iKat: New Augmented Reality Pet
Posted on March, 10 at 9:56 pm
There’s something about the idea of an augmented reality pet — and a markerless one, too — that will make the heart of every true geek skip a beat. The idea is not entirely new, but it’s still amazing to see a virtual creature hopping around on a real-life surface, seen through your mobile phone’s camera.
iKat was created by a company called Zenitum, using their D-Track engine. The virtual pet is markerless, which means you don’t need a marker or an image target to make it work; the app recognizes the space seen through the camera lens and adapts to it. See a demo of the app (which is in prototype stage at this point) below.
Zenitum’s Depth Tracker (D-Track) technology makes it possible to do this without a marker. It’s quite fascinating, as you can see in the video below: The app analyzes the surface behind the phone and creates a virtual grid in the 3D space in a matter of seconds. Then, you can unleash your virtual pet to scurry around it. Currently, the app doesn’t seem to do much, but we can’t wait to see this technology develop into a full-fledged app.
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LG GS290 Cookie Fresh
Posted on March, 9 at 11:36 pm
| General | 2G Network | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 | |
| Announced | 2010, March | ||
| Status | Coming soon. 2010, March | ||
| Size | Dimensions | - | |
| Weight | - | ||
| Display | Type | TFT resistive touchscreen, 256K colors | |
| Size | 240 x 400 pixels, 3.2 inches | ||
| - Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate | |||
| - Cartoon UI with Live Square | |||
| Sound | Alert types | Vibration, MP3 ringtones | |
| Speakerphone | Yes | ||
| - 3.5 mm audio jack | |||
| Memory | Phonebook | 1000 entries, Photocall | |
| Call records | 40 dialed, 40 received, 40 missed calls | ||
| Card slot | microSD, up to 8GB | ||
| Data | GPRS | Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 – 48 kbps | |
| EDGE | Class 12 | ||
| 3G | No | ||
| WLAN | No | ||
| Bluetooth | Yes, v2.1 with A2DP | ||
| Infrared port | No | ||
| USB | Yes, v2.0 | ||
| Camera | Primary | 2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels | |
| Video | Yes | ||
| Secondary | No | ||
| Features | Messaging | SMS, EMS, MMS, Email | |
| Browser | WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML | ||
| Radio | Stereo FM radio with RDS | ||
| Games | Yes + downloadable | ||
| Colors | Black, Red, Blue, Pink, Light Green, Silver | ||
| GPS | No | ||
| Java | Yes, MIDP 2.1 | ||
| - Social network integration | |||
| - MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player | |||
| - MP4/H.264/H.263 player | |||
| - Organizer | |||
| - Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF) | |||
| - Voice memo | |||
| T9 | |||
| Battery | Standard battery, Li-Ion 900 | ||
| Standby | Upto 420 h | ||
| Talktime | Upto 7 h |
Users Opinions and Reviews
LG back in mobile phone world with its new creation its LG GS290 cookies Fresh. It’s really a cool looking mobile phone with lot of its updated features:- Review on LG GS290’s features are as under:-
LG GS290 Fresh is the economical entry level version of the Cookie Plus. LG had made this announcement even before the Cookie Plus step up in the market. LG Cookie has registered 12 over million sales till now. LG revealed the specifications of the Cookie Fresh at CeBIT. Cookie Fresh being a entry level phone, this time it lacks 3G, but it retains the cartoon User Interface, social networking integration to keep up with the times, and standard 3.5mm audio jack. The Camera has been downgraded to 2 megapixel resolution and not much significant change. The Cookie Fresh also features 3 inch WQCGA resistive touch screen, Bluetooth, microSD card slot and FM Radio. The Cookie Fresh will come in 10 different colors. It is expected to “storm” the market in later this month March 2010.
The LG Cookie Fresh has very nicely designed. The design also resembles its brother LG Cookie plus. It also has curvy edges and slightly tampered around the corner. It also has candy bar form factor. The sleek Cookie Fresh measures 4.25inches tall, 2.09inches wide and 0.51inches thick. Below the screen Menu, Call button, and End/Power buttons are present. A microUSB port and a volume rocker are present on the left spine. A camera key is present on the right spine. A camera lens is present at the back of the device. A 3.5mm audio port is at the top of the mobile.
The LG Cookie Fresh has 3 inch QWVGA touch screen, which offers resolution of 240×400 pixels and supports 262144 colors. The Cookie Fresh comes with built-in accelerometer which takes care of automatic UI orientation in portrait and landscape view modes. It features onscreen keyboard in landscape mode and alphanumeric keyboard in portrait mode. LG have replaced company specific audio port with standard 3.5mm audio port, which is welcome move by them.
