Tag: Convergence
YouTube to announce new channels with custom-made content?
YouTube could reveal as early as next week that it is launching its own channels with original content, according to sources speaking to the Wall Street Journal. YouTube is thought to have signed a series of partnership deals with…
Who cares about the telly? It's all about the internet now
It's official: internet access and mobile phones are more important to young Britons than television. This is the conclusion from new research from Ofcom, the communications regulator, but at a closer look it's not such a straight shot as…
Microsoft Hotmail embeds LinkedIn, Posterous and more into email service
The Active Views project is intended to keep users in Hotmail when they get a link to other sites. So if you get a picture link sent to you from Flickr, say, you will be able to see it…
The next battlefield for mobiles is high-definition audio, says DTS
Imagine this: you are watching a film on your mobile phone, and as the plane flies overhead on the screen, it sounds like it flies over your head. It sounds amazing, doesn't it. We're used to this sort of…
It's a coat! It's a bag! It's a tent!
If you travel a lot, you appreciate convergence gadgets – those ones that combine two or three different gadgets into one. Is this going a bit far, though? It’s a coat that also serves as a bag and a tent(!).
The product of designer Justin Gargasz, this is just a concept so you won’t be able to buy it, but it’s pretty well-constructed. Made of Cordura, the excess material when in jacket form is rolled into the lower back to provide lumbar support. The arms of the jacket act as a handle when you’re in bag mode.
The only problem that I can forsee would come if it rained. If you’ve got a soaking wet tent, are you really going to want to put it on to try and keep you dry the rest of the day? One for dry weekends only, I think.
(via LikeCool)
Keyboard with hidden draw is the perfect example of convergence
Feel that the Star Wars figurines and comical Lolcat print-outs littering your desk aren’t doing enough to display your geek cred? For £24.99, you can amaze your colleagues with even more Princess Leia collectibles hidden away in the depths of this working keyboard.
Yes, I said working keyboard. It’s obviously not going to be as good quality as your Logitech sitting in front of you,…
One gadget to rule them all: how far can one geek's convergence go?
Consumer electronics companies are almost (I said almost) ashamed of using the word convergence now. It’s become a byword for clunky, poorly-designed attempts to shoehorn as many gadgets as possible into one device, while satisfying nobody.
Why can't PSP just focus on being a great gaming device?
Stuart Dredge writes…
We live in a convergance era. My phone plays music, my iPod runs games, my set-top box has a whirring hard drive, and my fridge spends half the day pissing about on YouTube rather than keeping my carrots cool. That’s progress, I guess.
