Wednesday, 1 June 2011

New Japanese TVs record viewers' emotions

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New Japanese TVs are being developed that are able to watch the viewer and measure their emotional response to what they are seeing on the screen.Is this a whole new Bladerunner-­esque Big Brother nightmare waiting to happen? Or is it actually a cool new feature that might somehow improve our enjoyment of TV in future?The new tech comes courtesy of NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories (STRL) of Japan, who plan to put small cameras in TVs to observe viewers' responses to

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Chromebook Goes On Sale Early At Gilt

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At last month’s Google I/O developer conference, the much anticipated Chromebooks were unveiled, with the first two to be from Samsung and Acer. The Chromebooks were scheduled to arrive on June 15th, which is now just two weeks away, but should you not be the patient type, you can grab one now from Gilt.


The popular invitation-only flash sale site, Gilt, has somehow managed to offer Samsung’s Chromebook two weeks earlier than even Google I/O attendees will be able to

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AMD shows Trinity APU at Computex

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In order to distract us all from the fact the first Bulldozer CPUs, the Zambezi chips, wont be arriving until late in the Summer, possibly September, AMD's General Manager, Rick Bergman showed off a brand new Trinity APU today at Computex 2011.This new processor, like Zambezi, will be the first APU using the Bulldozer architecture and will also include a GPU core capable of running DirectX 11 paths.It will be with us in 2012, leading Bergman to claim that it was already set deliver

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Barnes & Noble’s New Touchscreen NOOK Shipping Now

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Just last week, Barnes & Nobles unveiled an all-new NOOK e-reader featuring a 6-inch touch-enabled E-ink display that replaced all navigation controls except for one simple home button. The new e-reader was touted to be lighter, smaller, and possess at least double the battery life when compared to Amazon’s Kindle.


Pre-orders for the device had kicked off immediately, but an actual ship date was set for June 10th. However, now it looks like Barnes & Nobles is

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AMD launches 9-series motherboards, confirms Bulldozer timings

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This morning at Computex 2011, AMD announced the launch of it's 9-series motherboards. But there was something missing - the advanced CPU component of its new platform.We've got a slew of reviews of AMD's latest boards on their way, so hold tight for the first few very soon.The real "key component" of the Scorpius platform, however, are those Zambezi, Bulldozer-based CPUs and they're still a way away from being released AMD confirmed today.So the jury is out about whether we should

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Google Offers Beta Goes Live, First Coupon In Portland

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The recent unveiling of Google Wallet revealed that the coupon and deals program called Google Offers would play a significant role in the new mobile payment system. Google Offers was announced back in April when it started taking early signups in the areas of Portland, New York, and San Francisco. Today, the beta version of Google Offers has officially gone live Portland.


Modeled after Groupon, Google Offers was begun shortly after the search giant failed to purchase Groupon for

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Web traffic set to hit a zettabyte by 2015

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Cisco researchers claims that global web traffic will hit a zettabyte by 2015 – the equivalent of a trillion gigabytes.Cisco made this incredible claim as part of its annual report on the state of the web.The main traffic boost will be due to an additional three billion web users worldwide by 2015. 15 billion connected devicesThis, in addition to an increasing array of smartphones and tablets hooking up to the internet, means that over 15 billion devices will be connected by

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