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With a sexy splash page -- a young woman in short shorts waving her arms before a TV screen -- PrimeSense and hardware maker Asus are inviting consumers to connect with kinetics through Wavi Xtion, a three-dimensional technology that couples cameras, motion sensors, and televisions with personal com...
You'll see the weird, the wacky and the wonderful at this week's CES 2011, in addition to the standard array of bread-and-butter high-tech consumer electronics advances. One of the items to be displayed is what's claimed to be the world's first consumer 3D camera that can recognize gesture-based app...
Nintendo has issued a warning for parents of children under age 6: If you're planning on giving the kid a Nintendo 3DS when the device is released early next year, keep it in 2D mode. The 3DS is a portable video game system capable of displaying 3D games without the use of special glasses. However, ...
Logitech has temporarily stopped ordering the Revue Google TV set-top boxes from its supplier, according to a recent report. The Logitech-branded Revue is a device used to provide users with the Google TV service. Reports that the suspension came at Google's request are making the rounds, but Logite...
This Friday is Black Friday. Well, we could probably call November Black Friday month, since many of the retailers started their discounting efforts last week. There will be an incredible number of deals to be had, based on some of the leaked information from megavendors like Best Buy. I think tha...
OnLive has created an adapter that brings its cloud-based, instant-play video games to the TV -- and it's hoping to attract the whole family, not just the hardcore male gamer, to partake in the action. OnLive is taking orders now for its MicroConsole and an accompanying OnLive Wireless Controller. T...
Google TV and Apple TV would have you believe "...we are now controlling the transmission ... the horizontal and the vertical..." in a pitch scraped straight from the intro to "The Outer Limits." But controlling the transmission, they're not. At least not yet. What viewers have now is an extremely f...
Regardless of which party holds office in the U.S., my true hope is for its success, because I have this twisted view that if we have successful president, we'll have a better quality of life. Unfortunately, both of the U.S. parties seem to be competing as to which can screw up the country more effe...
With U.S. citizens getting shot on U.S. borders -- and the folks investigating them literally losing their heads, with Facebook and Twitter friends using location information to determine when your home is vacant and available for looting, and with the U.S. being named as botnet capital of the world...
Logitech unveiled and demonstrated its Logitech Revue Google TV controller in New York on Wednesday. The device is a box that plugs into a TV sets via an HDMI port, along with a keyboard controller that appears to be about the size of a full-sized PC keyboard. Logitech also offers several accessorie...
Google has announced more content providers for Google TV, which it introduced in May. While many of Google TV's content partners are major names -- HBO, TNT, CNN -- the three major networks, ABC, NBC and CBS, are so far not part of the mix. Turner Broadcasting is optimizing websites for viewing on ...
Toshiba on Monday announced what it claims are the world's first LCD TVs that render three-dimensional images without the need for glasses. The new Glasses-less 3D Regza GL1 series was unveiled at the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies in Tokyo. They use technology similar to that employed...
Samsung may begin building televisions with the Android operating system built in, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Yoon Boo Keun, head of Samsung's TV business line, reportedly said the company is reviewing whether to use Android, an OS more commonly found in various smartphones, in a new line of TV ...
The entire future of a company or industry can hinge on one little deal. The $50,000 IBM paid to license Windows was the foundation for Microsoft and the technology industry for the last couple of decades. Apple's licensing contract with Portal Player to create the iPod was nearly as big -- and ce...
Toshiba has reportedly confirmed it is working on technology for a 3-D television set that won't require viewers to use special glasses. However, details are scant, and the company declined to say when such TVs will hit the market. Toshiba isn't alone in working on technology that will let viewers w...
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