Living Critic

I thought this was fun and had to post it.  Today’s Black Friday Ad for Apple, shows the $229 iPod Touch for $378.

Considering that a purchasing an 11 inch OLED TV today would run you $2,500 I don’t see this 5 inch display being practical anytime soon.  But the concept brings hope for a large number of applications.

Watch the video from the FPD International show in Japan.  Maybe I’m the only one but I find the concept amazing, a screen that can fold over?  And as Electronista points out “there is no physical keypad, suggesting the smaller display is touch-sensitive.”

While the first thing I think of is a new iPhone, the most exciting application to me would be in the form of an ultra portable tablet computer, say 5X7 and 1280X800?

Sometimes the future looks pretty good. 

[Via Electronista]

Resilienttech.com Via cnet and Gizmodo

Forget BlueRay, Apple’s produced it’s’ own bag of hurt.

In yet another blow to consumers, and ultimately the viability of DRM’d content, purchasers of Apple’s new MacBooks and MacBook Pro’s are finding they are unable to play many of their movies onto external displays that are not HDCP compliant, essentially any DVI or VGA connections.

From ARSTechnica.com:

“When my friend John, a high school teacher, attempted to play Hellboy 2 on his classroom’s projector with a new aluminum MacBook over lunch, he was denied by the error …(This movie cannot be played because a display that is not authorized to play protected movies is connected).” John’s using a Mini DisplayPort-to-VGA adapter…”

The complaints are also running through Apple’s forums.

DRM like this makes the illegal downloads better than the legally purchased ones. I’m not as excited to upgrade now computers now, and I’m definitely not buying movies from iTunes, or any similar source.

ARSTechnica via Gizmodo.