Gesture Control: Coming To A TV Set Near You!

I just got back from Hollywood this evening but prior to leaving I caught Steve Balmer on CBC’s “The Hour”. One of the items that surfaced in the discussion was the future of TV and during the discussion Steve Balmer talked about gesture control for TV being just around the corner. Tonight as I surfed [...]

Apple Graciously Welcomes Windows 7

Apple is up to it again…. Enjoy.

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P3Pictures Looks at Audio Options for Hybrid (DSLR) Cameras

Jon Fairhurst of P3Pictures did a study on audio options for recording movies using DSLR cameras. The tests are done using a variety of audio recording devices and microphones. The first test (below) was undertaken with a closely placed shotgun mic.

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Interface Beyond The Mouse

Clayton Miller’s 10/GUI project is developing and demonstrating an interface that goes beyond the standard mouse. The mouse as it is currently designed forces the user to operate using a single finger. This limitation is well understood and –in fact– window-based GUI’s have been designed around this limitation.In the video below the concepts behind a [...]

The Durability Of OLED Displays

The video below demonstrates both the flexibility and strength of OLED displays. A traditional LCD shatters with a hammer, while the 2.8-inch, 20 micrometer thick OLED display is completely unaffected, even when folded.
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Conan O’Brien talks to the co-creator of USB on The Tonight Show

Conan O’Brien recently interviewed the co-creator of USB, Ajay Bhatt as part of the Tonight Show. The video below is pretty entertaining.
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Light Peak, Your 10Gb/s Connector.

‘Light Peak’, employs a high-speed optical cable 125 microns thick. That’s about the thickness of a human hair. It’s at the base of a new interconnect technology that Intel hopes will replace or augment connections used in consumer-based electronics, such as USB2.0, HDMI, Firewire and DVI. The technology is expandable and is expected to scale [...]

Eyefinity – ATI Would Like You Think Of It As Surround-Sight

AMD boasts its ATI Eyefinity multi-screen technology has up to 12 times 1080p resolution that’s almost true eye-definition video quality. It’s able to power up to six monitors from one card employing Windows 7 ready and the technology is said to unleash the power of Direct X 11.

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Next Generation Of The Mouse Will Feature Multi-touch Capabilities

The video below released by Microsoft explores some novel input devices that combine the standard capabilities of a computer mouse and multi-touch sensing. The video presents five different multi-touch mouse implementations each exploring different touch sensing strategies. The mice employ different form-factors and interactive possibilities.
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High definition TV circa 1958 – Teleavia Type P111

Michael Bennett-Levy’s collection of rare TV sets went to auction recently. Amongst this treasure trove of early TV sets was a Teleavia type P111 that, as he describes in the video below delivered 819 lines of resolution making it an HDTV set for its generation. The video is also interesting in that Bennett-Levy discusses the [...]