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New Hello Bar Makes It Easier to Engage Your Website Users: INVITES
Capturing the attention and directing the actions of users is extremely important for website builders. Eyeballs make or break the functionality and navigation of a site and in a lot of cases, most visitors simply bounce off the page they visit, so a great deal of designers aim for getting eyeballs past that first page. ...
Kinect Interface for Controlling Humanoid Aldebaran NAO Robot
It’s still primitive, but the Kinect seems to be the best consumer-side telepresence and remote-operation device to hack right now. In fact, in a playful toy sort of way, we’ve just come across a video on YouTUBE that shows a user controlling an Aldebaran Nao humanoid robot with the Microsoft Kinect. I’ve mentioned before why ...
Verizon Finally Unveils iPhone and It Will not be 4G
The big news is in: Verizon is getting the iPhone and it’s arriving February 10th. For years now, AT&T has been the go-to network if you wanted to play with Apple’s flagship mobile device. Interestingly, due to their exclusivity, AT&T’s iPhone network suffered under the staggering demands of users and may even look forward to ...
GeekBeat.TV Reviews Powermat at CES 2011
Powermat has been working hard at bringing us wireless/plugless charging for our phones and other mobile devices. In a lot of cases, it’s hard to remember to plug our phones into the socket to make sure that they’re getting their much needed idle-time charging—that and all the wall warts that we need to truck along ...
Steve Ballmer Says Microsoft Plans Future Kinect PC Support
Once again, some of the best Microsoft Kinect news comes to us through the European news venues. Eurogamer picked up on some comments that Steve Ballmer made during a BBC interview that suggests eventual PC support for the Kinect. When quizzed by the BBC whether PC functionality was part of the long-term game plan for ...
Leo Apotheker has a Lot to Think About for Hewlett-Packard in 2011
As a business, HP has been well known in the past for their computers and printers. In fact, they made their name on printer hardware when ink and print-heads were literally the black gold of the industry and they’ve been riding that wave ever since. However, with the new decade rolling around, there’s a lot ...
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 ...
