by koustubh on December 2, 2010
Windows Embedded Automotive 7 has introduced a new hands free email and texting infotainment system. The system present in your car will be reading your mails and even replying back on them, just on your voice command. You can also you can give voice commands to it for various applications that are present in your mobile phone without touching your phone. This automation was made possible by three Microsoft teams: Windows Embedded, Microsoft Research and Microsoft Tellme. The replies to mails and messages were made easier by collecting thousands of real world SMS replies and storing these replies as templates [...]
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by koustubh on November 29, 2010
The 43rd president of USA Mr. George .W. Bush is going to make an appearance on Facebook Live, the live streaming channel of Facebook. The reason for this sudden appearance being the promotion of his recently released book “Decision Points”. This event is scheduled by the facebook at 5 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. PT. This appearance of Mr. Bush on Facebook Live makes him the first President to appear on Facebook Live. Like all other Facebook Live events, Facebook users will have an opportunity to fire questions at Mr. Bush, but its still not clear who the moderator will [...]
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by koustubh on November 16, 2010
Avatar became one of the highest grossing film of all time because of the technology used by James Cameron to portray Pandora and to create the Navi’s tribe. The technology that was used is called Simul-cam, where the image recorded is processed in real-time before it reaches the director’s monitor screen in a transformed form. With the use of this Simul-cam technology you need not spend days creating visually stunning computer-generated images. Cover via Amazon What if the technology similar to the one used in the film Avatar comes at less than $150?
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