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Refocusing a photograph after taking it and other seemingly magical technologies
Arthur C. Clarke once said that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Entire religions have been built around apparently magical events. In this PodTech video interview, Robert Scoble converses with Professor Marc Levoy of Stanford University about ongoing computational photography research that will simply blow your mind. It’s almost an hour long (and…
HD-DVD stuns Blueray
According to this Google Trends chart, HD-DVD is leaving Blueray in the dust. And we all know what dust will do to the laser in your player.
5 Observations on the State of Digital Media
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In Google Trends, Rock beats Paper
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Google TV is coming (and we told you so)
In April, 2006, I wrote: “Google is also making inroads into the set-top box business, hoping to bring television media straight into your television (whether it’s in your living room or your mobile phone).” Today, Google is finally announcing Google TV.