Yes, you read that right: Amazon will soon be taking on the iPad 2 with an Android Kindle tablet. Don’t believe us? Read on, and see the evidence stack up…
April, 2011
Here’s a Kinect hack that could seriously perk up boring work meetings. The Kinect conference system adds gesture controls to video conferencing and some other nifty features. When people taking part in a Kinect conference speak, the system can recognise who is talking and focus the camera on them while blurring the background.
It also adds context bubbles to show the speaker’s name, documents they’re shared and how long they’ve been speaking. Gesture controls include the ability to freeze frame yourself so you appear static while the rest of the image continues to move and a gesture to make yourself disappear for privacy. You can see Kinect conference in action after the break…
We’re big fans of the Elgato EyeTV app for iPhone and iPad and it’s just got better. Elgato has released EyeTV 1.2.3 and added AirPlay support to the £2.99 app which works with Elgato hardware like the Elgato EyeTV Netstream DTT hooked up to your Mac or PC.
With AirPlay baked-in, the EyeTV app can sling both live and recorded TV from your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad to an Apple TV or third-party receiver with AirPlay support. That’s extremely handy indeed.
Out now | £2.99 | iTunes
It sounds great doesn’t it? A cartridge that you can slip into your analogue camera to turn it into a digital camera. But while plenty of gadget sites have trumpeted the RE-35 SLR upgrade as the real deal solution for reviving retro cameras, it’s actually a big old set up.
Despite the slick site and the seemingly serious talk of being able to pull the sensor out to take the place of old school film and grab images from the cartridge via USB, it’s a gag. We got suspicious when we noted that it claimed to cram in USB, flash memory and more into the tiny cartridge. Camera fans, you’ve been punked!
Remember the Sony Ericsson Xperia 10 Mini Pro? Well a successor to the excessively lengthily-named Android blower appears to have bounced into view in China…
Nikon has outed a brand new DSLR and boy it’s got some interesting features. The Nikon D5100 has the usual stuff you’d expect (a 16.2MP sensor, a rotating LCD screen and 1080p video recording) but there’s some surprises in the specs list.
Nikon has stuck a curious monochrome night vision mode into the Nikon D5100 that kicks the sensor from 100-6400 ISO to 102,400. Read on for more spec joy…
The James Dyson Award 2011 has opened for entries with a call from the man himself for inventive ideas that take on every day frustrations. James Dyson says: “We want entrants to put faith in frustrations and solve the problems that cause them. We’re looking for people who rather than accept a problem and make do, design a simple and effective solution.”
This years James Dyson Award competition runs until August 2 2011 and is open to university level students of product design, industrial design and engineering. The winner will receive £10,000 to develop their invention and £10,000 for their university. Read on to be inspired by previous James Dyson Award winners and to hear from James Dyson himself…
Jump starting your week on this fine Tuesday morning, it’s your US Update. News on Google’s upcoming I/O event are breaking headlines — the big news is that Android Ice Cream could end Android fragmentation for good. We check out a video of Android Honeycomb running on an original Galaxy Tab and then drop details on Sony’s Android tablet. This and more on today’s US Update.