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Performance tests with the MacBook Pro at Lifehacker.

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“Light Touch™ is an interactive projector that instantly transforms any flat surface into a touch screen. It frees multimedia content from the confines of the small screen, allowing users to interact with that content just as they do on their hand held devices – using multi-touch technology.

Light Touch™ has Holographic Laser Projection (HLP™) technology inside which creates bright, high-quality video images in WVGA resolution. Integrated infrared sensors detect motion and turn the projected image into a 10.1″ virtual touch screen, so the user can control the projector and … Read More → "Turn any surface into a touch screen"

…or if you do, at least it won’t be the fault of these cool new 3D specs by Oakley.  

They eliminate crosstalk and distortion, and are billed as the first optically correct 3D glasses.

More info here at Oakley

via uncrate

“The authorities led by President Serzh Sarkisian, an enthusiastic supporter of the game, have committed around $1.43 million to the scheme – a large sum in the impoverished but chess-mad country.

Children from the age of six will learn chess as a separate subject on the curriculum for two hours a week.

Aivazian said the lessons, which start later this year, … Read More → "In Armenia, chess is now a mandatory subject in school"

You can record pretty good audio on an iPhone or iPad, but if you’re a more serious vocalist (or podcaster), the audio features will eventually feel too restrictive.  

Check out the VocaLive app ($20 on Apple). It’s gives you 12 effects including Pitch Fix, Choir, Morph, Reverb, Phazer, and Delay. You can also import songs to sing along with, or remove the vocals from a track and insert your own. A single-track recorder is … Read More → "Hi-fi audio for your car karaoke"

This is an interesting essay by Chris Mooney about the psychology of science denial–and denial in general.

via Discovery Blog
Source Mother Jones

Altera just announced today that they’ve set an industry milestone in semiconductor technology by delivering the most transistors ever on an integrated circuit. Altera’s 28-nm Stratix® V FPGAs are the industry’s first devices to feature 3.9 billion transistors.

“Altera surpassed the known record for transistors when it taped out Stratix V FPGAs at the end of 2010,” said Bradley Howe, vice president of IC engineering at Altera. “Maintaining the rapid pace set by Moore’s Law has allowed programmable logic to remain … Read More → "3.9 billion transistors on one chip"

“How worried should we be about the technology that pervades our daily lives, from the wireless router at home to our car to our smartphones to even, believe it or not, the chip we inserted into Fido?”

Read the rest of Chris O’Brien’s article here.