Apple's commercial success of their touch interface has spawned a bunch of companies doing their best to top the Apple's Touch experience. Here's a notable one, which can actually be installed on a Windows machine, given you have a correctly enabled touch panel.
Microsoft's new media player the Zune HD has many new cool features: an all you can eat music license, a touch UI, 720p video and an HD radio. Coolest thing though is the OLED display. This teardown shows it's a mere 1mm thick. That's about what your hair grows in two and a half days.
Sony released a new Walkman with an OLED touch screen. OLEDs don't have a back light, so this player should last a lot longer than players with back-lit LCDs. LCDs typically consume half of the energy of a portable device.
Out of the blue, my friend Jonah sent me this picture taken from a kite.
1. It's a beautiful picture, taken on a beautiful island, on a beautiful day, at high tide.
2. I spent two summers in the home "De Wokkel" in this picture. Now a few years later a friend of mine who lives a continent away sends me a great aerial photo of the place. Does chance exist?
3. This very sharp picture is taken from a kite, apparently something very hard to do. Were any special techniques like super resolution used? Will we see image stabilization and super resolution techniques become standard features on our cameras soon?
4. There's an interactive panoramic version of this photo available from the author here. It takes a while to load but it's worth the wait.
5. Bonus points if you spot a car in this picture. Visitors can't bring their cars to the Schiermonnikoog island, and most of the locals don't have one either.
