar. The software application is sold to online merchants who provide the service for free to their customers. To use it, you simply upload a photograph of yourself in the designated pose (face forward, standing straight up, arms at your sides not too close to your body).
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Most of the so-called antennas for cell phones are just gimmicks and not worth the money, but we’ve finally found one that works. The Griffin case conceals a built-in booster antenna that captures more of the available wireless signal and sends it to the internal antenna of your iPhone. This should result in a better signal, especially in drop-out areas — which translates to fewer dropped calls, wider coverage areas, and faster downloads when browsing.
I gave it to a friend of mine to test, who seems to know ALL the drop-out areas in LA and he put it through its paces. His report: “Seemed to get better signal strength in known areas where I would get completely knocked off or very low signal.” He was pleased with it but had one complaint - that the little “antenna stub” made it difficult at times to retrieve the iPhone from his pocket.
If you want to test the effectiveness of the ClearBoost, Griffin has page where you can do a “field test.” Or do your own field test. For $29.99, it’s definitely worth it.
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Over the years, we’ve seen Hello Kitty dip her paw into just about every industry there is. At this stage in her plot to take over the world, you’d think that masquerading as a piece of sushi was a little beneath her, right?
Ah, your childlike innocence! It’s all part of her genius, people. Because although rolling herself up into some plush rice, allowing herself to be restrained by a strip of nori, and diving through the middle of a slice of futomaki look like amateurish tactics on the surface, it’s the element of surprise that the crafty feline is banking on here. By the time we tire of the novelty of being able to separate the Kitty-fied rice from the salmon, shrimp, and tuna or “cut” the kappa maki (cucumber roll) — ah, the magic of velcro! — Agent HK will have already infiltrated our homes, cars, and work places. Why else do you think she’d want to be attached to our mobile phones?
If you think you can take her, each Hello Kitty Fresh Sushi cell phone charm sells for about $7 from Strapya World.
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Another huge week in the technology and gadget world. Katie Scott provides view on some of the top headlines for the week ending 16th Might 2008.
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I’m a big fan of Google and one of the products of theirs that I use regularly is the Google Toolbar. I’ve started customizing it more than just accepting the standard set of icons that they recommend, but I’ve run into a bit of a snag.
As you can see from the image above, I’ve got three icons that are all the same, but they’re for three different things.
Does anyone know how in the world I can change the icon that’s being displayed there?
It’s really annoying. I want to achieve something like Facebook uses (the icon next to them) that makes it really easy to see which button I need at a glance. As it stands right now I’ve got to remember,
“Okay was twitter the 2nd icon? Wait, no I added one for GoDaddy, was it the first or 3rd?..No, TinyURL was in there first…..arrggh!”
To help me keep my sanity, will someone please help me with this little problem?
Tags: customizations, Facebook, GoDaddy, Google, Google Toolbar, icons, Internet tools, TinyURL, toolbars, twitter
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A huge and hearty congratulations to the New York Giants for smashing the Patriots beautiful hopes into tiny pieces.
Whoever made the decision to make all the Super Bowl commercials easily available after the game were geniuses.
You can go to www.myspace.com/superbowlads and see all the commercials.
You can also go to TV.com and vote for your favorite by letting us know if each commercial was a Punt of Touchdown.
My favorite ad by far was the one for the Tide stain stick. That one was great! What was your favorite?
I think the commercials for Fox TV were also good, especially the ongoing fight between the Terminator and the Fox football robot.
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You know you’re hot on YouTube when your username and catchphrase are targeted by keyword spammers. That’s what’s happening to hot blonde philologist “HotForWords” Marina, who likes to remind us that “Intelligence is sexy.” It’s a roundabout compliment when scammers think your name will attract traffic like Britney Spears.
Update: To YouTube’s credit, they just suspended the spammers’ accounts.
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Veoh is my second-favorite video site after YouTube. A lot of the good stuff we see from the company is driven by founder Dmitry Shapiro’s vision to superaggregate online video and CEO Steve Mitgang’s ability to fend off copyright trolls from offline video. Wired features an interview with Shapiro, where he presents his vision for their latest product VeohTV.
VeohTV gives users access to practically all video on the Internet, from YouTube, Yahoo, wherever. Joost or Babelgum are closed-wall gardens, showing video that the company has cut deals to air. Plus, VeohTV feels like television. It’s a much more intuitive and relaxed experience.
YouTube is the world’s biggest online video repository and distributor. This guy wants to make something more meta: the world’s easiest online video browser and aggregator.
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