The good folks over at SkyLasers offered to send a laser our way to review. At first, we weren’t interested– we’ve been bored of lasers since they hit critical mass, showing up on every cheap toy and key chain. Then we looked at the facts– this handheld laser pointer can melt rubber, cut plastic, sting the skin and shine for over 100 miles. “Dude, we’ve got to give one of these a shot”. We tried this baby out, and boy did we have a lot of fun. Check out the full SkyLasers review over at GadgetCrave.com. What’s GadgetCrave? We’ll be introducing it soon enough…
If you’re like us (see: hopelessly addicted to Twitter, Facebook, et. al.), you’re always on to the next big thing as it happens. Hey, that’s why you read the YouCrave magazines to begin with– to stay up to date on the latest in lifestyle, gadgets, design, movies and music. So if you’re the Twitter-minded, an avid FaceBooker or prefer to stick with email or RSS, we’ve got an update for ya. Earlier today, we launched a combined twitter account for all the YouCrave websites. So if you want the latest news from us as it breaks, follow YouCrave on twitter for all the best, breaking news in one place. How else can you stay up-to-date? Here are the dirty details…
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When uploading to Flickr, users set tags, locations and other data– upon which an enterprising group of MIT researchers have built a project called “The World’s Eyes”. Now exhibited in the Design Museum in Barcelona, “Los Ojos Del Mundo” tracks photographers both local and tourist throughout their photographic adventures in Spain. As described by MIT’s SENSEable City Lab:
When posting photos online, users of the photo sharing platform Flickr transmit to the world their perspective of a place or event through the lens of a digital camera. Each digital photo file codes both the time when that photo was taken and the location it captures. Analyzing this information allows us to follow the trail that each Flickr photographer travels through Spain. (Un)photographed Spain maps thousands of these public, digital footprints over one year. As photos overlap in certain locations, they expose the places that attract the photographer’s gaze . In contrast, the absence of images in other locations reveal the unphotographed spaces of a more introverted Spain.
The result is a visually stunning display of the collective photographers’ view of Spain. Where and when do these photographs take place? What objects and locations are the most photogenic? We salute the work of MIT’s SENSEable CITY, as the art captured by Flickr photographers has been visualized into collective art from 30,000 feet. [MIT via datavisualization.ch]
iPhone 3.0 has been officially revealed to the public. The new iPhone 3.0 operating system will include some basic (and some highly demanded) updates that will make using an iPhone easier and more immersive. Here are a few of the changes that the new iPhone 3.0 will feature:
Cut, Copy and Paste. It’s about time! You can now cut/copy/paste between applications on the iPhone OS version 3.0.
Global Search Functionality – allowing you to search your iPhone and all of its apps in one single query bar.
Landscape View Composition – you can now compose emails, text messages and notes while in landscape mode, allowing for a wider keyboard.
Peer-to-Peer Bluetooth – want to share files, contacts and more with your friends? You can now do so via Bluetooth. Welcome to the social.
As more news hits, we’ll post it here. For now, we welcome the new functionality to our iPhones– its about damn time!
The Lenovo Pocket Yoga, a slim, mysterious new netbook, has been leaked to the press by Lenovo earlier today. Similar in size and style to the popular Sony VAIO P, the Lenovo Pocket Yoga netbook has shown its face, but has yet to reveal its cards. While we can project that this little Lenovo will likely be powered by an Intel Atom processor (due to its size and shape), we won’t know for certain until Lenovo releases the full details on specifications. Should they play those cards right, and Lenovo usually does, we could see the Lenovo Pocket Yoga give the Sony VAIO P a pretty tough fight for the consumer dollar. Here’s to hoping they’re not going to push their marketing campaign around an “it fits in your pocket!” mesage. With a name like Pocket Yoga, we’re not betting too highly against that… [more at flickr, via electronista]
Update – Johnson Li of the Design Matters Blog has explained that the Lenovo Pocket Yoga was a concept notebook design from 2 years ago. That means this one may never see the light of day… but it also makes us curious. If this concept is two years old, and the Sony VAIO P was revealed just months ago, what came first? Ponder that, friends.
Counting down the minutes until 5:00? We’re here at the finish line, waiting for you with a look back at a great week. What did you miss on GearCrave this week? We’ve got the details below. We invite the enterprising reader to find their own favorites scrolling through the archives. It is always worth a look!
St. Patrick’s Day Weekend is upon us. That means green beer, green rivers and green clothing (on everyone who is NOT Irish). For some, it means drinking too much and dressing up like a clown, for others– a good celebration amongst friends in respect to St. Patrick and the Irish-American Tradition. We’ve celebrated many, many a St. Pat’s in the streets of Chicago, where friends and family stumble drunkenly toward the Mecca of our heritage– the Irish Pub. Will we see you there, GearCravers? Let us know, we’ll be happy to buy you a pint of the black stuff… or my name isn’t Michael Seamus Payne.
Jesse Maiman is ready to fight. For his rights. To a missing Xbox 360 lost by U.S. Airways. Just how much is asking for in place of the missing console? $1,000,000. Good luck, Jesse. [traveling light]
Some creative editors (with far too much time on their hands) have fused the musical-inspired segments of The Office with the songs that inspired them. Now when song breaks out in the office, song really breaks out– with a full backing track and all. Found by the good people at Observation Bubble (a site you should head over and check out for your afternoon slump!) [more at Observation Bubble]
Memo to KFC Employees: If a caller tells you to spray yourselves with the fire extinguisher, get naked and pee on each other, it’s probably a hoax (The Bachelor Guy)
