hmmm nifty, but that cord remote means you're stuck with the apple crapbuds.

This is a *viral ad for Arby's. It's still nifty, though.

Substitute A) unintentionally wooden acting for intentionally wooden acting, B) 'Nifty' for "Groovy' and C) Stephen Baldwin for Bruce Campbell, and you have another installment of the Evil Dead series. With an even smaller budget, it appears.

Honestly, the more I think about it, the more it seems gimmicky more than anything else. Much of what it shows you can already do, just with a wireless internet or WiFi phone. Yeah okay, it's nifty you can do it fully with gestures and without pulling a device out of your pocket, but I'd rather have that over having to stand in front of a wall for extended periods of times. Although it's still a nice idea, some things will definitely be more suited to this kind of interface.

The rest is predicated on the idea that it can take sensory inputs from where you are, correctly identify them and feed you back relevant information. If they can create a low cost, compact device that can do this and provide you will lots of valuable metadata, then great but I haven't seen a usable implementation of this yet and their demonstrated isn't exactly convincing enough by itself because it's obviously a simulation of what would be possible.

The Service Pack 3 version of the touch business card has a nifty malware removal tool.

One of my favourite things about this site is seeing an old vid, from months or years ago, reappear on the front page. Sometimes you saw it; other times you did not. Often, I'll search for an old vid to share with a friend, or just to watch again myself.

If I could promote, would I? Yes - probably 1-3 times per month.

All I use my power points for now is * begging. If I could, I would love to bring nifty content back onto people's radar.

That's why I voted for Kodos.

>> ^rasch187:
^ Then you'd better ban me, lucky. I've fixed someone else's dead vids with videos from my youtube account numerous times.
It was nice knowing you all.


If you're banned, I get your nifty top hat.

KP, I have seen a TV from HP and 1 other brand that have built-in streaming features, but the unit was much more expensive than just buying an HDTV + game console (or that Roku player), so I would find a TV you like first.

Some other points related to some comments above:
1080p- a few years ago this cost a lot more, but nowadays it's only marginally more expensive than a 720p, many blu-ray discs are encoded 1080p, so it's worth getting a 1080p screen today. (I have a 720p LCD TV that I bought 2 years ago, and it's fine, though I use it mostly for games).
^MycroftHomlz, p (progressive vertical lines) is not dpi (dots per inch) (a 46" 720 dpi display would cost over a million dollars and have 225 times the resolution of 1080p)

120Hz- this is the new fancy feature on higher-end hdtv's. it doesn't magically make your content any better. Even the best Bluray movies are still recorded and encoded at 30fps. It will make some DVD content look better, because 120 is an even multiple of 24, whereas to display 24fps content at 60Hz (standard refresh rate of LCD's) you have to drop or add frames (called inverse-telecine) so sometimes you see tearing. So movies, sports, games, with lots of motion or many small moving details will look better. I've asked several Best Buy "tv specialists" some specific questions about 120Hz that I already knew the answers to, and NONE of them got it right. and instead of just saying "I don't know" they talked out of their ass and tried to sell me some special hdmi cable that supports 120Hz... epic lolz. If your total budget is $1500, don't waste your money on this feature.

LCD vs Plasma vs DLP- The quality depends a lot on the manufacturer. It used to be that LCD screens simply could not be made as big as plasma, but they are getting larger and cheaper each year. Plasmas still have burn-in problems (more problem for games than movies), and a shorter life span (about 7 years vs 10+ years for LCD- both assuming you use the TV several hours per day). Plasmas are also more fragile, so be careful when moving them. That said, I think the picture does look slightly better on plasma, but would still get LCD. (samsung, sony, mitsubishi- all great choices. other brands, try to look at it in person before you decide). DLP is a rear-projection TV, and I've found these to not be as crisp as LCD/plasma (sometimes the pixels blur and/or you can see horizontal scan lines). They are usually 80+ lbs vs an LCD being 30 lbs (base detached). Some people can see a flickering of the color-wheel with DLP (personally I can't, depends on lighting conditions and how sensitive your eyes are).

streaming content- if you have a PC with windows XP media center or Vista premium/ultimate, and all your content is windows compatible, an xbox-360 will make a nice front-end that you stream videos from your PC. If you use other formats, the PS3 has a better chance of playing them (also recommended since it plays bluray). I have both consoles, and the PS3 is much better at playing H.264 videos from CD-R/DVD-R and wired network. I haven't seen Roku player in person, and I don't have netflix, but it looks like a nifty device. If you subscribe to cable or fios, many of their DVR's can stream content that was recorded in other rooms.

