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Gaze of future passed: product predictions for 2006 made in 1996

Gaze of future passed: product predictions for 2006 made in 1996Autos..Hybrids are just the start of a long progressive development for the auto industry history. It's like they are doing big steps ahead and not just giving us some fuel saving tips. Real Great stuffs.RE: Gaze of future passed: product...

Tags: product prediction, gaze

Discussion threads 2008-11-28

Perfecting the potato

Today, a couch potato still needs to operate that remote, which keeps his right thumb fit and toned. Gaze tracking could make his potato-hood complete. by Ed Gottsman

Tags: Mouse, Gesture, Gaze, Eye Gesture, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Ed Gottsman

Blog posts 2008-06-12

Perfecting the potato

New Scientist is reporting on new gaze tracking technology designed for use in 3D virtual worlds. Gaze tracking has been used for years by people with motor neurone disease, cerebral palsy and other "locked-in" syndromes, but only to operate desktop interfaces. This more recent technology will bring the likes of...

Tags: Mouse, Gesture, Gaze, Eye Gesture, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Ed Gottsman

Blog posts 2008-05-21

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Screensaver (Windows)

You know that empty feeling in your soul? That's the feeling you won't miss once Jon Stewart's constant, penetrating gaze enters your life.

Tags: Gaze, Jon Stewart, Comedy Central, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2004-09-20

Additional Resources

beTALKATIVE 1.1.0.2 (Windows)

Efficient speech output of predefined texts and variable texts with placeholders. Optimized for use with touchscreens and alternative input devices (eye gaze systems, head mice etc.). Integrated virtual keyboard with word prediction ("deluxe" version only). Compatible with SAPI4 and SAPI5 voices not included.

Tags: beENABLED, Keyboards, Mice, Monitors & Displays, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-28

Samsung Blue Earth

Photo gallery:Samsung Blue EarthAs it does with most trends, Samsung is pursuing eco-friendly cell phones with vigor. It already gave us the Samsung Reclaim, and now we finally have a chance to review the Samsung Blue Earth. Forgive us if we're a bit excited, but Samsung has been holding this...

Tags: Keyboards, Cellular phones, Blue Earth, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-10-23

FOWA 2009: Microsoft Surface 'proof of concept' actually pointless

The young whipper-snapper I spoke to, a computer science-studying university student at Nottingham Trent University, showed me a demonstration of the Surface table. I had seen it before and while I was initially impressed with the technology, we seemed to hit a defining moment when we both realised that...

Tags: Microsoft Surface, Device, Microsoft Corp., Education Authority, Projectors, Hardware, Components, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Cute Little Astronomy Program 1.0 (Windows)

This program was written with the amateur astronomer in mind. C.L.A.P. will display the location of the Sun, Moon, and Planets with enough accuracy so you can plan your night of observing. Just run C.L.A.P. and see what objects are visible for your location on the night you want to...

Tags: Location, Random Symmetry, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-11-07

Trade show horrors

The global sales VP of an enterprise software company once told me that 70% of his salesforce are D-graders the company had to constantly winnow. Tip up at a trade conference and you'll see them in abundance. A guest column over at Sandhill by Elizabeth Cook points...

Tags: Booth, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-11-04

MVP TV: Gaze Into the Crystal Ball: Reporting in Team System Made Easy!

The attendee of this webcast will learn how to interpret the build in reports. The presenter shows what's required to create the reports, and how to use Excel pivot tables to connect to the TFS cube for ad hoc reporting.

Tags: Team, Report, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel, Team Management, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Management

Webcasts 2008-10-24

Cyberwar on al-Quaeda, Sunni and Shiite sites

Is cyberwar coming to the war on terrorism? Two apparently unrelated developments seem to indicate so. The Washington Post reports that four out of al-Qaeda's main online forums have been taken offline, apparently due to infiltration by government sources. The disappearance of the forums on Sept. 10...

Tags: al-Qaeda, Site, Hacker, Shiite, Hacking, Leadership, Security, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-19

Using your voice to pilot your computer

Using your voice to pilot your computerA better control methodwould be an eye-tracking system. Simply follow the gaze of the eye. A single long blink is a click. Two blinks is a double click.

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, voice, computer

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

Does the Semantic Web matter?

My business card reads 'Technology Evangelist,' and this is a blog about the Semantic Web. So that should be an unequivocal 'Yes!' then, right? However, it's frequently worthwhile to revisit and question presumptions, beliefs and 'truths,' and the Semantic Web that dominates so much of my working...

Tags: Web, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone space

Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone spaceMicrosoft Store in the works...My rep told me Microsoft is looking into significant retail space in higher end upscale shopping malls. In the mock-up of the store, boxes of Vista and Office 2007 were kept under lock and key. Customers will be...

Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., PC phone, PC, phone

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Oracle 3.1 (Mobile)

The Oracle is a Palm application. After installing the executable on your Palm, speak your question, tap the surface of the ball, and the Oracle will give you an answer. If you don't like the answer, you could perhaps gaze upon the ball until you feel enlightened. Or, ask...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Mobile, Palm Inc., Quartus, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-06-25

Can you see yourself running Windows Vista in 2014?

Can you see yourself running Windows Vista in 2014?I view it as a vote againstLinux. The fact that so many people are saying that they are holding out on Vista to wait until Windows 7 is odd, as you would think the response would have been that they are going...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Fedora Project, Fedora 9

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

VR study says 40% of us are paranoid

UK researchers have recently used virtual reality VR to check if people had paranoid thoughts when using public transportation. Their VR tube ride experiment revealed that 40% of the participants experienced exaggerated fears about threats from others. Until now, researchers were relying on somewhat unreliable questionnaires to study paranoid thoughts...

Tags: Virtual Reality, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-06

OpenSocial is now neutral: What's the business hook here?

OpenSocial is no longer just a Google standard. Microsoft catches social networking religion. And most folks are wondering where Facebook will land in this mess. The larger question: Is there a business hook here somewhere? Yup, I hear the crickets too. Social networking remains...

Tags: Google OpenSocial, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-26

PWC On Tech Sector Going Green: Efficiency, Ambivalence and Pretty Pictures

PwC is to be congratulated at the very least for the aesthetics of their latest report: Going Green: Sustainable Growth Strategies. This is a truly handsome report with pretty brown coloured text interspersed with striking images of wind turbines, sail boats, happy children, adults playing in autumn foliage and even...

Tags: James Farrar, Management, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Strategy, Sustainability, Technology Sector

Blog posts 2008-03-05

Home Zen Fire 2 2.1 (Windows)

Gaze at the fire and you will start believing that it really has a certain message to communicate to you. The burning Fireplace in a large twilight room of an old castle. One can just watch the fire listening to the harpsichord and recollect the things that existed forever, just...

Tags: Fire, Zen, WEBaby, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-12-19