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IllumiRoom To Take Gaming Visuals Outside the Box and Onto the Living Room
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on May 3, 2013
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cylonlover writes “At CES in January, Microsoft Research teased its IllumiRoom concept, which involves projecting an image around a TV screen to enhance video games with additional visuals. Unfortunately, the company didn’t offer much info beyond a short video that briefly showed it in action. But the team behind the project recently showed up at the CHI 2013 conference in Paris with some more in-depth details about how IllumiRoom will not only expand the game screen, but completely alter the appearance of your living room.”
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Living with Google Glass, Day Three: Security Checkpoint
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on April 28, 2013
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You might be inclined to think that airport security is not the best place to wear Google Glass. You’d probably be right, but given the amount that I travel it was pretty-well inevitable that I’d cross through some security checkpoint before the course of this testing would be through.
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I’m honored to be part of the X-Prize Visioneering conference this week, a gathering of incredible minds putting their considerable brainpower behind the creation of competitions to make the world a better place. But, to take part I’d have to get out to California, and that meant yet another long flight across the country — and another trip through the full-body scanner. The question is, how would the folks at airport security react to it?
Scientists decode DNA of ‘living fossil’ fish
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on April 17, 2013
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Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated “living fossil” fish, giving them new insights into how today’s mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor.
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Akamai demos Hyperconnected Living Room second-screen concept at NAB
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on April 9, 2013
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Companion apps are nothing new, but while they can serve up bonus material for a TV show or medal counts for the Olympics, they can’t see exactly what you’re watching and display relevant information in realtime. Akamai’s Hyperconnected Living Room concept demoed here at NAB aims to enhance the dual-screen experience by both pushing out on-demand movies and other streaming content and bringing related info to your slate, exactly when you’d expect to see it.
Akamai says it cooked up this demo especially for NAB “to get people thinking about the possibilities” of a second-screen experience. Those possibilities, if you haven’t guessed, generally require you to open up your wallet. When Mission Impossible was playing on the big screen, pricing for a character’s sunglasses popped up on the tablet. During a basketball game, we were prompted to buy tickets for an upcoming game. Depending on what you’re watching, you may also see trivia from IMDB or links to players’ stats.
To connect an iPad to the service, an Akamai rep simply signed into the web-based interface on both the TV and the tablet (though the service is generally compatible with any web-connected device). Once linked, the tablet can function as a remote for pausing and selecting content to stream, and users can personalize what ads and info they receive by providing details such as age, location and even clothing size. If you can’t watch Mad Men without wondering where to buy Don Draper’s fedora, you’ll be all over the video demo below.
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How to Make a Computer from a Living Cell
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on March 28, 2013
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Genetic logic gates will enable biologists to program cells for chemical production and disease detection.
If biologists could put computational controls inside living cells, they could program them to sense and report on the presence of cancer, create drugs on site as they’re needed, or dynamically adjust their activities in fermentation tanks used to make drugs and other chemicals. Now researchers at Stanford University have developed a way to make genetic parts that can perform the logic calculations that might someday control such activities.
Order a living ‘Game of Thrones’ dire wolf (almost)
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on March 27, 2013
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The Dire Wolf project aims to create a breed of domesticated large companion dogs that have the feral look of the extinct dire wolf. [Read more]
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Diablo III looks ready to rock the living room
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on March 24, 2013
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Check out the first fierce footage of Diablo III for PlayStation 3 (and the likely PlayStation 4). Plus, there’s an indication that other consoles may get the game at some point. [Read more]
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YuppTV launches aimed at South Asians living in the US
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on March 21, 2013
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Defending the Living Room from Apple
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on February 2, 2013
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The biggest threat to smart gaming, says Valve’s Gabe Newell, is for Apple to seize the living room.
I don’t often have occasion to embed a video from the LBJ School of Public Affairs on Technology Review. But when the enigmatic and brilliant Gabe Newell–CEO of the gaming company Valve and one of the smartest people in tech today–gives a talk at the University of Texas school, then it’s worth your attention.
Opera Makes A Run For The Living Room With New TV App Store, SDK With YouTube Leanback Support
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on January 7, 2013
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Opera has long harbored ambitions to bring its technology beyond mobile and the desktop and into the living room. Just in time for the start of CES, the company today unveiled its new TV app store and framework, as well as its new Devices SDK. These, Opera says, will “make all the world’s living rooms more comfortable” and bring “solutions for improving TV surfing” to “millions of living rooms all across the globe.”
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Views of a living Mars take the rouge off
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on January 5, 2013
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Using data from NASA and plenty of imagination, a software engineer takes the red out of the Red Planet and shows what Mars might’ve looked like in life-filled days gone by. [Read more]
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First Physics-Like Experiments For Measuring Group Behaviour of Living Creatures
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on January 3, 2013
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100 trillion creatures are living on you right now — and that’s okay
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on December 23, 2012
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People Are Living Longer, With More Disabilities Than Ever
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on December 15, 2012
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skade88 writes “Worldwide, people are living longer. Their lives are starting to look more like the lives of Americans: too much food is a problem, death in childhood is becoming less common, and so on. Yet with a population that lives through what would once have killed us, disabilities are starting to become the norm. A research report from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has a good glimpse into the new emerging world we find ourselves in.” The Guardian has a nice visualization of the mortality data (but take note of shifting scales on the Y-axis).
