Review: Nokia Lumia 1020

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Nokia's Lumia 1020 is an amalgamation of the best features that Espoo, Finland's mobile icon has to offer. This device showcases all the refinements that Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 OS delivers in a handset, while leapfrogging the status quo in cameraphones with a jaw dropping 41-Megapixel camera accompanied by some of the best camera software we've seen on any device.

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YouTube to hold first music awards

YouTube is sponsoring its first YouTube Music Awards this November 3 and will feature big names like Lady Gaga, Eminem, and Arcade Fire. The show will stream live online from Pier 36 in New York City and be hosted by actor Jason Schwartzman. 

The show will be honoring “artists and songs that YouTube fans have turned into global hits over the past year.” The nominees will be announced on October 17. There are also going to be events at Seoul, Moscow, London, and Brazil.

Source: Huffington Post

Introducing speeCup, the road trip-ready Bluetooth speaker

The speeCup Bluetooth wireless speaker can be taken from your home, to your office, to even your car’s cup holder. This Siri/S Voice-enabled portable speaker features a noise-canceling microphone for hands-free communication and integrates smartControl with gesture control. You can play music wirelessly for up to 30 feet away from this 8-inch speeCup and can be used for up to 20 hours.

It works with Apple devices, Android phone and tablets, and other Bluetooth devices and is available in black, white, and red for $129.95.

Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum launches ScopifyROM for iOS, a first-of-its-kind interactive museum app

In an effort to offer its visitors a more interactive experience within the walls of its museum, Toronto's ROM - in conjuction with Kensington Communications - has launched its first app for iOS entitled "Scopify". At first of its kind for any museum, Scopify allows visitors to experience ROM objects in fun and interactive ways, including Animating a dodo, X-raying a mummy, and Skinning a dino. Along with the exclusive range of custom-made ScopifyROM tools, visitors can animate, X-Ray, scan, magnify and otherwise “Select” ROM objects. For instance, users who visit the Schad Gallery of Biodiversity are able to Animate the ROM’s Dodo skeleton with ScopifyROM.  As a famed extinct species, this metre-tall flightless ancestor of the common pigeon and dove comes to life in an instant, moving as it would when Dodos populated the island of Mauritius. Also available is the ability to discover the Galleries of Africa: Egypt; with ScopifyROM, you can CT Scan, and Decode a Mummy. 

Very cool, forward-thinking initiative by the ROM to further engage its cult base of followers. 

Download Scopify for free via the AppStore here, word is the Android version of the app is on its way as well

Learn more about the app via the ROM's website here