Having already joined the motion control party by partnering withPrimeSense, the company behind Microsoft's Kinect, ASUS is now partnering with Leap Motion, the company responsible for a sensor that enables full control of a PC or Mac using hand and finger gestures. The 3D motion control tech will be bundled with selected ASUS' high-end notebooks and All-in-One (AiO) PCs by the end of 2013.
The Leap Motion controller has the ability to track the movement of the user's hand (including all 10 fingers) at a blistering 290 frames per second, tracking movements to 1/100th millimeter. Leap Motion claims that the USB accessory is some 200 times more accurate than competing devices such as Microsoft's Kinect for Windows.
Although it's possible to pre-order the Leap Motion controller from the company's website for US$69, this new partnership is a significant milestone for the technology, and shows that OEM partners believe it has genuine potential in the consumer sector.
See the full story here: http://www.gizmag.com/leap-motion-asus/25649/
One of the most striking ideas on show was PaperTab, an early prototype of a tablet computer flexible enough to roll up like a newspaper. PaperTab was created by the Human Media Lab at Queen’s University, Canada, with the assistance of Plastic Logic, a U.K. company that makes flexible display technology. In Las Vegas, Aneesh Tarun and Roel Vertegaal from Queen’s showed off the prototypes, which still require tethering to a power source.
Read the full story here: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/509761/touch-screens-that-curve-bend-and-even-touch-back/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20130111
...of the new technologies being offered, each offers something subtle in the way of improvement. But none is like the three seminal jumps in the modern era of TV, which should be remembered as: the birth of big screen projection sets, the development of DVD, and the dawn of the HDTV era. While the first of those actually pre-dates the others by quite a bit, it most certainly was re-energized by the latter two. And DVD, which never was a high-resolution format, actually helped sell HDTVs for several years because it looked so good on those new sets even before much true HD content was available.
See the full story here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/markrogowsky/2013/01/10/ces-2013-the-resolution-may-not-be-televised/
Sure, 92% of the information on the planet has been collected just in the last two years, but what do we do with it? This statistic, buried in an IBM study last year, sparked a breakthrough idea in participatory TV.
Launching at New Media Expo in Las Vegas this afternoon, the show audience is crowdsourced online and invited to invent the future in real time. Live. This is the ultimate reach-out in audience participation to happen yet. (You can watch it unveil here.)
By mixing together digital age concepts of “real-time” and “crowd sourcing”,Inventing The Future is inventing its own future as breakthrough television.
The new program gives people the opportunity to imagine what’s possible—and create the future in “live” real-time—showcasing topics ranging from science, medicine, technology, and media including energy, stem cells, open geo-boundaries, digital life, to the robot car and the future social network.
See the full story here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickhanlon/2013/01/08/inventing-the-future-launches-crowdsourced-tv/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mediaredef+%28jason+hirschhorn%27s+Media+ReDEFined%29
Dawn Chmielewski and Jessica Guynn of The LA Times today posted an interesting article on the evolving relationship between Facebook and the film industry suggesting that “Hollywood’s friendship with Facebook is showing signs of strain.” The article points out that while few at the studios are opening critical of the social networking behemoth, some film executives confide privately they are considering cutting their spending on Facebook ads. The article cites a number of reasons for the rift including changes that Facebook made in September to the algorithm that decides what users see in their News Feed, which has resulted in 72% of movies and network TV shows experiencing a drop in the number of people who saw new Facebook posts (according to BlitzMetrics).
Read the full story here: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-fi-ct-hollywood-studios-movie-ads-facebook-20130108,0,5032664.story?page=1
1) Hybrid cloud will enter the hype cycle as enterprises cross the process chasm between private and public clouds and data centers.
2) Amazon will experience intense pricing and functionality competition and hybrid cloud leadership will be up for grabs.
3) Retail colocation players who do not embrace hybrid cloud operating models will face margin pressures and will cede market leadership to those who do embrace and thrive on hybrid cloud.
4) Debates about public versus private cloud will be rendered meaningless.
5) There will be a flood of hybrid cloud startups and extreme “hybrid cloud” makeovers.
Read the full article here: http://www.aonetwork.com/AOStory/Top-Five-Cloud-Predictions-2013
The first big goal of the project, he explains, has to do more with the fact that Google Glass lives in front of your eyes. Google Glass is about bringing the visual to social computing. It’s about “allow[ing] people to connect to others with images or video.” It’s about emphasizing that which we see, rather than hear or read. Put somewhat awkwardly, it’s about making the eye social.
See the full story here: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/509456/the-latest-on-google-glass/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20130103
Imagine being able to call up (and share) everything you have ever seen, or read the transcripts for every conversation you ever had, alongside the names and faces of everyone you ever met. Imagine having supplemental contextual information relayed to you automatically so you could win any argument or impress your date.
See the full story here: http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/build-your-own-google-glass
In collaboration with Warner Bros and its other major studio customers, Technicolor has announced a multi-year initiative to develop an end-to-end digital platform connecting individual studio operations and siloed service providers into a single, efficient and interoperable pipeline. The platform will allow studios to retain the flexibility to choose their preferred services partners, and be able to leverage the benefits of working within one consolidated and secure environment. Technicolor’s solution provides a unified set of features to manage, monitor and enable an integrated pipeline of individual services from clients, Technicolor and other approved, trusted third-party service providers on a platform of common tools.
“This platform will efficiently solve the pain points for our major customers in the digital environment,” said Lanny Raimondo, Head of Technicolor Entertainment Services business group. “We are thrilled to be partnering with our key customers, including Warner Bros., as collaborators in building a flexible pipeline, application and tool set to assure quality and meet their needs throughout the content lifecycle.”
Read the full story here: http://advanced-television.info/2012/10/26/technicolor-teams-with-warner-bros/
USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab ranked Google and Yahoo among the top 10 advertising networks that support major piracy sites around the world, based on the lab's analysis of online ads that receive the most copyright infringement notices.
Annenberg's Innovation Lab used as its starting point Google's Transparency Report, which lists the Internet sites receiving the most notices from studios, trade associations and software and game publishers to remove copyrighted works. Whenever an ad appears on one of these leading pirate sites, the lab uses software to obtain the name of the ad network.
The list of ad networks includes Openx, a Pasadena company that was backed by AOL Ventures and describes itself as a leader in digital and mobile ad technology; Google and its advertising platform, DoubleClick; Yahoo and its ad exchange, Right Media; and Quantcast, a San Francisco firm that also places ads on sites owned by such major media companies as NBCUniversal and Viacom.
See the full story here: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-piracy-ads-20130102,0,2960606.story
One of the most striking ideas on show was PaperTab, an early prototype of a tablet computer flexible enough to roll up like a newspaper. PaperTab was created by the Human Media Lab at Queen’s University, Canada, with the assistance of Plastic Logic, a U.K. company that makes flexible display technology. In Las Vegas, Aneesh Tarun and Roel Vertegaal from Queen’s showed off the prototypes, which still require tethering to a power source.
...of the new technologies being offered, each offers something subtle in the way of improvement. But none is like the three seminal jumps in the modern era of TV, which should be remembered as: the birth of big screen projection sets, the development of DVD, and the dawn of the HDTV era. While the first of those actually pre-dates the others by quite a bit, it most certainly was re-energized by the latter two. And DVD, which never was a high-resolution format, actually helped sell HDTVs for several years because it looked so good on those new sets even before much true HD content was available.
Imagine being able to call up (and share) everything you have ever seen, or read the transcripts for every conversation you ever had, alongside the names and faces of everyone you ever met. Imagine having supplemental contextual information relayed to you automatically so you could win any argument or impress your date.