Planet CNET: L'animation avec Attitude! Video

Planet CNET: L'animation avec Attitude! Video Transcript

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>> Hey there, I'm Kara Tsuboi reporting from CNET headquarters in San Francisco. Welcome to Planet CNET, our weekly show where we bring you reports from CNET editors around the globe. We begin in France where the art of high-tech movie making is capturing a lot of attention. [ Background Noise ]

>> Although you may not have heard of Attitude Studio yet, this young French company is one of the 3 most successful firms to master motion capture, [background noise] a technology based on captures placed on the body, the face and the hands of an actor to record his movement and positions. Basically apart from Sony Picture Imageworks in the United States, [inaudible] in New Zealand and Attitude Studio in France, they are very few on the market today. If Sony and [inaudible] have largely contributed to the success of Spider Man and Lord of the Rings, you also probably heard about Renaissance [phonetic], Attitude Studio's first animation feature film. Nine years of hard work were necessary to direct this film entirely made in motion capture with no less than 40 actors. The action takes place in 2054 in Paris in a very stylish and unique black and white design. Moreover, Attitude Studio can honestly pride itself for covering 3 distinctive media, cinematic computing video games, TV series and of course animation films. Therefore, when you go play with the soon to be released video games The Bourne Conspiracy or Grey's Anatomy, just remember it's also made in [inaudible]. And if you look closely, you will see that I'm also a motion capture character. Convincing, right? Okay, remove the special effect [inaudible] special effect. Yes, you don't work for Attitude Studio. Thank you. [Music] Sorry, I'm just Louise Gaegan [phonetic] for CNET France. Thanks for watching.

>> Now, guys don't get any ideas about turning me into an animated character no matter how much easier you think to be to work with me. But I tell you, if you're looking to dress up like a cartoon character, you can take a lot of inspiration from a long running annual event at San Francisco's Exploratorium. Here's my report from the big party. ^M00:02:26 [ Music ] ^M00:02:32

>> The title second skin sure does leave a lot open for interpretation. [ Music ] [ Background Music ]

>> But the ideas for designers to find a confluence of fashion and technology, and those ideas were all in display at the museum's opening fashion show. Here's a good example. This dress is embedded with [inaudible] electric elements to create voltage as the wearer walks.

>> When I move this, it can kind of create vibration on material. There's a little light that comes up. This is just a demonstration. See that little LED that lights up? It's just for me moving this material around.

>> Or check out this massage suit slash video game controller slash vest.

>> They have taken a game pad from a PlayStation and they put it on the back of a vest, so you get massage at the same time that you get to watch kickboxing [laughs].

>> This is another crowd pleaser. This suit is called "okay to touch" and you sure do have to touch in order to create a noise.

>> That is so cool and kind of annoy at the same time [laughs].

>> There's some conductive thread embroidered on the sleeve and then our body has become part of the circuit once I touch the thread and once we are part of the circuit, touching skin to skin closes the circuit. [ Noise ]

>> Another favorite that comes to my mind was a dress that reacted to smoke. Smoke triggered a sensor hidden inside a broche that coils the wires in the skirt. Think you find a lot more smokers around here if the ladies started wearing them. Now, from fashion to phones, which is not a very big leap these days as phones get more and more stylish, we want you to check out a shiny example of this trend from CNET Germany. [ Noise ]

>> Hi this is Daniel Schraeder [phonetic] from CNET.den Munich. I've got the prototype of the HTC Touch Diamond which is the successor of the famous HTC Touch, but it is smaller, better and faster. Even if it targets the same audience as the iPhone, there are several differences. For example, you will notice some buttons on the display which will help you navigating through the menus even if you won't need them very often. Furthermore, the diamond brings a stylus which is really cool across its cap inside the case with magnets. If you pull it out, the device will switch on. Inside the Diamond there is a 3.5 G network connection, WiFi, 4gigabytes of fresh ROM [phonetics] and a GPS receiver. If you install optional navigation software like WiFi and a Tom Tom, you will be able to use the device's navigation system. There will be your optional car kit for around 30 Euros which is about 45 dollars. Let's have a look at the brand new touch flow interface. You can use this slider to select the different menus. You can look at your context, music, photos or the weather forecast. You can use most of the applications without the stylus. It usually evokes for regret, but sometimes it's a little bit too slow. HTC says they'll have to fix the problems when they launch the final product. It's a pity that you have to leave the touch flow interface sometimes. For example, if you get a text message, you can read it within the interface. But if you want to reply to it, the device starts the Window's mobile text message application software. By the way, the Touch Diamond is the first device in Europe which runs Windows Mobile 6.1. The new [inaudible] product browser is just great. I don't think that it's as good as the Safari Browser on the iPhone, but it's the best web browser I've ever seen on the Windows Mobile device. There's also a huge--which allows me to watch videos over the air, the 3.5 G connection of the WiFi connection. There are so much more cool things to talk about like the 2.8 inch VGA display which is ultra bright and sharp or the internal motion sensor. Just have a further look at the device yourself. It will be avail in Germany within the next few weeks for around 100 Euros with the contract. So, I think you will be able to get it for around 550 Euros in the market. It would be available later this year in the United States and 550 Euros, that's around 800 dollars for the best released smart phone ever made. [ Noise ]

>> Yeah for 850 bucks, I'm gonna have to start saving right now. That is all for this week. We'll catch you next time on Planet CNET. I'm Kara Tsuboi reporting from CNET World headquarters in San Francisco. ^M00:07:00 [ Music ]