After its failed Google TV venture, Intel is reportedly working on a set-top box for a new TV service that would allow it to broadcast targeted ads based on facial recognition. The technology will apparently stop short of identifying individuals, but could provide information such as age and...
Intel inside your living room?
Quirky, a crowd-sourced product design foundry, and GE have worked together to create the Milkmaid, a milk jug that automatically detects when your milk has gone bad or run out and alerts you via its iPhone app. While simple in concept, the...
Dolby recently announced its new multidirectional Atmos audio platform for theaters, and while we're still not sure exactly when it'll launch we've at least heard specifics on where. There'll be 20 movie theaters worldwide capable of supporting Atmos during the initial rollout, with further private locations such as Skywalker Sound and various Dolby offices.
The new Dolby Theatre (formerly the...
Steve Jobs famously called the Apple TV a "hobby," but his successor Tim Cook seems to be slowly turning that ship around. At the D10 conference this evening, he said that the Apple TV is "an area of intense interest for us." While Cook wouldn't answer a direct question about whether the company is building a full television set, he seemed to hint strongly that Apple's interest is an active one:
I think most people, maybe not all, but many people would say this is an area in their life they’re not really pleased with. You know, they might not be pleased with many things about it. The whole TV experience. So, it’s an interesting area, so we’ll have to see what we do.
According to Cook, the Apple TV set-top box has actually seen dramatically increased interest this year, selling 2.7 million in just the first few months of the year,...
"I would say most people would say this is not an area in their life that they're pleased with." Apple CEO Tim Cook
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Smart TVs are all the rage, and upgrade systems for ordinary televisions aren't all that uncommon. The Pocket TV Kickstarter project, however, is somewhat different. It's essentially a small computer with an HDMI output that lets it connect to newer televisions or other screens. It runs Android...
Haptic feedback is a given in gaming controllers, but Artificial Muscle, Inc. is taking its ViviTouch haptic feedback technology and putting it into an entirely different class of products: headphones. We visited the company here at E3 and were...
Artificial Muscle, Inc. is demonstrating headphones equipped with its ViviTouch haptic feedback technology here at E3, and we took a listen.
