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Vuzix Wrap 920 3-D glasses promise big screen experience

Can’t afford a big screen TV or projector but still want to experience that cinema feeling when watching a movie?
The Vuzix Wrap 920 video eyewear is a sunglass-style display that delivers a virtual 67-inch screen as seen from 10ft away, displays 2D and 3D video and is claimed to be the [...]

Entertainment at the wave of a hand – the Gesture Cube

The Gesture Cube concept
is the first example to demonstrate the possibilities offered by a new touch-free sensing technology developed by Ident Technology AG. The design proposes using the company’s GestIC 3D spatial hand movement tracking innovation to allow users to browse photos, play music, read messages, check the weather and [...]

Symbian phone operating system goes open source

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The group behind the world’s most popular smartphone operating system – Symbian – is giving away “billions of dollars” worth of code for free.
The Symbian Foundation’s announced that it would make its code open source in 2008 and has now completed the move.
It means that any organisation or individual [...]

iPad Blurs Line Between Devices

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After months of feverish speculation, Steven P. Jobs introduced Wednesday what Apple hopes will be the coolest device on the planet: a slender tablet computer called the iPad.
For all the hoopla surrounding it, however, the question is whether the iPad can achieve anything close to the success of the [...]

Trust in the Twitterverse

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With the world scrambling to cover the recent devastating Haitian earthquake, journalists, neuroscientists, and everyone in between are testing the frontiers of social media.
Today, down in the descriptively named Research Triangle in North Carolina, more than 250 scientists, journalists, bloggers, programmers, and multi-hyphenated combinations thereof are planning the future of science communication on [...]