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University of Washington Students Modify Kinect to Assist with Robotic Surgery
As all the amazing innovations have been coming through involving Microsoft’s highly versatile Kinect controller, I’ve even imagined that it might be useful for robotic microsurgery—it makes sense from a teleoperator angle. At the University of Washington, students have thought along the same lines; however, while my mind went to better focusing the efforts of ...
Nintendo Seeks to Transcend the Handheld Market with 3DS
For a long time the handheld gaming market has been dominated by the console manufacturers: Nintendo, Sony, et al. However, now we’re looking at a different market where smartphones have begun to penetrate deeply into that territory. In order to strike back at this new threat from outside has sought to develop a brand-new technology ...
Twitter Being Sued Over Patent Involving Connecting Famous People Online
Wait…really? Did you read that right? Yes, you did. Right now a company named VS Technologies is suing Twitter, alleging that it infringes on a patent—US patent no. 6,408,309. This patent, according to the title, defines “[a] Method and system for creating an interactive virtual community of famous people,” which seems like a subset of ...
Kristian Larsen Schools Us on Creativity with an Android Smartphone Concept Design
A beautiful video named “What is Creative” is making the rounds of the Internet right now featuring a design concept for an amazing Android smartphone design concept. The video asks the viewer, “What is creative?” and then goes on to make a series of koan-style statements while presenting different types of human-technology interaction involving a ...
Microsoft Kinect Researcher Heads Over to Google
The keen eyes over at ZDNet caught onto the fact that a “core contributor” to the Kinect has left Microsoft to join up with Google. Mary Jo Foley noticed that Johnny Chung Lee’s web site changed to cite that he is now a “Rapid Evaluator” at Google: In a January 18 blog post, Lee acknowledged ...
Nokia and Microsoft, Together They Could Dial It Up to Eleven
Nokia has suffered somewhat as it’s tried very hard to get its MeeGo platform up to spec but the market just isn’t giving it the goods it needs. In spite of taking aim at the iPhone, they have certainly been falling a bit short. Not long after the last release of MeeGo and it’s merger ...
NBC Universal Merger Means Community Service for Comcast, $10/month Internet for the Poor
We’ve been keeping our eye on the FCC’s take on the NBC Universal-Comcast merger with expectation as it would be a game changer for much of the media production and distribution industry. Well, it looks like the FCC and the DOJ have finally OKed the merger, but they’ve done so with a series of demands ...
EMC Reveals VNXe Turnkey Storage and Network Infrastructure Solution
Small and medium sized businesses looking for storage and network solutions can now use EMC to breathe easier when it comes to their IT concerns. With the release of the VNX family for unified storage solutions, EMC has created an affordable and powerful solution for just the sort of things that small and medium companies ...
Apple Reports Earnings this Evening, In the Wake of Jobs’s Medical Leave Analysts Not Concerned
This week, Monday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced an indefinite leave of absence from his company for medical reasons. The proclamation caught the tech industry by surprise and ripples of concern ran through the media, pondering what direction investors and the market might head with this particular event generating uncertainty. He emphasized that he’s not ...
iOS Update Adoption Soars as Android Struggles With Fragmentation Woes
As platforms such as firmware and OSes update users are urged to download the new versions and patches, but as time goes on the number of adopters of various patches and updates begins to diverge. In industry parlance, this is known as platform fragmentation and Google Android appears to be fairly much steeped in it. ...
