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It’s still primitive, but the Kinect seems to be the best consumer-side telepresence and remote-operation device to hack right now. In fact, in a playful toy sort of way, we’ve just come across a video on YouTUBE that shows a user controlling …
Verizon Finally Unveils iPhone and It Will not be 4G
The big news is in: Verizon is getting the iPhone and it’s arriving February 10th. For years now, AT&T has been the go-to network if you wanted to play with Apple’s flagship mobile device. Interestingly, due to their exclusivity, AT&T’s iPhone network …
GeekBeat.TV Reviews Powermat at CES 2011
Powermat has been working hard at bringing us wireless/plugless charging for our phones and other mobile devices. In a lot of cases, it’s hard to remember to plug our phones into the socket to make sure that they’re getting their much needed …
Steve Ballmer Says Microsoft Plans Future Kinect PC Support
Once again, some of the best Microsoft Kinect news comes to us through the European news venues. Eurogamer picked up on some comments that Steve Ballmer made during a BBC interview that suggests eventual PC support for the Kinect. When quizzed by …
Leo Apotheker has a Lot to Think About for Hewlett-Packard in 2011
As a business, HP has been well known in the past for their computers and printers. In fact, they made their name on printer hardware when ink and print-heads were literally the black gold of the industry and they’ve been riding that …
Splicd and SnipSnip.it for All Your Embedded Video Splicing Needs
Time to bring some amazing video tools to our readers like Splicd and SnipSnip.it, which allow us to take small slices of YouTUBE videos in order to embed them in blog posts. It’s a slow news day—our brains ate too much CES …
Avatar Kinect Brings a New Dimension to Xbox LIVE Chat
The immense financial success of the Kinect wasn’t the only thing that Microsoft had to announce at this year’s CES conference—they also had some fun Kinect gadgetry to entertain the audience with. Namely, I’m talking about Avatar Kinect. Steve Ballmer went up …
Mophie Pulse Brings Shake, Rattle, and Roll to the iPod Touch
Casual gamers may like the ability to play video games on the go with their iPod Touch, but they may not know that they’re missing out on something—on particular sense—touch itself. By this I’m not talking about the ability to touch the …
UltraViolet, Hollywood’s Idea to Put the Cloud into DVD Boxes
A coalition of technology and media companies are getting together to form a consortium of corporations (say that 10 times fast) in order to help stuff the cloud into the DVD box. By this, I mean that they want to sell physical …
Over 8 Million Kinect Units Sold Since Release, or Shipped?
The Microsoft Kinect has been explosively popular, certainly to the tune of 2.5 million sold outright in the first month of its debut, and that was before the shopping holidays rolled around. I am emphasizing the word “sold” for a reason here, …