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Twinity Releases Virtual London – Delays Expected

by Jay Garrett on December 7, 2009

Twinty LondonYou can now wander around the UK capital without leaving the comfort of your puter.

Well – bits any how.

Just like the real London the virtual version is beset by numerous delays.

Twinity, kinda like Second Life with real places, has finally launched a beta of virtual London.

Twinity was launched back in 2006 with a promise to model all the worlds major cities; and while London was always planned to follow Berlin and Singapore it has taken quite a while to get to where it is now.

Don’t nip onto your Apple puter though and expect to be slipping down Soho – the 3D browser only supports Windows XP and Vista.

At the moment PC users can visit London’s famous Soho district, “stretching virtually from Oxford Street down to Trafalgar Square including the world-famous Piccadilly Circus and China Town.”

Oxford Street is perhaps the mecca of most shopaholics as it’s known for all the famous brands that house their flagship stores there – I reckon that Twinity is waiting for some kind of ad deal as we know that virtual worlds are all about business and Twinity can’t be the exception now can it?

If it moves along it would be cool to watch the Olympic Village being built in real time wouldn’t it? ;)

Click here and see London so far :)

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Stone Age Cranberry DVD will Last Another 1,000 Years – DiamonDisc

by Jay Garrett on November 14, 2009

Cranberry-DVDOk – so this is actually new tech and not something from when flint knapping was actually a life-or-death skill to have.

There’s a new company going by the name of Cranberry who is selling a DVD made from high-tech stone (yes, stone) that will store data for up to 1,000 years.

That obviously dampens the touchpaper of regular writeable DVD’s who are said to only last between two to five years (listens to folk running to back-up their five year-old discs).

Before you start weeping over your film collection; mass-manufactured DVDs last much longer thanks to better production standards.

You have to send your precious data to Cranberry who will then transfer it onto the rock-based format named DiamonDisc. However, the discs can be read by any DVD player or drive.

For $34.95 per disc (or $69.90 for two) you can store up to 4.7 GB of data on a format that will outlive you. That equates to roughly 2,000 photos, 1,200 songs or three hours of video.

They don’t guarantee that you wont put it somewhere so safe that you forget where it is though ;)

This will be ideal for people that own businesses, have a family interested in keeping records of their ancestry, or if you plan on hiding the fortune that you’ve amassed and will only let your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grandchild be the benefactor.

Shame you wont be around to see if it actually lasted the 1,000 years the company claims.

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ViconReview – Auto Life Blogging 30 Seconds at a Time.

October 19, 2009 Click to read more →
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You update your Twitter and Facebook regularly and your Twitpic and Flickr pages are awash with little glimpses into your life.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could get a specially designed camera for lifeblogging updates?
Say, a snap every 30 seconds?
The ViconRevue was developed to help stir the memories of Alzheimer’s sufferers, but now the Oxford-based [...]

Kensington iPhone / iPod Dock Comes With Extra Battery Life

August 5, 2009 Click to read more →
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Yeah, another iPhone / iPod dock – but this one is a tad more sensible than the last one on here!
Ok – it will only charge one device at a time but it will also charge the bundled battery pack at the same time
Kensington’s cryptically titled ‘Kensington Charging Dock with Mini Battery Pack‘ [...]

Scott Pilgrim’s Life Put into Game as well as Movie

July 27, 2009 Click to read more →
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Cult comic book character, Scott Pilgrim, is to be made into the star of a videogame as well as a film!
This has been confirmed by creator Brian Lee O’Malley at the San Diego Comic Convention over the weekend.
If you’re not familiar with this cult comic (Subset’s singer, Rom, is a huge fan!) here’s a quick [...]

Fujitsu FLEPia – Colour Kindle Killer

March 18, 2009 Click to read more →

The UK is still waiting for Amazon’s latest eBook reader but it may already be redundant (if this baby comes over).
The Fujitsu FLEPia is Japan only and isn’t actually planned to be released in the UK – at the moment.
If it is released globally I can imagine a few worried faces in Amazon as the FLEPia [...]

Unify 4 Life Changes Blackberry Into Universal Remote

November 24, 2008 Click to read more →

Blackberries.  They’re a bit…..business like generally aren’t they?
Well, that was my impression until I read about this hardware and software thingy from Canada.
This clever stuff will magically change your BlackBerry into a universal remote control for a typical AV set up, your lights, your garage door or anything else that you have remotely controlled! 
Unify4Life supplies an AV [...]

Ancient Rome Reborn via Google Earth

November 12, 2008 Click to read more →

Ever wanted to wander around ancient Rome and have a good ol’ gawp at the Circus Maximus?
Well, Google has announced the launch of an ancient Rome 3D layer in Google Earth via their blog.
Working alongside the Rome Reborn Project they invite everyone in the world to travel through time and discover Ancient Rome as it [...]

Spore on iPhone By Weekend!

September 3, 2008 Click to read more →

The Electric Pig has had a chat with Spore and Sim City creator, Will Wright, who has just revealed that the iPhone version of Spore would go live on Apple’s app store this Friday!
FTW!!!!!!
Spore is the ambitious new life simulator from Wright & co that has been developed over the last 7 years.
I think it probably goes without saying [...]