Interactive
Videogame Guru tunes into interactive Music
By John Gaudiosi
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto,
nicknamed the "godfather of videogames," has hit a new note with "Wii Music,"
hoping to attract new players and fulfill his frustrated musical ambitions.
Miyamoto, the creator of hit games like "Mario," "Donkey Kong, and "Nintendogs,"
said "Wii Music" was part of Nintendo's original plan to introduce a casual
audience to gaming with the Wii console, people who might not otherwise play
games.
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Posted on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
TopTechGifts interactive Guide offers Expert Gadget Gift Advice
We partnered with four other technology news sites on a new interactive gift guide that we worked hard on the last couple of weeks. TopTechGifts features the hottest gadgets in the following categories: toys, phones, portable devices, netbooks, cameras, and more.
You can rate the gift tips and provide your insights in the comment section of each gadget gift tip. Each gift tip tells you for whom it is and gives a brief description on why this is a great gift.
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Posted on Wed, 5 Nov 2008 11:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Luminvision Limited Interactive Projection
Luminvision Limited announced that it has updated it ADVIS Interactive Projection System that allows ordinary projectors and computers to display a virtual interactive wall, floor, or other surface. The projection is offered as an interactive advertising medium.
The library of over 100 interactive effects is available and each is configurable to the campaign. Luminvision supplies the software and hardware needed for the system to function. I saw something similar to this at CES in January. It's really cool, the one I saw had fish swimming in a shallow pool. When you stepped on the projection, the fish would swim away and the water would realistically ripple from where you were standing. Read more
Posted on Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:32:20 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
AVerMedia Launches Interactive 1080P HD Visual Presenter
AVerMedia has launched its new AVerVision SPB350 Visual Presenter that has 1080p HD output and 20x optical zoom. The presenter features a five-megapixel camera sensor, interactive software, network sharing capability, and a 4-inch by 3-inch light box.
The device can display documents, 3-D objects, and microscopic images to any multimedia projector, monitor, or TV to enhance visual learning and retention for education and business situations. The camera can display full motion 30 frames per second moving objects with little or no distortion. The device can also be controlled remotely over the network. The presenter is available now for $2499.99. Read more
Posted on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:40:16 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Take-Two Interactive Responds to Electronic Arts Fourth Tender Offer
Take-Two responded today to EA’s fourth unsolicited offer to buy the gaming company. According to Take-Two only 7.9% of all of its outstanding shares were tendered to EA for its fourth purchase offer as of 5pm Eastern Time on June 16, 2008.
Take-Two says that by such a small portion of its investors offering their stock to EA’s fourth proposal that it shows the investors agree with the Take-Two board that EA’s offer still undervalues the company. Read more
Posted on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Red Bull 360-degree interactive Videos surfing Big Waves in Tahiti
The Austrian energy drink Red Bull features a cool new video experience that lets you get an idea of what it is like to surf through a big wave barrel in Tahiti.
You can control angle and zoom during the video as it follows professional big wave surfers riding the dramatic waves of Tahiti's notorious Teahupoo surf break.
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Posted on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:11:56 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
EA & FIFA Sponsor FIFA Interactive World Cup 2008
EA and FIFA are looking for the best virtual soccer player in America with an Interactive World Cup game. The live qualifying event will be held on March 1st in LA. EA says that up to 50 competitors can pre-register for the event and the remaining 78 spots will be filled first come first serve.
The tournament will be held at a GameStop in Universal City, CA. "The FIFA Interactive World Cup is where true world champions are crowned," said Brazilian football icon Ronaldinho. "I am sure the competitors will feel the same excitement as we players do when entering the field at a FIFA World Cup. So don't miss the action leading up to the Grand Final in Berlin, on the 24th of May." Read more
Posted on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:53:02 CST | by Shane McGlaun
EA offers to buy Take-Two Interactive for $2 Billion
Electronic Arts Inc. today announced that it has offered to acquire Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. in an all-cash merger valued at approximately $2.0 billion.
