UK Researchers Plan Mobile Real-Time Sign Language Translation App
With real-time translation of text common on the web and instantaneous speech-to-text gaining popularity, it seems that transliteration is cool again. But less obvious, and more difficult, methods of input are yet to be implemented. Case in point: sign language. The complicated and often contextual gestures form a vast visual vocabulary that isn’t easily captured [...]
Samsung VP Eric Anderson On The Future Of Smart TVs [TCTV]
Today at Samsung’s media event in NYC, I got the chance to chat with VP of Content and Product Solutions, Eric Anderson, on the future of Smart TVs. The company just recently released a number of new Smart TV offerings equipped with what Samsung is calling Smart Interaction — the ability to control the TV [...]
US-based iTV Entertainment preemptively lashes out against Apple over ‘iTV’ trademark
Today, U.S.-based iTV entertainment issued a press release warning Apple to stop infringing its trademark “iTV,” which it has held since formation in 2001. The company uses the 2011 U.S. Patent No. 2011/0154394 A1 (illustration, right) as an example that Apple is already using the iTV trademark, if only internally. Apple describes its device as [...]
New Samsung Sensor Captures Both Light And Depth Data
Samsung, or rather Samsung’s Advanced Institute of Technology, has created what they claim is the first CMOS sensor that can collect both visible light data (which you’d use for a normal digital image) and depth data (like a Kinect). It’s accomplished by mixing in depth-sensing pixels with the RGB photosites normally found on such sensors. [...]
Fly Or Die: Windows 8
If you were only allowed to read one piece of tech news today, I’d bet you’d read up on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. The beta became available today, though we were lucky enough to go hands-on with the OS for the past week or so, and people can’t stop talking about it.
Windows 8 [...]
iPad 3 Rumor Roundup
Unless Apple is conning the world, the iPad 3 should be announced next week. It, like its forbears, is the subject of many a rumor, some more likely than others. We’ve collected most of them here in this post with arguments for and against, for your convenience and flaming pleasure.
Of course, we’ll be there to [...]
Evidence Of A Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Sprouts Up All Over The Place
Remember when that Samsung product marketing manager Ryan Bidan let slip a few details on the next-gen GalTab and/or Galaxy Note? He mentioned the inclusion of an S-Pen, 3D gestures (courtesy of a front-facing camera), and voice controls. Well, it would seem that further proof of the product he was detailing has trickled out, and [...]
Logitech takes a page from the Magic Mouse playbook for its new touch mouse M600
We are so in love with Logitech’s new touch-sensitive Touch Mouse M600 that it would most likely be a replacement if we broke our mouse. Akin to Apple’s Magic Mouse and Microsoft’s Explorer Touch Mouse, the M660 is all about gestures and touch. It also looks great with its sleek design and smooth curvature. Moreover, just like Apple’s mouse, the M600 lets [...]
Samsung Employee Leaks New Info On Future Galaxy Tabs
I just love it when leaks come straight from the horse’s mouth. A leaky horse mouth, if you will.
Electronista is reporting that a Samsung product marketing manager by the name of Ryan Bidan has let slip a few details on the next Galaxy Tab or, potentially, the next iteration of the Galaxy Note.
According [...]
Apple introduces iBook 2 to bring digital textbooks; iBooks Author to create them
Just as expected, Apple took a strike at the ripe digital textbook market today with the introduction of iBooks 2. Dubbed as a “brand new experience for the iPad,” the iBooks 2 app will allow users to download textbooks that are portable, durable, interactive as well as searchable.
As with the functions of the iPad, [...]