Why Curved TVs Aren't Just Another Gimmick. Why Her Will Dominate UI Design Even More Than Minority Report. A few weeks into the making of Her, Spike Jonze’s new flick about romance in the age of artificial intelligence, the director had something of a breakthrough.
After poring over the work of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists trying to figure out how, exactly, his artificially intelligent female lead should operate, Jonze arrived at a critical insight: Her, he realized, isn’t a movie about technology. It’s a movie about people. With that, the film took shape. Sure, it takes place in the future, but what it’s really concerned with are human relationships, as fragile and complicated as they’ve been from the start. Of course on another level Her is very much a movie about technology. When AI is cheap, what does all the other technology look like? For production designer KK Barrett, the man responsible for styling the world in which the story takes place, Her represented another sort of design challenge. Click to Open Overlay Gallery Technology Shouldn’t Feel Like Technology Go Back to Top.
LaCie brings super-fast and super-sleek portable storage devices to CES 2014. LAS VEGAS -- If anything, LaCie aims to impress at CES 2014.
Apart from the , the storage vendor announced today two new remarkable portable storage devices, the new LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 2 and the LaCie Sphere. The LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 2 is the major upgrade to the exciting that came out a few years ago. The new drive now supports Thunderbolt 2 and comes with two 500GB PCIe solid-state drive (SSD) on the inside in a RAID 0 configuration to offers the total of 1TB of storage space and superfast data speed of some 1,400MBps. To put this in perspective, that's some five times to the speed of even the fastest USB 3.0 storage device.
With this type of speed, professionals can easily use it for real-time 4K video editing. Similar to its predecessor, the new Thunderbolt 2 Little Big Disk comes with a full aluminum enclosure, but now comes in black instead of white. Torso Aims To Rein In Phone Charger Cable Chaos. If the sight of tangled cables brings you out in OCD shakes then this little gizmo, currently seeking $50k in Kickstarter crowdfunding, will bring peace and tranquility to your gadget-loving eye.
Torso is the charger cable transformed into a shortened, bendable stub which can double as a phone stand — so you can Facetime handsfree or snap a self-timer photo or stand your phone up while charging it. Torso can also act as a portable spool to prevent your headphones from roving aimlessly around your bag, tying themselves into as many knots as possible like a pair of dogs left to run free with their leashes on. Torso is actually the follow up to 2012′s Twig, which pulled in just over $168,000 on Kickstarter in July 2012 but was designed purely for the old 30-pin iPhone connector. Oops. Apple has since shifted to its new 8-pin Lighting connector so Torso’s makers have updated their design to play nice with the iPhone 5s/5c (a plastic clip/cradle is required to securely grip the phone). Catchbox Is A Throwable Microphone To Get The Audience Talking.
Throw the mic in the air like you just don’t care.
Catchbox is a new throwable microphone designed to liven up audience participation, and in turn reduce the faffing around that seems to occur whenever a conference turns to questions from the audience. The brightly coloured padded cube houses a wireless microphone that doesn’t mind being tossed across a room or passed from person-to-person crowd surfing-style. ASUS MEMO Pad HD 7 review (video) ASUS is a name we should all know by now, especially with the success of its Transformer tablets and being Google’s partner of choice for the insanely popular Nexus 7.
Now, we have the ASUS MEMO Pad HD 7, a budget tablet that take cues from the Nexus 7 (2012). Just how well does it perform, though? As a 7-inch tablet by ASUS, it’s not surprising that the MEMO Pad HD 7 takes a few cues from the Nexus 7 (2012). The MEMO Pad HD 7 can be best described as the fully plastic, slightly heftier version of the original Nexus 7 from 2012. It’s so alike that even the button layout and speaker grill placement is basically the same. As I said, this is a fully plastic device, and while I wouldn’t call it a poor build, you’re certainly getting what you pay for. Get 33% off an Ergonomic Ipad Stand that's Actually Functional. This tiny, wearable patch makes you invisible to mosquitos.
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