York Rhymes With Pork

Alright, I'm planning on making this a daily affair, at least when it's possible so here we go...

• A New Kind of Interaction

This amazing new technology is developed by a company called Tactiva. It uses a video camera to see your hand movements. it then puts them as a see-thru layer on top of everything else you see on the screen, but it makes them as unobtrusive as possible so that you can still see what is underneath and not be distracted by what your hands are doing. It is aimed at those who need to be the most efficiant on their computer. They call the technology the TactaPad with the slogan "See...Touch...Feel". The site says that the TactaPad WILL support both the Macs OSX and Windows, even though only OSX is shown in thier videos. Unfortuanatly this product hasn't been mass produced as of yet. The company is looking for some one to license the product and bring it into the market. You must, MUST take a look at these demos to see what you can really do with the TactaPad, you should probably watch the Smaller size videos unless you have Broadband or High Speed internet, otherwise the load time is massive. Unfortuanatly this will reign somewhere in the $1000 price range once it comes to the market.

• Microsoft Store?

Seems like Microsoft has finally decided to jump on the retail store bandwagon...It seems that they are looking for real estate in New Yorks Times Square. While there are a number of different theories on what they will be selling in their store I think that the most likely one is that they will be selling Xbox 360 systems, gamies and headsets, controllers etc.

• Chinese Game Time Limit

For those of you that don't already know, the Chinese Government has stated that all gamers that play MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games) can only play for 3 hours at a time and then wait another 5 hours before playing again. Quite a few gamers find this unjust as you just get going when your 3 hours is up. Of course the Chinese Governments reasoning behind this is over the fact that many people have died while playing these games because they go to long without drinking, eating, or going to the washroom. Chinese gamers have started this petition to stop the time ban on their favorite games, except instead of signing with their real names, they use their gamertags. Of course unless you have a Chinese language plug-in most of the letters will turn up as ????????, and so on and so forth.

• Talk Nerdy To Me...

This is a neat little translator that lets you translate English into Binary, Hex or Octal. It's neat...try it out...(The link goes directly to the binary translater, go to the others by clicking on each of the links on the page)




York DOES rhyme with Pork...there's no denying this.