Archive for the 'Video' Category

May the Schwartz be with you …

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

In doing a little reasearch for my post of video conversion for the iPod, I came across the following picture. I reminded me of Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs - specificly, Rick Moranis‘ character, Dark Helmet.  

Toshiba?s ?360-degree? head mounted display
Toshiba has developed a giant full-faced helmet that weighs around three kilo and facilitates the wearer to see […]

Converting video for your iPod

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

I was going to give this post some funny, thought provoking or obscure title but then realized, the task at hand is to provide a little bit of useful information. So instead, this will be plain and simple.
(For those who are way too hyper to read any further, here is the download link and the screen […]

On-line “just in time” education

Friday, July 6th, 2007

About 18 months ago, while contemplating a career “side step”, I proposed some ideas for “just in time education”. The premise is that, today, most people don’t have the time for formal all-day and multi-day training models and often need “just enough” to get started. Also, there is a lot of need for “point specific” […]

Once upon a time you could flip for free

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

A few days ago, I mentioned theFlip video recording device. It reminded me of the CVS one-time-use “camcorder” (I use that term loosely). Yesterday, I ran into an old friend who has a propensity for tearing things apart and he too mentioned the old CVS camcorders. We both agreed that their best application is “hazardous […]

Flip - off

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

I saw a strange ad on TV this evening and only at the end did I understand the product pitch. They were selling theFlip. I recognized it immediately. It was an upgrade of the CVS one-time use camcorder. Like the CVS version, theFlip has a fixed lens. The big different is it is 640×480 video […]