Shaun White Skateboarding

Nice promo video for the up coming game Shaun White Skateboarding from UbiSoft which will be available in the autumn across all platforms.

Destroy the Silence

Rana Sobhany experiments in a personal project Destroy the Silence with just 2 iPads and some ready-made music Apps without the use of any synthesizers. Although the music demonstrated in this video leaves something to be desired, it does reveal the future possibilities for those still doubting the iPad's potential.

Inside an imploding stadium

Find out what it's like to see the Dallas Cowboy's Texas stadium implode from the inside. Click and drag your mouse around the video created using 360 degree video technology from Immersive Media

SketchBook for iPad

The new Autodesk SketchBook Pro provides an array of drawing tools and making full use of the iPad's intuitive gesture and multi-touch based interface.

Google Streetview goes off-piste

Check out the Winter Olympics 2010 at Whistler here on GoogleMaps.

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense

More inspiring videos from the TED conferences. Dreams of seamless information at your fingertips comes a step closer with this MIT research which does away with today's physical interfaces. Using gestures and the environment around us, the portable projection device gives users the freedom to interact with the physical objects that surrounds us. Impressive stuff.

Just a Pool Table

So, not content with just a pool table in your home? Perhaps this video projected version from Obscura Digital will satisfy your inner child.

Glasses Direct ... video mirror

Another showcase for augmented reality, this time through Glasses Direct online store. Users can try on pairs of glasses without leaving their home by mapping them onto their faces through carefully chosen coordinates such as the eyes, mouth and nose.

Augmented Reality Game Beta

Another Augmented Reality shooter from Augmented Environments Lab with a bit more interest. Watch out for the Skittle weaponry used in a 3D mapped cityscape.

3D Drawing App, or call me Rhonda

Rhonda is a 3D drawing application developed by Amit Pitaru in 2003. It has been beta tested for the last few years by users such as James Paterson shown here. If you wish to be part of this team then join their mailing list.

Type while you write

Some bright spark at IrisNotes has finally created a pen that actually recognises your writing and can translate it into text in 22 different languages. It comes with drawing software and can also be used as a tablet pen. Is this the death knell for the keyboard and mouse?

Spotify for iPhone

Spotify awaits Apple's much criticised vetting process for it's iPhone application. Despite the acceptance of music apps Last.fm, Deezer and Pandora, the outcome is not certain as the process has been highlighted for it's inconsistency. Whether Apple will see it as infringing on the iTunes market will remain to be seen.

Further reading at Guardian Online.

Microsoft announces Office online

Microsoft have always been accused of resting on it's laurels and cashing in on someone else's hard work and ideas. When this happens, they do two things. First, they try and buy the new upstart out with their vast reserves of cash. If this is refused, they get tough and release something similar and again use their marketing muscle to squeeze the competition out.

There have been many casualties along the way, such as Netscape Navigator which was considered a superior web browser, proven by it's peak of 80% market share. Microsoft then launched Windows 95 with their own browser Explorer bundled for free. Despite Netscape's functional superiority, Explorer eventually came out as the winner with it's freebie and vast distribution network.

This is bad news for consumers where Microsoft's inferior products are stifling the competition. However, this has not gone without notice, as the EU recently charged the company for breach of monopoly rules with a $690m fine.

But Google is a different beast altogether. Previously, competition were dependent on the Windows OS. Google is not. Because it's applications are based online, it can work though any browser, sweeping away Microsoft's advantage.

It's no small wonder why Microsoft has reluctantly been dragged into online applications. But, with Google encroaching in it's comfort zone with Chrome OS, they have had to act. And so we have Office online (albeit a Lite version) vs Google Docs.

Further reading on BBC News.

Augmented Reality App for iPhone 3GS

Acrossair has developed a new GPRS application which allows you to view where the nearest London tube stations are by simply pointing the iPhone camera in any direction.

Introducing Google Chrome OS

Google's recent re-labeling of it's applications from Beta to official has culminated in an announcement on their blog that they will be entering the operating system market with their long-anticipated Google OS, or Google Chrome OS as they would like to call it.

Since the launch of it's Android OS for mobile phones, it became clear that this sleeping giant is not just a one trick search engine pony. And with the market for netbooks increasing, currently 8% of the market share, PC manufacturers will welcome the competition to challenge Microsoft prices for software licensing.

This new emerging market is crucial as sales of these lighter and cheaper computers continues to grow. Microsoft's current OS, Windows Vista, is simply too big and cumbersome to install and run on the smaller hard drives and RAM. So they've had to extend the life of Windows XP which it officially killed off in June 2007.

With the migration of expandable storage and software online, Google has allowed Chrome to run on varying machine sizes. It can even be run on the chip that powers the Apple iPhone. Online usage is the key issue, where computers are no longer limited by their physical constraints. Google has also addressed users without internet connection with the launch of it's offline software, Google Gears.

With Microsoft Bing's recent foray into the search engine business, it looks like Google is fighting back. Interesting times are ahead.

Read more on Guardian Online.