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Microsoft's Kinect ditches the controller for a depth-sensing camera, and the real story is the cheap 3D sensing that makes spatial computing thinkable.
This week, Microsoft launched Kinect, a controller-free gaming camera aimed at attracting casual gamers, competing with Sony's PlayStation Move. Despite impressive sales, skepticism remains…
Launched November 4, 2010, Kinect became the fastest-selling consumer electronics device ever, then became a lesson in selling hardware without the games to back…
Qualcomm's Snapdragon S2, featuring the Adreno 205 GPU, delivers impressive mid-range performance, enhancing gaming smoothness. Its effective graphics capabilities support over 120 device designs,…
A new Beijing-based company, Xiaomi, has launched MIUI, a customized Android ROM, prioritizing software over hardware. Founded by Lei Jun, it aims to develop…
Samsung 45nm silicon built the Apple A4, Apple's first in-house chip, on the same Intrinsity Hummingbird core Samsung put in the Galaxy S, even…
CES 2010 is drowning in 3D TVs, but the story that matters is Android arriving in force on phones, the first tablets, and Snapdragon…
Intel 32nm arrived on schedule with second-generation high-k metal gate and Intel's first immersion lithography, extending a two-year lead while the company quietly ceded…
The seventh-generation console war saw Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft compete between 2006 and 2009. Despite its lower specs, the Wii succeeded with innovative motion…
TSMC's 40nm node turned immersion lithography into a yield crisis in 2009, choked AMD and Nvidia GPU supply, drew Morris Chang back as CEO,…
Palm shows the Pre and webOS at CES 2009, the most exciting phone software since the iPhone, and the smartphone OS race blows wide…
SpaceX puts the Falcon 1 into orbit on its fourth attempt, becoming the first privately funded company to reach orbit with a liquid-fueled rocket.
May 2008. OPPO's first mobile phone — the A103 "Smiley Phone" — goes on sale in China. Not a smartphone. Not for the tech…
Bill Gates gives his last CES keynote, Blu-ray finishes off HD DVD, and the energy quietly drains from the living room toward the phone…
Intel 45nm shipped the first high-k metal gate transistor in volume, hafnium dielectric and metal gates built gate-last on dry 193nm litho, solving gate…