Microsoft IllumiRoom not be ready before the launch of the new Xbox

Microsoft presented a conceptual shows IllumiRoom at CES 2013 which took place in January. What makes this system is to use a projector combined with the popular Kinect sensor to give users a gaming experience never seen before. IllumiRoom extends the game beyond the screen and scan around the room through the Kinect to create a map digital around us. Several images and things are projected around the room thanks to the projector. An example: if during the game you go through a level at which it is snowing, IllumiRoom be projected snow fall throughout the room.

Yesterday they said the technology could be ready IllumiRoom when the new Xbox is released (on end of year), but it seems this will not. Brett Jones and Hrvoje Benko, two researchers from Microsoft, have said that the product is not yet ready, but at least have made it work correctly in some tests. They said maybe it could be presented in July, but it is likely that the final release will not take place this year.
We have a video for you take a look at IllumiRoom:

 

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iPhone 5 vs Galaxy S IV: which resists most?

n recent days we saw a video about the high resistance that the Galaxy S IV has to scratches on your screen, but now we'll see something different. This is what many have been waiting, a test of falls among the Galaxy S IV of Samsung and iPhone 5 of Apple \.
The S IV phone is a great and very nice full of all sorts of functions, but how tough can it be? Its predecessor, the Galaxy S III, did not go over well during the drop tests against the iPhone 5. How will fare to the new Galaxy in against from his arch-rival? Well, somebody has decided to find out.
An official English portal has decided to test the famous drops to concrete from various heights. All has been recorded by a total of three cameras : one that bears him, a GoPro located on the floor, and the camera same the mobile which is falling. And how did it go? Well both smartphones resisted the falls standard from the height of pocket and chest without too drawbacks. Things got more interesting when the falls began to be from above of the head.
Want to find out what was the big winner? Then look at the video below and discover the outcome for yourself, we do not want to ruin the surprise.

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OS X 10.9 will be very inspired in iOS

As happens every year, during these months begin to arise very many rumors about Apple and its various products. Not only approximates the annual conference of the apple (which will take place in June), but also is expected to new devices and software are introduced into the coming months.
The launch of the new version of Mac OS X, which is the 10.9 expected for the last quarter of this year. The operating system, of codename "Cabernet", not only be very inspired on the mobile platform iOS, but also will incorporate many of their functions.
Among the updates expected for Mac OS X 10.9 we have:
-An update for Finder. Add labels and tabbed browsing.
-In a monitor can run a app in full screen and see the desktop in another.
-Safari will receive several upgrades that will make it faster, stable and secure.
Is further said to OS X 10.9 will integrate a very important function: Siri, the known voice assistant Apple.
With all this, no question that Mac OS X will become a operating system more than complete.
Tell us: what is what most expect from the new update of OS X? What technology would you like to make?

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New advancement of GRID in February

GRID 2, sequel to the known Race Driver: GRID, is an imminent videojuego car racing which is currently in his last stages of development and will be released very soon. Codemasters is handling of create the game, while publication of the same go by Codemasters Southam.
GRID 2 may be pre-ordered from the May 6 and the final release will occur at the end of the month. It will be available for both PS3 and Xbox 360 and PC.
Not much info about the game for now, but what is known is that will include several real world locations. We run our favorite car on circuits in cities like Abu Dhabi, Paris, also in some of the United States and in several other countries. There will a great variety of cars to choose, as we will have models of until 40 years ago behind. Additionally, GRID 2 will have a new management system that Codemasters called "TrueFeel", and which they say give it a good dose of reality to the game. Also announced that has been removed mode first person, since practically not is used and see no need of developing it.

Here below can see a new breakthrough for GRID 2:

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Asus and Acer Chromebooks launch new this year

 

Chromebooks are equipments very varied. Most of these portable are of range low or midrange, but also there some of range high as the Chromebook Pixel of Google. If you are looking for the search engine company is to dominate the market for portable , need all the help of its partners to achieve, so they are expecting more notebooks for this year. According fountains forming part of the chain of suppliers of Google, both Asus as Acer have plans to l anzar new Chromebooks during the current 2013.
Los details on the new model of Asus are really scarce, only know it will be launched during the third or last quarter of year. Regarding the Acer seems to have a 11.6-inch screen and will go on sale in July.
In these teams just are in the early stages of development and still no specifications for how to be, but what is expected is entering the field of mid-range notebooks and be sold at a very reasonable price, which is not does the Chromebook pixel Google.
Recall also that Lenovo and HP are also looking at the possibility of creating their own Chromebooks, so the picture is quite interesting. 

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New Lenovo ThinkPad S431: laptop cheap, well equipped and with screen touch

Lenovo just announced its latest addition to sector notebooks, it comes to the new Lenovo ThinkPad S431, that runs with Windows 8 and has what necessary to get all the juice to known operating system Microsoft. The ThinkPad S431 is equipped with a multi-touch capable of opening up to 180 degrees. The keyboard possesses backlight and hotkeys for Windows 8, but also we see that there a touchpad a little bigger than normal, which always good.
The screen on the ThinkPad S431 measures 14 inches and features a resolution of 1600 × 900 pixels. A level hardware internal have not been given many details, but we know that take one of the last processors Intel, also will feature up 8GB of RAM and the storage is in charge of a 500GB hard drive. Additionally, allows connect to ThinkPad OneLink Dock (an accessory) making use of a single cable.
The Lenovo ThinkPad S431 goes on sale in June. Your price will be about $ 700, but as always this can vary from one market to another.

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New system lets you test fully interactive virtual garment

Leaving a store with a lot of clothes is something undeniably great, especially for women, but what most people do not like to do when buying clothes is to have to try them all. It's something that can get very tedious, serious, but also something that in the future we will not have to re-do.Why? Because there are systems that allow us to see how we have a certain garment, and a revolutionary system of this type has just been introduced in Japan.

Premiered by the company Digital Fashion Co. , Active Labs allows visitors to register different types of virtual clothing with which you can interact. It is not simply superimpose the garment to us, but we can make a complete interaction with the garment in question. We can move it around and even rotate 360 degrees to see how we have from all angles.

The user can also switch between a garment and another with just a wave of his hand, ie not even need to touch a screen to prove otherwise.

Still do not know when we will start to see this technology in the fashion stores, but hopefully will be soon.

In the video below you can see the system Active Labs in action:

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Morephone, a new type of phone Flexible

It is said that in the future smartphones will eventually evolve into watches or a sort of bracelet.From here, we hope that something will not happen, but what we are waiting, and eager also are mobile flexible. Next you will see the world's largest mobile amorphous, and one of the few that is able to fold itself: the Morephone .

Instead of sounding like any typical mobile, which makes this small is doubled each time you receive a text message or a call. How was it that did this type of phone? Because of the missed calls. Many times it is normal to place your terminal in silence and then forget that we have left as well, which leads us to lose a lot of calls and see some fun messages late. To solve these problems there  Morephone.

What Morephone does is, as we said, bending every time we get a message or a call comes. If you see something wriggling on your desktop, definitely catch your attention, but if the phone is silent and above that is still, it will be more difficult for our attention, although the function of vibrator is another story.

For now Morephone is just a prototype, so it will not be ready soon.

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