Tag: Microsoft
Skinput | Microsoft’s Answer to The Touchscreen
Everything should be touchable in Apple's opinion. With the huge success of the touch technology, it seems everything will be. It has long been unknown where we are heading next with this technology and just recently Microsoft shared their view of it. At first glance, it looks like nothing new, b ...
Project Natal | The Innovative Conceptualized Journey
Project Natal has become the backbone of Microsoft's future strategy to take over the world once again. The innovative idea and the technology behind it is truly astounding and makes for new and fresh idea of how things will work in the future. We've seen a few and rather impressive demonstrations o ...
Why Bing is a “Decision Engine” | Explanation
Microsoft has always look over at Google's success and wondered why things always work for Google and almost nothing works for Microsoft. They have analyzed the data they have gathered and actually come up with a pretty cool feature for their search engine. If it will render Google useless is probab ...
Nokia’s Awesome view on The Future | Nanotech Concept Phone
I am in a future technology frenzy right now and I can't believe the things people think up for our convenience. The scale things are heading for is just amazing and honestly I can't wait for the future to arrive. Rather sooner than later. I just saw a presentation of how Nokia imagines the future w ...
10 Best Games of the Decade!
Christmas season is finally here, for some of us, it means time with the family, and lots of traveling. For others, it means a lot of free time, and a LOT of gaming. So this year, why not look back on all the great games we used to play, and dust off our old systems, or boot up that PC game you have ...
Google OS vs Windows, a fair fight?
Leave it to Google to teach us how to rethink for the future. The way we use our computers is changing quickly and frequently. Now imagine your computer that runs a totally different operating system, one that utilizes 'cloud computing,' drawing resources, applications and data from web services vs ...
What Facebook is for…
Social Media, the one thing to rule the Web since the Internet boom back in the end of 1990. People are constantly asking me what it's for and why one should use it. The answer is usually more complicated than the the whole question itself as it has such a wide span. Using the widely now used "Liste ...
Windows 7 Burger!
Microsoft just launched Windows 7 and getting a lot of buzz thanks to Burger King! I watched the 2 videos and man I love burgers but i don't think i can finish one! But i think its a pretty cool idea, getting a lot of hype and buzz.
Microsoft has taken the unusual step of promoting Windows 7 in ...
Biggest Waterslide On Earth, Real or Hoax?
Three weeks ago, another wild and crazy video hit the internet like a freight train. Since that day, it has received over 2,600,000 views. What's all the fuss? It is the biggest waterslide on earth being tested, successfully! In this 45 second video you can view someone flying over 100 feet in t ...
Do You Wanna Date My Avatar?
Felicia Day, known best for her webseries, The Guild, is an insanely creative risk-taker. Her webseries, now sponsored by Microsoft and Xbox Live, just entered its third season. In case you are unfamiliar with it, it is a comedy that makes fun of the massively multiplayer online role playing game ...
Have You Tried Seadragon? Demo It Here!
On the main page of the Seadragon website they say it all, "The aim of Seadragon is nothing less than to change the way we use screens, from wall-sized displays all the way down to cell phones..." From what I have seen, they may very well succeed. I was introduced to Seadragon through, of all thin ...
OLED Mobile – No not a new iPhone…
There were huge rumours which spread around before the announcement of the iPhone 3GS, one of which was that it had an OLED screen. Now we know this not to be true, but it would have been great. OLED is still expensive, but it is definitely where we are headed.
For those who don't know yet OLED ...
Microsoft’s Vision for the Future
Found 2 interesting videos on Microsoft Office Labs vision for 2019. It deals with the various technological advancement that they have set for themselves, what people can expect from the Microsoft. There are a lot of cool concepts that if implemented can really make our experience more interactiv ...
Photosynth: Seeing the bigger picture.
Microsoft, recently, haven't been very well known for their successful projects. Maybe Windows 7 will see that change now. Before windows 7 existed and just as Silverlight was breaking onto the scene, there was a project called Photosynth.
Photosynth takes a collection of photos and then arrang ...
Microsoft Search Veteran digging into Twitter…
Twitter has become a huge resource, and not just for telling people what you had for dinner. Twitter search is pretty much the best way to gage a feeling across the world of what is being talked about. Maybe its a little geek bias, but the information is flowing freely, news, links, topics and of ...