digital on Technabob...
 |
Here’s the perfect digital picture frame for serious couch potatoes. The QTV frame lets you view your photos on its tiny little TV screen.
Designed to look like a curvy retro television, complete with rabbit ear antennae, the QTV frame shows your digital images on its doll-house-sized 3.5″ LCD screen.…
|
Read More »
January 13th, 2009 by: Technabob
 |
With all the insanity of the recent holidays, I somehow missed this tasty advertisement that Sony Style was running for the recent shopping season.
Created by the CGI mavens over at Tronic Studio, the ad envisions larger-than-life versions of Sony gear, poured from chocolate. The animation seamlessly melds the gigantic…
|
Read More »
January 2nd, 2009 by: Technabob
 |
I was working on a story about something completely different today when I came across this intriguing digital image technology they’ve been working on for a while over at Microsoft Research. The team sums up their not-too-lofty goal for their HD View technology as follows: “…to create the best picture …
|
Read More »
December 29th, 2008 by: Technabob
 |
Now I’ve seen some wacky commercials out of Japan, but this one is one of the more off-the-wall ad campaigns I’ve seen in a long while.
These promotional clips for Takara Tomy’s new Xiao digital camera / printer hybrid drives the point home that the pocket size camera can output…
|
Read More »
December 22nd, 2008 by: Technabob
 |
This amazing new advertisement for MINI uses augmented reality (AR) technology to create a truly interactive media piece out of a 2-dimensional magazine ad.
Using AR tracking technology, as you hold the ad up to your computer’s webcam, you’ll see a 3-D model of a MINI Cabrio convertible that moves…
|
Read More »
December 17th, 2008 by: Technabob
 |
Despite their bright, energy-efficient displays, OLED (organic light emitting diode) timepieces are still be few and far between. So I was pleased to see another new watch jump on the OLED bandwagon.
The Infinity Apus Dark Force digital watch features a luminescent blue OLED screen, which really pops out from…
|
Read More »
October 7th, 2008 by: Technabob
 |
This is a frame that’s actually a real frame but it looks like a digital frame. Sort of. I’m confused!
The frame is made by Irina Blok. It’s a wooden frame with a hand silkscreened design, made to look like an Apple doc screen. This is what the frame looks…
|
Read More »
October 3rd, 2008 by: Karen M.
 |
This diamond-encrusted LED watch is so madly, deeply, insanely blinged over with diamonds that you can barely see what time it is. In fact, the diamonds cover the face of the watch so you have to read the digital display through a diamond screen.
The watch is a collaboration between…
|
Read More »
September 21st, 2008 by: Karen M.
 |
With a whopping 128 bright LEDs on each digit, there’s no chance that you’ll miss the time on this clock.
Sporting a total of 768 individually addressable amber LEDs, each one of the numbers slides into and out of view as the hours, minutes and seconds tick away. With all…
|
Read More »
September 18th, 2008 by: Technabob
 |
In the market for a modern digital watch that’s looks cool, but is still easy to read? Storm’s Ambition watches might be just what you’re looking for.
Featuring a stealthy face design that looks like some sort of bar code when the watch is dormant, you’d never know the time…
|
Read More »
September 17th, 2008 by: Technabob