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  • Leap: Minority Report interface finally happens

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    Rubens Saintel
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    Leap is the future of interaction with computers unless Microsoft Kinect captures the PC market first with motion control. The Leap creates an eight cubic foot space that you can interact with.  Leap Motion claims that the device is “200 times more sensitive than existing touch-free products and technologies.”  Thus it can be used on any…

  • XBMC: Now on iPad

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    Rubens Saintel
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    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nrKJd5jeMU] XBMC is now available as a jailbreak app for the iPad and iPhone 4. XBMC an open source media center application  that  runs on almost every OS. It is on Linux, OSX, Windows. The iPad version also offers full hardware accelerated video playback and network access to media. The iPhone 4  is not ready for…

  • Nook Color gets over clocked

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    Rubens Saintel
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    1st  Ubuntu was ported to the Nook Color and now hackers at the XDA Developers have overclocked  it to run at speeds up to 1GHz. The custom kernel ups the speed of the CPU while running it at a lower voltage, which means longer battery life. The system became unstable at the 1GHz level, but there…