Videos

Along with any new technology comes new diseases and afflictions. This is true even for the iPad.

The video embedded after the break shows the tragic case of a marketing exec by the name of Miranda. This poor soul is so dependent on her iPad that she has forgotten how to interface with the rest of the world.

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Apple may have launched the iPhone 4S with Siri over 2 months ago, but they’re not done with advertising.

A couple days ago Apple released this commercial. I think it’s as funny as some of the satirical takes (Siri as marriage counselor, for example). Let me know what you think in the comments.

Earlier this year the The Open University put together this 10 minute history of the English language. It’s actually about 12 minutes long, but trust me it’s worth the 12 minutes.

The later parts should queue up behind this first section. If they don’t then you can click the link and you can watch them on the OU website.

Have you had your fill of Nook Tablet videos? If not then here’s one more.

Barnes & Noble also released another demo video yesterday for the Nook Tablet. You can find it on B&N’s Youtube account.

The Internet Archive held its second annual Books in Browser Conference in San Francisco last week. This was a small invite only event with around 250 attendees, and it was held at IA’s headquarters (an old church).

If you weren’t lucky enough to attend the conference, you can still get some value from the event. O’Reilly has uploaded videos of most of the sessions to Youtube, and most of the slides used by the presenters have been made available on the IA’s website (here, here).

The videos are definitely worth seeing; a couple the presenters showed off their newest project for the first time at BiB 2011.

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Goodnight Moon is an old and classic favorite of mine, so I was tickled to see this satire.

Goodnight iPad was just released by Penguin Books, and it gently parody’s the original while using the same style to remind us that there’s a point each day where we need to set aside the gadgets, slow down, and go to sleep.

It’s available as a hardback, not an eBook, and that is oddly fitting. But it would also have been slightly funny if a story which tweaked the nose of gadget owners was also available on a gadget. Update: I’ve heard back from Penguin and this title is available. Sorry, it did not show up in my search.

Penguin via StarRigger

How would you like to mess with your friend’s iPad 2? Sure, he keeps it locked, but it turns out that there might be a security hole.

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Kobo launched the Vox Android tablet yesterday, and they also posted this commercial on Youtube. No one’s gotten a look at the real Vox yet, so watching this video i going to show you as much about the Vox as any tech blogger.

Have you ever wanted to be able to fold up a gadget with a large screen and stick it in your pocket? That’s what Polymer Vision has been working on these past 4 years, and it looks like they might be getting close to releasing a product.

Polymer Vision had planned to release the Readius, a cellphone with a 5″ foldable E-ink screen, in 2008 but its plans fell through when the company lost its funding. Luckily the company was bought out of bankruptcy and was able to continue working on the screen. Polymer Vision has continued to improve the flexibility and resolution, and one day i hope to see it on the market.

I was just sent a link to a video that I’d like to share. This is a factually correct commentary on how the length of copyright has been extended beyond any relation to its original goal, which was to the creation of new content.

This video is thought provoking, but do you agree with it?