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 the net while watching the World Series game I came across a couple of videos and an article that I thought I’d post to the blog. The first two video’s show a Hitachi TV working using gestures while the third video is the Balmer interview on “The Hour”. Vodpod videos no longer available.
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.
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 10 finger interface and a 3-D window system are demonstrated.
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.
Get Ready For Light Peak As Your Optical Connection
‘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 up to 100Gb/s over the next decade. The video below provides insight into this next-generation technology.
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.
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.
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 lack of books related to the design of Television sets. After watching the video, click here for more details.
