Speaking at yesterday's CEO Summit in Redmond, Washington, Bill Gates - that guy from Microsoft - demonstrated the TouchWall, a four foot by six foot touch-screen computer prototype. TouchWall uses infrared and laser technology to register your manual input, and turn it into action. One writer described it as a giant version of Microsoft's Surface technology oriented vertically.
"Think about the whiteboard in your office becoming intelligent." yea, cause that's a new one......oh wait: http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SMART+Boards/default.htm my school has had these for a few years now. They're not perfect, and you can only really use them for teaching, but what Microsoft came up with is definitely not a new concept.
Google has an unexpected opponent in the battle for protected white spaces—athletic leagues. The NFL, MLB, NASCAR, NBA, NHL, NCAA, PGA Tour and even ESPN are all ganging up in a fight to get their hands on the airwaves in between your television channels that are currently being used for wireless microphones (including sporting events) but not much else.
yea, i sure hope google wins, because you can always find another way to transfer mic signals...insanely fast internet on the other hand isn't that easy to get....heck, why not just make mics that can work over the internet...how hard could that be. Or you could just go old fashioned and use wired mics...i know, crazy right?
Yes, there are some great robot fight scenes, nefarious villains, a few human interest plotlines, even characters that seem like genuine people, but the new movie Iron Man is really about the lab, and its ridiculously cool toys.
"But the cool point here is that the filmmakers clearly thought about the kind of power you'd need to make a suit like this work." --2nd to last paragraph near the middle. I'm sorry, I don't mean to be nitpicking, but I read this and thought of a friend of mine who's very into comics and thought about how annoyed he'd be if he saw this Just to give you an idea of how into comics and movies he is: You know that extra scene at the end of the credits in Iron Man? prabably not, but he did. He stood up and starting clapping and screaming with excitement when he saw Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. Yea....that's how into comics and movies he is.... Anyway...Iron Man was a comic long before it was a movie and to say that the filmmakers thought about the power needed is not really true. Marvel and the people to write the comic were the people who thought about the power source of the suit....not the filmmakers.
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