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Gabe Newell Foresees A Slew Of Living Room Gaming PCs (Including One From Valve?) In 2013
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on December 10, 2012
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I don’t normally expect much to come out of Spike TV’s annual Video Game Awards, but Kotaku managed to score a gem of an interview with Valve co-founder and managing director Gabe Newell earlier this weekend. In his brief exchange, Newell said he expected to see several PC makers crafting Steam-centric gaming PCs for the living room in 2013, and that their products would rival the next generation Xbox and PlayStation.
Newell talks Big Picture Mode, teases “turnkey” Valve PCs for living rooms
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on December 9, 2012
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Valve, as many of you already know, recently rolled Steam Big Picture Mode out of beta. For those who need a refresher, Big Picture Mode takes Steam and makes it play nice with larger screens, upping the resolution and allowing users to navigate the Steam interface using a controller. Despite the relatively simple idea, it
Gabe Newell hints at possible ‘turnkey’ Valve living room system, sees others following suit
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on December 9, 2012
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Valve has been making a visibly deep push into the living room, but in bits and pieces — controllers here, Big Picture interfaces there. Company chief Gabe Newell may have just hinted at a more holistic, though non-exclusive, approach in the works. Chatting on the sidelines of the Video Game Awards, he tells Kotaku that any Valve hardware would involve a “turnkey solution” with a “very controlled” environment, not unlike a console. While that’s not necessarily the confirmation of the rumored Steam Box, Newell only stokes the speculation further through his eagerness to put Big Picture on Steam for Linux and get that much more control when building hardware. The game developer doesn’t see his company monopolizing couch-based devices should it get involved, however — he predicts more companies will be selling PCs in 2013 tailored for the TV in a way that would favor Steam. We won’t consider either a Valve-made gaming box or its third-party equivalents to be imminent based solely on award show banter, but the remarks suggest that at least one of the PCs is more than just a dream.
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Gift Guide: Hands-On With Lytro’s Latest Features, Perspective Shift And Living Filters
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on December 4, 2012
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Lytro promised that its camera was only the beginning of the new technology, which allows the user to change focus of the picture after it’s taken. The data contained in a single digital image taken with a Lytro camera is completely new and different from the data we’re used to seeing with more traditional technology. It’s uncharted territory, the exploration of a brand new world, and the latest settlement made by the company is the ability for the user to shift perspective after the picture’s been taken.
And to add a little of Instagram’s luck into the mix, Lytro has also added Living Filters (which alter the color balance of the shot, or add cool effects) to photos before they are shared on the web, email or on Facebook.
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The Wii U’s quest to save living room couch multiplayer
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on November 26, 2012
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The new Nintendo Wii U may herald a return to synchronous-local gaming [Read more]
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Lytro to get Perspective Shift and Living Filters for more focus-shifting fun (video)
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on November 15, 2012
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Lytro has just announced a software update that expands upon the multidimensional elements of the little light-field point-and-shoot. The Lytro Desktop software will get two new features, dubbed Perspective Shift and Living Filters, both of which expand upon the device’s focus-shifting capabilities. Perspective Shift lets you change the photo’s center of perspective, while Living Filters are interactive image effects that range from cool to kooky. We had a chance to get an early look at these features, so join us after the break for our impressions and video of them in action.
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Seattle’s Living Computer Museum: not just for techies
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on November 2, 2012
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Couple finds medieval well under their living room floor
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on August 30, 2012
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Hisense building budget-friendly Google TV set-top box, will put Android in your living room for under $100
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on August 25, 2012
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Looks like consumers are about to get another option in their search for an affordable connected TV solution: Hisense is building its own Google TV set-top box. The product doesn’t have a price — let alone a name — but will sell for under $ 100 when it hits shelves later this year. “Hisense adds even more innovation to the growing list of Google TV-powered devices available around the world.” Says Google TV partner manager Mickey Kim. “We’re working closely with partners like Hisense to bring services from Google and multiple other providers to your TV with an experience tailored for the living room.” Details are scarce, but the outfit promises to reveal more at IFA next week. Can’t wait? Check out Vizio’s Co-Star.
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YC Startup Healthy Labs Wants To Be The Go-To Site For People Living With Chronic Illness
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on August 21, 2012
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In recent years, it’s become so that people online can find reliable information from vetted individuals on well-designed websites that specialize in a lot of topics. Want to know what it’s like to be an employee at Zynga during its recent stock price slide? Quora has your back. Want to know about the legal process for getting a green card? Check Avvo. Advice on how to launch a startup to the press? Take a look at Branch.
