Not to be confused with the world’s smallest stop-motion animation character which happened to have been shot with a Nokia N8 smartphone, Dot is an eyeball attachment for the iPhone 4 that allows you to shoot video in 360 degree panoramas. Like iPhone 4 photography accessory hits like The Glif and the Olloclip, Dot is a Kickstarter project. Brought to you by makers of full-sized panoramic video devices Kogeto:

Dot lets your iPhone capture immersive, fully navigable, panoramic video in real-time – and share with friends on your phone, as well as on Facebook and Twitter, or streamed online using our awesome panoramic video web platform and player.

The video is swipe-navigable.

Kickstarter

Like other grip and lens as well as panoramic solutions for the iPhone 4, Oona is being pioneered via Kickstarter. The Oona looks like a useful tool for rigging up your iPhone in tight shooting situations or as a car mount.

Kickstarter

As they say the best camera is the one you have with you. And these days that means a smartphone. But most of the millions of video clips stored on smartphones end up online according to the New York Times. The barriers to getting your clips online include YouTube’s 15-minute upload limit and unwieldy file sizes making email impossible. We would add that it’s a pain to offload files to a computer and then upload them to a sharing service — it kinda defeats the purpose of shooting something in the field to be unable to upload on the spot. Also, the lack of having wifi on hand when you need it hampers getting your video to the web while it’s still top of mind.

The article touches on free apps SocialCam and Thwapr for iPhone, and Qik for Android and a wide range of smartphones.

NYT

The Breakthrough Institute has published a series of case studies entitled Where Good Technologies Come From: Case Studies in American Innovation. From agriculture and locomotives to aviation and cancer treatment, the brief argues that great strides come when the public and private sector work hand in hand. As their headline case, the Breakthrough Institute sites the iPhone as no better example of the invisible hand of government.

The Origins of the iPhone

A blog post about Where Good Technologies Come From states that the iPhone brought together a number of communications and information technologies made possible by federal funding:

• The microchips powering the iPhone owe their emergence to the U.S. military and space programs, which constituted almost the entire early market for the breakthrough technology in the 1960s, buying enough of the initially costly chips to drive down their price by a factor of 50 in a few short years.
• The early foundation of cellular communication lies in radiotelephony capabilities progressively advanced throughout the 20th century with support from the U.S. military.
• The technologies underpinning the Internet were developed and funded by the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency in the 1960s and 70s.
• GPS was originally created and deployed by the military’s NAVSTAR satellite program in the 1980s and 90s.
• Even the revolutionary multitouch screen that provides the iPhone’s intuitive interface was first developed by University of Delaware researchers supported by grants and fellowships provided by the National Science Foundation and the CIA.

The post’s author Jesse Jenkins calls the iPhone emblematic of the public-private partnerships that have driven America’s technological leadership. The two forms this partnership has taken are 1) government acting as an early funder of kscience and applied research and development, and 2) the government helping to develop new industries by acting as an early and demanding customer for innovative, high-risk technologies that the private sector was unable or unwilling to fund.

Download the full report as a PDF here. It’s well worth the read.

Smartphone Cameras Cannibalize Point-and-Shoot Sales

No surprise to us that NYT is reporting that point-and-shoot cameras are falling into disfavor amongst consumers, photo enthusiasts, as well as professional photographers. Bottom line is that a device such as an iPhone 4

1) has a megapixel camera rivaling many point-and-shoot cameras (you may want to shoot your entire wedding using iPhone 4s)
2) is always with you in your pocket and not back home on a shelf when you need it and
3) sharing photos through social networks or e-mail is a much easier, less technical process.

One person interviewed in the article is quoted as saying “It’s much easier to share those pictures with my friends… With my point-and-shoot, I have to plug it into my computer and upload the photos. It’s just a few more steps than I want to take.”

Cannibalization in the pocket-camera sector seems to be running in parallel with the downward sales trends of notebook computers. Just recently, notebook sales negative growth figures were charted by Fortune with iPad shouldering at least some of the blame while Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn was quoted as saying that “internal estimates showed that the iPad had cannibalized sales from laptop PCs, especially netbooks, by as much as 50%.” All of this seems to be fulfillment of Steve Jobs’ vision. Last summer the Apple CEO had some choice predictions about the eclipse of the PC by the likes of iPads and mobile smartphone devices.

As for the video included with the article which we have embedded above, we’ve got a note of constructive criticism for the producers over at The Times for improving the intended comedic effect of the clip. Early on when Times author Sam Grobart is doing a romantic break-up scene with his point-and-shoot camera, literally talking to the inanimate gadget, the video should cut a couple of times to the camera just sitting there. As if it had something to say it were in shock. To which Grobart would then “respond” to what was “said” by the camera in that shot. High-larity. Or at least just our 2-cents.

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iOS Devices are Cannibals

Smartphone Cameras Cannibalize Point-and-Shoot Sales (Video)

"Apple Cannibalizing Everything" Cult of Mac's Perspective

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

iPad to Blame for Notebook Sales Negative Growth?

Steve Jobs Said So: iPad Will Replace PCs

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iPhone 4 Shoots 100% of Photo + Video for a Wedding (Video)

iPhone 4 Macworld Cover Self-portrait (Video)

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. Rather:

Apple is providing an alternative to these platforms and media, and some customers are choosing Apple’s alternative in cases where without Apple they would have presumably chosen the older model. That’s not cannibalism. That’s just capitalism.

Cult of Mac

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iOS Devices are Cannibals

Smartphone Cameras Cannibalize Point-and-Shoot Sales (Video)

"Apple Cannibalizing Everything" Cult of Mac's Perspective

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

iPad to Blame for Notebook Sales Negative Growth?

Steve Jobs Said So: iPad Will Replace PCs

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

iPhone 4 Shoots 100% of Photo + Video for a Wedding (Video)

iPhone 4 Macworld Cover Self-portrait (Video)

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TestFlight

Hey, iOS user, ever found yourself tapping away on your virtual keyboard when you suddenly utter the phrase “Damn you, Autocorrect!” We thought you had. Well now that phrase is captured (along with user-gernerated autocorrect fails) as the name of the new Pop Hangover Network site damnyouautocorrect.com. We like that the developers of a site which is all about writing problems caused by a ghost in the machine still saw fit to properly deploy the comma in the site’s name.

If you don’t feel like playing, here’s how to disable the auto-correct on your iOS device.

Otherwise, it’s time to get started checking out the hilarious fails and submitting some of your own.

damnyouautocorrect.com

A new iPhone app developed by the digital team at mcgarrybowen is now available on the Apple iTunes App Store. Everything you ever wanted to know about the Park and then some. All proceeds from the application will go directly to the Central Park Conservancy to help benefit the park.

BUY the Central Park App on the iTunes App Store

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Vonage announced the availability of a new app for iPhone and iPod touch and Android phones that provides free calls between Facebook friends.

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Vonage Mobile for Facebook – iPhone and iPod touch

Vonage Mobile site and for Android download.

Read about it on AP.