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Tag Archives: Hardware
Thursday, November 18th, 2010

I’ve been busy hacking around with Kinect, the Xbox 360 “controllerless controller” I’ve been writing a lot about recently. Yesterday I got it up and running under Ubuntu, and after that I got a very simple “nearest object” algorithm running on it. Check out the videos below! Also – the code.

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Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Following up from the exclusive Kinect videos last week, here is the unboxing of the Kinect device just hours after it launched in the UK. I’ve had a bit of a play and it is brilliant, but there are all kinds of gameplay and action videos in store for you so I won’t spoil the [...]

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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

On Sunday night, the SD card in my phone became corrupt when I plugged it in to my PC (I don’t know why) – but that’s a story for another day. It was when I was fixing it that I realised about how Windows, in the past 5 or 6 years, has moved gradually into [...]

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Monday, August 16th, 2010

I was thinking the other day about how I use the iPad, Nexus One, netbook, MacBook, desktop PC and so on together. I found it strange how I could accept iOS 3′s restrictions on the iPad, but when I tried to use an iPhone I found myself constantly annoyed about being unable to perform the [...]

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Monday, June 14th, 2010

Windows Phone 7 has been quietly bubbling away in the background for the past few weeks with Android’s Froyo update and iPhone 4 laying waste to any big news about the platform. But I’ve been keeping my eye on what’s been going on, and have been interested to hear on a few developments that have [...]

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