Archive for the 'Hardware' Category

Learning: Computer Science unplugged

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From Binary Numbers via Steiner Trees and Finite State Automata to the Turing Test – teaching people computer science without computers.

That’s what “Computer Science Unplugged” does. They use a series of activities to explain basic concepts of…

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Mobile Phones: Putting the numbers to scale

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Tom Libretto, vice president of Forum Nokia, provided some insides at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in Redwood City, California this Monday. Comparing the volume of Apple’s iPhone shipped to Nokia’s shipments of phones he said:



“…Since the launch of iPhone in June, Apple has shipped 5 million to 6 million of the devices, paling in comparison to Nokia’s device shipments…We’ve done that [volume] since we’ve had dinner on Friday…”

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MS Multi-Touch Surface coming to an AT&T shop near you

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Telecom giant AT&T is the first company worldwide that will use Microsoft Surface™ touch and device recognition technology in retail shops.

Starting from April 17 the multi-touch screens will be available in selected shops – to be more precise – shops in New York, Atlanta, San Antonio and San Francisco will be the first to get the devices. AT&T is planning to expand the deployment to more of its 2,200 shops throughout 2008…

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Advertising: Virtual Honda Motorcycle Testdrive

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An interactive game that uses the motion-based hardware data-protection system of Apple notebooks to steer a virtual motorcycle around a course.

The application was designed by Raul Arantes and is available for download as a screensaver or standalone application.

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Microsoft Health Future Vision

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A video providing some insights into Microsoft’s vision on the future of health care. The video has recently been used by Bill Gates on conferences and is also shown to visitors of the “MS Executive Briefing Center”.

Outstanding pictures like always from that shop and some rather good ideas. But there’s still a long way to go – particular with the IS/IT features.

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Top 5 Tech Easter Eggs

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Hidden little or not so little techfeatures in applications, videos or games aka Tech Easter Eggs are in season this week. So here’s a “link” to CNet’s Top 5 of tech Easter eggs…

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