social networks - red, pink and now orange!

I think nearly every German heard about the social network "StudiVZ" or "SchülerVZ". People can create accounts, invite friends, upload and link photos, write on walls and so on ...

The Problem is: SchülerVZ is only for students and studivz is only for Students which go to university and so on. So most of the users created multiple accounts on both networks.

This is already crazy... because it is one company and you give them your informations twice! It is a waste of storage!

But never the less "publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck" created a third (!!!) network. so we can register again to keep in touch with our relatives and adult friends that don't go to university, college or highschool!

However, the publishing group was very creative to design a new logo (:-P)

studiVZ	SchülerVZ	MeinVZ

In my view, everyone should use facebook :-D

Because it's blue! Read more on this blog.

    

why the Airbook is shit

Sorry for the rough title. But in my opinion apple is a company you should can't trust. You buy a product and gets bounded.

So. Now: the thines notebook in the world. We have a USB-port, wireless lan, gigabit lan, dvi-output and an integrated webcam. The performance will come from an 1,6 Ghz CPU and 2-4GB RAM and a normal harddrive with 80GB.

On the other side is the X300 from Lenovo. The interesting thing is that when you google for Images with the keywords "thinnest notebook" you'll find only pictures from the X300 with titles like "The Macbook Air killer".

In this damn small device are more interfaces and more possibilities: 1,2Ghz, 2GB RAM an SSD (that means there is a kind of SD-card instead of an normal harddrive) with 64GB. A SSD storage is better becaus you don't have movable parts. An 13.3 LED Widescreen with 1440x900 Pixel. for communications Gb Lan, Wlan and a modem, fingerprint sensor, mic+speaker,3 USB and a VGA.

It is made with an stable case, the Macbook Air only with an aluminium... Apple thinks that it is not neccesary to change an akku, but with an IBM you can replace you optical drive (the Macbook Air don't even has a slot for an internal drive...) with an battery and change the normal one with a better one...So

everything will run about 10 hours.

The Macbook is something for posers and people who have too much money to spend on things they'll never need!

http://ghostrider30.blogspot.com/2008/01/why-i-didnt-buy-macbook-air-for-my-make.html

real new invention by nokia - morph

As I read in golem.de nokia designed together with the United Kingdoms's University of Cambridge together a moprh. The Result of a study with the target to combine nanotechnology and mobilephones. The possibillities are countless: Self-cleaning, absorbing energy from the sun, "realize" the world around (such things like smell) and so on...  And then I found today this amazing video:

In my opinion apple will never reach such creative and innovative targets.

you can fold the Morph-Device!

From the press release:

Nokia and University of Cambridge launch the Morph – a nanotechnology concept device

New York, US and Espoo, Finland — Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge (UK) - was launched today alongside the “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibition, on view from February 24 to May 12, 2008, at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Morph features in both the exhibition catalog and on MoMA’s official website.

Morph is a concept that demonstrates how future mobile devices might be stretchable and flexible, allowing the user to transform their mobile device into radically different shapes. It demonstrates the ultimate functionality that nanotechnology might be capable of delivering: flexible materials, transparent electronics and self-cleaning surfaces.

Dr. Tapani Ryhanen, Head of the NRC Cambridge UK laboratory, Nokia, commented: “We hope that this combination of art and science will showcase the potential of nanoscience to a wider audience. The techniques we are developing might one day mean new possibilities in terms of the design and function of mobile devices. The research we are carrying out is fundamental to this as we seek a safe and controlled way to develop and use new materials.“

Professor Mark Welland, Head of the Department of Engineering’s Nanoscience Group at the University of Cambridge and University Director of Nokia-Cambridge collaboration added “Developing the Morph concept with Nokia has provided us with a focus that is both artistically inspirational but, more importantly, sets the technology agenda for our joint nanoscience research that will stimulate our future work together.”

The partnership between Nokia and the University of Cambridge was announced in March, 2007 - an agreement to work together on an extensive and long term programme of joint research projects. NRC has established a research facility at the University’s West Cambridge site and collaborates with several departments – initially the Nanoscience Center and Electrical Division of the Engineering Department – on projects that, to begin with, are centered on nanotechnology.
Elements of Morph might be available to integrate into handheld devices within 7 years, though initially only at the high-end. However, nanotechnology may one day lead to low cost manufacturing solutions, and offers the possibility of integrating complex functionality at a low price.

thanks for reading!

tobi