Kinect gets new SDK, higher-resolution competition
Earlier this week, Microsoft released a new SDK for its Kinect motion controller. Version 1.5 adds numerous enhancements, including face tracking functionality that can keep tabs on small details like the state of a user's eyebrows. Seated skeletal tracking is now supported, and it works in the "near mode" designed for desktop users. The updated skeletal tracking system provides joint orientation information, as well.
Other improvements are mentioned, such as better performance and image quality. There's also a new tool that can capture and play back Kinect data streams, which should help ...
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Next-gen Brazos APUs sneak online
While putting together the latest system guide, we lamented the lack of a replacement for HP's excellent dm1z ultraportable. The 11.6" system is based on AMD's Brazos platform, and even though it's more than a year old, we've yet to see anything better at around $400.
AMD has a second-generation Brazos platform in the works, and the first ultraportable based on it has already popped up online. HP's Malaysian site lists the dm1-4210au , an 11.6" system with an AMD E1-1200 APU. The dual-core chip runs at 1.4GHz and features Radeon HD 7310 integrated graphics. It's paired ...
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Report: 7'' Google tablet to ship next month
Word has it Google is cooking up a 7-inch Android tablet of its own, and according to the latest story by DigiTimes, that tablet will begin shipping next month. The site quotes "sources from the upstream supply chain" who expect initial shipments of 600,000 units in preparation for a launch in July.
This isn't the first time we've heard about the device. Back in January, DigiTimes reported that Google was prepping a $199 tablet with a 7" display and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to compete against Amazon's Kindle Fire. (The Kindle Fire, of course, has the same display size and ...
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Windows 8 may have Flash in Metro after all
Last September, after many months of unwavering HTML5 advocacy, Microsoft announced that the Metro version of Internet Explorer in Windows 8 wouldn't support Adobe Flash—or any other third-party plug-ins, for that matter.
Fast forward eight months, and it looks like Microsoft may have chosen to compromise. A forum post on the WinUnleaked.tk forums, which has been picked up by everyone from Engadget to ...
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Asus' Ivy Bridge-powered N56VM notebook
At last, Ivy Bridge is out. Surely that means a tidal wave of next-generation ultrabooks is about to hit. Surely we're about to slice our fingers on Ivy Bridge-powered systems so thin they can be classified as bladed weapons.
Well, maybe we are. ...
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Thursday Shortbread
Eight is Enough
- Bloomberg: hp rises as profit tops estimates; 27,000 jobs to be cut and
Google Android didn't infringe Oracle patents, jury says (thanks dpaus)
- DigiTimes: AMD prepares low-voltage CPUs for Windows 8 tablet PCs and
Thunderbolt to become key specification for motherboard market in 2H12
- VR-Zone: Creative teases the Sound Blaster AXX-Traterrestrial
- Android Police: Asus Transformer Pad 300 bootloader unlock tool now available
- WMPoweruser: New contact and Live Tile animations suggest Windows Phone 8
- BGR's exclusive: Microsoft set to release Office for iOS and Android tablets in November
- VR-Zone: Xbox may be banned in the United States
- PC & Tech Authority: Xbox 720 release date slated for November 2013?
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Fake Different
If you're a Mac fan of a certain age, you no doubt recognize the title of this piece as a play on Apple's famous Think Different campaign that ran from 1997 through 2002 and launched with the classic television spot Crazy Ones . A few of you (especially faithful readers of this sporadic ...
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Seagate to acquire controlling stake in LaCie
Looks like Seagate might be on a little shopping spree. Just over a year after announcing its takeover of Samsung's mechanical storage business, Seagate now says it plans to buy a controlling stake in external hard-drive vendor LaCie.
If everything goes as planned, Seagate will end up owning 64.5% of the company and paying about $186 million for the privilege. LaCie ...
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Gigabyte teases world's lightest notebook
Everyone and their mother seems to be producing aluminum-clad notebooks these days. We've heard rumors that high-tech fiberglass and plastic cases will be found in the next wave of ultrabooks, which should help to lower prices. Gigabyte's upcoming X11 notebook appears to be pursuing a different direction. An invitation for the X11's launch event states that Gigabyte has "discovered the 6th element." Carbon sits at number six on the periodic table, suggesting that the X11 will be wrapped in carbon fiber.
A carbon fiber shell would fit with the invitation's assertion that the X11 is the "lightest notebook on earth." Interestingly, the X11 isn't referred to as an ultrabook. Perhaps it's not thin ...
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Hard drive prices continue slow decline
More than a month has passed since we last looked at hard drive prices, so it's time for an update. We've been tracking a selection of mechanical hard drives ever since last year's Thailand flooding sent prices skyward. The graph below shows the Newegg prices of those drives since the beginning of October, just before the water level started to rise.
A couple of the drives we started following in October have dropped out of stock and failed to return, so they've been ...
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