EA's proposal of $26 per share in cash represents a premium of 64 percent over Take-Two's closing stock price on Feb. 15th, the last trading day before EA sent its revised proposal to Take-Two, and a 63 percent premium over Take-Two's 30-day trailing average price over the thirty trading days ending on that date.
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Posted on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:52:07 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Interactive Web Videos clicking with Bands
By Cristina Black
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Indie rock band Arcade Fire recently unveiled the first
video for a song from its sophomore album, "Neon Bible." Set to the record's
title track, the clip -- which launched on the Internet in early October --
allows users to control the movement of images by mousing and clicking.
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Posted on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Google offers unified Approach to Interactive Ads
By Eric Auchard
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc said on Tuesday it is testing a new
interactive service that lets advertisers measure users' responses in advanced
ways using video or images on Google's vast base of affiliated Web sites.
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Posted on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:01:37 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Al Gore collects interactive Emmy for Current TV
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Six months after grabbing Oscar glory for his
eco-documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," former Vice President Al Gore collected
an Emmy Award on Sunday for his fledgling youth-oriented cable network, Current
TV.
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Posted on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Interactive Shell Access on iPhone hacked
The iPhone hacking community managed to gain shell access on the Apple iPhone.
The hack involves connecting via the serial interface of the iPhone and sending some commands to gain shell access on the OS X variant of the iPhone.
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Posted on Sat, 7 Jul 2007 02:36:40 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Samsung Interactive Digital Cable Ready (iDCR) DLP HDTV and HD Set-top Box
Samsung, Time Warner Cable and Advance/Newhouse Communications announce that interactive digital cable services are now live on the Samsung HL-S5686C Open Cable Application Platform (OCAP) compliant DLP HDTV and SMT-H3050 High Definition Set-top Boxes.
The new interactive cable service is currently available in NYC and is supposed to be soon coming to Milwaukee (=beer city).
Time Warner Cable's new interactive cable service includes its OCAP Digital Navigator and its in-house developed Interactive Program Guide. In 2007, Time Warner Cable and Advance/Newhouse Communications will continue to rollout OCAP on Samsung OpenCable products in other divisions of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks.
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Posted on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Logitech Z-10 Interactive Speaker Review
Logitech is starting to bring to market several different peripherals that have touch sensitive controls, like the diNovo Edge and the Z-10 Speakers. The Z-10 connects via USB to your computer so they will work for laptops and desktop systems without the need for a sound card.
The LCD screen on the front of the Z-10 speakers gives you song track info and track playtime. It seems from the review at Everything USB that the speakers lack the deep base that is so crucial in gaming and movie watching, but overall they were well liked. Read more
Posted on Tue, 5 Dec 2006 17:35:54 CST | by Shane McGlaun
CBS Evening News To Go Interactive With Couric
Unless you've been living under a brick, you know that Katie Couric has left her famous position at NBC's morning Today show to host rival network CBS's Evening News program, beginning on September 5. They're clearly trying to breathe some youth into the program, which has most recently been hosted by a 70-something Dan Rather and the ancient relic known as Bob Schieffer.
In the first move of its kind for a network news show, from the very first day that Couric takes the anchor chair, the Evening News will be simulcast on CBS.com, and after airing will be available on demand for free. Upon being available in on demand format, you'll also be able to select individual clips or reports from the program.
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Posted on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Lightspace Interactive LED Dance Floor
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A couple days ago a story about MIT students building their own USB controlled LED Disco Dance Floor appeared. If you do not want to spend your free time connecting 1,536 LEDs there is actually a company selling those things.
