Category Archives: Technology

Rupert Murdoch Launches The Daily

Written by Peter. Posted on February 3, 2011. No comments.
I remember explaining to my roommate back in college that reading the newspaper is kind of pointless. My argument: “Any news in that paper was already posted on the internet yesterday, so you’re actually reading old news this morning.” That really blew his mind. Honestly, I think it’s terrible that print media is collapsing so [...]

3D 360 Interactive Video Technology for iPhone

Written by Peter. Posted on January 31, 2011. No comments.
Posting about the Black Eyed Peas makes me feel kinda gross (sorry if you’re a fan), but their new 3D 360 interactive video experience for the iPhone shows off some pretty crazy technology. Yes, 3D 360, as in you can turn around in the video and see objects in 3D (the experience is limited to [...]

Students Create WeSC RFID Sneakers

Written by Peter. Posted on January 25, 2011. 3 Comments.
Imagine checking in on Facebook without even having to blink. I stumbled across this video today on these special social media shoes. Students at a Swedish progressive, new media-focused school called Hyper Island partnered with clothing company WeSC to create RFID shoes that help connect social media to your experiences without the hassle of fumbling around [...]

Daniel Tosh TV Show Starts A Blog

Written by Peter. Posted on January 24, 2011. No comments.
Whether you like him or not, Daniel Tosh is turning into a face for the YouTube generation. It’s all thanks to his show Tosh.0, which riffs on the dumbest viral and buzzworthy web videos out there. It’s the stuff we all watch because we don’t want to fall behind on our quick-changing pop culture references. [...]

Brand New 3D Technology Sans Eyewear

Written by Peter. Posted on January 17, 2011. No comments.
A man named Francois Vogel demonstrates his discovery of a way to watch video in 3D without the annoying plastic or cardboard glasses. Instead he attaches these small devices to each side of his forehead (near the temple) and they cause his eyes to blink rapidly back and forth – which creates the same 3D [...]

@IDEO Brings Tactile Experience to Digital Music (via @psfk)

Written by Peter. Posted on December 14, 2010. No comments.
IDEO has always been great at thinking out loud. Since they have such a large collection of great minds at their disposal, it’s only fair that they let us know what’s in their heads. Over a year ago a team of designers from IDEO put out a book called I Miss My Pencil, that explores [...]

Wild 3D Projection for Toyota Auris

Written by Peter. Posted on October 19, 2010. No comments.
The other week Toyota UK posted this video of a 3D projection that creative agency Glue Isobar created for their new hybrid vehicle, the Toyota Auris. It’s pretty unbelievable to see this work on video, but I can only imagine the people who saw this in really life were completely blown away. Imagine if urban [...]

The Lack of Futureness

Written by Peter. Posted on October 6, 2010. No comments.
I didn’t predict a rant today, but here it goes. I’ve had a lot of thinking time this week. Today I read an interesting piece of writing today from Russell Davies about today’s “lack of futureness” and while it’s just a collection of thoughts raising the issue, it had me thinking how this applies to new [...]

Location, Location, Location

Written by Peter. Posted on September 20, 2010. No comments.
For some time now I’ve had to explain to my non-tech savvy friends what Foursquare was – and mostly the response was something like “that sounds weird” or “bring on the stalkers.” I admit, I actually drew a line and have stayed off of Foursquare (if I’m going to give up my “20,” I’ll just [...]

House the Latest Foot Soldier in DSLR Revolution

Written by Nina. Posted on April 22, 2010. No comments.
I took this opportunity to write a digital haiku: House’s Greg Yaitanes confirms via his Twitter: A 5d finale. That’s right!  In case you didn’t “read between the lines,” director Greg Yaitanes has disclosed that the season finale of House was shot on the Canon Mark II 5d. As the latest development in the DSLR revolution we’ve been covering, Yaitanes [...]

Interactive, Location-Based iPhone “Film” entered into Boston International Film Fest

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on April 20, 2010. No comments.
I don’t quite get how this qualifies as a Film and not some sort of game, but I will definitely grant that it is a complete first, especially for a festival entry. Murder on Beacon Hill, and application based around 43 minutes of video premiered at Boston’s International Film Festival. Viewers experience the film as [...]

Appearance releases via iPhone in the field!

Written by Brandon. Posted on April 6, 2010. No comments.
Whoa… admitedly, I’ve been holding out on the iphone related stuff, I’m a BBerry guy, but recently I was able to trade my little sister (14 years old) an Urban Outfitters gift card to have her ipod touch on loan.  I’m getting into it, and Urgent Content is developing a mobile ap, so figured I [...]

VOTD: nailing every tech entrepreneur cliché

Written by Kasia. Posted on March 9, 2010. No comments.
“You should follow me cuz I’m friends with Ashton” raps the New Dork, waving a copy of Fast Company with Ashton Kutcher on the cover (the same issue that floated around our old office for months). This viral Empire State of Mind parody nails pretty much every San Francisco tech entrepreneur cliché– it’s like bingo [...]

Pasta, a brew, and some Chat Roulette

Written by Brandon. Posted on February 27, 2010. No comments.
Ok, I’ll admit it, I’m obsessed with CR.  Before we started Urgent Content, the Bonrz crew (@faketv, @henrygoldman, @bjstein, and yours truly @the_bg) were contemplating a potential dating site idea… We went so far as to review the thesis of and meet with the author of a major paper on online dating and then subject [...]

And the Award goes to… everybody with a camera and access

Written by Brandon. Posted on February 22, 2010. No comments.
Interesting piece here about the prestigious journalism Polk Award going to an anonymous person who captured a startling video of a student’s death in Iran.  I remember how Time magazine’s person of the year last year or year before was “You” with a mirror like effect on the cover, (clever.).. and now awarding boards are [...]

You are not alone

Written by Brandon. Posted on February 11, 2010. No comments.
This MOS video from Urgensia fam, Siddharth, on Indians’ pov on piracy is interesting from the standpoint that it confirms that consumers have a very universal view on media piracy.  There’s a nice accompanying article/interview as well.  What’s also of note, is how piracy helped fuel an IT economy and development in Banglore.  I just [...]

DSLR footage – don’t kill yourself in post

Written by Kasia. Posted on February 2, 2010. No comments.
I was online window shopping for my dream DSLR only to end up reading about the unexpected nightmare that DSLR footage can become in post. The .MOV or .AVI files that most cameras shoot can be super glitchy in a Final Cut time line, and can’t really handle effects or text at all. Luckily a nice [...]

Video of the Day: Put On Your Augment Reality Glasses!

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on January 20, 2010. No comments.
Futurists, tech-bloggers and assholes are always harping on about what’s next in technology. One year, it’s virtual world social networks. Remember in 2007 how we were all going to be on Second Life within 6 months? Didn’t happen. It was a good story, but it didn’t happen. The year before that, we were going to [...]