projectors- not sure if you will find a decent 1080p one under $1500, but you can get a very large screen. Keep in mind the cost of replacing the lamp/bulb can be several hundred $$ (lamps usually last 2000+ hours in eco-mode). I have a 480p (widescreen but not high def) projector in my bedroom with an 8' diagonal screensize. Upon advice from someone else, I bought a 4'x8' foam board, and painted it with brightest white but non-glossy paint, and hung it on a wall for my screen. $380 projector + $30 screen + $37 progressive DVD player + $15 component cable + $30 black curtains. Compgeeks has a electric roll-up screen for pretty cheap.
Choosing a projector also depends on your room size, visit www.projectorcentral.com and use their calculator for any given model you are considering.

cables- buy online. someone mentioned monoprice, they are good, just check their in-stock status to be sure. they always ship ground from CA, so can be slow depending on where you live. HDMI and DVI are electrically identical, so it's a passive adapter. HDMI includes extra pair for sending digital audio. Component and VGA are analog, HDMI/DVI is digital - means more accurate colors, less ghosting/interference effects. Although analog is capable of carrying a full 1080p signal, content creators (namely Sony blu-ray) will cripple devices stating that you need HDMI to do 1080p output. This is because HDMI support encryption in the form of HDCP, which they think will reduce piracy (obviously they have been proven wrong already). fiber (sometimes called TOSlink) vs digital audio over copper (RCA jack) doesn't make a difference in quality, digital is digital. Look for a stereo receiver with many inputs and outputs.

antennas- hdtv's can pick up all the local broadcast channels with perfect picture and digital surround sound, if you get the right antenna. check www.antennaweb.org to see where channels are broadcasting relative to your home and to pick the correct antenna. It's a 1-time fee, unlike month-to-month cable/satellite. www.titantv.com is a tv-guide style website, lets you sort by broadcast type.

internet speed- 1.5Mbps should be fine, as long as you have patience to download the video before watching it. Will stream standard def no problem, but high-def or netflix downloads would take longer-than-realtime. Most services let you download in advance, so I wouldn't upgrade your 'net connection until you try it out for a month or 2.

buying online- go to best buy or walmart, and look for a screen you like, so you can see it in person. a lot of times the specs "on paper" look good, but the display is mediocre at best. Then look for exact model online, try to get a pricematch. Get the extended warranty if it's not outrageous (a single repair could be $500+ without it). We bought a 46" LCD for work from www.lcdtvs.com, they are New Jersey based, and their salespeople might try to up-sell you some cables, but we got free shipping and a free hdmi cable from them, and 3rd-party warranty was cheap (service is actually provided by best buy locally). Took about a week to arrive (western PA). If you buy online, make sure you factor in shipping costs, it could be $150+ since it's considered freight.

wireless vs wired- Roku, Wii, PS3 have wifi built in. xbox-360 is $99 for the wifi adapter (all except wii have wired ethernet built in). It's not too hard to run cat-5 cable if you are a DIY'er, but would be really expensive to get an electrician to do it. Ethernet hubs/switches are cheap, put a 4-port hub at your TV, run single cable between hub and DSL/cable/fios router, and all devices are online.

hope that helps. sorry for the long post. I'll answer specific questions if you have any.

I agree, would be great if video embed width could scale relative to what resolution you select at the bottom, as long as that's possible. Otherwise, especially with 1/4 people still using 1024x768 and the growth of netbook use it wouldn't be a good idea to antagonise a sizeable portion of visitors. Especially since right now you can usually click through to the source and watch it in full glory, or just full-screen it if you want.

Another nice thing for higher resolutions especially would be to centre or allow to centre videos so they don't sit in the corner of the screen. Could just be me but I hate having to cram my head to the side. Oh and while I'm going off topic with complete disregard, could we have a function to view just the video itself in like a separate boxed pop up window, you know the ones with no browser UI or address bar at the top? I find especially with long, 30 min + videos, documentaries and the like I want to be able toss the video in the corner and do something else while I'm watching it. You can kinda already do that with Chrome because you just drag out the tab, resize it and toss it in the corner but still think it'd be nifty to have.

I hadn't seen that. Pretty nifty. I had read the article on female desire earlier today, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25desire-t.html ... which had its moments, but leaves you just as confused in the end.

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This deserved to be sifted already. Nifty invention and the narrative was totally awesome.

Nublu is pretty nifty, but I'm used to original. Maybe this is my problem...

Thanks nifty-sifty.

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