I wonder if they are under pressure from competition like Apple, Hitachi, Panasonic and the like. Lots of companies are currently working on touch and gesture based interfaces. I wonder will MS integrate this with Windows. If so, what are the computer makers doing to take advantage of Surface?
Intel's SkullTrail
HOT!!!!!! Hellz yeah! I guess this will get somewhere affordable for the likes me in a year or so.
I guess you could build yourself a nice little supercomputer with this chipset, too. Modelling!!! WhooHoo!!!
AMD seeks Gains in Graphics
This is pretty cool. It sounds like once AMD gets their hybrid graphics hardware to act stably, entry level gaming systems will be available at the sub $1000 range ($599 speculated in this blog). It is a good move on AMD’s part to try to make the CPU seems less important to system performance since they are unable to over take Intel. However, recall that Intel has also recognized the importance of the GPU moving forward so AMD will not find this to be an easy to fight either. This all, though, is good for the customer who will have all sorts of computer choices available to them because the competition between Intel, Nvidia, and AMD/ATI. I look forward to seeing how things are in 2009 as this war heats up.
Rockstar Invites You into its Social Club
This is a neat way to establish a community for elite gamers and extreme GTA fans. The “Police Blotter” is quite clever, especially if it feeds back into game play.
Dash Expression, Navigation and Traffic via Car Network
Finally, an a car navigation system that I might consider using. The “Dash Express” link cars together over wireless and cellular networks to provide real traffic condition information. It sounds like only a few cars with the device are needed to provide traffic data, though, I imagine the more cars on the network the better. I wonder, though, can they get enough users to make this viable and I wonder why they didn’t license the technology to companies such as Garmin that already have a stong present in mobile GPS. It would be much easier for me to part with $400 for something I know other people will eventually buy than to take a chance on a start-up company that is challenging a fortified hill. There’s a video embedded in the article, so here’s a link back to the orginal article.
More Rambling 