Peter Rubin from WIRED brings an exclusive preview of the new Xbox One and its new Kinect sensor.
Watching the keynote last night and then the reactions on Twitter after, I noticed a lot of hate towards the announcement. No games, no backwards compatibility, no pricing and release info, etc. But watching this video blew my mind. I’m not gamer, yet I feel like grabbing the Xbox One when it comes out just to play with the Kinect sensor and the new games built for it.
Delightful.
A supercut of the Qualcomm Keynote at CES 2013 by the folks at The Verge. Saying this was awkward would be severely understating it.
Vimeo Staff’s Top 12 Videos of 2012
Vimeo’s amazing staff has each picked their favorite 12 videos from 2012 and listed them for us. And they’ve got a lovely micro-site to go along too.
Vimeo’s already one of my favorite sites to spend on these days and they still don’t giving me reasons to love ’em even more.
Flashing Stumps & Bails in Cricket when Dislodged
This is the newest innovation in cricket, introduced at Australia’s Big Bash League. The stumps and bails have a sensor that lights up red as soon as they’re dislodged, accurate right down to 1/1000th of a second.
Cheetahs Running at 60+mph, Shot at 1200fps
An incredible crew from National Geographic and the Cincinnati Zoo have documented cheetahs, the fastest running animals on the planet, running at speeds over 60 miles per hour and have shot them using cameras recording at 1200 frames per second. The result is some amazing footage of the cats running in slow motion, showing just how far their reach is and how their muscles must be reacting.
Justin Blanton points to this video that shows how it was shot.
New iPhone 5 TV Ad — Orchestra
Even when the world gets noisy, iPhone 5 with noise canceling lets you have a better phone call.
Yet again, a simple, brilliant ad by Apple for the iPhone 5’s noise cancellation feature from the camera at the back.
There’s also another new TV ad called ‘Turkey‘, right in time for the Thanksgiving holidays in the US, but I love Orchestra more.