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Minority Report: Mac Mini - a real nowhere machine
Comment On the surface, this may sound like just another hyperbolic quote from Jobs but it had the potential to be true. It was more that in many ways the Dell Inspiron Zino HD is exactly the kind of computer... [26 Nov 2009]
Photos: Sony unleashes latest Vaios - from mini laptops to touchscreens
Photo Users can also explore the earth on the L Series using Microsoft's Surface Globe software, which allows users to zoom in on cities around the world and even find individual streets. Sony is pitching the CW Series as a... [14 Oct 2009]
Microsoft: Gesture recognition office 'not that far away'
News The desk was a multitouch surface computer, and the office's walls were also a display that could easily switch from being a virtual window and collection of digital photos to being a corkboard of sticky... [31 Jul 2009]
Yacht Maker Transforms Customer Experience With Revolutionary Computing Platform
White Paper After company executives attended a demonstration of Microsoft Surface at a national boat show event, Lazzara opted to embrace this revolutionary computer. Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Infusion... [30 Jul 2009]
Developers get touch-y ahead of Windows 7
News Microsoft has also announced its own package of free touch programs for Windows 7, including three casual games and three programs ported over from Microsoft's Surface tabletop computer. While there has... [04 Jun 2009]
Photos: What's brewing inside Microsoft Research?
Photo Microsoft Research recently opened the doors to its research and development facility in Cambridge and silicon.com went along to take a look at the technology being worked on - from augmented reality and Microsoft's... [13 May 2009]
Is Apple prepping the Mac Tablet?
News BusinessWeek reported that the Apple tablet would be about the size of the Amazon Kindle, but with a screen that covers a greater portion of the surface. The tablet could also be the first Apple product to... [29 Apr 2009]
Photos: There's no business like RoboBusiness
Photo Gears Educational Systems builds a Surface Mobility Platform that schools can use as the basis for robot projects. In the robot pictured here, infrared sensors (on the green rectangle at the top right) swivel back and... [20 Apr 2009]
iPhone 3.0, Windows 7, robots and the office of the future
Photo Microsoft's Surface touchscreen technology got its London debut in March, with third party developers on hand to show what Surface applications they've been working on. To see more... [07 Apr 2009]
Photos: Tech cracks the Arctic frontier
Photo This yellow box is the Sprite radar system, which stands for Surface Penetrating Radar for Ice Thickness Establishment. Here holes are drilled into the Arctic ice to insert a custom made SeaCat probe, which measures... [16 Mar 2009]
Microsoft increases options to switch stuff off in Windows 7
News Photos: From robot teachers to Microsoft Surface This means the files (binaries and data) are not loaded by the operating system (for security-conscious customers) and not available to users on the... [09 Mar 2009]
Photos: Welcome to Microsoft's workplace of the future
Photo And since Microsoft expects nearly every flat surface to be a display one day, this means working just about anywhere. One of the concepts Microsoft is big on is the idea people will be able to have all their information... [05 Mar 2009]
Design, Construction, and Testing of a Novel Robotic Workstation
White Paper This paper describes, in detail, the design, realization, and initial testing of the multi-panel robot workstation which itself represents a novel type of robot surface. These configurations allow users to define their... [05 Feb 2009]
Windows 7: No plans for beta number two
News Photos: From robot teachers to Microsoft Surface Microsoft released the feature-complete beta version earlier this month and general computer users have until 10 February to download the software.... [02 Feb 2009]
Mac history, Windows 7 and a high-tech KFC
Photo The bank features Microsoft's Surface touchscreen technology as well as specialised ATMs and wall screens used as marketing tools. Photo credit: Computer History Museum Apple unveiled its first Macintosh... [28 Jan 2009]