Posts Tagged ‘electronics’

New Droid Incredible Commercial Is Incredible But Vague [VIDEO]

With an industrial-age-meets-space-age soundtrack and imagery that falls somewhere between robotics and The Matrix , the new commercial for the Droid Incredible leaves a lot to the imagination — perhaps a little too much. Without showing the device itself, the spot’s blur of pseudo-Asian and English typo-graphics tell us that the Incredible features a 1 Ghz Snapdragon processor, an 8-megapixel camera (a serious upgrade to the original Droid’s 5-megapixel camera), new and improved calendar views, backup assistant capability, 8 GB onboard memory, 512MB RAM, multi-touch pinch-to-zoom, FM radio and a 3.7-inch, high-res display. But you only get that much information if you’re willing to squint at the text frame by frame; as it plays, the words zoom and swirl past at lightning speed, turning most of these details into pretty and illegible background graphics.


SXSW Giveaway: Win a Sony Bloggie HD Camera

Coming to South by Southwest Interactive next month? Every week until the festival, we’ll be giving away 2 Sony Bloggie HD Cameras to SXSW attendees.


NBC to Live Stream U.S. vs. Finland Olympic Hockey Semifinal

While NBCOlympics.com has a really cool Twitter Tracker , much of its online strategy for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver has left much to be desired. In addition to not airing events live to people on the West Coast, the network has made some downright bizarre decisions about what events to stream online at NBCOlympics.com.


Baidu Gets $50 Million to Bring New Video Site to China

China’s 400 million or so Internet users will soon be able to enjoy a new online video service. Baidu, the country’s top search provider, has announced plans to create a new video-on-demand website


Remarkable Stats on the State of the Internet [VIDEO]

Individual stats like Facebook passing the 400 million user mark, Twitter hitting 50 million tweets per day, and YouTube viewers watching 1 billion videos per day are impressive on their own, but what if we looked at Internet-related stats collectively? Jesse Thomas did just that in his video State of the Internet . The video — created and animated by Thomas with data from multiple sources — highlights some remarkable figures and visually depicts the Internet as we know it today