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posted by Editor
on Thursday September 17, @07:14PM
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At a preview in New York this week, technology vendors showcased products that they will be offering consumers this holiday season, providing a broad overview of the computing functions currently expected by mainstream users. The lineup included several instances of notebooks designed in collaboration with major designer brands, another attempt at wearable video recorders, and efforts to product users from excessive use of their own gadgets:
- Asus showed a notebook embossed with the Disney logo, and running a Disney-specific user interface that can be configured to restrict the allowable actions of its young users. HP showed a new edition of its notebook branded by fashion designer Vivienne Tam, and a new notebook inlaid with patterns from designer Tord Boontje, whose work is featured at the Museum of Modern Art.
- HP DreamScreen adds intelligence to the digital photo frame category with TouchSmart software, which provides real-time data feeds such as Facebook updates, Pandora music, and SnapFish photos.
- Pong Research showed a cell phone cover that reduces radiation by 60%, and iSpeech.org featured mobile phone software called drivesafe.ly that automatically performs text-to-speech conversion of text messages received while its user is driving. The software also automatically replies to senders that the receiver is driving, so they might consider waiting to send their next test message.
- Contour showed its wearable camcorder designed to capture first-person perspective videos of extreme sports, and allowing them to be easily shared with communities of users. It is bulkier than the old DejaView head-mounted system, but has the advantage of capturing video in HD quality.
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on Monday October 05, @03:01AM (#73)
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Tap 'N Tap [tapntap.com] is working on a Home Internet Device for "high-traffic areas of the home on the wall or tabletop", providing always-on access to routine apps like weather/news, calendars, to-do lists/memos/grocery lists, address books, email/chat/phone, music, videos, movies etc.
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on Tuesday December 29, @09:59AM (#75)
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Best Buy is featuring HP DreamScreen prominently right now, has them stacked at the end of store aisles. I played around with one, and the graphics look nice, but it took a minute or two to realize that the main display area wasn't touch sensitive...kind of disappointing. All actions and settings have to be initiated on a switch pad below the screen.
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on Saturday December 18, @02:41AM (#97)
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I'm not a robot like you. I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth.
-- Fry
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