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Touch yourself!
This may sound like a weird answer to the question: “How do I control my gadget?” But science has now made it possible. Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University have just provided the best touch screen surface: the human skin. Skinput, as the technology is aptly called, allows you to use your own skin as a touch screen. However, the technology still has to be refined.
Clothing technology
WTF jeans has developed jeans that have a Gizmo appeal. USB Sticks and iPhones now have their own compartments in the new WTF jeans. The micro-fiber insulation protects small gadgets better than any other jeans pocket on earth. This is definitely something that tech-loving fashionistas should watch out for. Since summer is well on its way, perhaps we can hope for WTF’s revamped summer apparel as well.
Read your lips
If you are not up for the (literal) touch, German researchers’ lip reading research technology for cellular phones may actually be more appealing. But this remains to be refined further in the future as the re-emerging rumors of a Playstation phone. Sony remains mum about the project. Let’s just hope their delaying marketing tactics, if they were true, will later work to their advantage.
While Playstation phones remain to be confirmed by Sony, Microsoft did mention a promising future for the Xbox platform. Microsoft also literally promoted a clean break with its new Windows phones not running current apps that used to work with it. While it provides great promise of having a better operating system with a clean slate, it poses the problem for developers who will now have to choose between writing for the old or the new Windows phones.
Tweeting dogs
Twitter has just found itself a new set of happy, tail wagging customers. In this day and age, even puppies can post updates to microblogging site Twitter. For around USD30 (P1,378.50), Puppy Tweets Blue can allow your puppy to tweet. Using motion sensors, the service detects your pet's movement and posts a corresponding pre-programmed tweet. Who knows? Your puppy might just be the next trending animal in Twitterdom.
DocVerse
Google gives more silver linings to Microsoft’s Cloud buzz with the latest addition of DocVerse. DocVerse is an online collaboration tool for Microsoft Office documents, Powerpoint Word or Excel. This is grand departure from the limited but useful formatting options provided by Google Docs and is worth checking out. A USD25 million (P1.15 billion) payment buzz is circulating with the acquisition
Real estate goes mobile
Looking for a home? Check your iPod. Real estate transactions are now made much sweeter with New York Times’ new iPhone app for apartment hunters. Photos, mortgage payments, property searches and real estate news are now consolidated in this very neat app. And if you are itching to get a feel of the iPad experience, CubeMe Chrome extensions are up for grabs to show the same blue cubes that iPad users will see in every occurrence of Flash content that it cannot display.
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