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Name of Product:

Microsoft Surface™

Category:

Surface computing

Product Overview:

Surface is the first commercially available surface computer from Microsoft Corp. It turns an ordinary tabletop into a vibrant, interactive surface. The product provides effortless interaction with digital content through natural gestures, touch and physical objects. In essence, it’s a surface that comes to life for exploring, learning, sharing, creating, buying and much more. Soon to be available in restaurants, hotels, retail establishments and public entertainment venues, this experience will transform the way people shop, dine, entertain and live.

Description:

Surface is a 30-inch display in a table-like form factor that’s easy for individuals or small groups to interact with in a way that feels familiar, just like in the real world. Surface can simultaneously recognize dozens and dozens of movements such as touch, gestures and actual unique objects that have identification tags similar to bar codes.

Surface will ship to partners with a portfolio of basic applications, including photos, music, virtual concierge and games, that can be customized to provide their customers with unique experiences.

Surface Computing:

Surface computing breaks down traditional barriers between people and technology, changing the way people interact with all kinds of everyday content, from photos to maps to menus. The intuitive user interface works without a traditional mouse or keyboard, allowing people to interact with content and information by using their hands and natural movements. Users are able to access information either on their own or collaboratively with their friends and families, unlike any experience available today. Surface computing features four key attributes:

• Direct interaction. Users can actually “grab” digital information with their hands and interact with content through touch and gesture, without the use of a mouse or keyboard.
• Multi-touch contact. Surface computing recognizes many points of contact simultaneously, not just from one finger as with a typical touch screen, but up to dozens and dozens of items at once.
• Multi-user experience. The horizontal form factor makes it easy for several people to gather around surface computers together, providing a collaborative, face-to-face computing experience.
• Object recognition. Users can place physical objects on the surface to trigger different types of digital responses, including the transfer of digital content.

Features:

Multi-touch display. The Surface display is capable of multi-touch interaction, recognizing dozens and dozens of touches simultaneously, including fingers, hands, gestures and objects placed on the surface.

Horizontal orientation. The 30-inch display in a table-sized form factor allows users to share, explore and create experiences together, enabling a truly collaborative computing experience.

Dimensions. Surface is 22 inches high, 21 inches deep and 42 inches wide.

Materials. The Surface tabletop is acrylic, and its interior frame is powder-coated steel.

Requirements:

Standard American 110–120V power

System:

The Surface custom software platform runs on Windows Vista™ and has wired Ethernet 10/100 and wireless 802.11 b/g and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity.

Availability:

Beginning at the end of this year, consumers will be able to interact with Surface in hotels, restaurants, retail establishments and public entertainment venues.

Carl Zeiss, does it make a difference?!??

Carl Zeiss, does it make a difference?!??

Does Carl Zeiss really capture an image better than a standard non Carl Zeiss lens.

First, check: Carl Zeiss optics for Nokia camera phones.

Some believe it is part of Nokia's Marketing campaign, some think maybe it is good and Nokia’s sensor and image processor is falling short.

Whatever the reason, Lets put the faithful N93 equipped with Carl Zeiss lens against the Nokia 7390 which sports exactly the same Megapixels and auto focus capability.

Here is the images, On the N93 shot - just applied blur and sharpen from the built in editor to remove artifacts. - Other than that, both images have no color adjustments.

Nokia 7390

Nokia N93

We can see not only is the N93 delivers a higher contrast image; it also has slightly more dynamic range. What is really evident is overall sharpness and detail. It seems both images are very sharp, but N93 with CZ auto focus optics is revealing a lot more detail than the 7390 with non CZ optics but auto focus.

Interestingly Nokia’s noise reduction in the 7390 is a tad strong, but it looks like it has to as
some noise is still visible in the image after the noise reduction process.

Apart from the noise reduction on the 7390, it does a surprisingly good image. the most obvious difference is indeed contrast, colours and details.

It is indeed possible here that these differences could indeed be due to the "Carl Zeiss" branding on the N93.

Are Cell Phones Killing Our Eyes?

Cellphone screens strain many eyes?!



There are some studies that shows that Cellular phone causes symptoms like headaches, earaches, blurring of vision, short-term memory loss, numbing, tingling, and burning sensations, bad sleep, fatigue, anxiety and finally the most important some research indicates that prolonged use of mobile phones may increases the risk of brain cancer. (coming soon)

Well, I’m not sure about all these effects, actually you'll need dictionary assistance to decrypt some of them but I for sure know that mobile and computers screens cause the eyestrain.

Although not associated with long-term consequences, eyestrain resulting from mobile phone use can be bothersome and uncomfortable. Eye strain occurs when you over-use your eye muscles. Any muscle held in one position too long will strain.

Eyestrain isn’t only caused by the use of desktop computers and laptops, but also by the intense use of tiny-screened electronic gadgets such as PDAs and cell phones!!

These small devices have the potential to accelerate the onset of computer vision syndrome, Anshel says. The text of these smaller images is not as clear as on larger screens, and bright light makes the screens fade out.

When you concentrate on a task such as browsing, gaming or reading on small phone screen for a longer period of time your inner eye muscles tighten up causing your eyes to get irritated, dry and uncomfortable. Therefore it is highly suggestible to give your eyes a chance to refocus, once or twice an hour, take a five-minute break from whatever you're doing.

If you read on a park bench or while walking through a brightly lighted store, the screen is washed out, and that tends to make problems more prominent, Daum says.

The one advantage of hand-held devices is that they can be held at a comfortable reading distance and looked down on as you would when reading a book.

Anshel and Daum say some people tend to have worse problems with computer vision syndrome.

Men and women over 40 have eyes that are less flexible and resilient because of the aging process and thus have more complaints. And women over 40 experience particular problems with dry eyes because, as their hormones decline, their tear mechanisms decline as well.

To reduce symptoms, people usually must take several approaches. Getting optimal reading aids is a first step. Daum says two-thirds of people who are nearsighted or farsighted or have astigmatism don't have their condition corrected.

Second, they should consider wearing special occupational or computer glasses when working at a video screen. Anshel says that while people often wear trifocals while working at the computer, their trifocals have a very narrow part of the lens that works when focusing on the computer screen. Thus they end up tilting their head back, which contributes to neck aches and other problems.

Kent Daum, associate professor of optometry at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
Jeffrey R. Anshel, an optometrist in California.

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