The Idea Guy Blogeth... » google http://www.idealabsinteractive.com/blog An Idealabs Interactive weblog Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:42:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Droid http://www.idealabsinteractive.com/blog/post/droid/ http://www.idealabsinteractive.com/blog/post/droid/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:34:41 +0000 Idea Guy http://www.idealabsinteractive.com/blog/?p=246 That’s the name of Motorola’s Android-based phone for Verizon.

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Maybe…

Should we?

The Mozilla Foundation’s got itself into a tizzy over whether or not to develop Firefox for Android.

While they’re debating, here’s a look at Fennec – coming someday to a smartphone near you:

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SPRXmobile, a Dutch company, has created Layar, an Android-based browser that uses the phone’s compass and GPS coordinates to figure out where you are and what the phone camera is looking at.

A layer of information is drawn on top of the display, continually updating as you look at different things!

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Here’s a video of the desktop:

Here’s a more exploratory video of the UI:

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O3D is a “shader-based, low-level graphics API for creating interactive 3D applications in a web browser”. According to sources, it’s an interpreted language and thus provides immediate feedback to the developer (just like coding HTML – hit refresh to see the result).

You can learn more about O3D here!

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