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PrimeSense Kinect Technology Makes Its Way into Fitness via MayaFit
We’ve seen the Microsoft Kinect become the center of a mindstorm of innovation involving gesture controls, animation, and numerous other applications in the homebrew hacker sphere—and, of course, the framework for building on top of it’s underlying technology has been released in the OpenNI framework. Respondesign has taken the bull by the horns, used PrimeSense’s ...
Skype Revenue Up 20% in 2010; Now Looking to Advertising on Road to Next Year’s IPO
It’s been news for a while that Skype intends to make their initial public offering soon. Until recently, “soon” meant this year, but the company’s newly appointed CEO, Tony Bates, would like to wait a little longer for them to be in better shape. And they look like they’re in pretty good shape with an ...
Blekko Human Curation Search Engine Releases Publisher Tools
The search company, Blekko, launched back in November with a promising solution to search spam and the indefinable quality of information in search engines such as authority and site reliability. They have even spoken with SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier about how search is changing and how they intend to change it. They have recently produced a ...
Move.Me: Sony’s Very Own Motion Capture SDK
Last month, Microsoft found time to release an SDK for the Xbox 360 Kinect peripheral—after a gigantic amount of hooplah when people discovered how imminently hackable the device is—and it’s been leaving other contenders in the dust ever since. This month, at the Game Developer’s Conference, Sony has revealed that they too want to get ...
Even Charlie Can’t Take the Sheen off the iPad 2’s Cameras
Yesterday saw the presentation of Apple’s newest game-changing tablet, the insurmountable iPad 2; however, if we look at the amount of news and commentary cropping up about it, we’d think that all the hype caught up to it. Even rain and wind didn’t stop the media from flooding into the theater when the doors opened ...
Apple’s Unveiling of iPad 2 Includes iOS 4.3
We’ve been waiting a while for the iPad 2 revelation today and now it is upon us. Apple’s iPad 2 announcement gala unveiled itself today amidst a deluge of Beatle’s songs inside the Yerba Buena Theater and actual rain outside transitioning the warm atmosphere of the event against the inclement weather of San Francisco. The ...
Intel Pushes Solid State Hard Drive Transfer Speeds with 500MBps 510 Series SSD
Looking to bring to market the fastest solid state drive, Intel is coming to town with the current fastest SATA SSD, but they’re still not the shiniest vendor in the bazaar. Bought in bulk, the 250GB SSD 510 will cost a bout $584, whereas the slightly slower and smaller version (450MBps read) 120GB model will ...
Google’s Cloud Crash Woes Likely Soothed by Virtualized Offline Tape Storage
This weekend some Google e-mail users woke up to discover most of their messages, contacts, and recorded chat sessions had gone up in smoke. An event that Google’s engineers have determined was caused by the introduction of a bug into their most recent backup software. While the bug only affected a total of .02% of ...
Boxee Lands $16.5M in Recent Round of Financing
The company who brought us the Boxee Box last year has entered a new round of funding and managed to come out with a pretty penny. After taking months to move through beta and other developmental hurdles, the Box has come through with some extremely positive developments. The announcement of their gains comes from Boxee ...
Nintendo 3DS Debuts in Japan, Sells Out Almost Immediately
The spiritual and direct successor to the handheld gaming throne of the Nintendo DS, the 3DS has certainly not failed to impress the crowds with its hype. Sporting a screen that displays 3D images without the need for special glasses, the device looks to be the pinnacle of handheld gaming graphics and might even transcend ...
