Dazed & Confused on your iphone and ipad

Dazed & Confused just released their iPhone and iPad app. The app is free, searchable, and can be downloaded for offline reading. It contains the full issue, however it’s a little hard to navigate on the phone.

Download it here

Prop up your iphone or ipad anywhere

Very cool accessory from MoviePeg. This little prop lets you stand your device up just about anywhere, and it works in both portrait and landscape. They have a smaller version for the iphone as well.

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Film Production Apps

As lightweight devices tailored for on-the-go activity, the iPad and iPhone has already made fans out of filmmakers who want to stay in touch on set. Increasingly, clever applications are turning these digital tools into integral parts of the filmmaking process itself. Below we highlight several apps that make production more efficient—from drafting a script to creating a storyboard and more.

Scripts Pro

The functionally sleek Scripts Pro screenwriting software allows you to create and edit new scripts, as well as open files created in Celtx (a free scriptwriting program) and the industry standard Final Draft on iPhones or iPads. When the app senses an external keyboard plugged into the iPad, it eliminates the touchscreen keyboard to maximize the view. An affordable alternative to Final Draft, Scripts Pro sells from iTunes for $6.

Storyboard Composer

The finishing component to any good script is a storyboard. Cinemek's Hitchcock Storyboard Composer uploads multiple images from your libraries and adds them to the storyboard where you can arrange the photos and add audio, notes or scene-picker wheels. Once you've finished working with the images, the app compresses them into a PDF which can then be played back as a video. For a full scope on the Storyboard Composer's capabilities, check out the video. From iTunes for $20.

Artemis Director's Viewfinder

With an extensive catalog of lenses and camera types, Artemis Director's Viewfinder provides a great platform for realistically viewing the shot through your selected camera format. The viewfinder allows you to zoom in, compare lenses and play with the aspect ratio as well. Once you're happy with the shot, you can save it and upload to a storyboard or send it through email. From iTunes for $30.

DSLR Slate

Along with using your iPad or iPhone to create and edit stories, you can also use it on set in place of an oft-costly clapperboard. Designed for use with digital cameras, DSLR Slate not only offers a running timecode and inputs for typical production items like "scene," "take" or "director," but it also provides info on camera settings such as ISO speed, aperture, white balance and more, as well as syncing audio for dual-audio system shoots. From iTunes for $5.

Pro Prompter

For shoots that require a teleprompter, ProPrompter not only provides a customizable scrolling screen of text on the iPad (in either portrait or landscape modes), but it also syncs multiple iPads so the presenter is free look at various cameras at any time. The app also allows you to easily adjust the speed or loop the script for numerous takes. From iTunes for $10.

TCoder

TCoder is a complement to a recording device. Geared toward journalists, TCoder runs alongside the camera, syncing the time code with any notes you are taking for reference later or to email to an editor. From iTunes for $4. (Thanks Luis!)

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Doxie

Doxie's new USB-powered device simplifies the oft-tedious task of scanning photos or documents with its easy setup and an intelligible Internet integration.

The small, portable machine works in black and white, grayscale or color and processes documents or photos at up to 600dpi. While the scanner automatically adjusts photos by cropping or straightening, you can also play with the saturation, contrast and brightness before saving it.

One of the features that makes the Doxie so convenient, their free web application integration called the Doxie Cloud allows for uploading of photos or documents straight to sites like Tumblr, Flickr, Evernote and now to iBooks. The Cloud also provides a short URL so you can seamlessly share the photo via e-mail, chat or Twitter.

Documents and photos can be saved as PDF, JPEG or PNG formats, which is great for sending the images to Google Docs. And, thanks to its built-in Optical Character Recognition capabilities, you can even scan and digitize handwritten notes or longer documents.

A brilliant little device, the Doxie scanner is both Mac and Windows compatible, ships worldwide and sells online for $130.

iPad DJ Station

A great concept by Psychicfactory.

Via Fubiz

Touchable Holograms

Welcome to the future!

Flipboard

Flipboard aggregates content posted by friends on Facebook and Twitter. Instead of reading feeds and clicking on links, the well-funded app transforms the links into a magazine-style format for iPad reading.

The brainchild of former Apple iPhone engineer Evan Doll and entrepreneur Mike McCue, the "personal social magazine" takes normal RSS feeds and configures them as a newspaper layout, showing headlines, runners and ultimately the full story. Additionally, Flipboard displays Tweets about each article and allows you to add your own comment.

The easy-to-use app (check out the video on their site) downloads for free from iTunes. Follow @flipboard on Twitter for an update on their servers and more.

