http://community.research.microsoft.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?q=app:weblogs&tag=Uncategorized&orTags=0&o=DateDescendingSearch results for 'app:weblogs' matching tag 'Uncategorized'en-USCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/trends/archive/2009/10/30/real-vs-virtual-drivers.aspxFri, 30 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMTeaca9afb-5ccf-4c08-b3f3-369c7e6f1a06:7257AnonymousVideo gamers to play for ‘real’ “Real Time Race has been developing a system that places players side-by-side with the drivers in real races. The firm’s technology would map the circuit just before the race so the virtual track would match up to the one on TV. The video recording of the track would then [...]http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/trends/archive/2009/10/30/picking-colours.aspxFri, 30 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMTeaca9afb-5ccf-4c08-b3f3-369c7e6f1a06:7258AnonymousColorJive Helps Visualize Room Colors Before Painting “Upload a picture of your room—an evenly lit photo works best—and begin applying colors from the available palette. You can use the enormous palette from COLOURLovers to access a nearly infinite color palette, though you may have a little trouble replicating it at your local home improvement store. [...]http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/trends/archive/2009/10/30/small-focussed-print-runs.aspxFri, 30 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMTeaca9afb-5ccf-4c08-b3f3-369c7e6f1a06:7259AnonymousNew lease of life for newspapers “The Newspaperclub team, all of whom have backgrounds working online, are creating a website that will allow people to design and print small runs of newspapers. The newspapers themselves will be printed at existing commercial presses. “This is actual physical stuff which for digital people is really exciting,” says [...]http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/trends/archive/2009/10/30/light-efficiency.aspxFri, 30 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMTeaca9afb-5ccf-4c08-b3f3-369c7e6f1a06:7260AnonymousWrapping Solar Cells around an Optical Fiber “The advantage of a fiber-optic solar-cell system over a planar one is that light bounces around inside an optical fiber as it travels along its length, providing more opportunities to interact with the solar cell on its inner surface and producing more current. “For a given real estate, [...]http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/trends/archive/2009/10/30/controlling-electrons.aspxFri, 30 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMTeaca9afb-5ccf-4c08-b3f3-369c7e6f1a06:7261AnonymousNew spintronics breakthrough paves the way to faster computing “A team of researchers from the University of Cincinnati have achieved control of the spin of electrons traveling on a wire by simply regulating an electrical voltage. This is a major milestone in the brief history of spintronics, the emerging technology that uses the spin of [...]http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/trends/archive/2009/10/30/random-messaging.aspxFri, 30 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMTeaca9afb-5ccf-4c08-b3f3-369c7e6f1a06:7262AnonymousI Hope That Someone Gets My Tweet In A Bottle “Once you fill out and cast away your tweet, it goes into 140inABottle’s system for the next 1 to 90 days. That’s the key; just like a message in a bottle in the sea, the tweet won’t be delivered immediately, but rather at a random [...]http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/trends/archive/2009/10/30/photo-translation.aspxFri, 30 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMTeaca9afb-5ccf-4c08-b3f3-369c7e6f1a06:7263AnonymousPicTranslator Turns Your iPhone’s Camera into a Language Translator “You just take a picture of the text you want translated, choose the language you want to translate from, and let PicTranslator work its magic. Once you know the (hopefully correct) translation, you can even ask PicTranslator to help you pronounce the foreign-language version.”   Lifehacker http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/trends/archive/2009/10/30/personal-space.aspxFri, 30 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMTeaca9afb-5ccf-4c08-b3f3-369c7e6f1a06:7264AnonymousFuturistic workspace looks like a dinosaur egg “Do you like to block the world out completely when you’re working at your desk? Copenhagen-based design team GamFratesi has created a prototype for a sleek, dinosaur egg-like work environment that they call Rewrite.”  Boing Boing http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/trends/archive/2009/10/30/your-own-wall-drawing-robot.aspxFri, 30 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMTeaca9afb-5ccf-4c08-b3f3-369c7e6f1a06:7265AnonymousThe Muralizer Draws Art on Your Wall Automatically “You plug it into your computer and load it up with the vector art of your choosing, hang it up on a string on the surface you want to draw on, and let it do its things. If it’s sold as a kit, it’ll be a couple [...]http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/trends/archive/2009/10/30/wall-control.aspxFri, 30 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMTeaca9afb-5ccf-4c08-b3f3-369c7e6f1a06:7266AnonymousInteractive Wallpaper: The Living Wall Project “Magnetic and conductive paint on the surface of the wallpaper combined with touch sensors, LED’s and Bluetooth technology will allow users to touch decorative elements of the wall to turn on lamps, adjust heating or activate a stereo.”  PSFK