Boost Mobile gets limited edition cell phones
The Retail Mafia, a group of New York design boutiques, have created different sets of Limited Edition phones. Alife, aNYthing, frank151, J$, situationormal, and SSUR each have a phone that will be sold in their stores. Pictured is of the alife phone. It's aiight but not all that.
The religious Ipod shuffle
http://www.devoted1.com/$2 from every sale will be donated to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund and various Children's charities. And while your at it download some religious content via
http://www.podcastdirectory.com/genre/religious/
Tokyo Flash
Toyko Flash has some damn cool watches. This is their equalizer watch
for all those music fans who like to watch the lights dance up and down.
If your really into watches this is a site that you have to really check out.
www.toykoflash.com
When fashion and technology meet
We has the chance to sit in on a panel at last weeks Digital Life in NYC. The panel was about the convergence of fashion and technology. And while this might seem like a new trend it's really old hat. In Japan your cellphone defines who you are. But we here in the US have been content for to long with carrying the same ole' plastic generic looking phone and not having any style to ourselves at all. And it seems like only recently have the cell phone makers started trying to get funkier with us with the cellphone designs. We now have all types of colors, sizes, screens, stickers, charms, carrying cases, and wallpapers. And recent stats have shown that kids are more then willing to spend more then $2 on the personalization of their cellphone. It's a trent that many companies are itting up and taking notice to because it's more money then the $.99 download from Itunes. One company was at digital life show how they have molded suede until notebooks and cellphones. They sell a process to companies and the matarials and during the creation of the cellphone the hot plastic and suded bond together. IT looked really hot! So you can just imagine what's going to be coming from the cellphone companies in the future. T-Mobile seems to be the first breaking out of their generic design and offeering limited edition Sidekicks II's. So the future of fashion and technology will be a happy marriage.
Stik Ax
www.stikax.comWe where fishing around the Digital Life Expo this weekend and ran across this interesting remixing tool called the Stik Ax. It's basically a music and video mixer which allows you to record your mix. It's USB controlled and you just drag and drop your video or audio clips to one of the 10 buttons on the controller. While it looks a little hokie it might just be the fun kind of tool that video junkies are looking for to easily VDJ at a party.
The new Ipod now with Video
Ilounge.com is already out of the box with a photo of a new ad for a new Ipod. The screen is slightly bigger and they have moved the headphone jack to the side. I think this is personally a decoy. It looks more like an artist rendering then the real deal. What does Steve Jobs have up his sleve today.
Update:
Well it's over and Steve Jobs officall announced the Ipod with video playback. The new Itunes 6.0 features 2,000 QVGA formatted FairPlay DRMed music videos which you can pick up for $1.99 apiece, as well as episodes of five ABC series (Lost, Desperate Housewives, Night Stalker, That’s So Raven, The Suite Life). I'm sure Desperate Housewives will be poplular. So how much will movies be? These videos are all short form. Nothing over 22mins. So where does this put the PSP? When will they launch a internet read download service with mpeg4 video to play on it's nice crystal clear screen.
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Madonna Ipod confirmed
Today is another Apple annoucement day. So far they have confirmed the release of the Madonna Ipod Nano. The pink Ipod will come pre-loaded with the full Madonna collection. Expect this to be a big seller for Madonna fans.
But rumors have been flying all over the internet about what Apple is going to show us today. It it going to be a new power book? A new mac mini? A 80GB Ipod that's smaller? Or the Ipod Video? Who knows what Mr. Jobs has up his sleve...so lets see if he can really convert the world over to Mac.
The record industry still trying to suck more money
Warner Music Group wants a cut of the cash Google and others would get from selling ads next to search results for its artists. Still sucking more blood this Halloween season Universal Music Group has clashed with Yahoo over compensation for videos and pulled its videos from the site until Yahoo relented. One Universal Music exec estimates revenue from the new agreement to be worth $10 million or more to the company. Warner Music is now trying to extend the concept to the emerging video-search business. While this is all well and good the music industry is in a serious slump and if they keep trying to block the progress of technology they will continue to lose out. If the artist made better music and the record industry went all digital they could save a lot of money and start making money again. Gone are the hey days when labels had money to spend on lavish parties and promotionals. The music industry still has not woken up in this digital age.
MTV, BET Offer Programming to Verizon FiOS TV
MTV, BET Offer Programming to Verizon FiOS TV
Both MTV Networks and BET have signed up to be part of a new fiber optic television network from Verizon. The service, called FiOS TV, will offer programming over super-fast optical connections, part of a big experiment to woo both satellite and cable customers. FiOS, which is so far only available in select markets, will offer a wide range of MTV programming, including LOGO, MTV Desi, and a new high-definition channel called MHD. Additionally, FiOS TV customers will be given access to a long list of on-demand videos, as well as MTV-powered audio channels. Following the deal announcement, FiOS executive Nicole Browning said, "MTV Networks and BET are dedicated to bringing our consumers the content they're passionate about on new platforms as they emerge in the marketplace."
Meanwhile, FiOS is also pushing into the broadband internet category as well. That service, also in a trial phase, offers customers an immense amount of speed. Transmission rates start at 5Mbps according to the company, which easily tops the highest delivery rates of competing cable and DSL plans. That will attract power media users like gamers and music fans, and competitive pricing could make a big market impact. From a broader perspective, the service is part of a much larger push towards super-fast connectivity, which will make rapid delivery of heavy media files more commonplace. For many college students, that reality is already being delivered with the closed internet2 network, which reportedly enables song downloads in a matter of seconds.
www.digitalmusicnews.com
Ilounge.com is already out of the box with a photo of a new ad for a new Ipod. The screen is slightly bigger and they have moved the headphone jack to the side. I think this is personally a decoy. It looks more like an artist rendering then the real deal. What does Steve Jobs have up his sleve today.
