ChrisPrasojo

HTML5 on YouTube

Last week I noticed HTML5 feature in YouTube was made available to the public to try. Everyone now has the option to try HTML5 video instead of relying on Flash player to playback the video.

Your web browser must support HTML5 before you can try the HTML5 video on YouTube. Safari and Chrome are among the few that support HTML5 today.

I opted and am using the HTML5 version of YouTube. I like how it doesn’t hog my processor like how Flash did.

You can try HTML5 or visit TestTube to see other interesting features on YouTube, likely to be half-baked at this moment.

Aside from video, HTML5 offers a few more interesting and useful features. An article at ReadWriteWeb summed five neat features.

Morph

Take a look at this cool video (it’s just a concept!) about Nokia Morph. A great concept about future phone with nanotechnology and how it can change the way we interact with mobile phone.

I like the idea of battery self-recharge using sunlight and possibility of using it on building surface.

Charge an iPod with an Onion

This is a very interesting video. I found this article and video from another website and there’s nobody else that I know, other than this video’s author, does charge his iPod successfully with an electrolytes-submerged onion. I won’t try this too on my iPod’s USB cable; Can’t imagine having onion layers stuffed beneath my USB plug and smells like onions. :S

It doesn’t take much to charge 15-20 minutes of your iPod; just two cups of Gatorade, an onion, and a screwdriver to make a hole through the onion to boost the chemical reaction process. Maybe our friends from School of Chemical and Life Sciences can explain us how an onion can provides electricity.

Oh yes, this electronion might be a new object in the center of attention for friends in School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering who are hotly debating about green technology.