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Splicd and SnipSnip.it for All Your Embedded Video Splicing Needs
Time to bring some amazing video tools to our readers like Splicd and SnipSnip.it, which allow us to take small slices of YouTUBE videos in order to embed them in blog posts. It’s a slow news day—our brains ate too much CES and now, like people after Thanksgiving dinner, they’ve become sluggish as we digest—but ...
Avatar Kinect Brings a New Dimension to Xbox LIVE Chat
The immense financial success of the Kinect wasn’t the only thing that Microsoft had to announce at this year’s CES conference—they also had some fun Kinect gadgetry to entertain the audience with. Namely, I’m talking about Avatar Kinect. Steve Ballmer went up on stage to show this new feature off by giving us a hilariously ...
Mophie Pulse Brings Shake, Rattle, and Roll to the iPod Touch
Casual gamers may like the ability to play video games on the go with their iPod Touch, but they may not know that they’re missing out on something—on particular sense—touch itself. By this I’m not talking about the ability to touch the screen, but the ability to get feedback from the game itself. That’s where ...
UltraViolet, Hollywood’s Idea to Put the Cloud into DVD Boxes
A coalition of technology and media companies are getting together to form a consortium of corporations (say that 10 times fast) in order to help stuff the cloud into the DVD box. By this, I mean that they want to sell physical DVDs and Blue-ray media, but at the same time give consumers access to ...
Over 8 Million Kinect Units Sold Since Release, or Shipped?
The Microsoft Kinect has been explosively popular, certainly to the tune of 2.5 million sold outright in the first month of its debut, and that was before the shopping holidays rolled around. I am emphasizing the word “sold” for a reason here, and that’s because last night Ballmer provided some figures on Kinect sales that ...
Citrix: 2010 in Review
It’s been an entire year of Citrix developments and the writers over at their blog want to celebrate the new year by rolling over their achievements. It’s been a huge year for them, with the revolution in virtualization and cloud-storage and computing. Companies everywhere have been moving their systems off traditional systems and putting them ...
Becoming the Controller, Understanding How Kinect Understands You
Right before New Years, I stumbled on a post on the Xbox blog about the Kinect and how it does what it does. The brilliant magic camera that sits atop the television and changes me into the controller—it’s almost like the Eye of Sauron. Now, the actual inner workings on the Kinect aren’t that mystical, ...
MIPS Reveals New Chip at CES with Android Expectations
Perhaps people have been noticing that a lot more commercials are arriving to tout Internet TV set-top boxes, driving video through handheld devices, and other amazing innovations. As the war for eyeballs and dollars heats up, the technology that underlies also needs to gear up to prove itself. MIPS Technologies, a chip design firm, produces ...
The Ascension of the Smartphone as Digital Wallet, Powered by Google
As with all good science fiction we have a glimpse into what we might develop in the future, or at least get the scrim of an outline of how we could interact using technology. When Google Android began to implement hardware that uses Near-Field Communications enabling a lot of transactions between smartphones and other devices ...
Sprint Building 4G Device Announcements in Preparation for CES
It looks like Sprint has been champing at the bit for quite a while now to tout how badly it wants to jump into the 4G scene with their slowly blooming LTE networks. Among the scattering of announcements we’ve seen an HTC smartphone. All Things D has a short article on the details of Sprint’s ...