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Interesting Touchscreen analysis from various touchscreen phones using an Robot.

Full Story at labs.moto.com

While the world is getting crazy about the iPhones. The guys at Touchmods wrote a VOIP SIP client for the iPod touch. If this software works well, the iPod touch will be a interesting gadget tot buy.

They will be releasing the software at 01-01-2007 00:00 (German time). You need some kind of mic for your iPod touch. Info about them is also on their website. Original post is here.

Since I still own a old S-video and Composite Sony Trinitron TV, I wanted to know if it was possible to hook it up to an AppleTV. The AppleTV supports HDMI and Component video out of the box.

My first thought was chaining several cables together like this:

AppleTV » HDMI to DVI cable » DVI2 to S-Video » TV

But after searching on the internet and reading the comments from this article on The Apple Blog I learned this wasn’t possible.

Investigation showed that there are several converters on the market which will do this for you. You’re setup will look like this for S-Video or Component video:

AppleTV » Composite Cable » AppleTV converter » S-Video or Component video » TV

There is also an converter which converts Composite to SCART:

AppleTV » Composite Cable » Component (YUV) to RGB/VGA Converter » S-Video or Component video » TV

The converters cost around € 120,00 per piece. Adding this price to an AppleTV of € 399,00 will set you back € 519,00. Which is a high price for such a limited (especially in Europe) device.

At this price you might want to consider putting some extra cash in it and buying a Mac Mini with some nice stuff from Elgato which gives you TV recording capabilities and a non-restricted Mac OSX on it. You might even want to consider some of the media center software available for Mac OS X like MediaCentral or CenterStage. But that’s a another story.

In the end it is possible to hook up an AppleTV to your old TV, but you’ve got to ask yourself if it’s worth it.

A company called Lenticular created the technology for post stamps with moving images. It really looks great on screen, can't wait to get my hands on one of these.
If you wonder how it works go here
For a press release go here