Afterward, now Microsoft is back on improving the next generation of Microsoft Surface. This Technology is called SecondLight, the second generation of Microsoft Surface, which is still on improvement phase, but Microsoft has demonstrated it on last TechFest 2009 on February.
The demo showed how SecondLight could capture images through a projector inside it, and then, detecting gesture on the display, certainly because of the infrared sensor inside it. It means we do not have to present interface user on SecondLight surface.
Microsoft Research describes this SecondLight technology work with LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) mixer, which can be switched electronically or with electricity power as display projector of SecondLight. The material will switch between glow status and “clean” back, and then switching process becomes very fast and invisible. When it is on glow, then the system becomes like the usual Microsoft Surface, but when it is on “clean” then it will project the image area on the display.
Have you ever seen models walking on a catwalk? Another case if the model is a robot. HRP-4C, a fashion robot model that can talk like real human, developed by AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) in Japan, costs £150,000 or $210,685. With 30 motor activators in the body, this woman robot with 158 centimeter (62 inch) height and weight of 43 kilograms (95 lbs) can walk in several poses.
Two days ago, California Search Engine, Google; announces the technology update for Google Earth feature. As we know that since several months ago Google has completed the Google Earth Service with a facility to see deep sea landscape of all over world seas. Now, to complete the service of the deep sea Google, it has made a joint with some companies and these sector data processor organizations, such as National Geographic Society, Scripps Oceanographic Institution and NOAA.
In Nokia World 2008, Nokia launched a new mobile phone Nokia N97. Nokia claimed the N97 as the most advanced mobile computer in the world with the latest version of Ovi. The new Ovi is not only able to synchronize user data but also provide a social network service that allows users to share photos, video, audio, and find new places easily. In addition, N97 combines 3.5 touchscreen with a full QWERTY keypad to support the access to social networking site and other favorite Internet sites.
Do you know that reCAPTCHA can prevent spammers and helps us to scan an old book into digital format, while the Google Image Labeler makes Picture Tagging activities become interesting. Yahoo now also creates a similar feature via its new VideoTagGame, a game that encourages players to put tag on a part of video to improve search accuracy.
Gladinet is a free desktop application for Windows that offers easy access to files stored in the cloud computing infrastructure, such as Gmail, Windows Live Skydrive, Google Docs, and Amazon S3 or in another PC. Gladinet aims to provide a single platform to access the data, no matter where you save the data, the application makes it easier to provide management with file drag and drop interface to move your files.