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MIT Researchers Create a Cheap "6th Sense" Device 125

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 05, 2009 @07:17PM from the it-will-tickle-your-fancy-if-you-tell-it-to dept.

thefickler writes "MIT researchers have combined a mobile projector with a webcam and mobile phone to create a device that draws information from the environment. For example, the gadget recognizes products on store shelves and can provide product and price comparison information. The sixth-sense device was cobbled together from common parts costing just $300. While the gadget is not being primed for mass release, it represents a forward-thinking way of blending technology with our environment."

The Ouroborus 67

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 15, 2009 @02:14PM from the stop-eating dept.

If I could do this I'd never leave the house.

Inside Apple's iPhone SDK Gag Order 495

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 24, 2008 @12:40AM from the the-first-rule-of-iPhone dept.

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Tom Yager takes a closer look at Apple's iPhone SDK confidentiality agreement, which restricts developers from discussing the SDK or exchanging ideas with others, thereby leaving no room for forums, newsgroups, open source projects, tutorials, magazine articles, users' groups, or books. But because anyone is free to obtain the iPhone SDK by signing up for it, Apple is essentially branding publicly available information as confidential. This 'puzzling contradiction' is the 'antithesis of the developer-friendly Apple Developer Connection' on which the iPhone SDK program is based, Yager contends. 'You'll see arguments from armchair legal analysts that the iPhone developer Agreements won't stand up in court — but those analysts certainly won't stand up in court on your behalf.' Anyone planning to launch an iPhone forum or open source project should have 'a lawyer draft your request for exemption, and make sure that the Apple staffer granting it personally commits to status as authorized to approve exceptions to the iPhone Registered Developer and iPhone SDK Agreements,' Yager warns."

Next Generation CPU Refrigerators 154

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @08:50PM from the just-a-little-cold dept.

Iddo Genuth writes "Researchers at Purdue University are developing a miniature refrigeration system, small enough to fit inside laptop computers. According to the researchers, the implementation of miniature refrigeration systems in computers can dramatically increase the amount of heat removed from the microchips, therefore boosting performance while simultaneously shrinking the size of computers."

Comment Why is this a shock? (Score 2, Insightful) 94

by DARKFORCE123 on Thursday December 07, 2006 @07:01PM (#17154310) Attached to: Sun Exec Backs GPLv3

Why would it be a shock that Java is not licensed under the GPLv3? GPLv2 is well understood now in the legal community, and GPLv3 is going to be examined under a fine toothed comb for a long time even after it is published. It could be a long time before you see major software from large companies published under GPLv3 if at all.

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