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Was offered an Orange LivePhoto frame last week as a speaker to Broadband Thursday (btw, you ppl asking me to speak - I really love gadgets ). The frame itself is pretty cool but too bad I did not get to make it work, I had it join the WiFi alright but the photos.orange.fr website just won’t let me register it … and by the way this online service is really way below Flickr which I use. It’s too bad that potentially good devices which have a nice underlying hardware always suck when it comes to the software around - especially when this thing comes at 199€. This raise a more global issue which is that in the consumer electronics industry, the manufacturers really see no value to the software. Software which in my humble opinion is the most important part of such a product as this is what the users is really in contact with has to fit in less then about 2USD per unit, how can you build something decent with under 100KUSD ? That’s less then 10 man-month worth of work …
Dear CE industry - please listen to this - software matters, great hardware should only come with amazing software - learn from Apple !

Technorati Tags: LivePhoto, Orange

Second Life looks so much better with a GeForce video card
My new MBPro really rox, only thing I did not appreciater is ordering a 200GB 7700rpm drive and getting a 186GB one… fell like being ripped off of 14GB which do matter…

Technorati Tags: macbook, MB+Pro, Second+life

This video is a little overview of what we are doing at wavestorm - turning dummy chessboards into web-enabled live broadcasting bi-directional devices, making simple light control systems accessible from any media (web, mobile, Second Life…) and same goes with our beloved Spykee !
The platform behind all this is called RiiMOTE and turns any kind of device into a web service accessible from any terminal everywhere.

Riimote-demo
Uploaded by ksso

Technorati Tags: chess, iPhone, RiiMOTE, second+life, spykee

Always wondered why Apple devices did not all implement Bonjour - like my AppleTV at home is not broadcasting the music libraries to my home network and neither is my iPhone letting near-by computers or iPods or whatever share its content… Things are changing though, firmware 2.0 and SDK seem to be a real improvement to what this device really is up to. Still missing 3G and a decent camera but hopefully we will get that this year !

Note : I wanna know Objective-C now
Note 2 : I know, bonjour is not DAAP - Bonjour only serves for discovering services, DAAP is the music service itself that lets itunes share its music OTA.

Technorati Tags: iPhone, SDK

At WaveStorm we really are WiFi geeks … so give us an electronic chess board, a Spykee spy robot and we will turn that noble chessboard into a WiFi-enabled and internet connected board. Fine. We’re geeks. Now to find a justification for the couple of hours we put into that project we need to find some reason to do that ;). Well the crazy idea we came up with is use RiiMOTE architecture to let the chess board be accessible from Second Life and hold real-time games in both real-life and Second Life. It’s just w00t ;).
In real life :

In Second Life :

Obviously my Second Life is less messy
To see it by yourself jump over on Messenger island !

Technorati Tags: chess, Second life, Spykee, WiFi

More or less… this is mostly a server connected to SL and streaming a video of that experience to the iPhone.
Funny though

Technorati Tags: iPhone, Second+life

Just installed JoikuSpot, which is an awesome symbian app that turns your N95 into a WiFi Hotspot. Installs easily and creates a WiFi ad-hoc connection named “JoikuSpot”. Then you can connect from any WiFi devices easily and get HSDPA access to the network - that’s the door open for ubiquitous computing ! Go grab it here !
I tried some time ago to do the same with my Windows Mobile phone and I managed but only through a hideous hack !

Technorati Tags: HotSpot, Nokia, WiFI

Like every week got my tons of new gadgets ;), firstly an eeePC. I tried it (and sold it back) just because I wanted the special SF 3g+ eeePC data plan which is unlimited. eeePC is cool but really too limited, tried the Skype video chat and works fine. Overall is a cool device, too bad the screen is so small.
Then there was the freebox upgrade (not exactly a gadget but still cool) with a whole new UI. I personally find it crappy especially as the shortcuts on the remote are not working anymore.

Finally received a Novag Citrine. This thing is w00t, it’s an electronic chess board with movement detection and a serial connection. I’ll show you at the next broadband thursday what crazy people really are up to when they get their hands on that kind of gear ;).

Technorati Tags: chess, eeePC

This set of products is made by Jasco a licensee of the “GE” brand, and is currently in production, should be available around March in stores. This set of zigbee devices simply bring easy wireless home automation to your house! No more wires, just add those plugs between your devices and electric plugs and you’re set.

Technorati Tags: jasco, zigbee

As you know I have some interest in the WiFi photoframe area and Ality’s drove my attention as it combines a sleek design with some cool Internet-based function. It should be available q2 for about 250USD. Can’t wait to get one!

Technorati Tags: ality, photoframe, WiFi