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Guys and Their Gadgets: The 2009 AskMen Great Male Survey

Some men (in black) with their favorite gadget.Every year, AskMen.com runs a special male-behavior study, polling more than 50,000 readers to get answers to one basic question: Who and what is “the modern man?” Some of the results are just as you (and a whole lot of women who will roll their eyes when they hear this) might expect. Yes, 69% of men polled have fantasized about a girlfriend’s friend and more than half of the pollsters (53%) prefer breasts in a C cup.

As a gadget site, obviously the material we’re most interested in has to do with men and tech. As a gadget blogger I’m exposed to an inordinate number of tech savvy geeks who live in a universe of daily technolust. But what of today’s modern man? How do your everyday friends use technology?

Let’s start with the easy questions, shall we? First off:

Q. Which screen do you spend the most time in front of?
75% – My computer monitor
18% – My TV screen
07% – My phone

No big surprise here – I know I log enormous amounts of time in front of a computer screen and I would expect about the same from the general, 18-35 demographic I’d guess got polled.

From here the stats get increasingly curmudgeonly. I’ll spare you a little commentary and list our next few entries as they appear. Continue reading »

Blu-ray Control Coming to the iPhone

Universal's iPhone Blu-ray app.Universal has a new app coming to the iPhone next week, one that you might not expect from the film studio. It’s a Blu-ray application, one that allows users to download content from BR discs to their iPhone or iPod Touch or even remotely control features on the disc. If you can’t recall, Universal was the last major studio to abandon HD DVD for Blu-ray, officially ending the Blu-ray competitor’s lifespan.

The application launches on the 28th as in conjunction with the Fast & Furious Blu-ray release. Initially, users will be able to view 360 degree models of the various cars from F&F while they watch. For later titles, the app will require an internet-connected Blu-ray player and will include social network integration, allowing you to update your Facebook friends on your movie life.

Universal’s application, which is the first of its kind from the movie industry, will be free. You can see the full press release at PR NewsWire.

Google Sees YouTube as Profitable in the Near Future

YouTube making some money.In 2006 we all sat around kicking ourselves, wondering why we didn’t think up a little site called YouTube. That was when Google bought the video-sharing site for a whopping $1.65 billion. Since then, though, the search giant has been unable to get the site to turn a profit.

That’s all about to change, at least Google thinks so. In an earnings conference call this past Thursday, CEO Eric Schmidt said YouTube is heading in the right direction, making it very easy for advertisers to get profitable ads up on the site. Recent months have brought a few changes to ad possibilities, which now include pre-roll ads like you’ve seen on Hulu and other video sharing sites.

Google’s head of product management and marketing, Jonathan Rosenberg, echoed Schmidt’s enthusiasm. He said monetized views, meaning videos with ad support, had tripled in the last year. According to Rosenberg, YouTube is now “monetizing billions of views of partner videos every month.”

Even the company’s CFO, Patrick Pichette chimed in, saying, “We’re really pleased both in terms of (YouTube’s) revenue growth, which is really material to YouTube, and… in the not long, too-long-distant future, we actually see a very profitable and good business for us.”

Just another step closer to world domination…

Energizer Adds DSLR/Camcorder USB Charger

Energizer's Energi To Go DSLR/camcorder USB charger.Energizer’s Energi To Go line has some pretty sweet stuff, including a solar battery charger for just $50. They’re adding another device to the line later this year that’s turning some heads – the DSLR/camcorder battery USB charging clip. I really hope they have a better name.

This nifty little toy looks great. Two prongs hang from the top of what is essentially a chip clip with a usb stick attached. The prongs line up with the contacts on most DSLR/camcorder batteries, giving you an ultra portable way to charge on the go.

The only setback is that the clip may require one of Energizer’s USB-equipped battery packs, but even so, it’s USB, and that’s awesome. Now if we could just get universal charging adapters for our cell phones.

Energizer has yet to release pricing and availability for the clip, but I’d guess it’ll fall somewhere around $20. Watch for it in Q3 this year.

Source: Gearlog

Unsurprising News of the Day: iPhone 3GS Bumps YouTube Mobile Uploads By 400%

iPhone video recording at the pool.There’s a word that’s frequently omitted from the recent blog chatter about YouTube’s latest upload stats: mobile. It’s an important word, too, especially for a site that sees tens of thousands of uploads per day.

For those of you who aren’t up to date, a recent YouTube blog post claimed the iPhone 3GS has bumped uploads by 400% per day since its release last Friday. Taken out of context, that’s mind-blowing, and at first led me to believe iPhone 3GS users were somehow pushing nearly half a million videos per day through YouTube’s servers. That would be staggering.

In the original context, though, you can see the YouTube team is talking about mobile upload increases, not total upload percentages, which makes this completely unsurprising news. The last six months have seen the first widespread adoption of phones with video paired with data connections capable of uploading those videos. It’s no surprise then that the last six months have also seen a 1700% increase in mobile uploads and the 400% iPhone 3GS stat mentioned earlier. It’s pretty easy to post huge growth numbers from…next to nothing, and it just gets easier when Apple sells a million phones, all with build in video and editing features, all with an easy YouTube upload app.

Now it’s easy to panic and wonder when all of this uploading is going to crush AT&T’s upstream, but YouTube hasn’t released any hard numbers. It’s still 400 percent, which could be 100 or could be 10,000. Even a generous 100,000 videos a day is a lot for mobile video, but compared to the number of mobile users (take the 20 million active iPhone users, for instance) and you’re talking about marginal amounts of data compared to the total upstream per day.

So please, take it easy, and don’t forget to look at the original data before taking fantastical news to heart.

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