• Microsoft Project Natal

    By Posted on 11.2.2009 7 Comments

    Nintendo brought us the notion of playing games by waving a controller, but Microsoft showed off something even better this year: gaming with no controller at all. A prototype system dubbed Project Natal lets Xbox 360 games respond to anything from full-body lunges to subtle hand gestures, voice input and even facial expressions. Unlike the Wii, you don’t hold anything. Your movements and voice control the game.

    11.25.2009 at 05:48pm - Comment by kayceefan

    Sorry - if this is a duplicate. For some reason my earlier comment just vanished. Check this out: www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html Moves from simple to truly impressive. This is where this idea is going.

  • Microsoft Project Natal

    By Posted on 11.2.2009 7 Comments

    Nintendo brought us the notion of playing games by waving a controller, but Microsoft showed off something even better this year: gaming with no controller at all. A prototype system dubbed Project Natal lets Xbox 360 games respond to anything from full-body lunges to subtle hand gestures, voice input and even facial expressions. Unlike the Wii, you don’t hold anything. Your movements and voice control the game.

    11.25.2009 at 05:46pm - Comment by kayceefan

    Check out T.E.D - SixthSense: http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html The presentation moves from the simple to truly impressive. This is where this idea is going...!

  • Eye-Fi Wireless SD Card

    By Posted on 11.9.2008 Comments

    By squeezing a Wi-Fi transmitter onto the main chip of a two-gigabyte memory card, Eye-Fi allows a camera to automatically beam photos to a computer or upload them to the Web. It can also use Wi-Fi to find its location and geotag photos to display on a map. From $80; eye.fi

    1.5.2009 at 02:15pm - Comment by kayceefan

    A nice idea, in the wrong part. Isn't it somewhat cheaper (and less of a waste) to include a wi-fi (or a bluetooth) to the camera? I note that in the new cameras, they have included a decidedly a low-tech upgrade of including a USB jack. I haven't used one of them, but I doubt their ease of use, since they don't have any extension from the camera to the USB jack. So,the camera body is literally attached to the PC.

  • Samsung AIRAVE

    By Posted on 11.9.2008 Comments

    No bars at home? No problem. Airave acts like a mini cell tower, routing calls into Sprint’s network over your home’s high-speed Internet connection. Each Airave box handles up to three simultaneous calls, which can start at home and switch to a regular tower when you step outside, or vice versa. $100, plus from $5 per month; sprint.com

    1.5.2009 at 02:04pm - Comment by kayceefan

    With all due respects, I disagree with this choice: The current design of tying the device to a specific carrier is symptomatic of the US cell phone industry's malady of carrier orientation. A third party convenience device like this getting this affliction sinks the floor to a new depth. It would have been more useful if the hardware had been carrier neutral and managed the connection via software. Taking it further, a multi-layered architecture that will recognize (or at least capable of being trained) to handle multiple carrier heterogeneously would have been worthy of a place among the "best of what's new".

  • Gadgets

    The MegaGoods Roundup

    By Posted on 10.28.2008 9 Comments

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    3.4.2008 at 07:16pm - Comment by kayceefan

    I'm not interested in seeing all of the 169 items, but only those categories that interest me. I'm irked that there is no navigational links to take me to a subset. For a magazine dedicated to all things science, this is an astounding shortcoming :-( Your web page designer also appears to think that we all enjoy clicking on our mice!! I'd suggest that you categorize the items and on each page for that category provide thumbnails, that we can drill down to, if we're interested. - Kay Ceefan



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