But when it comes to advice and support for people who are diagnosed with chronic medical conditions, things aren’t so cut-and-dry. The main places where people share tips, treatment experiences, and support are relegated to the kinds of answers websites and web forums that seem stuck in the 1990s and early aughts.
Healthy Labs, a new startup incubated in the current batch of Y Combinator startups, wants to fill that gap.
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California family living on ‘Martian time’
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on August 19, 2012
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Ask Joseph Palaia About Building Lunar Machines and Living On Mars
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on July 13, 2012
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Joseph Palaia is an entrepreneur, engineer and technologist who is working on creating the first permanent settlement on Mars. In 2009, he served as executive officer and chief engineer for a one-month simulated Mars mission at the Mars Society’s Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station on Devon Island in the Canadian arctic. He has played an integral role in two commercial design studies of the first permanent Mars settlement. He is co-author of technical papers on the topics of Mars nuclear power plant design, Mars settlement architecture, space economics and the economics of energy on Mars. In addition to his work on inhabiting Mars, Joseph is also the Chief Operating Officer & Director of Earthrise Space, Inc. ESI is a research laboratory whose goal is to design, build, and operate spacecraft with the help of students. They are currently working on both a lunar lander and lunar rover for the Google Lunar X Prize. Joseph has agreed to take off his spacesuit and answer any of your questions about building moon machines with students, long-term survival in space, and all things Kuato related. Ask as many questions as you like, but please confine your questions to one per post.
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Living Fossils: Old Tech That Just Won’t Die
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on May 10, 2012
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jfruh writes “You might think that flat files, VAXen, and punch card readers are things of the past — and you’re right, for the most part. But here and there, these fossilized technologies have found places where they can survive in production use.”
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Jurassic lark? Expedition to seek living dinosaurs in Africa
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on April 21, 2012
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Skull confirms older origin for ‘living fossil’ fish
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on April 14, 2012
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Gillmor Gang: Living on Rented Time
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on March 4, 2012
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The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Doc Searls, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — go through an entire show (almost) without mentioning Apple’s big event next week. Instead, we discuss Netflix’ new 26 hour movie model, why news silos can be good for you, the relationship between the Republican primary process and the secret source of innovation, and Cluetrain vs. the carriers.
Doc’s theory that Verizon killed fiber to get into the mobile market certainly does raise some eyebrows, but @scobleizer is happy just sucking down data because he’s living in the future. Me — I’ve been living in 1919 and Downton Abbey, waiting for Mad Men to return. So it goes in the Land of Licensing, where the only thing we own is the electric bill.
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Living with the Samsung Galaxy Note
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on February 22, 2012
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Find out if CNET editor Brian Bennett can survive with the new Samsung Galaxy Note as his only mobile device for a week.
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With Funding In Tow, Uniiverse Launches A Platform For Collaborative Living
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on February 8, 2012
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You have to love the accelerated development cycle that spins so fast in the tech industry’s echo chamber. Just as most Americans are starting to get comfortable with this whole “social revolution,” the tech industry has already exhausted every inch of “Social” (and social networking) to the degree that most are now tired of hearing about social. Case-in-point: A startup launching today, called Uniiverse, begins its pitch with this simple message, “Uniiverse is not a social network.” I advised CEO Craig Follet to put that bit in caplocks going forward.
That’s part of the reason Uniiverse is resistant to being lumped in with social networks, as the Canadian startup is building an online platform that focuses on bringing value to our offline lives.
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Google Updates TV, Signs Celebs, Invades Living Room
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on November 1, 2011
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Technologies for Healthier Living
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on September 29, 2011
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AirPlay-enabled Music Tap systems touted by Pioneer, free us from living room control
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on September 12, 2011
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Had your eye on an AirPlay accessory for your iPhone or iPod touch? Well, Pioneer is looking to help you pull the trigger on one. The company has announced a new set of AirPlay Music Tap systems that enable access to your music library without being chained to a peripheral. By connecting one of these bad boys to your home WiFi or ethernet network, you’ll be able to access your entire iTunes library in various locations throughout your home — after you install Apple’s Remote app, of course. Other features include a 2.5-inch full-color LCD display, Pandora, iHeartRadio, vTuner internet radio and Air Jam, which allows for playlist sharing on your arsenal of the company’s Music Tap systems. When this pair drops in October, you’ll have your choice of the X-SMC-3-S for $ 400 or the more dapper, bluetooth-enabled X-SMC4-Elite for $ 480. You can take a peek at the Elite, along with the full PR, after the break.
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IAMA Arab Named OsAMA Living in the United States during the post 9/11 era. AMA.
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on September 7, 2011
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I was in the 4th grade when 9/11 occurred. I am Christian. I am in college now. Things began to die down earlier this year until they went and “killed” Bin Laden and things got bad again. I get “randomly” security checked EVERY time I go through an airport.
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