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Today in Tech; 3/19
By Oliver Rist | March 19, 2007, 9:46 am
- CeBit weirdness: 3D monitors. Will this 3D thing never end? Now cooling maker, Zalman is introing a set of 19- and 22-inch 3D-capable flat displays. You can switch between 3D and 2D modes, but you’ll need the goofy glasses to see 3D. Arg. (Source: Engadget)
- More CeBit weirdness: Thought-controlled interface. Remember Clint firing missiles by thinking in Russian during Firefox? The early version was being demoed in a remote corner of the CeBit show floor most of last week. (Source: ComputerWorld Australia via Slashdot)
- Huge piles of CeBit weirdness. Gadgets, gadgets galore. Keyboards with OLED screens on each key, watercooled video cards, new digi-photo frames and displays that hook to PCs over USB rather than a video port. And that’s just some of it. (Source: InfoWorld)
- Google confirms Google-phone. Yet another example of innovation by bandwagon-envy. Everyone loves Jobs’ iPhone, so instead of thinking up something new, the Googlers are going to come out with their own phone. Big exec in Europe just confirmed it. (Source: Ars Technica via Geeks Are Sexy)
- Adobe shows early peek at Apollo. And that would be the code name for Adobe’s new run-time environment. Apollo is special because it will let programmers build apps that’ll run both on- and off-line. Supposedly going to give Java and the other online-only development environments a real run for their money. The alpha version is downloadable now, aimed mainly at programmers. (Source: CNET)
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