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Screens
Microsoft Research Demos Touchless, Transparent Glass Display
11:51PM Rosa Golijan | Microsoft’s research division is doing tours across university campuses and rather than turning them into snoozefests they’re showing off an incredibly prototype. It’s a clear glass display which accepts input through voice control, touchless gestures, pen and eye-tracking. More »
Software
Video: Concept Symbian UI Blends AR Maps, Social Networking
1:12AM Danny Allen | The flashy concept was shown at the Symbian Foundation’s SEE 2009 keynote last month and actually looks pretty cool. But is it too little too late? More »
Software
HTC’s “Virtual Book” UI Patent Could Be Sense UI’s Successor
4:30AM Chris Jacob | HTC’s new UI patent that “organises applications, widgets, and web pages into pages of a virtual book” may “borrow” a few ideas from Palm, but it’s cool with me. I’m all for a snazzier version of Pre’s card system. More »
Entertainment
3:56PM Nick Broughall | If you own a TiVo, you’ll probably notice a slight change happening over the next week or so, as the option to “Watch TV” is twisted to instead say “Watch Freeview”. Confusion FTW!! More »
TiVo Now Pushing The Freeview Mantra
3:56PM Nick Broughall | If you own a TiVo, you’ll probably notice a slight change happening over the next week or so, as the option to “Watch TV” is twisted to instead say “Watch Freeview”. Confusion FTW!! More »
Gadgets
You Can Tell This Coffee Maker To Do Anything But Make Coffee
4:20AM Mark Wilson | Here’s a fantastic idea for a product: A coffee maker that responds to voice commands…just not a voice command to “make me some freaking coffee!” More »
Software
UBar Makes Mac OS X Into A Windows Transvestite
6:20AM Jesus Diaz | uBar is an application that adds a Windows task bar to Mac OS X. Why? No, seriously, WHY? More »
Phones
Mid-Range HTC Mega Screens Have A Whiff Of Sense
6:00AM Jack Loftus | It’s a tale of two phone UIs this afternoon. First we saw Samsung’s whizzed up Omnia II doing what it does, and now a bevy of HTC Mega shots have surfaced too. More »
Phones
HTC Hero’s Sense UI Comes to iPhone as a Jailbroken Theme
11:57AM Dan Nosowitz | Have a jailbroken iPhone but long for the exciting new Sense UI seen on the HTC Hero? A new theme brings Sense to the iPhone, though the skin is, unfortunately, only skin-deep. More »
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