Get ready for more motion sensor controlled gaming. PrimeSense, the Israeli company that created the depth sensor for Microsoft’s Kinect, announced today that they will be bringing that technology to a device for the PC. The WAVI Xtion Media Center for the PC will use the PrimeSense Immersive Natural Interaction technology – you know, …
App of the Week: Garmin StreetPilot GPS for iPhone
Turn your iPhone into a Garmin GPS system for just $40 with the new StreetPilot app. It uses your phone’s data connection to keep maps up to date and provide real-time traffic updates so you don’t get caught behind a gaggle of mouth breathers rubbernecking a forlorn twin mattress on the side of the highway. It’s a mattress! You all have …
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Return With Us Now to the 1971 Consumer Electronics Show
For this week’s Technologizer column on TIME.com, I wrote about the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which will take over Las Vegas this week. I’m going to hop on a plane in a few hours and go there myself–and even though the show is massive, crowded, frenetic, and tiring, I’m looking forward to the experience. But if I …
TechFast: CES 2011, Microsoft TV, AMD and Intel Stoke Rivalry
Good morning! Here are some of today’s top tech stories. We’ll cover a few of these throughout the day but feel free to get a head start.
What to Expect from This Week’s Consumer Electronics Show
Link: TIME.com
You’ll be seeing plenty of CES news this week. Here’s a preview of what to expect and how to separate the wheat from the
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New Year’s Resolution: A Savvier Facebook Profile
With Facebook’s ever-evolving profile, sometimes it seems simpler to leave your profile information untouched than update it, even if your fondness for The Amazing Race has seriously dwindled over the last few years. Still, your online identity could be in serious need of some readjustments.
As Facebook profiles are now considered a …
Joint Venture 106: The Venture Bros. from the Very Beginning
Here at Techland, only one television program manages to tie into so many of our geeky obsessions all at once. Superheroes, mythical creatures, action figures and barely believeable sci-fi all flop onto each other on the glorious cavalcade that is The Venture Bros. Cartoon Network’s just started airing the series from the start and …
2010’s Box Office Bigger Everywhere But US
America, the movie industry is very disappointed in you. The domestic box office total for 2010 was smaller than 2009’s, although IMAX can celebrate its most successful year to date, doubling its 2009 gross last year.
Oddly enough, despite North American grosses falling slightly from 2009’s $10.6 billion to $10.55 billion (Other …
Sony Stealth-tests Added Extras To iTunes Movie Sales
Here’s a good reason to buy The Other Guys on iTunes: You’ll be taking part in a secret experiment.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is using the Will Ferrell movie to test whether adding additional extras unavailable on DVD or Blu-Ray versions of the release will increase sales through iTunes as part of a trial to see whether …
Best Buy To Launch “Best Buy On” TV Network
Best Buy has had enough of selling other people’s hard work, and has decided that its time to sell its own. The retailer has launched Best Buy On, a “multichannel network” full of original content that will both broadcast to its retail outlets and be streamed online as part of its accompanying “online magazine.”
The project has …
AT&T Commercials From 1993 Eerily Comes True
Happy New Year! While most of you are making resolutions and predicting what’s going to happen, Buzzfeed has uncovered this gem from 1993 about the future of technology according to AT&T. See if any of these “ideas” have become reality. The company said, “You will.” And, we did.
We’re borrowing books from thousands of miles away with …
Does Disney Need To Turn Their 2D Classics Into 3D?
One thing that makes Disney movies stand out from other animation features is that their universal story and plot can appeal to any one in any decade. Every child can imagine wanting to be the hero that saves the day, and ever adult can remember back to a time when they believe the world was magical. So, is it really necessary that the …
Ten Video Games for Fighting Holiday Flab
The holidays are over. They’re over. Let ’em go. We all overindulged, we all said we wouldn’t, and now we’re all resolving to get back in shape. Short of running outside in the freezing cold or taking out a second mortgage to cover a gym membership, here are 10 video games to help trim that waistline.