Radio Talent Zoo will feature an interview with an advertising star every week. The first podcast is a fifteen minute interview with Lance Jensen, founder of Modernista! in our own backyard of Boston. They need to include it in iTunes but for now you can get it by going here..
Talent Zoo launches podcast
Flexible electronic ink paper
E Ink and Phillips have announced a breakthrough in electronic ink technology: a 10.1 inch flexible e-ink tablet with a resolution of 100 dots per inch (comparable to standard newspaper). This is another step towards a prctical electronic newspaper. Electronic ink is an ideal display medium for books, newspapers and magazines as it needs to be powered only to change and is a purely reflective mechanism that needs no backlighting and is as sharp as ink on white paper.
The full text of the release is here…
How the video iPod will change the world
The importance of the video iPod is more far ranging than the product itself and transcends it, just like the effect of the original iPod on the music industry and even culturally in how we listen and relate to music. In the olden days we used to sit down and listen to albums in our living rooms on systems carefully tuned for sound quality. Now we listen to music in any sequence we want and mostly in shufle over some crappy headphones delivering 128kb limited sound. But the iPod has empowered us by untethering our music and allowing for serendipitous access to our deep libraries and not what we just bought last week. The video iPod also legitimizes in one fell swoop the act of paying for video and not getting a physical copy of it.. Delivery of DRM protected video content from all those myriad of startups is now suddenly legitimate.
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Dual core G5s last gasp for PowerPC?
Engadget reports this morning that Apple’s invitation only event slated for today in New York City will be to unveil the much rumored PowerPC G970 dual core chipped G5 towers. The event is taking place at the Jacob Javitz on the eve of PhotoPlus Expo and the rumor mill is also expecting new G4 PowerBooks with increased resolution displays. I suspect Apple will throw in some other goodies into the bargain to convince you to not wait for the first gen Intel products slated for June 2006 but everybody expects an announcement in January’s Macworld Expo. My recommendation is to sit tight unless you have machines catching fire and wait for the Intel generation which will make these G5s look like an Atari 2600.
