And How About $70 For A PC On A Stick? June 7, 2012 by Dave Haynes Many of the little PC and tablet gadgets coming out of Taiwan and China can only be found and ordered off websites that look profoundly dodgy, but this $70 Android 4.0 PC on a stick is up and ready to pre-order off Amazon, which I have heard of. Geeky Gadgets and a few other tech …
AMD, Seneca Data Add To The Teeny PC Parade June 7, 2012 by Dave Haynes Announcements are coming out all the time about increasingly small PCs – the smallest, of course, being those teeny Raspberry Pi units from the UK. But the flip side of those research lab efforts are major companies producing diminutive but powerful boxes. Engadget has a tech blogger at the big Computex trade show in Taiwan this …
Will 3D Sell More Burgers? June 6, 2012 by Dave Haynes We have a client in the QSR industry that does digital menu-boards and had the resources and smarts, early on, to actually ask customers what they thought about it. Without going into it much, at all, the feedback to using digital’s capabilities to animate and promote stuff did not resonate with people. They didn’t to …
Corning Reveals Ultra-slim, Bendy Display Glass June 4, 2012 by Dave Haynes Corning has announced new ultra-slim flexible glass — glass, not plastic — that could lead sometime reasonably soon to things like curved LCD displays. The Corning Willow Glass was announced at the propeller-head Society for Information Display’s Display Week trade show in Boston this week.. Corning Willow Glass will help enable thin, light and cost-efficient …
Kinect Tweaked To Turn Any Surface Into Touchscreen May 28, 2012 by Dave Haynes The UK version of Wired has a piece up about a German startup that is using Kinect to turn any surface into a touchscreen – and by that I mean surfaces like walls and whiteboards. Munich-based Ubi Interactive uses the motion-tracking and depth-perception cameras in the Kinect to detect where a person is pointing, swiping and …
Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Talking Flat Lady; Has Better Idea (video) May 24, 2012 by Dave Haynes [youtube id=”geGviB-XYhc” width=”600″ height=”350″] Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and his crew were equally unimpressed by the good Talking Flat Lady things being rolled out at NYC airports. He didn’t buy into the sexy time talk by the host, and suggests a better idea for a more typical New York welcome.
Talking Flat Lady Now Being Ignored By Travelers At Major NYC Airports May 23, 2012 by Dave Haynes A hat tip to the sales guys who managed to get the New York Port Authority to drop $180K on those eternally stupid Talking Flat Lady things for use at the city’s three main airports. ABC News says the devices were unveiled this week at Newark Liberty and La Guardia airports, and JFK will also have the …
Via Enters Really-Low-Cost PC Race With $49 Gadget May 22, 2012 by Dave Haynes [youtube id=”2dNA3yHEl2s” width=”600″ height=”350″] Taiwanese electronics company Via, which has been around for years nipping just a bit at the heels of Intel and AMD, is releasing a new mini-PC (through a sub-brand called APC) that has a single unit cost of $49 USD and can push out 720P HD video. Reports The Verge: We’ve …
New Gesture Tech Leaps Way Beyond Kinect May 22, 2012 by Dave Haynes [youtube id=”zMvbJkzhJrs” width=”600″ height=”350″] A start-up called Leap Motion has started showing technology, ready for the consumer marketplace by year’s end, that gives gesture the fine controls that really haven’t been evident with Kinect. It’s a level of control that might, repeat might, make gesture make more sense in some digital signage applications. Leap is …
Imagine Digital Displays That Were Glare-Free & Self-Cleaning April 27, 2012 by Dave Haynes The crazy-smart kids and their profs at MIT have released details and visuals of what could be the glass of the future for everything from eye-wear to public displays. Why? The glass eliminates glare, water droplets actually bounce off and dust and dirt struggle to stick. The glass developed in the lab has arrays of microscopic …
