Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on December 10, 2007 by CyberNet.

Back in August, popular gaming site Kotaku interviewed Sony game designer Masay Matsuura who mentioned that the engineers behind the Aibo (remember the robotic pet dog?) were now working on the PS3 and that they were talking about making a new Aibo. This was significant simply because the Aibo was discontinued by Sony back in March of 2006. Now the story gets  even more interesting with rumors that a new one is in the works and it will be completely controllable through a PSP or the Playstation 3. I’ll stress that this is just a rumor, but it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if Sony tried to revive the AIBO with the help of the Playstation 3 and visa versa.

Stuff magazine originally wrote about this rumor and gave it a 53% probability rating. Below is an image from the magazine that speculates how in security mode, the AIBOS PS would awaken if it heard a sound or sensed motion. At that point it would ping an email via Wi-Fi and then the owner could access it via their PSP. Using the device, they would be able to see what the dog was seeing.

While it sounds cool, I’m just wondering if there’d really be a market for this.  The Playstation 3 has had a hard enough time getting off the ground, so it makes me wonder if people who own the PS3 would be willing and interested to purchase an Aibo.  Sony would have to drop the price if they wanted it to sell because few would be willing to pay $1500 for one as they cost the last time around.

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Springwise: The establishment, Minibar, is set to open soon. How it works? Customers leave a passport or driver’s license with a staff member and are given an ice bucket and a key to their bar. The numbered mini fridges fill an entire wall, and vary in size and content—guests can choose from beer bars, champagne bars and mixed bars. Like an old-fashioned food automat, the mini bars are stocked from the back, making for easy restocking and out-of-sight logistics.

Designed by renowned Dutch design firm Concrete, Minibar offers consumers a new experience—one that’s sure to be welcomed by those who are fed up with waiting in line or aren’t willing (or able) to shell out for pricey bottle service. We wouldn’t be surprised to see similar concepts popping up around the world.

Bar lets patrons serve themselves from personal mini bars [Springwise]

At long last, US and Canadian gamers can finally join their European and Japanese brethren in picking up Nintendo’s latest portable, the DSi. Price of entry is $170 and if you’re interested in a color more vibrant than blue and black, you’ll probably be waiting a while. Anyone picking this up on day one?

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There’s an interesting article over at Slate titled “The problem with 3D.” I’d encourage you to read the whole thing, but the subtitle pretty much sums it up: “It hurts your eyes. Always has, always will.” Author Daniel Engbar argues that today’s digital-assisted 3D technology isn’t so far removed from earlier incarnations of the 1950s and 1980s, and that it’s still effectively hacking your brain’s depth perception triggers–and putting a lot of strain on your eyes in the process.

This matters, of course, because Hollywood is doubling down on 3D technology in a big way. In addition to new movies like “Monsters vs. Aliens” and James Cameron’s upcoming “Avatar,” studios are repurposing existing favorites for eventual 3D releases. And why not? With increasingly affordable giant-screen TVs in the home (and ever-shrinking theater-to-DVD release windows), the industry needs new and more elaborate gimmicks to get customers into the theater.

But it’s not just the movie theater. …

This article was written on August 15, 2007 by CyberNet.

As the title of this article asks, what’s your time online spent doing? Do you spend more time viewing news and other content than you do emailing and shopping? Do you play games? What is it that you do?

A recent study conducted by Nielsen/NetRatings found that people are now spending a good chunk of their time online reading and viewing content like news (thanks to the increase in blogs and other news services) and videos (thanks to sites like YouTube). In fact, over four years, the amount of time spent with content increased 37%! The study found that the “abundance of content and faster online speeds accounted for the spike.”

Other interesting findings from the study:

• Time spent on e-commerce dropped fell 5% (bad news for sites like Amazon)
• Time spent on communication like email fell 28%

One of the reasons that time spent communicating via email fell is because of the popularity of instant messaging. And then there’s the Social Network factor which affects both communication and content viewing. Many of you probably just use Facebook for casual communication by leaving a message on your friend’s Wall, or leaving a comment on MySpace. And then factor in the time spent by all the people who view content on Social Networks, and the findings of this study are really common sense.

Most of my time online is spent reading blogs, visiting search engines to search for information, and I check in at least once a day to Facebook and MySpace. What’s your time spent doing?

Source: Reuters

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