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Loaded: A 3D display made of droplets

2010-07-13
it's Tuesday July thirteenth i'm natali del conte and it's time to get loaded if you use Microsoft Outlook you can now integrate facebook and windows live messenger this is part of Outlook Social Connector it brings your social networks to the email client so if your facebook friend emails you then you'll see the email as well as their Facebook photo and Facebook activity these are outlook plugins that come with updates to outlook 2010 speaking of Facebook a man in New York claims he owns eighty-four percent of the company Paul DC glia claims that he had a 2003 contract with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to develop the site the contract supposedly entitled him to one thousand dollars and fifty percent of the final product plus an additional one percent per day until the site was completed Sieg leah's math puts that at eighty-four percent of course Facebook claims that this is bogus and why did the guy wait six years to say anything while microsoft claims to be working on several tablet computers to be released soon it looks like blackberry is working on a tablet too we don't know that much about it or even when we'll see it but rumors are that it will have an 8.9 inch screen two cameras and support flash it would likely run BlackBerry's yet-to-be-released operating system blackberry OS and maybe even have a slide-out keyboard BMW is the first line of cars to integrate apple's ipod out feature on iOS four this means that you can plug your iPod or iPhone into your middle console and control music and applications with your car's own native buttons which of course is much safer than navigating the device itself while you're driving and barnes a noble announced nukes study this is a downloadable program that lets students access and organize each text books as well as other course material like lecture notes images workbooks and your own notes taken either within the program or on the nook you don't have to have enough to use this but you do have to be involved in academia the program will open in august to students and professors only for now a new technology turns water droplets into a 3d display that does not require 3d glasses this comes from a project out of Carnegie Mellon University Professors there were able to control the drop layers so that when the projector switches an image it follows the patterns of the drop and lights them up as they fall creating a 3d effect so far this has only worked on a 12 inch laptop and professors don't expect to have it ready for mass market for at least another decade that's your news for now thank you for watching I'm Natali del Conte was seen at TV and you just been loaded
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