All Content Tagged With: "gadgets"

Crown Jewels: Sir Jony Ive and Gadgets as Jewelry

Crown Jewels: Sir Jony Ive and Gadgets as Jewelry

Queen: I dub thee Sir Jonathan Ive. Now if you would please be so good as to demonstrate how we might create a new folder on our royal iPad.

“Apple Cannibalizing Everything” Cult of Mac’s Perspective

“Apple Cannibalizing Everything” Cult of Mac’s Perspective

Cult of Mac brings some welcome perspective to the “Apple is cannibalizing everything” meme concluding that Apple hasn’t taken anything from netbooks, notebooks, PCs, hand-held gaming systems, newspapers or DVDs and incorporated what it has taken into its own products.

Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn: iPad Cannibalizing Laptop PC Sales by 50%

Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn: iPad Cannibalizing Laptop PC Sales by 50%

In an article about retailers revamping their aisles with hand-held gadgets in anticipation of the holiday shopping season, the Wall Street Journal is reporting Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn as saying that “internal estimates showed that the iPad had cannibalized sales from laptop PCs, especially netbooks, by as much as 50%.”

iPad to Blame for Notebook Sales Negative Growth?

iPad to Blame for Notebook Sales Negative Growth?

Fortune posted a chart from Morgan Stanley that highlights the negative growth of notebook sales.

iPhone 4 vs BlackBerry Torch, Samsung Captivate Browser Shootout

iPhone 4 vs BlackBerry Torch, Samsung Captivate Browser Shootout

The folks at crackberry dot com have conducted a side-by-side comparison to between the iPhone 4, BlackBerry Torch 9800 and the Samsung Captivate to see which mobile device would load a web page quickest. So which mobile phone’s web browser crossed the finish line first? Watch the video…

Steve Jobs Said So: Origin of iPhone & iPad  (Video)

Steve Jobs Said So: Origin of iPhone & iPad (Video)

What’s the story on how the iPad came about? Well, Steve Jobs shared a secret at the All Things Digital Conference…

Steve Jobs Said So: iPad Will Replace PCs

Steve Jobs Said So: iPad Will Replace PCs

Apple CEO Steve Jobs interviewed at the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital conference said that tablet devices like the iPad are likely to take over as consumer devices.

Sony Press Conference Announcing PMW-EX1R, PMW-350, New SxS-1 Cards and More

Sony Press Conference Announcing PMW-EX1R, PMW-350, New SxS-1 Cards and More

New Sony technology from announced at major broadcast show SATIS: a redesigned PMW-EX1 with all changes based only on customer feedback, as well as supplementing the original line of SxS cards with new affordable SxS-1 cards & adapter.

Sony PMW-EX1R to Replace PMW-EX1 Hi-Def Video Camera

Sony PMW-EX1R to Replace PMW-EX1 Hi-Def Video Camera

Sony has redesigned its hit prosumer cam the PMW-EX1 saying that all changes were based only on customer feedback So just what are the improvement to be found in the PMW-EX1R?

Sony Affordable SxS-1 cards & Low-Cost Memory Stick Adapter for XDCAM EX Cameras

Sony Affordable SxS-1 cards & Low-Cost Memory Stick Adapter for XDCAM EX Cameras

Sony has introduced affordable SxS-1 cards and a low-cost Memory Stick adapter for XDCAM EX cameras.

BCP GEARHEAD: Samson H4 Handy Recorder (Video)

BCP GEARHEAD: Samson H4 Handy Recorder (Video)

The Zoom H4 Handy Digital Recorder fits in your palm and is ideal for recording live musical performances, interviews, podcasts, meetings, classes and seminars.

BCP GEARHEAD: Zacuto – Advanced Sound for DSLRs

BCP GEARHEAD: Zacuto – Advanced Sound for DSLRs

Steve Weiss invites Dave Schwarz, Nick Barbieri and Jeff Beaumont to discuss how to get the best sound with DSLR’s in this video.

