by stephanlange on January 13, 2010
I wish I had the time (and money) to go to CES this year, but thankfully all my favourite tech sites were covering it very well.
So looking at all the new gadgets coming out I thought I share my favourites with you – they are in no particular order
1. The transparent laptop screen – Samsung 14 inch Transparent OLED
2. HP Slate tablet – Apple is meant to do it – MS and HP have done it
3. A.R Drone – a Quadcopter controlled by your iPhone (we mentioned it here already)
4. liquid Image HD snow goggles and underwater goggles – all you need for your own discovery movies
5. Peregrine Glove Game controller
6. LBO Light Touch – have an interactive surface on any surface (we mentioned it here already)
7. Finally some USB 3.0 products – superspeed here we come
8. PlasticLogic Que Pro eBook reader/tablet – very sexy
9. Project Natal – can’t wait to connect this to my Xbox360
10. Zyxio Sensawaft – move your cursor with your breath
something additional – these didn’t quite make it into my top 10, but are still pretty cool
The instant Camareas are back – non digital – Polaroid makes a comeback with the Polaroid Pic 1000
Lenovo bringing out a phone
Panasonic 152 inch 3D TV and wireless HDMI transfer
MSI Dual screen multitouch tablet
by eunmac on June 2, 2009
Having worked on the Xbox account for 5-6 years and being part of Microsoft you’d probably expect we knew all about this. Nope! They kept this one under tight wraps and surprised the lot of us today. Of course there have been rumours on the web, but the fact is we did not expect to get an announcement this exciting! Most expected a ‘me too’ Wii catchup controller – but instead we have something truly groundbreaking.
What is it? Best to watch the videos, but in summary the hardware is a new breed of sensor for the Xbox 360 that can recognise a persons body movement accurately within a 3D space, full facial recognition and voice – without a controller. The potential is amazing… just watch. We understand that all the footage shot are real demos. Nothing canned.
The Ad: When Microsoft figures out how to make a decent ad, the competition will be in trouble – it’s the only thing we didn’t like.
Meet Milo – the virtual boy. (below)
Painting Demo
The ‘Sensor’ that lives under your telly:
More juicy videos and gossip from the rather raw Xbox staff blog at www.insiderx.com
by stephanlange on June 2, 2009
is project Natal which they announced at their keynote speech at E3 this year.
It is using camera technology developed by 3DV and according to the promo video it will have some nice features, e.g. voice recognition, scanning features and of course full body motion control.
check out the video here:
Unfortunately it doesn’t look like we will be using it this year.
