I just received my new impulsive purchase. A ScanSnap 510M scanner (Fujitsu, about 500€) to connect on my mac book at home and scan everything that comes in.
Well, after 15 minutes, I must say I am impressed.
I put a document in printed on both sides … push scan, the scanning takes about 2s ! .. and it scans both sides at once !
Then ABBY fine reader starts it’s OCR process and after 10s I have a fully searchable PDF ..
I’ll post some examples soon.
Next steps : Use YUM on osx to manage by paperless office.
Mais bien entendu, tout le monde se souvient de The Shining de Kubrick en 1980. Il y aura l’avant et l’après la fameuse scène qui suit Danny sur son « Big Wheels ».
Vous vous souvenez de Johnny Chung Lee de l’Université de Carnegie Mellon et de son Immersion 3D sur écran 2D classique ? Le voilà de retour avec une autre utilisation ingénieuse de la télécommande de la WII.
Even if the MacBook Air isn’t the thinnest laptop on earth, I’m very impressed by the technology. Mainly the led back-lit screen and the low-volt Intel.
I was impressed by this number as well: 2.000.000. This is the number of iPhones sold during the last 200 days.
Garr Reynold is the author of recently published Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery. I haven’t read the book yet, but it seems to be a must-read. I you keep this sentence in your mind each time you’re preparing for your next presentation, you will either cancel it or go for a better one!
1. Ca embellit vos vieux radiateurs pourris (ils ne le disent pas comme cela) (= Design)
2. Ils n’utilisent pas d’alimentation ou d’énergie supplémentaire. (= Inoovation)
Dans le plus belle des Sciences-Fiction, oui.
Mais dans le monde réel, la chaleur absorbée par la plaque ne sera pas diffusée dans la pièce comme auparavant.
La pièce sera plus froide et le café plus chaud 😉
Mais c’est pas grave, c’est quand même super design.
Le plus intéressant, une review du produit par les mêmes personnes invités par Microsoft suite à la vidéo virale. Comme ils disent « Rather than telling us which anatomical cavity we could shove our video into, the email was an invitation to come to Washington and experience Surface Computing for ourselves ».
Pour info, ca coûterait environ 10.000$.
Et en passant, quelques considérations sur le Surface Computing et le Multi-Touch d’Apple, qui sont bien différents.
Make no mistake: multi-touch and direct manipulation interfaces like Milan (Microsoft’s development code name for surface computing) are very cool. In fact, that’s one of the reasons the consumer market is so excited about Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone: it will be the first multi-touch direct manipulation device available to consumers. But as with many concept demos, the devil here is in the details, and Microsoft’s surface computing initiative is very different from — and probably will never compete with — the technologies Apple is introducing in the iPhone.
Microsoft’s technology:
1. Depends on cameras and projectors for its magic. This isn’t a touch-screen technology, but an optical one. That has some huge advantages, like the ability to use brushes to paint, but also has some disadvantages, like the need for dim lighting to avoid washing out the screen and the need to put bar codes on objects for the system to recognize them.
2. Focuses on large interactions instead of small. Despite claims Microsoft has been shopping this technology to Windows Mobile phone makers, this technology is clearly designed to work primarily in large kiosk-like settings than mobile phones. You need large empty spaces for optical projectors and cameras — that’s why you can’t hang projection TVs on your wall like you can a plasma or LCD display. There’s no room in a mobile phone for the optics needed to implement this type of surface system there — and using a multi-touch enabled touch-screen would undoubtedly run afoul of Apple’s patents on that technology.
3. Doesn’t fit in the PC ecosystem. Even if consumers were OK with the many-cubic-foot bulk of these surface systems, Microsoft says in its press release that it will distribute this technology largely through a distribution and development agreement with International Game Technology. That means you’re much more likely to see this technology in your next video poker machine at the Venetian casino than you are in the PC you get from Best Buy.
3M is now providing consumer electronics manufacturers with a revolutionary advancement in the emerging field of miniature projection technology. 3M scientists developed a breakthrough ultra-compact, LED-illuminated projection engine designed for integration into virtually any personal electronic device. Roughly the size of a wireless earpiece and less than half an inch thick, the 3M mobile projection engine delivers brilliant VGA resolution.
When deployed in a host platform, such as a mobile phone, 3M’s technology can project a 40-inch or larger image with no-speckle and a high-fill factor that ensures superior image quality.
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