HoloDesk is a novel interactive system combining an optical see through display and Kinect camera to create the illusion that users are directly interacting with 3D graphics. A virtual image of a 3D scene is rendered through a half silvered mirror and spatially aligned with the real-world for the viewer. Users easily reach into an interaction volume displaying [...]
Amazon’s entry is only rumored but I think the description of it is detailed enough to be credible. The day after the scoop with Amazon, Baidu announced the Yi platform. Baidu is the sixth most visited site in the world, so it’s not a bit player and it makes as much sense for Baidu to [...]
Mike Bostock visualizes mobile patent lawsuits, improving on a graphic from Thomson Reuters that wasn’t so good. Dashed lines are resolved suits and green ones are licenses to the company. via flowingdata.com
In Gartner’s latest mobile market report, the research firm indicated that over 428 million mobile devices were sold in Q1 of this year, representing a solid 19% year-over-year increase. As usual, the growth is attributed to the continued spike in smartphone sales– which Gartner pegs at 100.7 million for Q1, up 85% year-over-year. Android remained [...]
Published on Mashable! | shared via feedly mobile Search result annotations:Bing now displays which search results your friends have liked. This is shown with annotations and small thumbnails under any link that your friends has liked. Surfacing content from Likes: Let’s say Mashable or Cooks.com comes up in one of your searches, and your friends have liked specific [...]
Looking to the Future As much as native and Web are pitted against one another in this debate, the likely outcome is a hybrid solution. Perhaps we’ll see computing as inherently networked and (this is my sincere hope) free for anyone to access. We already see signs of a native Web: WebGL recently proved that [...]
Samsung’s Nexus S smartphone using Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Photograph: Albert Gea/Reuters About half of the world’s smartphones will be using Google’s Android operating system by the end of 2012, according to the research firm Gartner. Google will lead the race with Apple, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) and Microsoft by the end of this [...]
Microsoft plans to include mobile-payment technology in new versions of its operating system for smartphones as part of an effort to narrow Google Inc.’s lead in handset software, said the people, who asked to remain anonymous because the features aren’t public. The first devices boasting these features may be released this year, the people said. [...]
The infographic was created by www.icrossing.co.uk and we spotted on the excellent Posterous site “Cool Infographics” maintained by Techmeme editor Mahendra Palsule. Click on the image below for a larger version. via readwriteweb.com
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