After viewing Sean Baker’s TANGERINE, the audience at this year’s Sundance Festival were astonished to learn that the movie was shot entirely on iPhone 5s. We haven’t seen the movie yet—it’s about a transgender hooker whose spends Christmas Eve searching for her pimp. But we confess we’re astonished at how fast the mobile moviemaking revolution is going. We’ve decided…
read more →Most partisans of mobile moviemaking have not claimed that smart video will challenge Hollywood filmmaking. While there’s been astonishing technical progress with both apps and devices, directors eyeing theatrical release almost universally prefer pro equipment. It’s hard to imagine Steven Spielberg or Woody Allen working with an iPhone or an Android. But what if the road…
read more →While some people think that “13” is an unlucky number, a scarier number for the folks at GoPro is 8,934,045. This is the patent number of Apple’s new remote-controlled camera system. The possible product would compete with GoPros camera, being attachable to everything from helmets to to skis. Although Apple’s remote-controlled camera isn’t on sale…
read more →According to University of Missouri researchers, some people experience anxiety and various physical systems when they fail to carry their mobiles with them. A short article about this 21st century malady can be found in the Huffington Post. The actual study—”The Extended iSelf: The Impact of iPhone Separation on Cognition, Emotion, and Physiology”—appears in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Those who…
read more →You can find arguments against having too much money, or sleep, or power. But you will never read an essay suggesting that you can acquire too much computer memory. Enter today’s news from the Consumer Electronics Show that Sansung has developed a credit-card-sized drive—the SSD T1—that can store a terabyte of information. Sure, it weighs an ounce, but nothing is…
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You can find arguments against having too much money, or sleep, or power. But you will never read an essay suggesting that you can acquire too much computer memory. Enter today’s news from CES that Sansung has developed a credit-card-sized drive—the SSD T1—that can store a terabyte of information. Sure, it weighs an ounce, but nothing is perfect.…
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