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Microsoft’s New Search Engine, “Bing” is Rolling Out

Microsoft’s new search engine called “Bing” is being rolled out on June 3.  To be specific, Microsoft is referring to it as a “decision engine” because it’s supposedly built to enable informed decisions. The video above does a great job explaining … Continue reading

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Palm Pre arrives June 6 for $200

Sprint Nextel and Palm announced on Tuesday an official release date and pricing for the Palm Pre. The Pre will be available nationwide on June 6 for $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and with a two-year contract on Sprint’s … Continue reading

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‘Wearable Agrirobot’ Power Suit Helps Aging Farm Workers

The Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology has developed an agriculture robot suit tailored to the 40% of Japan’s farm workers who are over the age of 65. Shigeki Toyama, a professor in robotics who developed the robotic harvesting and … Continue reading

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VisionAire Multi-touch Holograms

Obscura Digital has teamed their special multi-touch software with the Musion Eyeliner Hologram Projection System to produce an amazing interactive tool for presenters to use whereby they can manipulate 3-D holographic images in the air. Aptly called VisionAire, the single … Continue reading

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The iBar: The World’s First Multi-touch Bar

The world’s first iBar was installed at 24, a high-end Soho nightclub in London, and is already a smashing success! The $147,000 table tops have sensors that detect what you’re drinking, so when you can’t remember how many something-tinis you … Continue reading

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Skype for iPhone: An official App

Months after teasing the community at CES with an announcement of Skype’s native VoIP client for the iPhone, the free Skype for iPhone will finally be available to download from the iTunes App Store sometime on Tuesday  Skype’s screens are well … Continue reading

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Google Voice converts Voicemail to Text

Google Voice is incoming – and it could change the way you deal with your phone conversations forever.  With Google Voice, you get one number to access all your phone numbers, so even if you change your home phone or … Continue reading

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Text-to-Voice Wand: The “Voice Stick”

The ‘Voice Stick’ concept enters to revolutionize the life of the visually impaired and offer a breath of fresh high-tech air to script recognition. Designed by Sung Woo Park, the cutting-edge device is a portable text scanning tool, utilizing the … Continue reading

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Mozilla Labs: Ubiquity Updated

Ubiquity has just been updated, giving it a significant speed bump over previous versions. Check out the complete overview here > Ubiquity’s goals are to: Empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions. (With search, users type what they … Continue reading

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Apple working on 3D Mac OS X user interface

A series of Apple patent filings published this week reveal the Mac maker has spent a considerable amount of time outlining a new multi-dimensional interface for Mac OS X that would make better use of screen real estate by increasing … Continue reading

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