Stephen E. Dinehart's IMD Blog

Nokia launched this phone in Germany this month (read the article), looks allot like the i-mate JASJAR just anounced (read the article) , both devices also run on the new Microsoft operating system Windows Mobile 5.0

It sure will be fun when handsets like this become available in north america, the development possibilities seem endless. I am convinced 3G adoption and the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) will have great impacts on the way we learn, percieve and work. It stinks to be in north america when our Euro and Asian buddies get to play in our tomorrow today. While we wait for 3G the rest of the modern world is already looking to 4G. I guess I should be happy that the major bugs will hopefully be ironed out by the time UMTS really hits us here.

I wonder if Apple has a Nokia i-book in the works? I would be nice if the enviornment reflection worked so that the virtual world of the mobile would match our wired home space; a mobile telepresence of our home dataspace, if you will.

Concept art for the Triwizard Task level in the forthcoming Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire game (Warner Bros copyright); a BBC article about the new Harry Potter game and the influences of fine art upon it's art direction

Free, yes, free J2ME game developers book from Jason Lam.
Altough I have yet to review it myself; from the looks of thinks this looks a pretty striaght forward guide to making your own shooter for a hand-held device.

Download it!!

Go ahead try it, the mobile field is way open, and the best game makers out there suck, and so do thier games (aka JAMDAT); you can rule like Nintendo in the old skool!

Tonight Los Angeles had a fire in the sky.
I still have goose bumps; I was driving up Vermont and all the traffic stopped for some reason, so I quickly turned onto Olympic, and there it was. I've seen meteorites, meteor showers, and a few other things fall from the sky, but this....

It was falling, a white object, behind it a tail was left of crimson blue fire, a meteor, a nuke, no a missile...no a burning space craft, the white ball continued it's path and the tail grew larger and the object more clear, the it stopped in mid-space and poof it created this spherical ball of white light, moved forward then rather than continuing towards Earth, took of in another direction in the sky....

Myself, and everyone around me, was snapping photos on their camera phones and proclaiming "what the ---- is that!"

I searched the radio for some news, nothing....but Louise Armstrong singing "What a Wonderful World". Jenova saw this, I wonder what other people saw, what heck it was, and it there will be any answers.

If I was a primitive man, I would make cave paintings on the subject for the rest of my life.

Logic tells me it was just a mysterious meteor, but suspicion leads me to more.

"Unburned fuel particles and water drops in the rocket's contrail freeze in the less dense upper atmosphere and get reflected by sunlight at high altitudes to generate such breath-taking scenes."

This just burst the bubble of the seeming stable nature of my reality; everything felt thrown into some surrealist LALA land for a while there, I'm still just waking from the dream.

Experimental Military space craft...

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/stpr1/

Back to it's roots huh... looks pretty un-80's to me; and leveraging the WB music catalog isn't exactly counter culture!

Nonetheless, MTV has partnered with Warner Music to offer music videos for mobile devices. It is not immediately clear what kind of business model MTV will be using for the Momuvids (that's kinda catchy...). Article

The US and Chinese governments are collaborating on a GPS tracking system to monitor panda movements in a reserve, in remote Shaanxi province. Panda sexual activity, as there is little known of their sexual habits, seems to be the focus, apparently it is very difficult to breed them in captivity.

"Tracking them with advanced technology and observing their sex activities might help us find ways to avoid their extinction," an official said. China's scientists have come up with a series of more or less surprising ideas for improving panda reproduction, including showing them sex education videos.

There are only 1600 wild pandas left.

Read the Article

This was snapped last year...but I just witnessed it for the first time.
Yea for well spent tax dollars! Life sure is beautiful.

Halo is coming to a mobile device near you. Frankly if it doesn't have a multiplayer like Xbox live then it can f----off, otherwise blowin-the-shi@t out of strangers could be fun on the go. I never was too much into the campaign mode!

It will be interesting to see how it translates, and when it will become available. I imagine it won't be for a year or two, unless they launch a dedicted mobile hardware device, which would sell like...well....Halo2.

Read the article on IGN

I couldn't resist blogging this, in looking into the Halo Mobile makers IN-FUSIO; I noticed they were creating Age of Empires II for mobile...that's right an RTS on the go; I'd love to get my hands on it.

"You chose to let her view the images on your telephone and told her that she might have nightmares."

Careful what you do with that picture phone, you just might get locked up for it!

from london

*side note why does my Textile2 MT Text formating not work on the main blog?

Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Labs, has announced a PC for the poor children of the world to cost less than $100. It's Wi-fi compatiable, 500Mhz, Linux based, and uses a flash drive in stead of a hard-drive. Heck it even comes with a hand crank, talk about cool.

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Vodoo Pad
I was dreaming up this application with Kellee one night; a sort of local multimedia diary, in the form of a blog, but without the public aspcect. Kellee said former IMD student Leonard Lyn was sure to know if there was something like that already out there and sure enough there is.
read about it on the website

Salling Clicker v2.2.1
My friend Millusy told me about this, and the subject just came up within the beta testing group I'm involved in with Macromedia Mobile and Devices, it's a program for remote control of everything from your laptop to your TV using your favorite mobile device. You can even create custom scripts to control seeming anything. I'm going to download it asap. It really seems like a great app.
read about it on the website

TOKYO (AP) - The common electric socket will serve as your home's connection to broadband with a new chip developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. - doing away with all the Ethernet cables or the hassle of hooking up to a wireless network device. Products are still being developed, but gadgets embedded with the chip from the Japanese manufacturer of Panasonic products can hook up to a broadband network by plugging into the common electrical outlet, company officials said Thursday.