Xerox shows off Smart Document Review table, a Surface that sifts through billions of docs (video)
December 20, 2010 No Comment
You have a lot of documents you’ve acquired over the years, hundreds or thousands in some semblance of order thanks to folders and whatnot. Now, imagine taking the output from hundreds or thousands of others, all with their own ideas about organization, and finding only those pages relevant to a certain topic. That’s what legal aides have to do in cases where a major corporation is being investigated, and we’re thinking that’s a major target market for Xerox ‘s Smart Document Review. It’s a prototype touchscreen table that enables users to collaboratively filter documents, starting by indexing a giant pool and then allowing for the creation of “magnets” that contain keywords or other heuristics and dynamically pull out matches, all happening courtesy of animations that look only slightly less sophisticated than those seen in Hackers . Search results can then be dumped to a thumb drive. The prototype table dates back to earlier this year, but Xerox is now making them available as part of a pilot program exclusively for trendy law offices with unisex bathrooms. [Thanks, Pradeep ] Continue reading Xerox shows off Smart Document Review table, a Surface that sifts through billions of docs (video) Xerox shows off Smart Document Review table, a Surface that sifts through billions of docs (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Severe winter weather was wreaking havoc with travel in Europe ahead of the Christmas holiday. Delays and cancellations were affecting flights, particularly in Britain. (Dec. 20)
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Image Credit Nickgraywfu Creative Commons Via Calorielab we learn of yet another thing that makes you fat: eating at your desk. It appears that when you are not paying attention to your food, you eat more and remember less…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Snow cancels Lady Gaga concert in Paris; ‘Tron: Legacy’ is No. 1 at the box office with a $43.6M debut; Betty White named AP Entertainer of the Year. (Dec. 20)
Continue reading …Two Kinects join forces to make 3D telepresence, enable virtual light saber battles (video)
December 20, 2010 No Comment
UC Davis’s Oliver Kreylos has been responsible for two of our most impressive Kinect hacks yet. He was one of the first to get proper 3D video out of the thing, following that up by pairing up two of the cameras , one to fill in the gaps of the other. You might have thought he was just playing around but no — oh no. There was a method to the madness and his ulterior motive has been revealed: 3D telepresence. This is what he’s been working on all along and he has an early version operational, using the output from two Kinects in a remote office to beam a 3D representation of another person to his display, which he can navigate around (and through) using a Wiimote . Meanwhile, the viewer can see the position of Oliver in real-time, a virtual camera floating around and enabling them to maintain eye contact despite her not actually looking at either physical camera. That demonstration is embedded after the break along with a somewhat fanciful follow-up in which Kreylos engages in a rather… protracted lightsaber battle against the forces of evil. Continue reading Two Kinects join forces to make 3D telepresence, enable virtual light saber battles (video) Two Kinects join forces to make 3D telepresence, enable virtual light saber battles (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Proven weight loss supplements include some meal replacement bars and shakes, as well as fiber and green tea extract. Find out what weight loss experts have to say about diet supplements.
Continue reading …Apple looking to hire iOS navigation engineers, first test is to find way around One Infinite Loop
December 20, 2010 No Comment
Is Apple looking to take it to Google and its uppity Maps app? That certainly looks to be the case, with AppleInsider noticing that the company has four new job listings which specify “Computational Geometry or Graph Theory” and “experience developing navigation software” as “valuable knowledge.” The obvious implications here are that Apple’s looking to craft first-party, full-fledged, turn-by-turn navigation and bring it to its GPS-equipped devices, but maybe the company’s previous new hires simply got lost a lot and this is just an attempt to nip that problem in the bud. Either way, the software job market just improved by four. Giddy up, coders. [Image credit: Nurimb ] Apple looking to hire iOS navigation engineers, first test is to find way around One Infinite Loop originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Some swear a supplement or two can get sexual desire sizzling again — but what do the studies show?
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Bruce McCall in New York Times; See full cartoon here Bruce McCall lives in New York City and evidently drives everywhere. His volley in the War on the Car was in the Sunday New York Times and although he may be the funniest thing to come out of Canada since Wayne and Shuster , he did not amuse everyone. @tombvanderbilt tweeted “Bruce McCall is 75… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …NASA Green Flight Challenge proposes ‘pocket airports,’ invites you to fly ‘em all
December 20, 2010 No Comment
Soon we’ll be hopping on a jet plane, heading to Vegas, living the life, playing with gadgets, and not getting a lot of sleep. Flying to Nevada for CES on a plane is easy, but getting to the airport can be a challenge if you live out in the country. NASA wants that fixed as a sort of spin-off of its Green Flight Challenge, a prize awarded to an aerial vehicle that can manage 200mpg at 100mph while emitting only 78db of noise at 250 feet. It would also need a very short takeoff and landing, something that would allow it to land on what’s being called a “pocket airport.” These rinky-dink runways would fit on just two acres of land and would launch or receive an (ultimately autonomous) aircraft every 30 seconds. The idea is that such strips could be scattered about suburban areas and provide quick, convenient shuttling to real airports and, presumably, to other pocket airports. Now, we wonder, will we still need to empty our pockets before boarding? NASA Green Flight Challenge proposes ‘pocket airports,’ invites you to fly ‘em all originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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