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Nokia phone mod offers vision of dystopian cellular future
If you were a fan of Bruce Sterling’s earlier sci-fi novels that had hapless adventurers discovering the futuristic underground of Europe, these super-modded Nokia phones were probably the kind of cyberpunk gear you visualized. An Istanbul-based industrial design lecturer by the name of Mehmet Erkök, from Teknik Universitesi’s Department of Industrial Product Design department, created these phone mods for his own pleasure, and your geek awe.
Layar Shows Augmented Reality Revolution Is Going Global
In Amsterdam today, the makers of mobile Augmented Reality (AR) browser Layar announced version 2.0 of the browser as well as a slew of new layars which have been produced since they opened up their API to developers . A ‘layar’ is information overlaid on the camera view of your mobile phone, e.g
Six Apart Equips TypePad For Microblogging, Posterous-Style
Microblogging is one popular type of cake, and Six Apart damn well wants a piece of it too. The company has just added a new element to its TypePad offering: a so-called ‘microblog-style blog’ , which I imagine could just as well simply be dubbed a microblog. If you know what Posterous is and does, it’s easy to explain what the new TypePad feature does: exactly the same.
Invites: Fotoglif Opens A Revenue-Sharing API For Ad-Supported Images
Stock photography sites are moving towards free, with either free samples ( Photoxpress ) or ad-supported images (Fotoglif, GumGum, PicApp). In an effort to encourage a broader distribution of its ad-carrying photos, Fotoglif is opening up a revenue-sharing API for developers.
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