Jun 10, 2016
Last evening De and I were privileged to attend a performance of Drone 100 at the Sydney Opera House. This is a computer aided light show using 100 remote controlled drones simultaneously flying over the harbour (in this case, Farm Cove, to the east of the Opera House) with a musical accompaniment by the Sydney Youth Orchestra. I’m a fairly jaded...
Sep 24, 2009
It’s only been in our hands for a few hours so we’ve taken the second generation of the Wacom Bamboo graphics tablets out for a spin to show you just how the new touch functionality with gesture control works. In this demo, we’ll look at the Wacom Bamboo Dock, drawing in Twitter, and how this new tablet runs with Adobe Photoshop, Audition, and...
Jun 27, 2009
This year, Sydney plays host to the photo expo PMA. With big names like Nikon, Canon, Sony, SanDisk, and Adobe all erecting stands to let you see their wares as well as a bunch of other players, we took to the trade & press day on Friday to show you just what PMA looks like this year. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkKRcHjBDO0[/youtube] PMA is on...
Jun 27, 2009
This week, The Gadget Grill got invited to try out a new Navman GPS… but rather than just put it in our hands and hope that we knew what we were doing (which is dangerous at best), the team at Navman came up with a slightly different way of showing us how their models get you from Point A to Point B. Take a look...
May 27, 2009
It seems like everyone’s getting in on the whole “touchscreen phone” thing. We’ve talked before about some of Samsung’s touchscreen devices as early as our second radio show, and while those handsets felt a lot like they were playing on the same turf as the iPhone, the new Samsung UltraTouch is a handset with a different feel to...
May 13, 2009
You’d think that with the giant technology show that is CeBIT, there’d be a huge amount of amazing & unique technology on display for the average consumer to gaze upon. We thought so too. We were apparently wrong, however. That said, despite CeBIT lacking a lot, there were still a few things that were so cool, we had to get out our camera and...