Interactive Pacers Game

So this NBA season I have so far made it to every home Pacers game and not gonna lie I have been rather disappointed. Not that the Pacers aren't doing great, currently sitting on a 5 game winning streak and playing tonight to possibly make it 6. The part I am disappointed with is the fact that during the breaks in the game the crowd interaction event things that they used to do are now gone. Before they had little segments where they ask people to do the air guitar and do some disco dance or something but no longer is that part of the intermissions. Now it is just videos featuring advertisements and some videos of players answering questions.

I was thinking, why not add some sort of device that people can participate during the game in trivia or other questions that are asked. Obviously this would cost money but in doing so I think they would have probably the most technological advanced arena.

This was a response to this cool article that i read.

7 High Tech Sports Stadiums

Currently GPS systems leave me wanting more. A few of the devices currently let you see what the road signs that are coming ahead will say and look like. The iPhone Google Maps has a feature at certain intersections allows you to see a 360 degree view, all the way around up and down. Well this next video is the new step, even though this is a teaser someday it will be do able. (Video 1) Currently the the 360 view doesn't go down the road as you travel. Therefore, you can't see exactly what you are looking at in the 360 view. If you could you would be able to navigate your way so much better and find your location. Although this video is just a teaser, I don't know how they would go about and show all of the work correctly. Put a camera down every street everywhere or can satellites now do that?

(Video 1)

Paranormal Activity

So I am sure we have all heard of this super scary movie. Personally I am not a fan of horror movies because I find them really predictable and they don't scare me. The Saw series is a very recent popular one, but for the most part it is just very bloody. After reading many reviews on Paranormal Activity I decided to give it a try, and it was good.

What made this movie good was that, no one really knows what they do when they sleep. Not everyone lies there still and sleeps. Have you ever seen someone sleep walk? Or someone talk in their sleep? Everyone always says it is because they were dreaming but what if it is something more like the movie sort of suspects. Paranormal State is a show on A&E that is very similar. In that show they go out to real locations and record paranormal findings. I started wondering where can I go to find something similar here. There was haunted houses everywhere however those aren't real. Hannah Haunted house is the only one I could find locally that has tours and lets you stay over night and experience the paranormal things going. Sign me up, sounds interesting.

The debate will always be up in the air if it paranormal activities really do happen, but when a window/door closes on its own, something did it.

2 Mobile Direct Tv

Direct TV App – Currently there is a Direct TV app that lets you program your DVR, which is all right but too simple. I want some live streaming on to my iPhone; currently NFL ticket is available on the iPhone. So if you can subscribe to it, you can watch any NFL game live on your iPhone. But I want all 300 hundred channels that I have on my TV to be on my mobile phone. If they can do it for the NFL ticket, why not everything? There are a few apps that are starting to lean towards live broadcast via phones, however many of them are just news stations. With his app you would never miss your basketball game you want to watch, or miss that season finale of your favorite TV show.

1 Netflix

Netflix! – Netflix is a great service that I subscribe to, basically it allows you to watch any movie made and the most popular TV shows on the Internet or they will send you the DVD. This is great for when I am on the go and I can stream it to my laptop. Now why can’t they make a Netflix app. Currently the only apps available with Netflix allow you to change your instant queue. That’s is pretty lame and don’t know why anyone would ever pay for that. Netflix on the go would be the absolute best mobile video device every made. No longer would you have to download movies from the iTunes Store or take a bulky portable DVD player. You would have a selection of thousands of videos for instant stream to your phone.

3 Skype

Skype – It already exists but why not expand it even more? If you aren’t familiar with Skype here is a quick summary of what it can do. You can talk to anyone in the world using Skype for free as long as the other person is on Skype too. You can also video chat. You can use it to call actually cell phones and numbers, but you have to subscribe to the monthly fee. Basically Skype takes tried to make communicating with others via the web more immersive. We’ve been able to IM others for sometime now, and even voice chat. Now there is video chat. Currently on the iPhone app you can make Skype to Skype calls as long as you are on Wi-Fi. Why now get the camera feature working too. Obviously you will run into the problem that the camera is in the back and you can’t see what you are filming, however this would be really unique and add a new option to the app. Major problems I find currently with making this possible is the network bandwidth that would be needed to stream video.

App Store

In the next few blogs I will be talking about the App Store run by Apple. Obviously the is a virtual store that was created to make money, however there are a few apps that I think should be expanded on or be created. Currently the App Store has over 100,00 apps and that number grows daily. The only problem is that the store restricts the Apps that they allow. So I highly recommend jail breaking your iPhone so you can experience those “homebrewed” apps that are amazing and fully take advantage of what the iPhone can do.

Apple came out with the greatest thing in today’s multimedia market with applications for their iPhone and iTouch. However, I still feel that there is many applications lacking that should be considered to be added to the store. The following are my top 3 and why they should be implemented.