Ask The Crew: What Futuristic Technology Are You Most Looking Forward To?

When you think about it, technology has advanced quite rapidly over the past few years. No, robots aren’t quite self aware just yet, but when you sit back and think about it, we’re not doing too bad. PVRs are now common place in many homes, OLED TVs have become a reality, and scientists are close to developing an invisibility cloak. Heck, we even have a version of Windows that doesn’t blue screen every other day. But there are some technologies that don’t seem to be developing as quickly. What happened to teleportation? What about time travel?

We want to know what technology you are most looking forward to. In the meantime take a look at what we want to see become a reality sooner than later.

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God Bless the Black Friday iPhone App Sale

Black Friday’s nearing an end. Did you get a sweet deal? Escape a trampling? Survive dinner with the family?

If you answered yes to one of the above, then you deserve to celebrate with a handful of cheap and/or free iPhone apps. ‘Tis the season for enabling consumerism and app developers (the bigs and the smalls) have no problem getting in the spirit of things. Courtesy of Touch Arcade, there’s no need to hunt down the best deal and skin it yourself. Their list of cheap iPhone games is comprehensive and growing.

While there’s nothing wrong with starting with the free ones and working your way through the rest allow me to suggest a few winners for you:

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A Handy iPhone App From Rogers for Canadians

It only took 6 months to catch up to AT&T but Canadian wireless company Rogers has released an iPhone app that tracks your usage and allows users to pay bills online.

The app provides information on voice minutes (weekday and weekend); amount of data used; and number of text messages received and sent; The information isn’t much different from Rogers online portal and it doesn’t display quickly. And like Rogers’ website there is a four hour delay in updates, but it’s handy to know how close you are to your data limit.

And, you can also pay your monthly phone bill by credit card.

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New Zelda to Feature Flight?

First a horse, then a boat, soon a train and maybe even a plane? Link has had all sorts of modes of transportation in the past but his next may take him to the skies. In an interview with Britain’s The Guardian, Zelda director Eiji Aonuma let slip a tiny secret. Link may have the ability to fly in the yet to be announced Wii version of Zelda.

“I have an eight-year-old son myself at home, and quite recently he started playing The Phantom Hourglass for DS, because when the software first hit the market he was too young” he says. “When he started playing with the boat, I told him: ‘In the next Zelda, you are going to be able to ride on the train.’ He answered: ‘OK, Dad, first boat, and then train? Surely next time, Link is going to fly in the sky … ‘”

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New Resident Evil 5 Creature Revealed

The official Resident Evil 5 website has just revealed a new creature that will be available in the upcoming Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition. As you can see, the unnamed creature is completely creepy and lugs around a large anchor. It’s unknown if this is a weapon or serves to slow it down as he makes his way through Spencer’s Mansion, a new level in the new Lost in Nightmares content. A quick translation also reveals players can hunt down the beast to obtain heavy weapons such as a sickle. Nice!

Let us know what do you think of Capcom’s new creature.

[Japanese Website]

Online Create Mode Comes to LittleBigPlanet

Sure it was fun creating levels by yourself offline in LittleBigPlanet, but soon you’ll able to get some help from your friends…online. Media Molecule is releasing a patch that will enable you and your friends to collaborate on levels together, at the same time.

The company says the patch will give each player their own camera so everyone can work on different parts simultaneously. The network code has also been re-written allowing for improved performance and better matchmaking.

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When Technology Attacks: Roomba Versus Snake

What happens when you pit a deadly viper up against an intelligent robotic vacuum? The robot goes for the head and wins, that’s what happens. Israel’s Yediot Acharonot newspaper is reporting a Roomba potentially saved the life of a small child, and cat, after it swept up a deadly viper, looking for a warm place to stay for the winter.

According to the article, the homeowner turned on the Roomba then left to run some errands. When she came back the Roomba’s light was flashing indicating something was wrong. Once she opened up the dust trap, she discovered the viper inside with a gaping hole in the head. The snake had died of its injuries.

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Atari Revamps Online Store Into Virtual Arcade

If you were ever a fan of the old-school titles that populated the Atari 2600 back in the day, then you will love what Atari is doing for you lately.

Besides hawking their latest products such as Ghostbusters on the PSP, Atari is going back to the 80’s with a recent full site relaunch. They’ve introduced channels to bring you up to speed with their current stuff, but for those of us who wax nostalgic about consoles that only had one joystick and one red button, the Atari Arcade is our preferred destination. Play retro titles like Yar’s Revenge, Asteroids, Lunar Lander and Battlezone from your web browser… and it’s all as cheap as free!

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Control Your TV With The Wave of a Wand

Fans of Harry Potter will be screaming over this little gadget. British inventors have created a magic wand for controlling your TV.

With a simple flick of your wrist the 14″ Kymera Wand can control a TV, DVD player and stereo. It’s all done through infra-red. The wand can learn up to 13 different commands, all you have to do is flick the wand upwards or rotate it.

More than 10,000 have already been sold at £49.95 a pop. To see it in action for yourself, watch the video.

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How To Try Out The New Google Outside the US

You may have heard, Google is working behind the scenes to make a cleaner, more streamlined version of its search engine. It’s still in the testing phase, but you can get a sneak peek at it, if you know what you’re doing. By entering a code, you too can check out how the “new” Google looks. Here’s how to do it if you live outside the US.

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