iPod/MP3 Player Adoption At Tipping Point
Podcasting is most definitely here.
Category: Gadgets
Mobile Video on the Go
Mobile Video on the Go
Nice Blog about wearable, geo-located video production and consumption..
Gone Fishin’
bluefish
Ian’s BlueTooth Project:
Bluefish is a surveillance system which tracks the presence of Bluetooth devices, and their users.
Bluefish constantly scans for Bluetooth-enabled devices, such as phones, PDA’s, and wireless peripherals. When a new device is found, Bluefish takes a picture of the area in which the device is discovered and catalogues all retrievable information about the device. If the device is ever discovered again, the user will be sent the last image captured of them via Bluetooth. All images are tagged with the device’s name and the time it was last observed.
Over time, a profile is built for each discovered device, making it possible to track individual users who frequent the scanning area.
NYTimes rounds up the WiFi phone scene
New forms of media delivery
Santa Delivers New Forms of Media Delivery
Nice summation of some of the interesting going-on’s over the past year. Podcasting, iPods, Digital Media Servers/Centers, Juice boxes and more.. It has definitely been an interesting one.
Linksys WVC11B Redux
In an earlier post here and on unmediated I talked about how I hoped that Linksys WVC11B and WVC54G wireless cameras that claim MPEG-4 support lived up to their promises.
Well, I was given one as a gift and sadly out of the box they don’t support true MPEG-4 streaming. What they have is an Active X control that displays some variant of Microsoft’s MPEG-4 codec. After doing some port scans, as suggested in the comments of one of the posts, I can confirm that they do not have any network services running other than httpd (port 80). Also strange is that I am unable to view the streams from Windows Media Player on the Mac or PC but I am able to view the stream via mPlayer on the Mac.. Otherwise, IE on the PC is the only other way to view the streams (no Mac support for the ActiveX control).
Thankfully the firmware is open source! Let the hacking begin!
Vonage goes after Video Conferencing
Gizmodo : Vonage and Viseon Unveil Videochat
From the post: Vonage has announced today a team-up with Viseon to provide a Videophone-over-IP service that will be shown in beta form at CES.
BroadSnatching – Get that Content
HOW-TO: BroadSnatching to a Portable Media Center – Engadget – www.engadget.com
From the article:
Getting video on a Portable Media Center is a fairly complicated task, but not because it’s all that hard, it’s just because no one has ever shown folks how. It’s a lot easier if you have a Media Center PC (MCE), but even if you don’t have an MCE, we showed you how to put DVDs on your Portable Media Center when we reviewed the Creative Zen.
Art Mobs
Art Mobs
Opens tonight.. Cool, I thought I missed it already. They are pulling together some fun social and emerging technologies, Text Messaging, PodCasting and more.
From the site:
Guests are invited to share their experience of student artworks by text messaging on their mobile phones. View the work while reading the most recent 4 text messages left by others—then leave your own message for the next guests. Guests may also download podcasts of interviews with several of the artists about their works. View the work while listening to the podcast on your iPod or other mp3 player
ITP Winter Show 2004
ITP Winter Show 2004
Sunday, December 19 from 2 to 6pm
Monday, December 20 from 5 to 9pm
A two-day explosion of interactive sight, sound and technology from the student artists and innovators at ITP.
An oversized Greenwich Village loft houses the computer labs, rotating exhibitions, and production workshops that are ITP — the Interactive Telecommunications Program. Founded in 1979 as the first graduate education program in alternative media, ITP has grown into a living community of technologists, theorists, engineers, designers, and artists uniquely dedicated to pushing the boundaries of interactivity in the real and digital worlds. A hands-on approach to experimentation, production and risk-taking make this hi-tech fun house a creative home not only to its 230 students, but also to an extended network of the technology industry’s most daring and prolific practitioners.
Interactive Telecommunications Program
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
721 Broadway, 4th Floor South
New York NY 10003
Take the left elevators to the 4th Floor
This event is free and open to the public
No need to RSVP
For questions: 212-998-1880
email: itp.inquiries@nyu.edu
http://itp.nyu.edu/show