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Video content can now travel from your phone to your TV in just seconds. Prof. Gurminder Singh goes step-by-step through a IPTV demo and explains how mobile devices can now provide effortless, immediate and seamless multimedia experience for TV viewers anywhere in the world. Learn more: mediax.stanford.edu

Do you have a blast preparing and eating seafood? Well, we are using mobile technology to share our experiences. We recorded our cooking adventures using a VholdR helmet camera and RFID tags. While the food was cooking on the stove the chef tried out her camera on the trampoline and swing. We used a Nokia 6131 NFC phone to read and send a message from a tagged orange pot to an Apple iPhone. A link on the screen activated and a YouTube cooking video was downloaded and displayed.

Mobile technology expert Noah Kravitz, editor-in-chief of PhoneDog, discusses the new iPhone 4 and iOS 4 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference.

This video captures the beta Fearlesscity.ca website as it streamed 3 separate mobile videos reflecting the culture of the neighbourhood. DTES residents with Fearless City were onsite at different Festival venues live-streaming stories about living in the DTES. The interviews were captured on HTC Touch devices and streamed live with Mobile Muse3 technology and screened on a live screen (48″ flat screen TV) on a shopping cart that roamed around the neighbourhood. Festival attendees in turn, watched the stream, and were able to ask interview subjects questions by MMS text from their own cell phones, which were live streamed to a mobile screen at the interview site. Mobile technology in the DTES!! Just to mobilise things even further, this video was shot on a Nokia N95 from Ottawa, and the audio signal switches form right to left every 20 seconds. This project was facilitated by Moira Simpson, the National Film Boards DTES Filmmaker-in-Residence.

Take advantage of the big, bright 2.5-inch LCD monitor to compose photos with Live View shooting. This convenient alternative to the viewfinder is almost like using a compact digital camera. It is particularly suited for low- and high-angle shots or when using a tripod. Live View shooting is also great for verifying exposure and depth of field, giving you the opportunity to confirm both on the monitor before taking the picture. For compositions requiring close inspection, you can zoom 5x or 10x to check focus and other critical details. Two autofocus modes are available for Live View shooting. In rapidly changing environments, a quick autofocus mode lets you capture all the action with only a brief blackout between shots by accelerating autofocus response (Quick mode). Another easily selected mode allows uninterrupted viewing (Live mode) while shooting.