my litl adventures

I’m not exactly sure if G2gConnect is a competitor of litl, but certainly shares the same philosophy of making a device that almost anyone can pick up and use (particularly the sometimes less computer savvy folks, seniors).

Via (Kathryn Rotondo) : Peter Elst made his slides from Flash on the Beach 2010 available from FOTB 2010 earlier this week:

litl posted a demo of animated Papervision sphere controlled by the litl remote.

The 3-D interaction is sent from the litl via the HDMI out to a large display.

One of the obvious areas litl may play a significant part in the future once the litl media box is deployed is (casual) gaming. What better tool for this, then Flash.

litl papervision3D example from developer.litl.com on Vimeo.

Apparently litl is giving a talk at Adobe MAX 2010 in October. Here are the (early) details:

Authoring Flash Experiences for Every Room in the House

Chuck Freedman (blog, Twitter)

Open, multi-player games and HD Video in the living room, interactive cooking in the kitchen, DIY guides in the garage and even storytime are just some of the ways users and families are now experiencing Flash content throughout the home. Chuck Freedman (@chuckstar | chuckstar.com/blog), Flash platform expert and Chief Channel Evangelist at litl, will show you how Flash content plays on many cool, in-home devices from Sony, Nintendo, litl and more, exploring why creators should take special note of different form factors, simplified user experiences and the new distribution channels that make this an exciting opportunity.

Fernando Colaco interviews Chuck Freedman about the litl at Flash and the City 2010 NYC.

litl interview at FATC 2010

Last week at the Flash and the City conference, litl unveiled their plans for both support of Flash 10.1 in their upcoming SDK, as well as some new hardware they are working on; a settop box and paired touchscreen remote.

There are not many details about this new hardware, other than it’s going to run the litl OS (which is Linux based). Based on my experience with litl, you can bet that this new set of products will be very simple and intuitive to use. Based on their existing webbook, x86 based architecture would make the most sense, and apparently it’ll have HDMI and composite out for HDTV hookup, plus wifi and ethernet connection support.

Here are more pics of the device (from engadget):

With Google’s recent announcement of “web apps” at i/o and also Google TV, things are heating up in the connected “Web TV” space. There are lots of players in this arena (i.e. “digital home”).

This isn’t the 1st time we’ve had the promise of “Web TV”, but I’m pretty confident that things are at a point where the adoption of it will be significantly higher than it was in previous years and with previous products. 2011 will be the year of the “digital home”.

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).

P.S. I love the packaging: