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Sharing music with friends used to be intimate, even messy. We visited each other’s homes with stacks of records, and plundered album sleeves until vinyl littered the floor. Everyone negotiated song choices in real time, and when consensus proved impossible, DJ duties fell to whomever reached the turntable first. Sometimes this led to the 40,000th playback of Zeppelin’s “Black Dog.” And sometimes you had to listen to that weird friend-of-a-friend’s freakbeat sitar jam. “It’s number one in Berlin!” he’d assure you, as if this flimsy bit of context could convert your musical faith. Now Google wants to update this conversation-based music discovery system for the digital age. At its I/O keynote Wednesday, the company unveiled Nexus Q, a sleek streaming-media sphere that’s 4.6 inches in diameter and looks like pop art. Nearly devoid of outward-facing controls, Nexus Q is a puzzle — a satin-coated curio that begs to be touched and examined. But when you gaze into this mysterious black ball that crackles with light, you don’t see the future but rather blasts from the past: a return to speaker-driven audio, along with all the real-time social sharing that vinyl once inspired. READ ALSO : http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-media-receivers/google-nexus-q/4505-6739_7-35339164.html
Playsurface addresses touch table design from both mechanical and electronic design trajectories, and includes: - A new, application-specific closed-loop digital image processing module to provide touch detection and tracking functions apart from the gaming/application computer - An open-hardware cabinet and surface design developed for cost optimization and flat-pack shipping - A USB interface standard and driver that reduces implementation of the touch table to the same level as plugging in monitor and mouse peripherals
Just when you think that we’re pretty tech savvy, companies like Google and Nokia file outlandish “forward-thinking” patents that make you feel like we’re all in a Star Trek episode. In the case of Google’s latest patent, it makes us feel like we’re in a police state.
The patent discusses the technology to analyze the background noise during your phone call and serve up ads for you based on the environmental conditions Google picks up on. Yeah, that’s creepy.
Conçue par Microsoft Research, IllumiShare est une lampe traçant une surface lumineuse sur votre bureau. En permanence guettée par un capteur Kinect, tout ce qui est intégré dans cette zone lumineuse est analysé et instantanément transmis à une ou plusieurs personnes disposant du même équipement vous permettant de mener à bien un projet en collaboration.
Il l'avait promis, c'est chose faite. Le petit génie indien Pranav Mistry rend accessible à tous dès aujourd'hui, le code source et les plans du hardware de son invention révolutionnaire, SixthSense.
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CES report: Autostereoscopic displays point the way forward for the 3DTV industry but the technology is far from mature, writes Adrian Pennington.
There are several glasses-free 3DTV displays at CES, among them a commercial launch of Stream TV’s Ultra-D technology in Q2. The company, which makes software and firmware for autostereoscopic displays, says it is has already signed deals with a consumer electronics brand to embed the Ultra-D technology in its sets.
CuBox Developer Platform is a highly energy efficient and miniature open source development platform for different applications, like multimedia, set-top-box, NAS, automation and other applications.
Named by combining the words 'Cube' and 'Box' and while being less than 2"3 in size, the platform can stream and decode 1080p content, with desktop class interfaces, all in less than 3 Watt and less than 1 Watt in standby.
The platform is based on Marvell Armada 510 SoC and includes the following key features : - Linux based distributions like Ubuntu, Debian and othersAndroid - 800 MHz dual issue ARM PJ4 processor, VFPv3, wmmx SIMD and 512KB L2 cache. - 1080p Video Decode Engine - OpenGL|ES 2.0 graphic engine - HDMI 1080p Output (with CEC function) - 1GByte DDR3 at 800MHz - Gigabit Ethernet, SPDIF (optical audio), eSata 3Gbps, 2xUSB 2.0, micro-SD, micro-USB (console) - Standard Infra-red receiver for 38KHz based IR controllers.
Motorola Mobility will roll out a device it touts will act as the brains of the connected home of the future at next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The Connected Home Gateway, built on Motorola's 4Home platform for home automation, security and energy management, plugs into any outlet in the home and automatically connects to the different devices it discovers. That promises to let service providers sell new services that let customers remotely control and monitor their lights, thermostats, security systems and other "smart home" components.
The gateway is built on Marvell's 800 MHz Armada processor (upgradeable up to 1.2 GHz) and supports a range of networking technologies, including Wi-Fi 802.11.n, Z-Wave, Bluetooth, Ethernet and a USB 2.0 host port. The two-pound devices measures 4.5-by-1.5-by-4.5 inches.
Self-repairing electronic chips are one step closer, according to a team of US researchers.
The group has created a circuit that heals itself when cracked thanks to the release of liquid metal which restores conductivity. The process takes less than an eye blink to bring the circuit back to use.
The researchers said that their work could eventually lead to longer-lasting gadgets as well as solving one of the big problems of interplanetary travel.
Our own Joshua Topolsky recently toured Microsoft's research campus, where the company's cooking up all kinds of crazy tech. Today we're pleased to share a look at Microsoft's Envisioning Lab, a space where the company shares innovations from its visions for the future.
BBC R&D's audio team is looking at potential next generation audio formats. It already outputs mono, stereo and 5.1 surround sound, but the organisation is keen to investigate 3D sound. Ambisonics -- which refers to truly three-dimensional sound -- is an area of particular interest. Ambisonics is different from other surround sound formats, such as 5.1 because it doesn't rely on a specific speaker layout. Ambisonics captures the entire 3D sound field as a set of spherical harmonics which can then be decoded for a wide variety of speaker layouts, including stereo and 5.1. This means the audience can pick the sound profile that best suits their listening environment.
