'Smart' Tech Toys For Kids Of All Ages
News Its latest addition, Vision Command System, due out in September, enhances PC-related programmability and encourages kids to build and program with PCs. According to Reyne Rice, director of toy services at the NPD Group, toys such as the Vision...
[July 20, 2000, 13:24]
The First IPhone Mobile Torrent
Blog As mobile torrents continue to grow in popularity, one must applaud the efforts of “Core” to keep the vision alive. While available online, the current application is a command line client and does not have a user interface so far.
[March 17, 2008, 16:25]
Gates: Orwell Was Wrong About Big Brother
News Gates told a homeland-security conference on Wednesday afternoon that Orwell's dystopian vision of the future, in which Big Brother used technology as a form of social control, "didn't come true, and I don't believe it will.
[June 26, 2003, 8:10]
New Aibo To Lead The Way In Robotic Vision
News A deal between Sony a company that last made the headlines for creating a robotics kit that can turn a notebook computer into a beer fetching robot will see Sony's next Aibo robot dog getting sophisticated vision.
[September 5, 2003, 16:35]
Toy Robots Do Your Bidding
News New this year is the Vision Command System, priced at $99 and available for the 2000 holiday season. Kids can also program voice commands into a remote control and then order a dog to sit, lay down and roll over on command.
[February 15, 2000, 9:18]
Intel Talks Up Lip-reading Software
News The AVSR program is part of the OpenCV computer vision library, a collection of open-source applications and tools that help computers interpret visual data. If a voice command such as "scroll" is given, the computer will combine the finger and...
[April 29, 2003, 8:51]
Hitachi's Storage Launch Undeterred By HP
News The European launch, with the slogan "a clear vision for the future" took place in London's new Dali museum -- somewhat ironically, given Dali's stated aim: "What is important is to spread confusion, not to eliminate it.
[May 9, 2002, 10:03]
TechXNY: Trying Out The Tablet PC
News Marc Capichioni, a network administrator for LowestLoan, a New York-based mortgage company, said he already had a vision of how the Tablet PC could improve productivity at his company: mortgage salespeople could take the devices to borrowers...
[June 26, 2002, 14:16]
Start-up Brings 'blades' To The Desktop
News The Austin, Texas-based company is trying to popularise a new vision for office computing where users would still have monitors, mice and keyboards on their desks, but their superthin computers would be neatly stacked in centralised computer rooms...
[September 23, 2002, 8:27]
Microsoft Betting On The Tablet PC
News During his Comdex/Fall keynote address, Gates will demonstrate the tablet and reiterate his vision on how consumers will use it and interact with it, Microsoft officials confirmed. Voice recognition for dictation, command, and control isn't to the...
[November 7, 2000, 7:30]
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Developer's Release review
Reviews This will be a huge benefit to people with vision limitations. When you first hit Command+F, a new Find bar appears, with the current Spotlight search term in it. It took some time and digging, but we're reasonably sure none of the 10 'top-secret...
[September 8, 2006, 9:15]
