The litl remote control is very lightweight. It features a smaller wheel and go button just like the litl webbook. It also features volume up/down and a mute button. As a developer, I can see some cool use cases for this (e.g. games, audio/video content selection, etc).
One odd thing, I can’t for the life of me figure out how to open it replace the battery inside (ok, maybe it’s documented somewhere in the litl cards, maybe not, not sure, didn’t check).
December Social: Litl computer demo & Processing Working Group
Hello folks, we hope you’re all well and busy. Did you see the announcement from a local start-up http://www.litl.com/ ? It’s a very unique & interesting design which piqued our curiosity. We’ve arranged an open demo and Q&A session with them. Please join us at the MIT Stata building cafe on Thursday December 3rd at 6:30pm to get a chance to play with and ask questions about the litl computer.
In addition to a conversation about the thinking behind the litl computer we’d like to start a working group to discuss http://processing.org/
We’ve been thinking about the best way to put on a Processing tutorial for IxDesigners and want to open up that conversation to the community. We’re looking for interested parties to join us in defining the vision, goals and format of a series of workshops to be held next year. Heard of Processing but not sure what it can do – check this out! http://www.vimeo.com/6239027
So, we hope to see you at the Stata center at 6:30pm Dec 3rd and at some point we’ll take the meeting over to the Miracle of Science for food and discussion on all things IxD (inc Processing!)
Digital Living Room, one of the oldest conferences about the future of home entertainment, focuses this year on the future – the technologies that are most likely to transform consumer experience in 2010. Set at the end of 2009, the summit will examine which of the products unveiled at CES in January are likely to catch fire and which will fail. At the same time, it will assess a historically challenging 2009 for its successes and missteps.
Small and selective, DLR is focused both on identifying the technologies of the future and putting together in one room the entrepreneurs, investors, technology companies and professionals who will lead the next round of technology innovation.
Among the topics:
How the battle for marketshare between cable operators, satellite providers and telcos will shape up in 2010.
Most promising technologies for the connected living room.
The arrival of 3D television.
Wireless innovation in 2010.
Evolution of the VOD market.
Social television.
New paradigms – and audiences – for games
Cloud computing and the living room
Video from Digital Living Room 2008
As always, the show will conclude with a no-holds-barred venture and investment pitch session from companies with products and services aimed at the digital living room. Venture capitalists and strategic investors give unvarnished opinions of presenters, giving attendees a clear vision of what Silicon Valley thinks is hot in 2010.
Held in the heart of Silicon Valley, Digital Living Room draws attendees and speakers from the San Francisco Bay Area, Hollywood, the U.S. and the world. For more details, visit www.digitallivingroom. For the agenda: www.digitallivingroom.com/agenda.php.
Apparently, litl supports *both* Flash Lite, as well as Flash Player 10. However, it depends on the mode you place the litl in. Flash Lite is used for channel content when in “easel mode”. When a user is surfing around in webbook mode, the browser supports Flash Player 10 for Flash content consumption on the web.
In regards to Flash Lite capabilities, looks like Calsoft created a custom Flash Lite 3.x implementation for the device. It supports hardware video acceleration, and bitmap caching support. Other the end spectrum, I’m hearing reports from inside litl, that the Flash Player 10 supports microphone, camera, and plays video very well.
The device can do H.264, fullscreen on a 1280 px x 800 px screen with a 178 degree viewing angle. Pretty impressive. Plus, the display is LED backlit. I can tell you first hand that the gorgeous display is probably one of the top reasons why this device is priced so high … but once you see it in action, you’ll notice immediately the quality over lesser netbooks on market (or at least the ones I’ve seen shipping in US).
In regards to Flash Lite channel content development there are three views (card, full, and channel views). From what I recall cards are individual apps (like on the Palm Pre), “full” is where the app is fullscreen mode, and “channel view” is a user interface where all your channels appear and can be selected.
“we’ve written a straightforward protocol to connect the channel with the device over an XML socket.
the channel can make requests (to initialize its title bar or set properties) and receive events (such as notice that the user has flipped the device into easel mode, followed by go-button and scroll-wheel actions).
we’re wrapping up all this goodness into an SDK to open up the fun, innovative, and rewarding world of channel development to the actionscript community. third-party developers, stay tuned!”
