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This morning marks the first official day of the 2012 CES conference. The consumer electronics convention is the stuff of legend. It’s where Microsoft first unveiled the original Xbox. It’s where we oohed over the Palm Pre, not knowing its fate. And its where thousands of exhibitors show off their products and prototypes in the hopes that retailers and the press will get excited and drive consumer demand.
To follow up on yesterday’s Firefox post… Firefox Downloads in real time – Plus a Firefox 4 preview …almost exactly 10 million copies of Firefox 4 were downloaded between 8AM yesterday and 8AM today. The average right now is about 9,000 downloads per minute. More info on Firefox 4 – particularly interesting are the Panorama [...]
A flashlight is normally a very simple device. You have a bulb, and battery and a switch. Flip the switch and the bulb turns on to produce light. What if you want a LOT of light from your flashlight? Here is a 50 watt, 500 LED flashlight that shows you the possibilities: What if you [...]
Version 2.0 of Microsoft Surface is a lot cooler that version 1.0
by Marshall Brain | January 6, 2011
Watching this video it is apparent that Microsoft has made great strides with its Surface project. The most amazing part of it is the fact that the surface of the screen can now see: The demonstration shows how the screen can detect and read a piece of paper. Here’s what Surface looked like 3 years [...]
Manufacturers have tried many different ways to let users “type” on a handheld device. The tiny onscreen keyboard seen on most devices is the most obvious way, but it is not very fast. Palm came up with Graffiti – a simplified kind of handwriting: This video demonstrates voice input and Swype on an Droid X [...]
In this video, Microsoft demos a system it is calling LightSpace: The most interesting part of this feels like the camera’s ability to sense and “understand” the people in the room. Cameras are now cheap, and it is easy to imagine rooms having little smoke-detector-shaped cameras in the ceiling that understand gestures and positions for [...]
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