Microsoft has recently purchased Powerset, a small company that deals in semantic search engine technology and released a proof of concept through Wikipedia. The principle is inline with other Microsoft Live Search goals, which is moving searching beyond matching mere keywords and phrases but actually understanding the meaning and the context of the search terms…. Read more →
Reading an article on Slashgear about a new creation from Continuum Studio I couldn’t help but wonder what similarities their new ‘Smart Bracelet’ has to a criminal electronic tag. The principle is exactly the same. You put a bracelet on your child and you wear the master which alerts you when they have moved outside… Read more →
Adobe have released betas of some key apps due to be released as part of CS4. I hope that performance has been improved and some interesting new features added because I’m really not a fan of trying to figure out how to do something I know how to do in CS3 but can’t in CS4… Read more →
Normally when you hear about tracking you just assume that it’s a very expensive piece of kit or a highly sophisticated algorithm. Well Cam-Trax is sophisticated but with its simplicity. The system allows you to control anything you like by tracking an object’s colours. You will understand when you watch the video below. It seems… Read more →
It seems everyone is getting on this paperless band wagon these days. Only yesterday I wrote about the new A4 sized E-paper developed by Epson. Well today folks its Wacom (made famous by their drawing tablets) in partnership with E Ink announcing they have made a pen input e-paper. They are describing it as “the… Read more →
I was reading through my RSS feeds as I so often do and I came across this article which made me realise just how far we have come and how little we need to go to become a completely paperless society. Epson have been developing electronic paper for a while now, previously producing a 7″… Read more →
I was very excited today ot hear that Gordon Brown has publically and unequivically urged his support for stem cell research by writing in The Guradian. This is a major milestone in support for the research and all I can say is “About bloody time”. In his article he says that he respected those MPs… Read more →
Here’s a fairly long video of the new Gears of War 2 game. Looks like some nice features have been included. Click here for the HD version
The BBC reported the successful flight of a manned hydrogen fuelled plane developed by those boffins over at Boeing. They say it is paving the way for a new generation of ‘greener’ planes as the only by-product is heat and water vapour. I am sceptical of such lofty claims by developers of such technologies however… Read more →
Microsoft are denying rumours they have done a 180 and are discussing the possibility of Taiwanese manufacturer Lite-On, makers of optical drives, possibly making a Blu-Ray player for the Xbox 360. The rumours suggested initially an external add-on for the console (like that of the now defunct HD-DVD drive) but it now appears to be… Read more →