The User interface of the Cookie Fresh is same as that of the Cookie Plus and Original Cookie. UI is cartoon type, very colorful and you can personalize the lot of features. The menu system and are Icons are very attractive. The Cookie Fresh is nicely integrated with social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and Flickr. LG’s own LiveSquare feature logs the frequently used contacts and messages at one place, so that you can have quick access to them. LiveSquare is pretty useful function.
LG Fresh’s Phonebook can store up to 1000 entries with a room for 5 contact entries, photo, email and notes for each entry. You can pair the contacts with ringtones, polyringtones and MP3 tones. It also supports photocall. You can extend the external memory up to 8 GB in the form of microSD.
LG Cookie Fresh supports quadband GSM, Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, USB v2.0, a 3.5mm audio jack, GPRS, and EDGE. It doesn’t feature 3G. Its Web browser supports both WAP, and HTML. Its messaging features include Email, text and multimedia messaging, and instant messaging clients like Gmail, Yahoo, and AIM.
The Cookie Fresh’s multimedia player supports video formats like MPEG4, H.264, H.263 and audio formats like MP3, AAC, eAAC+, WAV and supports. It also has FM radio with RDS feature.
LG has downgraded its camera from 3 megapixel to 2 megapixel camera, which offer resolution of 1600×1200 pixels. It supports Digital zoom feature. You can record QVGA videos at a resolution of 320×240 pixels. You can post the photos and videos in social networking websites like Facebook and Youtube. Its essential features include Alarm, To-Do / Tasks, Calendar, Calculator, Document viewer, PDF viewer, World Clock, Photo editor, Notes, and Speakerphone
The Cookie Fresh has Lithium-Ion (900mAh) battery. It is expected to deliver battery life of 420hours on standby and 7 hours of talktime.
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Game Developers Conference: Android as a gaming platform.
Posted on March, 9 at 12:01 am
Game Developers Conference is an annual event that gathers game developers and leads a discussion about the complex process, which stands for creating gaming masterpieces. However, the games and their discussions are not limited to adult gaming platforms, the team in games for mobile devices, just attend such events.
The exhibition will be held March 9th in San Francisco. It is known that Google will take an active part in this event, on numerous statements made by the representatives of the company’s numerous advantages with Android OS for gaming applications.
Following an indicative list of statements:
on 9 March
Bootstrapping Games on Android
Chris Pruett
Everything you need to know about the games on Android for 60 minutes.
on 10 March
Bring Your Games to Android
Jack Palevich
A detailed look at the process of writing and porting games written in c++ using NDK and Java wrapper (thin Java shell)
Android Office Hours
The Android team
The opportunity to talk with the team, ask questions and show off their game.
GamesBeat2010: a sea of mobile devices
Eric Chu
Industry Experts make predictions on the future development of mobile games.
on 11 March
After the iPhone … what?
Dave Sparks
Experts discuss various technical details sounds al′ternativyh gaming platforms.
As an example of the abilities of modern Android-backgrounds with a GPU (such models as Google Nexus one, Motorola Droid/Milestone), here’s an example video. In the movie shows the game ExZeus, demonstrating possibilities NDK (native development kit).
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First Microsoft for Android
Posted on March, 8 at 11:46 pm
The Internet is full of news about the first application that Microsoft posted in Android Market. I decided to check out what is a Microsoft Tag reader. What was a surprise when I discovered that the program is not working?
: Retrieval code formats, I am willing to tell you about the program.
So, Microsoft Tag Reader reads not well-known bar codes (QR code), and codes of your own. On the Internet I such codes not met. But the Tag Reader got acquainted with the site Microsoft Tag where you can create your own “Taghi” generate graphical code if you want them to share with someone.
To generate your own graphical code, you should go on a special site Microsoft – here (http://tag.microsoft.com/)
By creating an account, you will have the opportunity to make a new tag.
Tag can be formatted as links (URLs), plain text (Free text), vCard, and the latest version, you can enter the telephone number tag (Dialer).
Let’s start with the URL.
When you create a tag you must enter a name, type, description, appoint the date for the beginning and end of life Tag, and finally the link.
Creating the entry site, it is recorded in the generic list, to the right there is a button for the data interrogation programming code by clicking on it, we need to do some tweaking. Select the format of the picture: pdf, WMF, JPEG, PNG, gif, or TIFF. You set the size of future pictures. Plus select format clip art-code: just code, the code with a signature and more.
Software interface is very simple: displays the corners of the frame in which the idea we need to “grab” bar-code. Acquire, you once again to ask permission to go to the Internet and then will read that was encrypted in code.
In general the program turned out to be quite good, but why, in principle, it was doing something that has already been created – not understandable. I think the program and remembered as “the first but useless by more than half”.
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