The new Cinemin from WowWee connects to your iPod, iTouch, computer – whatever your digital device – and insto-presto – you’ve got instant cinema. Guerrilla movie theater. 2 hours battery life. $350 bucks.
I want it.
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PayPal has launched a new site called Do Stuff for Money.
You enter your name, how much you’re paying, to whom you’re offering, and to do what. Paypal then sends them the offer through an email or…and this is where it gets genius – Facebook. You use Facebook Connect so you can browse through your friend list and post the offer on their wall through the Do Stuff for Money website. If the offer is accepted, PayPal will notify you to pay your friend. Great Idea!
Sure the site will generate money and transactions that are serious and legitimate, but I’m betting this will also become a popular tool to post ridiculous offers to friends. And PayPal becomes a fun form of connection for the 200 million users on Facebook.
Check out some of the examples that have already been posted:
I’m on my way over there right now.
The logical step has been taken. The wonderful website RunPee has been turned into an iPhone app. And it’s even better than the web version. (though I love the animated header with the “n” running off to pee.) If this is your first exposure to RunPee: its a site that lets you know what parts of the movie you can skip in order to go to the bathroom. The new app takes it a step further since it’s actually happening in situ.
When the movie starts, you start the timer on the app and it’ll let you know when you can get up and go, and even provide you with a summary of what you’ve missed. Bonus – it tells you whether you should stay through the credits or not for bonus footage.
Love it!
It costs 99¢ at the app store.
via Mashable
Dan Zarella studied a mountain of tweets and re-tweets and came up with some interesting facts on why some tweets are re-twitted (?) more than others:
1. Re-tweets contain more links. A lot more – almost 57% vs. 19%. If you want to get re-tweeted, include some content.
2. Re-tweets tend to have longer words with more syllables in them. You read that right. Dumbing it down does not get you ahead.
3. Re-tweets require “a higher level of education to understand.” Zarella used two different types of tests to measure this – both yielded the same results. This keeps getting better and better.
4. Re-tweets have more new words and concepts. Compared to non-re-tweeted tweets (I’m pretty sure that made sense), re-tweets contained more unique words and novel ideas.
5. Re-tweets are less self-referential. A tweet about “what you had for breakfast is less likely to get re-tweeted than talking about what Obama had for lunch.” And…tweets with swear words are less often re-tweeted.
How about that? For people to pass along what you have to say, make sure it’s intelligent, original, has some content, isn’t a microscopic view of you, and isn’t laced with profanity.
Kind of blows the theory of what gains traction in a mass audience right out of the water.
via Mashable with more data and nice graphs
A few months ago, Nova Scotia launched a campaign that featured a fake phone that could make coffee, morph into a harmonica, and even give you the closest shave. (this was a long walk off a short pier to get to the message of Nova Scotia – rethink us) Another one of the over-promised features was an instant translator.
Laugh no more.
Dial Directions and Sakhr software have joined forces and are building a real-time voice translation service. This means you can instantly translate what you want to say, right then, right there on your cell. You don’t even have to type it in. Speak into your phone, it’s sent to a cloud, routed through software, and then the translation – in audio and in text – is sent back to your phone in a matter of seconds.
They currently have a beta version for the iPhone and Blackberry.
Check it out!
via TechCrunch