VJay: The Video Mixer App for the iPad

If your into mixing music and videos, here’s a nice little app that you might be interested in. It’s called VJay – which is appropriate, but still sounds funny. It’s set up in pretty much the exact same way two turntables would be set up in a DJ App, except there are two videos instead. The makers, algoriddim, know what their doing as they’ve been around the bend a time or two. They created the DJay app for iPhone, and iPad and their up to their usual schennanegans with this latest app.

I got the chance to play with it for a little while and there is quite a bit you can do with this puppy. Apparently it’s the first of it’s kind giving its users the ability to mix music videos rather than just .mp3s. A few of the cool things you can do are of course fading the music as well as the images together as you move from one video to the other. There are different graphic options for fading from one video to the other like “Cube”, “Swap”, “Grid”, and few more. Changing those options determine how the fade will work. Block for example transitions like a turning cube.

Not only can you que up videos, you can also que up different songs as well. So that’s four separate things going on at the same time potentially. Two different tracks with two different videos, unless of course the videos have their own audio. You can loop a portion of the audio at 2 or 4 beats and you can also choose different cool effects that effect the video in real-time. Some of those effects are “strobe”, “twirl”, “crush” and “fisheye”. Strobe causes the video to pulsate with light instantly giving you migraine. Twirl is a mini tornado in the middle of the video. Crush pixelates the video so that you look like you are playing a video game straight from the 80s and fisheye is a bouncing ball under the video.

You can record your best moments for playback at a later date, and the video toggles to full screen when you want it to. It’s quite a bit of functionality and if you want it, it’ll cost you $10 bucks. You can create really cool music videos if you put in the time and energy, however, I instantly thought of one really cool use case scenario. I saw this cool band call “Kung Fu Masters” and they play jazz while kung fu movie clips and anime play in the background. You can check them here, but I think this app would totally be cool for you creative types out there who think up cool stuff like that. If your looking for a great tool, I recommend it. You can download the VJay app right here.

Samsung Tech to Look Forward to for the Holiday

I got a chance to look at some cool stuff Samsung has out right now that is pretty lust-worthy. The Galaxy S3 is sort of a beast, the note is pretty much a tablet if you ask me, and you’ll be hard pressed to find a sexier TV. Below are my impressions of those devices.

Samsung S3 and Note

These two devices are pretty similar in that they both make and receive phone calls. Other than that, they have pretty stark differences. The Galaxy S3 is quicker, with a faster CPU speed, more up to date OS (Ice Cream Sandwich), and to me, just plain sexier. However, the Note is no slouch with it’s stylus and huge display at 5.3 inches. Depending on your aesthetic tastes, I’d say either is a pretty good bargain if you don’t mind Samsung’s Touchflo skin on top of stock Android.

One service that I really liked was the Group Sharing found in Samsung’s “Group Cast”. What was cool was that you could share a PowerPoint presentation, images, or .PDF files in real time with other folks (with a Samsung Galaxy S3 or WiFi enabled TV). Any person in the group could move the slides along or mark them up. This functionality is a welcome addition to the Android experience.

Samsung Smart TVs

Victoria Secret Model Causes Quite the Stir with Samsung Smart TV

Samsung’s new line of Smart TVs are really sexy and have great functionality. They are a little pricey though, so if you are on a budget I might do a little research before plunking down your cold hard cash. What’s really cool is the “Smart Interaction” which allows you to control the TV or Play a Game with motion or voice. Now, this is very Kinect-like, however, if you don’t have an Xbox360 with Kinect, then this is of course an alternative. The TV also comes with Active 3D Glasses – which are pricier than passive 3D glasses but supposedly give higher resolution. I’ve got a passive 3D TV at home and it’s great, and I got it for a little less, so like I said, make sure to do your homework. I’ll continue to keep you updated on the latest in lustworthy gadgets for the Holidays!

Awesome Watch! Pebble E-Paper Watch Makes You Cool…Founders Rich

 

The Pebble E-ink Watch is kinda cool once you give it a chance. I was skeptical at first, but watching their video has changed my mind. Still need one to play around with to make my final decision of course, but that won’t happen too soon seeing as they’ve already sold out. Let’s just say their kick-starter bid went very, very, well – raising more than Ten Million smackers where they only sought one-hundred thousand.

Check the website here.

The long and short is this – you can view the watch in direct sunlight because it’s e-ink. This also means you can change it’s appearance as well. Anyone can program apps for it and it works with both your iOS devices as well as your Android devices. You can control your phone with the watch and it has Bluetooth. You can get text messages, Facebook updates, and caller ID info which, if your like me and checks the phone every other second, is quite useful. Has tons of other stuff as well. Can’t wait till I can buy one!

3 Tablets to Look out For This Holiday Season

Kindle Fire:

The Kindle is Amazon’s newest 7″ device. It’s quite different from the E-Readers because of the fact that the display is full color. It will also have access to many apps downloadable from the Amazon Marketplace. Compared to other tablets, internal storage is fairly mediocre, coming in at around 8 Gigs, however, with access to Amazon’s cloud storage and the ability to re-download any app you ever downloaded, you may not need it. You connect to the internet via wi-fi as there is no 3g or 4g options at this point. Units are now shipping for $199 bucks!

Asus Transformer Prime:

This bad boy will be pretty powerful using NVIDIA’s Quadcore Tegra chip which means it should be able to handle pretty much anything. Gaming should be pretty fast and fluid with that much power under the hood. What makes the Asus Tablet different is that it can be docked with a keyboard which carries extra battery power and usb ports. This can come in handy for power users. Asus just announced the product so expect it to go on sale before the Holidays.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1/8.9:

Samsung has different sizes to suite different needs. The smaller 8.9″ for a super mobile experience or the 10.1″ for a nicer viewing experience. Both are running Android’s Honeycomb and have wi-fi versions, but only the 10.1″ models offer  4G options with either Verizon or T-Mobile. You can take a look at Samsung’s different tablet offerings here.

 

Microsoft’s Vision of the Future

Came across this pretty interesting video of what Microsoft’s vision of the future would be – with it’s technology of course. Take a gander at the below video. Among some of the coolest tidbits are 3D Manipulation of a holographic image, see-through refrigerators, and glasses that work like the babel fish in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

UPDATE:

Here is a parody from IGN

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Top 5 Upcoming Video Games You Must Have!

There are a few good games coming up and I’ve done all the “hard work” of listing what I think are the most exciting and listed them below.  Assassins Creed is looking great as ever, and Street Fighter x Tekken looks to shake things up with their newly tweaked fighting system. Mass Effect 3 has some surprises in the works while Batman Arkham City looks to raise the bar even higher for superhero games. Modern Warfare, arguably one of the best shooters of all time looks to make that case with its new installment. Which one are you looking forward to?

Assassin’s Creed (11/15)

StreetFighter x Tekken (3/6)

Mass Effect 3 (3/6)

Batman: Arkham City (10/18)

Modern Warfare 3 (11/8)