BCP GEARHEAD: Canon EOS 5D Digital SLR

BCP GEARHEAD: Canon EOS 5D Digital SLR

This camera is rocking the digital film world. It’s a gamechanger in terms of acquisition.

ArtStar ON-AIR PROMO» Reality Show Contestant Biography: Buki, Artist

ArtStar ON-AIR PROMO» Reality Show Contestant Biography: Buki, Artist

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The Spot: Reality Show Contestant Biography — Buki, Video Artist

The good folks in the promos department at VOOM HD Networks cut together a series of contestant bios from Big City’s footage to help plug the reality show ArtStar Season 2 on Galler

TreeHugger Gift Guide with Summer Rayne Oakes for Discovery Planet Green :15

TreeHugger Gift Guide with Summer Rayne Oakes for Discovery Planet Green :15

TreeHugger, the leading green site on the internet, advocates for living a simpler environmentally-friendly lifestyle and practices its preaching with a minimalist design sensibility. The brand’s various icons, including hero tree logo, are simple as well as Spanish Modern Art inflected. When the need for an on-air spot promoting the site’s growing Gift Guide vertical, we spotted the need for a TreeHugger Gifts icon. So we reached out to the lushly talented Federico Slivka Lederer to get our fix. He came back with something that blew our hemp socks off: gift box bow made out of the top of the TreeHugger hero tree — we think deploying an exclamation point or two here is justified, so please allow us to add: !!!!!!!!!! The rest of the creative fell into place from there. Next challenge up: how to deliver a spot worthy of the brand’s elegant aesthetic, but (you know what we’re going to say) on a budget…

TreeHugger Gift Guide with Summer Rayne Oakes for Discovery Planet Green :30

TreeHugger Gift Guide with Summer Rayne Oakes for Discovery Planet Green :30

TreeHugger, the leading green site on the internet, advocates for living a simpler environmentally-friendly lifestyle and practices its preaching with a minimalist design sensibility. The brand’s various icons, including hero tree logo, are simple as well as Spanish Modern Art inflected. When the need for an on-air spot promoting the site’s growing Gift Guide vertical, we spotted the need for a TreeHugger Gifts icon. So we reached out to the lushly talented Federico Slivka Lederer to get our fix. He came back with something that blew our hemp socks off: gift box bow made out of the top of the TreeHugger hero tree — we think deploying an exclamation point or two here is justified, so please allow us to add: !!!!!!!!!! The rest of the creative fell into place from there. Next challenge up: how to deliver a spot worthy of the brand’s elegant aesthetic, but (you know what we’re going to say) on a budget…

We Did It: TreeHugger On-Air & Web Spots for Discovery Planet Green

We Did It: TreeHugger On-Air & Web Spots for Discovery Planet Green

Hey-ho!!!! As part of Discovery Communication’s integration of TreeHugger.com which it acquired last August, BCP generated a grand package of deliverables based around a single shoot with multiple edits and iterations of post-production graphics…

Sony PMW-EX1 Hi-Def Video Camera

Sony PMW-EX1 Hi-Def Video Camera

Videomaker has a good review of the Sony PMW-EX1 putting a finger on the heart of the video-making matter: the challenge of independent video producers is to balance image quality with the cost of the gear with most often quality being lost in the process. Videomaker points out where the EX1 succeeds and misses.

VTech VFlash Toy Commercials

VTech VFlash Toy Commercials

We provided editorial for Berenter Greenhouse & Webster on these full-up spots. The Tub Time Curious George toy commercial was edited on the Avid Media Composer.

Panasonic DVX100 24p Camcorder

Panasonic DVX100 24p Camcorder

Time was we’d go out with our Sony PD-150 or Canon XL1 or Sony Hi8 camera the VX3 hoping that this time it would be different and that we wouldn’t come back footage that had that “video look.” The 60i or interlaced field non-aesthetically-pleasing feel. Again and again we’d come back disappointed because our projects did have the gravitas of the film image. And on the days when we shot on expensive cameras like Beta and DigiBeta, it just felt worse and as if money had been flushed down the drain. Enter the revolutionary Panasonic DVX 100 camcorder…