Beetle Borg

As we speak, the U.S government is designing cyborg beetles. This is for real guys, remote controlled cyborg beetles! Questioningly evil scientists at UC Berkley led by Hirotaka Sato have wired beetles with tiny electrons that allow them to steer and fly these artificial pets wirelessly using a remote control. This research is funded by Agency of the department of defence. And yeah, the idea of robotic animals is a little scary, an enormous swarm of cyborg beetle would be really awesome.....as long as it wasn't headed at me! It does make you wonder though, doesn't our government have anything better to think about?

Facebook Movie???????

If our good friend Facebook isn't already popular enough, a movie is soon to be made about the site. The film will be entitled "The Social Network," super original, I know! And will star Jesse Eisenberg as facebook founder Mark Zuckerberb, Andrew Garfield as co-founder Eduardo Saverin, and Justin Timberlake will play Napster founder Sean Parker. The movie will be about the inception of the hugely popular site. Should be . . . interesting.

Indoor Maps and Dating Help

Introducing Micello, or google maps for the indoors. This gadget will map the insides of buildings, shopping centers, and more. It will be a great help at conferences and conventions for those lost souls trying to find the bathroom or a good cup of coffee.

Another company is called Gelato, or "the friend feed of the dating world." This nifty sight imports you data from Facebook over Facebook connect so you don't have to come up with a whole new profile for dating sites in your quest for love, and so that your perspective mate can get a feel for what you're really like. Kinda creepy if you ask me.

And just a little side note, in case you were wondering: Netflix Watch Instantly app is coming to the iPhone!. . . . we just don't know when.

Efficient Earbuds

Sony Ericson has come up with a very cool contraption: eabuds that stop playing music when you pull them out of your ears! The MH907 will auhtomatically turn off and restart music upon contact with you ears! The same motion can also initiate calls if the buds are connected to your phone. Nifty, huh?






Here's another cool tidbit. Chrysler will be the first owner to provide digital owner's manuals for all 2010 cars. This means no huge, cumbersome manual taking up space in your car. The company estimates that this could save 930 tons of paper a year which is the equivalent of twenty thousand trees per year! Instead drivers will be able to refer to a DVD and full color printed user guide which is promised to be no longer than 80 pages. Yay for car companies going green!

3D TV's

Sony hopes to get a 3D TV into your living room by the end of 2010. Sony CEo announced that the company will be making Bravia TV'S, Vaio laptops and ps3 consuls that can all play 3D media. There are several versions of 3D media out there already, but sony is going with the active shutter method which uses electronic glasses that rapidly open and close in sync with the TV image.

News from Apple

As I said yesterday, Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance at the apple conference after his liver transplant. IN only two years of being released, apple has sold 30 million iphones. they have 75 million apps in the app store and 1.8 billion apps have been downloaded. A new feature, genius, makes recommendations  based on apps you already have. this is al part of a new free itunes download called 1.3. 

iTunes is now the #1 music retailer in the world. Some cool features of itunes 9 are the genius playlist system. This is when you pick one song and iTunes automatically picks songs like it that go well together. Other updates include home sharing, improved syncing, and being able to manage iphone and the ability to manage your iphone and and ipod touch apps on itunes. 

Tunes, Phones, Pods. . .

At a recent apple conference, Steve Jobs announced the launch of iTunes 9, with a shiny new interface, and redesigned itunes store. In addition, itunes will automatically create geuis playlists and home sharing, which allows up to five computers to share music easily. 

The ipod and iphone also received updates which will allow a playlist of up to 30,000 songs. The iTunes LP made it's debut, a digital album format which allows creators to build mini, downloadable websites to accompany their music. 

Apple has drastically dropped the price of the ipod touch! The 8 gig ipod touch will now cost just $199! 

MIcrosoft Makes a Comeback

Motorola, once known as the flashy hardware company, is now getting serious about modern technology with "The Motoblur." "It's emblematic of the shift towards software and the internet as the main features in a modern mobile phone," says Motorola CEO Sanjay Jhan. Sadly for him though, that era really started with the launch of the iphone. Plus, who doesn't like apple gadgets better anyway? 

What Will They think of Next?

Hey everyone! Welcome to my first official media news blog! 

The Beatles Rock Band comes out this wednesday! Should be very fun to play! There is also a rumor going that original versions of the beatles music will soon be available on iTunes. Keep your fingers crossed. 

A new version of the Asus e-reader will be out soon. They are now issuing it in the regular tablet version as well as a two panel fold out version that is more like a real book. With this format, readers will be able to read their book on one side while having full internet access on the other. The tablet will also be equipped with a camera and microphone for skype calls!

Online Monopoly is coming soon. Players will be given 3 million  dollars to start with and can build wherever they want.