IBM has made three breakthroughs that could help chips continue following Moore’s Law. Monday at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IBM showed off the first racetrack memory device that delivers an entirely new means to get electrons to hold data, as well as two materials breakthroughs that could lead to faster chips and even open up new spectrum bands that would be useful for delivering mobile
DVCS-autosync is a project to create an open source replacement for Dropbox/Wuala/Box.net/etc. based on distributed version control systems (DVCS). It offers nearly instantaneous mutual updates when a file is added or changed on one side but with the added benefit of (local, distributed) versioning and that it does not rely on a centralized service provider, but can be used with any DVCS hosting option including a completely separate server - your data remains your own. Synchronization of directories is based on DVCS repositories. Git is used for main development and is being tested most thoroughly as the backend storage, but other DVCS such as Mercurial are also supported. dvcs-autosync is comparable to SparkleShare in terms of overall aim, but takes a more minimalistic approach. A single Python script monitors the configured directory for live changes, commits these changes to the DVCS (such as git) and synchronizes with other instances using XMPP messages.
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Lest storage vendors thought they were immune to disruption that open source hardware is having on the server industry, Netflix’s new Open Connect content-delivery network might make them think again. While Open Connect directly targets commercial CDNs, it’s based upon (or at least inspired by) open source designs first released by Backblaze almost three years ago. Backblaze’s design evolving and expanding its range into the data centers of a Fortune 1000 company is significant in the same way the evolution of modern man was for neanderthals.
Des chercheurs du MIT ont mis au point un procédé qui va plus loin que les codes QR, ou FlashCodes. Ils sont affichés sur un écran et sont transmis aux objectifs des smartphones via des flashs rapides et imperceptibles. L'innovation reste pour l'instant au stade expérimental mais c'est aussi un coup d'œil sur les technologies d'après-demain.
Microsoft Research has shown off software that translates your spoken words into another language while preserving the accent, timbre, and intonation of your actual voice.
In a demo of the prototype software (starts around the 12 minute mark), Rick Rashid, Microsoft’s chief research officer, says a long sentence in English, and then has it translated into Spanish, Italian, and Mandarin. You can definitely hear an edge of digitized “Microsoft Sam,” but overall it’s remarkable how the three translations still sound just like Rashid.
We may soon be able to watch 3D movies without the need for 3D glasses or autostereoscopic displays. This is because researchers are at work designing contacts that offer 3D capabilities. However, the research is being done using military funding so don't expect them to become part of the mainstream anytime soon.
3D Now LLC is proud to introduce 3D Now Theater, the world’s first External 3D Processor for 2D TV’s and Projectors. The 3D Now Theater is a non-anaglyphic frame-sequential stereoscopic processor that generates a true, high quality 3D viewing experience up to 1080p resolution on almost any 2D display, including those that operate at only 50-60hz.
Nouvelle concurrence pour Sony qui ne sera bientôt plus la seule marque à proposer des lunettes 3D immersives puisque que Sensics vient de présenter son casque Natalia doté d’un double écran OLED à connecter à vos consoles, votre PC, votre téléphone ou encore votre lecteur bluray pour regarder vos films préférés. Contrairement aux modèle HMZ-T1 de Sony, Natalia offre une résolution de 1280 x 1024 pixels et n’est pas simple écran puisqu’il est doté d’un processeur dual-core 1,2Ghz, de 1Go de RAM, d’un slot SD, du Wi-Fi, du Bluetooth et tourne sous Android 4.0.
At the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, computer makers will be pushing a new breed of ultra-thin, ultra-light laptops amid a sea of razor-thin smartphones and tablets.
Last year, 140,000 people in the technology industry convened at the Las Vegas Convention Center to mingle and gawk at cutting-edge hardware. The organizers expect to welcome at least that many people next week.
Electronics makers use CES as a platform to show the types of products they plan to release in the coming year. The compact disc player, high-definition television and Blu-ray each debuted at past conventions. Decades since its formation, the yearly six-day event is a spectacle.
The 42nd fastest supercomputer on earth doesn’t exist.
This fall, Amazon built a virtual supercomputer atop its Elastic Compute Cloud — a web service that spins up virtual servers whenever you want them — and this nonexistent mega-machine outraced all but 41 of the world’s real supercomputers.
Yes, beneath Amazon’s virtual supercomputer, there’s real hardware. When all is said and done, it’s a cluster of machines, like any other supercomputer. But that virtual layer means something. This isn’t a supercomputer that Amazon uses for its own purposes. It’s a supercomputer that can be used by anyone.
- Add 3D to ANY TV, Monitor, Proj (even 60hz TV !) - Display HDMI content on Digital and/or Analog display - 3Dfury can output in both Digital and Analog Video/Audio simultaneously ! - Double and Triple frame 1080p24 material up to 1080p72 - 3D mode output up to 720p144 - Dual projectors setup using two 3Dfury modules and passive glasses. - 7.1 Dolby® True HD & DTS Master Audio
After much discussion, Hewlett-Packard on Friday announced that it will not sell its webOS unit but instead contribute the platform to the open-source community. The company said it will "continue to be active in the development and support of webOS," but handing it over to the open-source community will help improve applications and Web services for next-generation devices.
Do we fail to see the extent of what communication is / has become? Here are 10 projects that should / hopefully would change / broaden our idea of what communication is...
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