You’re going to need to be in the mood to think for this one. Bear with me, I’ll keep it short and I guarantee it’s sweet.
Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin have figured out how to make real world objects vanish.
I read an article on Gizmodo the other day that fully addressed many of the issues I currently have with the state of the TV industry. Rather than read and regurgitate I’ll let the article do the speaking for itself below, but just a couple of thoughts (I know, yawn). Throughout the past two years, TVs have been saddled with gimmicky half-baked technologies that ultimately detract from the job a good televisions is supposed to do. I name 3D technology as the main, but not sole, example of this.
I’m not interested in Samsung or LG shovelling in their own “smart” interfaces for connectivity, DVR or apps. Most of us have providers like Sky/Cable who already do an excellent job of bringing content to our TVs without manufacturers trying their own hands at it. Leave the content to the content providers (the clue’s in there somewhere). What I want is for my TV to be good at what it was designed for. For it to be visceral and beautiful. Even without glasses I’m not buying into 3D, but show me a 4k or and 8k resolution TV and you’ve got my undivided attention.
I didn’t know it, at least until Antonio De Rosa showed me, but this is what my brain thinks (hopes) the iPhone 5 looks like. Introducing the iPhone SJ Concept.
Via iDownloadBlog
What say ye Sony? Oh, that’s a no then. Sony’s Kaz Hirai puts the kibosh on a Playstation 4 announcement at this year’s E3.
Wow, is that really F1 2011 running on an Ultrabook? No. But Intel would like you to play along please.
Let me start this piece by saying that I like Intel. That’s it, I just thought it was important to make that clear before you read on.
Lets keep this short because over the next few months, if you’re interested, you’re going to be reading a lot of rumours about the next Xbox and the Playstation 4.
Yesterday, MCV reported that the next Playstation and the successor to the Xbox 360 will be shown at E3 2012. Now, it’s important to realise that shown doesn’t mean revealed and announced, rather that their existence will be confirmed. MCV apparently have it on good authority that the show in LA will tease to consoles’ existence at the same time (not literally) as Nintendo confirms details of its upcoming Wii U. Read more…
My brain tells me that this is fake and not actually the coolness that is quantum levitation. The idea is pretty epic nonetheless.
Comet, the slip-sliding high-street electronics store hit a sleeping policeman on its road to recovery this week after Microsoft issued proceedings against it for infringement of its intellectual property rights. It is alleged that Comet produced in excess of 94,000 counterfeit copies of Windows XP and Vista recovery disks for distribution with laptops and desktops sold by the company. Comet has publicly defended its position, stating that it acted in the very best interests of its customers in copying the disks following the decision to stop supplying recovery disks with each new Microsoft Operating System based computer.
What started life as a gaming peripheral has been subject to some incredible “hacks” since it’s release. With Microsoft set to release the first commercial iteration of the Kinect SDK, the possibilities are quite literally limitless. Here’s just a few of the things in the hypothetical pipeline. Needless to say, some of these ideas shouldn’t be too difficult for third party commercial operators to implement when they get their sweaty palms on the SDK.
In August, Apple acquired C3 Technologies, the company responsible for the incredible demonstration shown in the above video. With relationships becoming increasingly tense between Apple and Google, despite Apple renewing its commitment to Google Maps with iOS 5, you’d be blind not to see what Apple has up its sleeve.
iOS 6 is likely to launch at some point in 2012 and if they can pull off anything resembling the above, they look set to blow the competition out of the water.
via 9to5 Mac