Lightspace Corp. sells for instance illuminated interactive graphic display system that are either connected to a sound or lighting system. They also offer pressure sensitive displays to let people interact with the displays. The Lightspace product is a patent pending commercially tested tile system that is waterproof and UL approved. It can support up to 3000lbs of pressure per tile and it made out of UL94 rated Polycarbonate. It comes with a control station that can handle the calculations needed to display interactive games, visual, interactive and sync effects, as well as video and animation. The Lightspace Software allows to control all aspects of the floor: create playlists, set parameters to all the effects, sync to music, handle diagnostics, and create effects on the fly. It supports many types of media including avi, jpg, png, gif, and mpg. All formats can be manipulated to sync to music and be placed into playlists so that the system runs on it’s own. More details on the LightSpace site. |
Posted on Thu, 14 Apr 2005 00:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Interactive Mobile Art Project meshes
Tonight at the Lange Nacht der Museen (Long Night of Museums) in Berlin Interactive Media Artists Chris Wiener and Stefan Plessner perform an interactive experiment (called meshes) using images sent in live via Camera Mobile Phones. Those images are automatically assembled to a movie with a image processing software from french LTU Technologies.
This automatic generated movie is shown live on projection screens in the Filmmuseum Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim and in the Museum für Kommunikation.
Starting at 6pm (GMT+1)tonight (Saturday 28th) the movie is also live to watch at http://www.meshes.org/film.
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Posted on Sat, 28 Aug 2004 02:45:33 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Olympia Interactive TV Coverage with MHP
Olympia fans in Germany, if they have a MHP (Multimedia Home Platform) enabled digital set-top box can watch Olympia coverage on 5 digital channels and access interactive additional data on screen.
Four channels provide nearly full coverage of everthing that goes on in Athens. The 5th channel provides interactive access to all the results and schedules.
To see how the interactive TV experience of the Olympics looks like see this video on ARD.de german TV station's site.
MHP boxes are made by several manufactures including Humax, Nokia, Panasonic and Philips. Those digital TV boxes sell for around 200-400 Euros. The digital TV signal is available through cable or satellite in Germany.
News Tip by Chris.
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Posted on Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:41:56 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Nokia's Interactive Visual Radio
Nokia will present in Cannes at this years MIDEM Conference, the year's biggest music market, their Visual Radio functionality.
Visual radio is an innovation that Nokia intends to bring to its basic mobile handsets in the course of this year, replacing the standard FM-radio that is packaged with some models.
Currently only the Nokia 7700 Media Terminal Phone slated for release in Q2/2004 has this features. The service provides interactivity for the user to directly interact with radio stations. additionally radio stations can push visual ads to the user during radio broadcast.
More details on Finish Newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.
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Posted on Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:28:42 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
RFID Wearable Smart Badge from nTag Interactive
We reported about wearable personal smart badgets technology before: CharmBadget and InfoBadge.
nTag Interactive seems to be the most sophisticated solution that actually is available on the market.
nTag's solution provides the wearable tags, the radio system, and the central server. Users interact with the tags through the LCD displays and through the three control buttons. The tags interact with each other through an infrared connection.
nTAGs communicate with the central server through the radio system, which uses RFID.
The central server holds the master copy of all the participant profile data. One of the features is that the badges display which interests two users have in common when their badges are in contact via the infra-red interface.
nTAG Interactive, LLC was started by Rick Borovoy and George Eberstadt based on Mr. Borovoy's PhD research at the MIT MediaLab, in collaboration with Brian Silverman, Fred Martin and Professor Mitchel Resnick.
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Posted on Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:23:53 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
GRID WARS INTERACTIVE Opens - Championship at SC2003
Engineered Intelligence Corporation (EI) today announced a new version of the popular GRID WARS parallel programming challenge, where competing programs written in CxC (“C by C”) fight for survival of the fittest in a grid of processors, will be held live in EI’s Booth #2019 at the SC2003 Conference in Phoenix, November 18-21. HP and Microsoft are sponsoring “GRID WARS Interactive” and are providing the computing platform and prizes.
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Posted on Mon, 20 Oct 2003 21:35:54 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
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