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Apple Testing Chamber

Holy S*%T! Following the Apple press conference addressing the recent reception issues with the Apple iPhone 4, a select few media outlets were given a tour of a highly secretive aspect of Apple headquarters. Within Apple’s compound are a series of 17 anechoic chambers comprised of bright blue spikes (made of foam) which are meant to create an interference-less space for testing purposes. Among the 17 rooms is a special room dubbed “Stargate” which includes a ring similar to that seen from the movie of the same name. While the issues with the iPhone 4 are very real, the rooms do represent an interesting look into the often secretive world of Apple and their dedication to getting things right.

Source: TechCrunch

Brando USB Mailbox

There’s a USB dongle for everything – the Brando USB Mailbox is yet another thing you can plug into your machine. Shows off your incoming messages with an audio alert while it lights up. Connects to your Facebook, Twitter, gmail, yahoo, outlook app, outlook express app, Windows Live, Live Mail and POP3 accounts. With a USB extension cord and a hidden computer, this could actually be useful…

Via Crunchgear

Newscape Technology

Newscape Technology recently released a movie detailing/demonstrating their fantastic Mobile 3D City application soon to be available on the iPad. It makes all other mapping and navigation tools look flat.

You can pick up their Paris 3D app for the iphone here.

iPhone Cassette Case Cover

ThumbsUP! in the UK has a retro iPhone case that doubles as a stand. Kinda neat if you prefer to throw your phone into a backpack and not be a priss about it. Seems like it’s only available through wholesaler order, expect it to pop up at your local lifestyle mall/chain store soon.

Via Oh Gizmo!

Interview with Scott Dadich about the WIRED iPad App

Joshua Gorchov, principal of The Loud Cloud Creative Agency, recently sat down with Scott Dadich, Creative Director of WIRED Magazine, for a conversation about the new Wired iPad app.

This is the first full-fledged interview Dadich has given since the
big launch, and it can be read here:

http://www.theloudcloud.com/blog/post/dadich

We hope you're as excited as we are by the innovative thinking and
commitment to great design that comes through in Scott's comments, and in the app itself.

Burberry gets 3D

Burberry’s Autumn/Winter 2010 campaign embraces interactive media. Here’s a little video of the site in action, and after the jump another video featuring the models including Rose Huntington Whiteley.

The Plaza introduces the iPad Concierge

The Plaza, one of NY’s finer hotel/residences has entered the digital age starting this September when guests, upon checking into the hotel, will be offered iPads with a concierge app. The app will allow you to access hotel services, as well as pre-loaded newspapers, internet access, schedule wake-up calls and so much more.

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Cufflinks now in USB flash drive flavor

Carrying data on the sleeve will probably make a very formidable geek. In any case, the data will always be available close and at hand, or more precisely, at the cufflinks. The cufflink flash drives obviously work as cufflinks, but they are also capable of carrying 2GB of data each. The pair costs $195.

Via: GadgetVenue

Kung-fu Live

Kung-fu Live is a game that would let you immerse in the gameplay. It isn’t simply customizable, but customizable to the extent that your character in the game can be you in a digital avatar. Patented technology of the Helsinki based Virtual Air Guitar Company Ltd. allows a webcam to replace the game controller.

With the webcam taking on the role of the controller, players themselves are transformed into gaming characters, albeit with the “abilities” the character would have. Apparently, the system is capable of doing real-time monitoring of the human body, and differentiate background and other visual issues from the player. Freemotion technology used in the game seems to be ready for primetime as the game itself is scheduled for a launch later this year.

Space InvadAR

Space InvadAR is the first Augmented Reality game to show up for Android. It involves aliens attacking our dear planet, and the user of course has to save the day and get rid of those pesky invaders. All you need to do is aim the device’s camera towards a printed image of the planet (available at the game’s website) and shoot those aliens once they appear. The game is overpriced at $25, and since there’s no way a user can win the game, no matter how well you play it, you can’t save Earth. Video after the jump.

Via: TechCrunch

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Immersed Senses Diving Helmet

Designed by Adam Wendel, this new scuba diving system allows divers to breath more naturally and have much better views. It is also equipped with a camera, flashlight and an OLED display which will help you identify any mysterious sea life you might encounter if you’re still alive. Jacques Cousteau or Steve Zissou would have been proud! Much more info here

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Graffiti Analysis

Graffiti Analysis 2.0: Digital Blackbook from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

The brains behind the daringly clever TSA Communicator project, iconoclastic technology artist Evan Roth is now spearheading an equally compelling software project, Graffiti Analysis.

Roth and his co-collaborators have developed an open source application that works with iPhones and others to capture the movements of graffiti artists and digitize the motion-rich styles into programming language that can be stored, swapped and recreated.

"The project aims to build the world's largest archive of graffiti motion, and bring together two seemingly disparate communities that share an interest hacking systems, whether found in code or in the city," Roth states.

There are several videos demonstrating how the software captures the oft-unseen motion of the artist. The information is uploaded to a open database and is freely accessible, allowing artists from around the world to analyze each other's techniques and build a community across continents.

via: coolhunting.