I am the lucky owner of an iPod touch. I’ve bought the device for mobile enter­tain­ment (music & video). Apple deliv­ers a very crappy user expe­ri­ence with their Quick­Time Trail­ers site: I can’t play their default trail­ers, I am being for­warded to their ’special’ iPhone sec­tion, where I get the ultimate-​postage-​stamp-​sized-​crappy-​compressed trailer there is avail­able. Maybe it’s one-​size-​fits-​all con­cept isn’t bad for the “iPod fatty” user, but the qual­ity on my iPod is shame­ful! What hap­pened to all those lovely pixels? Let me decide if I want to down­load the 640×336 ver­sion or the 320×172 ver­sion. I can do it on my desk­top, so why not on my iPod? Okay, 320×172 is small, but that doesn’t mean that the qual­ity has to be so crappy!
So think you can do better huh…! Well yeah! I haven’t got the RAW-​DV footage but I’ve taken the 480p ver­sion to show my point. Even the recom­pressed mate­r­ial is better then theirs. Here’s are the two files for com­par­i­son: the orig­i­nal Clover­field Trailer (320) versus the recom­pressed Clover­field Trailer (640). Just put them on your iPod for com­par­is­ment.

The year is 2700. WALL•E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will dis­cover what he was meant for.

It will be released in the summer of 2008 and to be even more pre­cise 27 june, as you can see on the above poster. If you can’t wait until it’s release date here’s the Trailer.
On the Inter­net Movie Data­base (IMDB) I’ve dis­cov­ered a very nice detail watch Luxo (the lamp) care­fully. I think WALL•E is a must see!

When a over­con­fi­dent teen alien gets behind the con­trols of a space­ship, he must attempt to abduct a slum­ber­ing farmer under the watch­ful eye of a crit­i­cal instruc­tor.

But abduct­ing humans requires pre­ci­sion and a gentle touch, and within a few mis­steps it’s painfully clear why humans don’t go miss­ing every year. This is the latest short film from Pixar Ani­ma­tion Stu­dios. You’ve to see this one it’s really great!

The Bom­bardier EMBRIO Advanced Con­cept is the most rad­i­cal design for a vehi­cle (uni­cy­cle) I have ever seen. It makes the Segway scoot­ers look for girlies The Bom­bardier EMBRIO/2025 is a recre­ational vehi­cle sim­i­lar to a motor­cy­cle but looks like a motor­cy­cle straight out of one of my favorite epic movies called Akira. The movie Akira (1988) was based on the cyber­punk manga Akira by Kat­suhiro Otomo.

The story takes place in the polit­i­cally volatile city of Neo-​Tokyo, built over Tokyo Bay after an unex­plained explo­sion incit­ing World War III destroyed the orig­i­nal city in 1988. The cat­a­clysm is revealed to have been caused by the fright­en­ing psionic powers of a child, Akira, who had ear­lier been the sub­ject of a secret gov­ern­ment research project for the devel­op­ment of psy­choki­netic abil​i​ties.The Bom­bardier requires no spe­cial train­ing for the user. Future tech­nol­ogy will have a large con­trol over the laws of physics (i.e. the use of gyro­scopes, sen­sors, high-​performance brak­ing system, active sus­pen­sion, night vision, etc.). After start­ing and moving for­ward, the front wheels retract at 32 km/u (20 mph). Vehi­cle stands on one wheel (gyro­scope) with two front wheels off the ground, but pro­tracts when needed in case of gyro fail­ure. Energy will be gen­er­ated by fuel-​cell technology.

I have added an 5G iPod (Video), to our iPod line-​up. I was a little skep­ti­cal at first, but after having played with it at an Apple Centre I was con­vinced. The video/audio qual­ity of this device is really amazing!

harman/kardon today intro­duced The Bridge, a unique iPod acces­sory that con­nects a com­pat­i­ble iPod to a range of spe­cial harman/kardon The Bridge-​ready AVR 40 Series audio/video receivers, The Bride, which does not require a power adapter, pro­vides a direct audio and con­trol link between the iPod and the receiver. “Elegantly designed to match harman/kardon prod­ucts, The Bridge enables a host of advanced iPod capa­bil­i­ties, such as dis­play­ing on-​screen menus, on front panel dis­play of AVR 40 Series, on TV or video dis­play, pro­vid­ing oper­a­tion of the iPod via the receiver’s remote con­trol and charg­ing of the iPod.” harman/kardon’s The Bridge will be avail­able in Octo­ber 2005 for €100.

Today I bought the JBL Crea­ture II audio speaker system, my Apple Pro speak­ers (also harman/kardon) got a little bit out dated. JBL’s Crea­ture II three piece speaker system pro­duces high-​quality stereo sound for movies, MP3’s, movies and gaming expe­ri­ences. Fea­tur­ing cutting-​edge sci-​fi design and supe­rior sound per­for­mance, JBL Crea­ture II is a unique “plug and play” solu­tion, com­pat­i­ble with all Macs and PCs - both desk­tops and porta­bles - as well as MP3 play­ers and Walk­mans. JBL Crea­ture II offers con­sumers cool design and excep­tional sound, prov­ing that excel­lence does not have to come in an expen­sive package.