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Nissan Leaf

By on December 3, 2010 in iPhone, japan, products

Nissan formally launched its Leaf EV (Electric Vehicle) today. I was in Ginza the other day and shot this video of their demo (actually, “the other day” is misleading because I’m always in Ginza – it’s just down the road). If the HD version isn’t an option for you here, jump over to YouTube for more viewing options:

(shot and edited with my iPhone using the iMovie for iPhone app)

Nissan said the five-seater hatchback was rated with a range of 200 km (124 miles) on a full charge under Japanese test standards, although Californian authorities have rated it at 160 km (100 miles) and another U.S. agency at just 73 miles.

It comes with a suggested retail price of 3.76 million yen ($44,900), discounted to 2.98 million yen in Japan with government subsidies. In the United States, the Leaf will cost about $25,000 after a federal tax credit and in Europe about 30,000 euros before subsidies.

(Nissan launches Leaf, bets big on electric vehicles, by Chang-Ran Kim, Asia autos correspondent, Reuters)

 

A few more photos I shot with my iPhone:

Nissan Leaf with the doors open

 

 

 

 

 

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Testing a Vimeo Embed

By on June 5, 2010 in Miscellaneous

As I mentioned recently, due to a change at my hosting provider, I ended up switching my self-hosted WordPress.org blog over to a WordPress.com blog. The transfer itself was very smooth and easy using the great built-in function in WordPress.com, which copied over all my posts and custom CSS (although it did not do as well with some images, but that’s a separate story).

However,  because I am quite used to the freedom of a self-hosted WordPress.org blog (I administer several), I was a bit surprised to learn about some of the limitations of WordPress.com. In particular, the ability to post JavaScript or embed Flash, etc..

Realistically, I completely understand why Automattic places such limitations on users: just like Steve Jobs and his stance on the stability of Flash, they want to control the environment and ensure that everything functions smoothly across a shared platform.

So, as I get used to my new home on WordPress.com, I still need to test out a few things: one of them is embedding Vimeo videos, so that’s today’s post. I don’t produce that many videos (I’m obviously much more focussed on DSLRs than video cameras), but I am still on the fence between YouTube and Vimeo: I like the interface of the latter, but, obviously, the former is much more widely used and, therefore, means more people are likely to see a video and there is better compatibility with other services (iPhone/smart phones being one: you have to sign up for Vimeo’s paying service in order to be able to switch on mobile versions of your videos).

Anyway, today’s test of a Vimeo embed – this is 15 minutes of cloud movement after a typhoon condensed into 2 minutes. It was shot last year with a Canon iVis HF21 HD video camera on a tripod (from my balcony):

(turn off the sound if you don’t like techno…) ;-)

Embedding the video is really easy – WordPress.com’s instructions are here. However, oddly enough, they neglect to mention that the URL/Video ID can be pasted into either the “visual” WYSIWYG post-writing window or the HTML post-writing window.

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