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TED – Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense


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TED – David Merrill demos Siftables


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Google Launching a Chrome OS Tablet


Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26, according to DownloadSquad.com.

Yes, our source tells us that Google is building a Chrome OS tablet. It’s real, and it’s being built by HTC. No surprise there, since HTC churned out the Nexus One for Google.

Yes, they plan to offer it in conjunction with Verizon — which probably doesn’t come as a shock to anybody at this point. The two recently tag-teamed that Net Neutrality proposal and they’ve had plenty of discussions in the past about cooperating in some capacity.

See the complete article here.

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Top 10 Android 2.2 Features Developers Can’t Wait to Use


For those interested in the Android OS, here is a good article by Shane Conder and Lauren Darcey:

http://www.developer.com/open/article.php/3883891/article.htm

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Augmented-reality Mapping Technology from Microsoft.


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World Record 69-Terabit Capacity for Optical Transmission over a Single Optical Fiber


Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp have successfully demonstrated an ultra-high capacity optical transmission of 69.1 terabits per second over a single 240 km long optical fiber.

Read more here: http://www.ntt.co.jp/news2010/1003e/100325a.html

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AIR For Android, Adobe Plans To Deliver Apps Across All Mobile Devices


The bane of all mobile app developers is the need to rewrite the same app over and over again for different devices: the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm Pre, Nokia, Windows Mobile. Adobe is positioning its Flash platform (which includes the Flash player, AIR, developer tools, and media servers) as the write-once, deploy-anywhere solution for both the mobile Web and apps. Today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, it will announce plans to bring Adobe AIR to mobile devices, starting with Android and Blackberry phones.

Read more on the TechCrunch website.

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HDMI Over IP – New Technology for Streaming Video


Any HDMI source can simultaneously be diplayed on any number of display devices (if multiple displays are permitted by the HDMI source) using VLAN isolation on a Managed Ethernet switch. Using the HTTP GUI a PC (wired or wireless) can control what signal is being watched at each location. Sophisticated Home Theater installations can use a programmable console to control the system using RS232 commands. The Managed switch must support IGMP and permit duplicate IP addresses across the VLAN domains. You must use a third party home automation solution to provide distributed remote control functionality.

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See the product on the manufacturer’s website here.

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Each Minute of Avatar Represents 17.28GB of Data


Avatar’s data center has more than 4,000 HP blade servers, in a 10,000 sqf datacenter in New Zealand (Weta Digital Ltd). They utilized 104TB of RAM with about 35,000 processors.

Each minute of Avatar represents 17.28GB of data.

It is the same company that produced the 3d rendering of Lord of the Rings.

See the complete article at ComputerWorld’s website, it’s very interesting to know what is behind the scenes.

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The Thrilling Potential of SixthSense Technology


Fantastic talk about technology with Pranav Mistry on TED.

Unfortunately the video is not available for embedding, so here is the link:

http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

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