Posts Tagged ‘interface’
Via Engadget
New study reveals differences in visual experience between active and passive glasses for 3DTV's
TCO Development, the company behind the usability and eco label for ICT products, has released the results of a study to compare the visual experience of active shutter eye-glasses or passive FPR (film pattern retarder) eye-glasses technology for viewing 3DTV. The study confirms that the two techniques differ in visual performance characteristics that affect the overall 3D e...
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Via ProductReviews
Samsung Smart TV Apps is not even a year old yet, and already the company is expanding the payment options for its customers when they download them. This is also the case with the mobile apps as well. Now with this new way of paying, you will be able to pay for your apps in just two clicks, and will be charged to your cell phone.
You can still choose to pay for these apps using your credit card etc, but some customers will like this newest payment option, as it will be...
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Via ChanelNews
TV vendors have given up selling 3D TVs alone, instead they are moving to sell low cost integrated TVs that have Smart TV and 3D capability combined, a leading research company has claimed.
"In a major recalibration effort, TV brands are changing strategies this year following lukewarm response to 3D in 2010 when consumers balked at the high price of sets and the lack of 3D content," said Riddhi Patel, director for television systems and retail services at IHS iSupp...
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Un nouveau type d'interface commence à sortir de certains laboratoires, notamment les écrans photoelastiques. Celles-ci permettent d'avoir une sorte de retour haptique de l'écran tactile. On va donc pouvoir toucher l'objet au sens propre du terme. Objet qui, dans la démo, prend la forme d'une gélatine semi-dure.
Comment ça marche ? En fait c'est "assez simple" dans le principe, les écrans LCD émettent une lumière polarisée, si, si, essayer. (L'écran de l'iMac sur lequel je tape ce ...
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Dans cette application une caméra détecte les déformations d'une feuille de papier pour interagir avec l'application. J'ai encore un peu de mal à imaginer toutes les applications de cette technologie. Peut-être une sorte d'anémomètre high tech qui mesurerait la vitesse du vent en fonction de la déformation de la feuille... je suis sûr que certains auront plus d'idées.
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Un Truc de Oufs inutile, donc forcément indispensable, digne d'un 1er avril. Pour pouvoir embrasser votre partenaire à travers Internet et lui faire profiter de votre inimitable tourné de langue, il vous faut absolument cet appareil, encore en mode prototype. L'inventeur, même s'il parle en japonnais parait lui-même sourire de son invention.
L'appareil dans sa version actuelle reproduit votre tourné de langue sur une sorte de paille à distance, les évolutions futures prévoit éga...
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Via TVGenius
Facebook wants to be the primary gateway to social TV. The problem is, so does Twitter.
While Facebook dominates some industry conversation, they are only starting to make inroads into social TV.
So how is Facebook is poised to enter the social TV space?
Facebook users tend to have highly detailed profiles, which already list their favourite TV shows and movies. At the same time they also connect their personal profile to their favourite brands and celebrities. This gives...
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Si vous pensiez que les gifs animés ne sont que des boules de noël qui clignotaient sur les sites web de la fin des années 90 et bien vous vous trompez !!
Le photographe Jamie, qui vit à New York vient de remettre les gif au goût du jour, c'est original, c'est beau, c'est nouveau, un must see. Une impression de temps suspendu qui reprend vie à voir absolument toutes ses photos sont ici....
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Via HeraldSun
FOOTY fans may soon be able to follow their favourite players in interactive TV broadcasts.
Telstra promises the innovations - if it wins the right to broadcast a handful of live AFL games - that will include being able to call up replays of the last three goals, statistics of individual stars and pop-up alerts on developments at other games.
The telco, restricted to a 12-hour delay before streaming games on its internet TV service, is believed to be close to winning rig...
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Via sfgate
A Sunnyvale startup has launched a new - and possibly controversial - way to watch top just-released DVDs like "The Social Network" and "The Fighter" over the Internet for as little as $1 each.
The company, Zediva Inc., buys DVDs when they are first released to the home movie market, pops them into a bank of rack-mounted, Web-connected DVD players in Santa Clara and streams the video on demand online.
And unlike other streaming services from Netflix Inc. and others, Ze...
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