Apple announced, among other things yesterday, the iPad Pro with support for a stylus called the Apple Pencil. This has the Internet Cynics Brigade doubled over in laughter as they post meme pictures with Steve Jobs saying that if you see a stylus or a task manager, they’ve done it wrong. They’re also busy posting . . . → Read More: The Apple Pencil: A Less Cynical View
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We live in a world that has more information available online than ever before. Granted, much of it is unreliable or useless, but even the small fraction that is valuable is more voluminous than most people could have imagined even a few years ago. But the problem is that a lot of local information that . . . → Read More: Information overload, yet too little information I set up my (or rather my wife’s) Amazon Echo last night. I have a hard time not calling the Amazon “Alexa,” because that’s how you address it. You say “Alexa play some rock music” and it does so. The Echo is a black cylinder that listens for commands and questions and sometimes does what . . . → Read More: Amazon Echo is surprisingly handy Now that I’ve had a bit more time to use the Surface Pro, my view of it hasn’t changed. It is nice hardware with imperfect software that has potential to get better. I have had some other thoughts, however. I believe Windows 8 is a turning point for Microsoft. Microsoft is becoming more and more . . . → Read More: More thoughts on Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface Pro Because the Microsoft Surface Pro was on sale, I bought one, somewhat for reasons I will explain in a future post, but also because I am a gadget nut and wanted a tablet designed for Windows 8. My impressions so far are that the Surface Pro is a very solid, speedy machine. The “Type Cover” . . . → Read More: Microsoft Surface Pro First Impressions Amazon has come out with a nifty WordPress plugin that allows users to send posts from blogs to their Kindles. Of course since I love new tech things, I’ve installed it on this site, though I can’t imagine much demand for it! Sandly, the plugin does not seem to capture images, even though it shows . . . → Read More: Added the Send to Kindle button Having all our stuff stored in the “cloud” seems like a great convenience. We can access our movies and sounds via iTunes Match or Amazon’s Cloud Player. While I always download songs when I buy them, it is nice to be able to access them even when I’m not at home on my Mac that . . . → Read More: The Cloud Giveth and the Cloud Taketh Away: Problems with Owning Virtual Goods These are pictures of NASA’s new panoramic image from the Opportunity rover on Mars being displayed on Hiperwall. The image has more than 180 million pixels, so it would be very hard to see well on a single monitor. With Hiperwall, we can see the whole image, as shown in the first picture, by zooming . . . → Read More: NASA’s New Mars Panorama on Hiperwall 
The Hiperwall booth at InfoComm in Las Vegas went very well. We brought a 12 monitor wall, consisting of 46” NEC thin-bezel monitors on a Premier mounting system and driven by Technovare Core i5 set-top PCs. We also borrowed two 55” monitors with embedded AMD PCs to show that our software is very flexible and . . . → Read More: InfoComm 2012 wrapup I will be presenting “Hiperwall: Building a Product from University Research” at the UCI EECS Graduate Student Colloquium on 5/23. The presentation is linked below. 2012 UCI EECS Colloquium Presentation |
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