Navigate With The Force

Just saw this on zdistrict’s blog, its a TomTom ad for a new voice package for their navigation devices. I think its great. if its available on any phone (Android or iPhone) I would definitely get it. There are 3 voice packs available at the moment: Darth Vader, Yoda and C-3PO. Has Solo is coming soon. The video above of the Darth Vader ad while the one below is the new Yoda ad.

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The New Youtube Mobile Website

Youtube just launched its new HTML5 enabled website optimized for mobile phones that doesn’t support flash Yes I’m talking about the iPhone. the new website is slick fast and even better than the youtube application on the iPhone. And it runs great on my Nexus One too.

Thanks DVLz

Music For The Road

During my long drives and endless stop, I came across this neat little jukebox that lets you create your own music CD/SD/USB and fill it with music of your choice. Its a cool idea but I had no use for it as my iPhone and my Nexus One were both filled with both podcasts and music.

Solid MP3 Player

I saw this Metal Gear inspired MP3 player in the SonyStyle store and I thought that its cool. I wouldn’t buy it though I just think that its cool.

Imagine Cup 2010 – Go Team MAA

With the world cup having a 2 day resting period, we can now turn our complete attention to Warsaw, Poland were the Imagine Cup 2010 finals are being held from the 3rd to the 8th of July (you just missed the opening ceremonies don’t worry).

Kuwait was represented by 5 teams in the star of the preliminaries competition that was held a couple of months ago in a competition that had more than 2000 participants. The winners were a Kuwaiti all-woman team. Members are Mariam Al-Najdi, Abrar Amin and Aysha Al-Rowaished, and those girls are representing Kuwait in the finals.

Just because our national football team didn’t make it to the world cup this year (or any other major competition for a number of years) doesn’t mean there isn’t anything for us to cheer for this summer. So pull out your Vuvuzela’s and start cheering for team MMA.

iPhone 4 Announced

Mr. Jobs announced today the new iPhone 4 and iOS 4 to the world with no real surprises sadly as it was leaked a month ago with almost all details.

The phone will be released on June 24th and pre-order will start in a week (keep in mind they are carrier locked).

The main new features will be the front facing camera that enable Video chat (iPhone-to-iPhone only and via wifi only), higher resolution display and the new A4 CPU (iPad’s processor). Also it has some nice “theoretical” battery life, we will just have to wait and see.

Here is the promo video that explains the new features.

The Future of User Interface

Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak — the real-life version of the film’s eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow’s computers will be controlled?

Thanks DVLz

Vic Gundorta Taking A Swipe At Apple Every CHance He Gets

Yesterday, Google had its developers event and it showed-off a ton of new stuff (Google TV). But what I was waiting for was the 2.2 version of Android AKA Froyo.

It has a lot of great new features and new API’s. But what was amusing was watching the video and seeing Google’s Vice president of engineering taking a swipe at Apple every chance he gets. He even used Apple’s 1984 Campaign against them (3 minute mark first video)

The Keynote has a lot of info and demos and I recommend watching it if you have an Android device, planing to get one or you just want to see Steve Jobs have a taste of his own medicine.

5 part video.

Android vs iPhone

Microsoft Announces Kin One & Two

In today’s “It Time To Share” event. Microsoft announced the long rumored “Project Pink” devices. Its nothing that extravagant, its based on some variation of Windows Phone 7, so what we are seeing here is a very cool integration with social media networks and “should” be in the upcoming Windows Phone 7.

Its only going to be on Verizon so no GSM version just yet. Don’t think anyone will be disappointed though.

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