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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on Microsoft bringing touchscreens to walls, clothes, and more ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[LMAO...]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-349500-3514608]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[at &quot;touch strokes.&quot; That just sounds obscene.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Roc Riz]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:55:54 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[PocketTouch]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-349500-3514373]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[&quot;PocketTouch enables a rich set of gesture interactions, ranging from simple touch strokes to full alphanumeric text entry&quot;.This will not get approval in Europe as Apple have a sketch of someone writing with chalk on a blackboard.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[trevorcsr@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:36:33 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You know Matthew, you are right :)]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-349500-3514285]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[The technology in question here can be used in all the fields you mentioned. Only if it wasn't dum MicroSh.. Only if that block you are supposed to put in your pocket wasn't that big. You know, women do exist in all those fields (the misunderstanding. It's inevitable. It's horriible ..)]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[neldeeb@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:47:47 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Omni-touch looks to have some promise]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-349500-3513874]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Obviously the device size would have to be reduced for truely mobile use.Before watching the video, I thought that monitor glasses and retina detection (ala Canon camcorders) would make a lot more sense.  After watching the video, I realize I could never look and blink faster than I could touch and input.  Multi-touch is also out of the question with retina detection.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Realvdude]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:18:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You don't have to be sorry,]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-349500-3513485]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[In the case of MS (Microsh..'s Stupidity) it could very well be not-a-joke) Sorry you can't get something like that, smarty ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[neldeeb@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:36:51 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[? :)]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-349500-3513496]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I don't have a list of April's fool jokes that ever existed (nobody does). So I couldn't be offended by your remark (even if you wanted to) Plus, I didn't even refer to the body-gesture thing. It is the writer of the article who did  I only referred to that stupid brick one is supposed to put in his (his) pocket (and be misunderstood by horny women)  And it was actually my point, not only that it's rediculous to write on your pocket in public, but to put this piece of MS (Microsoft Stupidity) in your pocket, in public, in the first place :))]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[neldeeb@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:28:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[not a new idea]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[augmented reality / gestural interface is not a new idea - I've seen this in countless sci fi flicks, e.g. one of the bigger ones like minority report and countless smaller movies/series,  all back in the late 90's.  Even back when sixthsense started I'm sure I read about projected infra red keyboards being developed way before this.  Its good though that technology is slowly getting there.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[redbaron101]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:54:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Instantiation]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Leave it for Apple to always create the Class, and the rest (all, and speciallt dum micros...) to make the object instantiations  :))]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[neldeeb@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:41:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[OmniTouch not for your average consumer]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I can't see OmniTouch bulky hardware replacing tablets and even smartphones unless miniaturized small enough to attached to your eyeglasses/goggles.  However, I could see many ways the military could use it attached to the already loaded helmet.  Oh, and maybe C3PO can use it as a backup for his holographic system.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[cgabriel7@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:23:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What's the joke?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Are you joking about being unable to imagine a need or use for this technology?I can see strong needs for this in military, medical, education, construction, delivery, warehouse, public kiosks and information systems, public transportation, automotive, sports, anything benefiting from heads up, natural and/or multimodal interaction, etc. etc. etc... Just think of the multitude of gaming possibilities... to say nothing of the porn industry...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[matthew.clark@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:15:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I saw it 9 years ago.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Actually, a similar application was presented at PUI2001, november 2001, Orlando, Florida. But the most similar ones which I've seen where presented in 2002 and 2003: http://visilab.unime.it/new/index.php?section=19 and http://visilab.unime.it/new/index.php?section=20.Please note that this is a VERY small lab at the university of Messina, in Sicily, south Italy. There have been hundreds of similar applications all around the world in the last 10 years. I wonder whether MS has a patent: It would be a nonsense.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ianni67@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:59:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[My opinion ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[OmniTouch = Kinect + SixthSense. Next steep, make it smaller.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[gpachello@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:12:40 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yep, that's the one.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I saw that many years ago.There are already quite a few interesting technologies for gestures, etc., out there. They just aren't consumer commercialized yet. But for all the apparent effort MS has been putting into these things (like Surface), they have very little to show for it. Except Kinect, which was originally based on third party technologies. (What else is new?)]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[seanferd]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:19:12 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That's a metaphysical question?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-349500-3512719]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[No wonder MS has such a hard time.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[seanferd]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:13:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[productizing]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-349500-3512697]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Sigh...productizing... do we really need to keep univerbilizing all things as summarisations of technologized conceptualizations?Seems arbitrarily obfuscatorilized....]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[auplater@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:06:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I don't like it]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think these guys have a better idea.  They seem much smaller and more user friendly http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Barmace]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:01:34 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is the website]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Barmace]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:58:44 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Origin of technology]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-349500-3512675]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Microsoft, who sends many people to TED conferences, saw this technology at TED in 2006 or 2007. I suspect that this is where this technology came from. I believe it is from someone at MIT media Lab and that a prototype, with a bill of materials and software was listed at their site (component costs about $350).]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[bhoffman@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:38:34 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Remember the virtual keyboard?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[About 5 to 10 years ago the big news was a keyboard that was a display which folks could use with their various devices. Sounds as if Microsoft has done something along that line. Current term for it is projection keyboard. The Microsoft applications seem like the same principle using other instantiations.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_keyboard]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jayohem@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:28:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How is what Microsoft doing, &amp;quot;immitating&amp;quot; Apple?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-349500-3512562]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[What has Apple actually done by way of innovation?  Most of what Apple has produced in the last 10 years is a re-working of others ideas or of products that had already existed in the marketplace.  So, how is that innovation?When it comes to innovations, Microsoft has produced a lot more of them than Apple and Google combined.  However, Microsoft hasn't taken advantage of their innovations to &quot;product-ize&quot; them, or hasn't been as successful at making their products as &quot;fashionable&quot; as Apple has with their marketing prowess.But, many of the ideas which don't come to market as products, are still money-making ventures in the form of IP.  So, if Apple or Google or IBM or any other company were to develop or &quot;innovate&quot; with Microsoft's ideas, those companies would have to pay Microsoft for the use of those ideas.  Google knows quite well what that means in the form of Android, where each device sold with Android has a Microsoft &quot;fee&quot; levied against it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[adornoe]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:11:19 -0700</pubDate>
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