A treat for Bollywood fans (3)

Posted January 24th, 2007 in Music

Asha Bhosle

Here’s a treat for Bollywood fans. An NPR interview with legendary Bollywood singer Asha Bhosle on NPR’s Soundcheck. She has done playback singing for over 925 Bollywood movies and she is sister to none other than Lata Mangeshkar.

Links
NY NPR’s Soundcheck Interview
Wikipedia Page

R2-D2, the best christmas present. Ever. (15)

Posted January 15th, 2007 in Personal

Google Video Available

I bought this for my kids. Really. I promise. But if you ask my wife, she will confirm that my mom deprived me of Star Wars toys during my childhood. And that is why I must build my Star Wars empire now. For the kids of course.

This R2 unit has audio and visual sensors that allows him to follow you around a room. It can play back Princess Leah’s “Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi”message, minus the hologram. It can play hide and seek by using a motion sensor. It can dance to the cantina bar song or it can just keep you company by talking to you. It really is magical. And all that for $119.

Link: Sharper Image

Mobile Monday NY (1)

Posted January 12th, 2007 in Web

Mobile Monday NY

In keeping with the whole mobile phone madness of this week, I’m spreading the word on this event for those of you in the nyc area.

via George Ariola

The MobileMonday NY committee, Antoine Quint of SVG.org, Scott Weiss of Usable Products and Dan Appelquist of Vodafone and MobileMonday London are happy to invite you to the “Rich Mobile Experiences with SVG” event held in New York City on January 29th.

This event has been set up to provide an exhaustive overview of the Mobile SVG ecosystem with a strong selection of leaders in the field — Sun Microsystems, Qualcomm, Vodafone, Ikivo, Opera, BitFlash and Beatware — coming together to present their solutions and visions around Mobile SVG.

Speakers will update you on everything relevant to this key rich mobile technology including authoring solutions, deployed and live services, integration in application platforms (J2ME, Brew, Symbian), user interfaces design, mobile browsing, etc. A closing panel and Q&A session, followed by a networking reception, will allow you to take part in the discussion and get answers to real-world problems related to creating rich mobile experiences with SVG.

The main event will run from 3pm to 8pm, followed by the reception, on Monday January 29th at the Samsung Experience in the Time Warner Center near Central Park. Registration is completely free and already open on our Upcoming.org page.

Link: Upcoming.org
Link: Mobile Monday NY
Link: Svg.org