Meet Millenia

Posted on October 11, 2007 at 6:38 am (PST)

The Millennia robot can really converse with you. According to its maker, International Robotics, Inc., this adult-sized creation "is able to communicate with any age, social, ethnic or cultural group in any type of environment"

“Most interactive robots have the ability to convey commercial messages, but IRI’s robots have the ability to command the attention and [...]

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Microsoft Surface: A Computer Coffee Table

Posted on July 10, 2007 at 3:32 pm (PST)

Code Name: Milan is the top secret name for the table top computer called Microsoft Surface. It looks like a glass coffee table, but its actually a computer with an interactive surface in disguise.
The most exciting thing about this computer, other than its top secret status, is its ability to connect to and manipulate the [...]

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Reality Game Produces Vivid Emotions

Posted on June 12, 2007 at 12:19 pm (PST)

Margot Knight was part of a high-speed art theft and was diligently chased by several cops. The most interesting part of the story was not the part where she was held up at gunpoint, or even the part where she made a large sum of cash from an expensive painting, but the fact that it [...]

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The Electronic Publisher, Available Today

Posted on June 11, 2007 at 8:07 am (PST)

Authors everywhere have been told they have potential for published work, but couldn’t find a select company sufficient enough for what they were hoping to sell. Now, an easy means of publishing has been made available through electronic sources. In particular, these sources include Internet companies, such as Blurb.com, i-Universe, Lulu.com or Xlibris. Online publishing [...]

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Pac Man. The Return

Posted on June 6, 2007 at 5:14 am (PST)

Pac Man the Original video game is making a comeback!

According to my super top secret sources, Pac Man will be reborn on Microsoft’s Xbox Live online service as a final tribute for designer Toru Iwatani, who is retiring. The new game, Pac Man Championship Edition, is the second and final version Mr Iwatani personally designed, [...]

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Microsoft Introduces ‘Milan,’ Bill Gates’ Answer to Another Multi-Touch Device

Posted on May 30, 2007 at 12:23 pm (PST)

Well, not exactly, but if you had pockets as wide and deep as Sir William Gates, then you could probably squeeze one of these things in there.  At the All Things Digital Conference 2007, Microsoft pulled the table cloth and revealed to the world its new "revolutionary" surface computing device christened Milan, which is bound [...]

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Interactive Brainstorming Table

Posted on May 19, 2007 at 6:17 pm (PST)

This “Interactive Brainstorming Table” allows its users to resize, move, and copy objects. No word yet on if this will go into commercial production.This is by far one of the coolest inventions I’ve seen in a long time. Once they can move this into the 3-D world, and then move the work onto the Internet [...]

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