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Technology |
Add Comment | 166 views For all the power and connectivity that modern mobile devices offer these days, why are we still typing on screens (or, God forbid, numerical pads) barely three fingers wide? A new wearable GUI system aims to turn any surface within arm’s reach into an input device.
The OmniTouch system was developed by Carnegie Mellon University in conjunction with Microsoft Research and allows users to interact with applications on any surface. It utilizes a pico projector to display the interface on a surface—whether it’s a wall, table, arm, lap, leg, or what-have-you—then employs a custom-built short-range depth sensor (similar to a Microsoft Kinect) to track your fingers as they type.
The system’s software supports multi-touch input and can track digits in 3D space, differentiating between a finger that’s hovering over a surface and one that’s actively “clicked” an area. And, since it’s shoulder-mounted, the system’s first-person perspective doesn’t require any user calibration or special training. A user can even transfer the interface from one surface to another; say from the back of a notebook onto a nearby wall
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Add Comment | 255 views Ra.One Movie is doing an amazing animation promotion on the RaOne Youtube channel. Find actor Shahrukh Khan performing various acts interacting on the Youtube page. See the video below to see how well they have played with the Youtube page for effective film promotion.
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Add Comment | 191 views 
A line began to form at the Apple Store here on the eve of the iPhone 4S release, as is often the case around the world during the company’s product launches.
At the front of this particular line Thursday, Steve Wozniak sits in a Pico armchair, sipping Diet Dr Pepper and scanning e-mails from his white iPad.
The Apple co-founder, who gets a pay check of “a couple hundred dollars every two weeks” and still maintains his status as employee No. 1 in company records, hasn’t been able to stay put for long. Crowds of Apple fans, family friends and people who have seen him riding his Segway around the neighbourhood stop to say hi, take pictures and ask for his autograph.
“I’ll be taking a thousand pictures,” Wozniak whispered with a smile. “I’m going to sit down and see if I can get a little e-mail done, because there’s no way I’m going to get it all done today.”
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1 Comment | 360 views The initial reaction to the announcement of the iPhone 4S was muted somehow. First there’s that name: It’s the old phone’s name with an S attached to it. As the iPhone 3GS taught us, adding an S to an iPhone’s name can represent numerous under-the-hood improvements, but it doesn’t send shivers down your spine like incrementing a number by one and unveiling a redesigned exterior with mind-blowing features that may or may not include anti-gravity.
Now here comes the iPhone 4S, which is more of a good thing: It takes the successful look of the iPhone 4 and tosses in a dual-core processor for dramatically improved speed, an upgraded camera, and some brand-new voice-command technologies in the form of Siri which is getting acclaimed response from the reviewers across the world.
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Add Comment | 273 views I don’t know but I had this feeling ever since I came to know about Steve’s death, that he would have done something special at his death bed as well. And it looks like he did. No person in this world would want to be in a situation where Steve was. Near to your family and friends and you know that you are not there for long time. Telling them everthing that you never told them ever in the last days, when days pass by like the day did not have 24 hours. I miss you Steve. Thank you for everything. You’ll be my greatest idol ever.
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Add Comment | 225 views I was sitting on an uncomfortable wooden stool in an Apple Store, holding my iPhone. My butt was hurting.
I had gone all the way up to the Upper West Side Apple Store to get my dented, scratched, stained three-year-old MacBook Pro—one of the unibodies where you can still swap the battery—fixed for like the 6th or 7th time. The logic board was dying, again. The optical drive was dead, again. I think the display was going bad too. And the trackpad was getting wonky. I had a few days left on Apple Care.
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Add Comment | 218 views 
I wanted to see/meet you in person once in my life but I think that day would never come now. I was busy playing game today when news of your death was broken to me by my wife. For a moment I could not think about anything at all and I was in shock. New iPhone 4S launch yesterday already missed you. And now, I don’t know what is going to happen to Apple and its product now in your absence.
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Add Comment | 272 views The windswept, sunburned Chajnantor plateau in Chile rises 16,500 feet above sea level and has some of the driest air on Earth. That makes it the perfect location for the world’s biggest, most sensitive, and most complex ground-based telescope.
The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) studies sub-millimeter astronomy—energy at the millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelengths where the infrared spectrum stops and radio waves begin. This sort of energy is emitted from sooty clouds of molecular gas and dust in interstellar space. These clouds are hotbeds of new star creation but absorb most of the visible light emitted by these young suns, heating just a few tenths of a degree above absolute zero (-273C). While most of the visible light is obscured by these clouds, the radiation that the dust emits from being heated shines in the millimeter and sub-millimeter range. It’s this radiation that the ALMA observes, through which scientists can learn about the conditions of the Universe ten billion years ago.
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Add Comment | 441 views Microsoft showed off a number of its new Windows 8 features this week at BUILD.
The software giant also has a huge story to tell and has only just begun that process. Steven Sinofsky, chief of the Windows and Windows Live division at Microsoft, teased a long list of the remaining features that Microsoft has included in Windows 8. Some features in the list sound interesting whilst others have been covered subsequently at BUILD. Regardless, it’s a great list of what Microsoft is working on in Windows 8.
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Windows 8 is Microsofts future operating system that is intended to share aspects of Windows 7 while also competing directly with iPad, iOS, and Android thanks to it’s Metro user interface. We’ve praised some of the Windows 8 features before, and also criticized the freakishly cluttered Ribbon UI, but now you can try it out yourself and come up with your own conclusion of Microsofts future OS, completely for free.
The Windows 8 Developer Preview comes as a free download from Microsofts new Windows Dev Center – there is no product activation required. The .iso files weigh in between 2.8GB and 4.8GB depending on what you’re looking for.
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