Instead of displaying plain old windows, the new 3D user interface elements will be able to scale, rotate, and be manipulated with ease. The Windows Presentation Foundation uses DirectX to take advantage of your 3D graphics hardware to convert the...
Remote control cameras, flat screen monitors and videoconferencing - not what you'd expect to find in a teaching kitchen. But in Lewisham College's interactive kitchen theatre - dubbed the 'eKitchen' - classes are filmed on motorised cameras which...
Underneath the roughly textured scratch-proof and spill-proof surface covering the top of the unit, five infrared cameras sense fingers or other objects touching the surface, while a DLP projector turned on its side generates the screen image...
Longhorn is built around three major advances - a new graphics and presentation engine known as Avalon, a new communications architecture known as Indigo, and a new file system known as WinFS that borrows from Microsoft's relational database...
Software developers are angry that Microsoft has been granted a patent for the conversion of objects into XML files. As applications will often need to convert between programming objects and XML files, this patent could cover virtually any...
The idea is that, over multimedia mobile devices from companies such as, er, Nokia, we will not only listen to music but read info on it, enjoy psychedelic graphics, maybe even buy tracks online at that point.
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