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The all-in-one desktop club has a new member. AkihabaraNews.com had pictures and specs for the Fujitsu FMV F-A50. It’s specs line up pretty nicely with other all-in-ones and the front of the PC is as pretty as you’d want. The back, though…It looks like the back of a TV. You wouldn’t want to show it off.
OhGizmo.com has a story about an Exhaust Air Jack. It includes a hose that attaches to a tail pipe and an inflatable bag strong enough to lift one side of a car. I’m not sure how safe it would be, but it’s a cool idea.
A design firm called Clusta created a Web site for Publicis & Hal Riney that is entirely navigable using hand gestures read by a Web cam. It’s in my top 10 list of cool things we’ve featured on GeekBrief.TV. Visit the Web site, if you’d like to play with the interface. The content isn’t all that exciting, though. I hope we see more HID like this soon.
Brief 350 closes with a video clip of a 3D hologram that is also controlled by hand gestures. The technology is called AirStrike and it was created by LM3LABS.
Oh, and PodShow is now Mevio! Less about the Pod and more about the cast.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 2:53 am
Excellent episode. AirStrike looks slick, but I really like the HRP stuff. However, how silly would you look sitting in a Starbucks by yourself waving your arms about while reading the news or whatever haha they’ll definatly cut you off of the caffeine for sure :)
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:55 am
I’m okay to look silly! That’s actually kind of my life mission. This kind of interface is about releasing our inner maestros.
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:34 am
Very cool and different. A bit hard to navigate but the idea is very good and stimulating.
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:46 am
And I was just getting accustomed to the idea of touch screens. Being able to control computers with my hands via the air is an incredibly cool concept.
Oh and about that air-bag like car jack. Very cool concept, but wouldn’t it be better on a grassy surface? If pavement melt metal, I’d think that it could melt that substance too. It looked liked plastic, am I right?
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:53 am
I gotta say, I really like the looks of the various all-in-one computers, and they certainly solve the clutter problem. But somehow, I just don’t feel like I really own a computer until I grab a Phillips screwdriver and start tinkering with the parts.
Regarding the Air Jack (Air Jack, AirStrike… Theme?), how long does it take to inflate?
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:33 am
As far as looking silly goes, we’ve gotten used to people sticking things onto their ears and walking down the street apparently talking to no one. We can get used to this. I think the really tricky thing is going to be tightening down the definition of the air space so that we can get the number of links normally on a page to respond to this. But you’re right, that is the seriously cool kind of innovation we like to see on the Brief.
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:00 am
great did not work in safari but did in firefox 2
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:01 am
Oh my gosh I just noticed the little baby on the Bigtrip meter! lol, cute!
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:07 am
This was one of the coolest episodes I’ve ever seen!
I love it. I’ve been playing on hrp.com all day! Love, love, love it!
Neal/Cali – can’t wait to meet you guys this weekend!
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:13 am
Wow, technology these days! Being able to wave my hand and control my computer — now that’s AMAZING. I’d love to know what it’s like to be Harry Potter or Hermione someday. :) *swoosh and flicks her wrist*
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:40 am
I went to the HRP site and navigated it via webcam. SOOOOO cool. I want to find the source code for that so I can do it with my site. :D lol
Wasn’t big on the content, but the navigation of the site is really sweet.
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:25 pm
I just headed over to Talking Bull and Expose Omaha and clicked on all of their google ads twice.
Go Team Big Trip!
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:35 pm
First I loved the glasses. They fit your face perfectly. Next, the bit with the man waving up and down to bring up and then dissolve an image went on a bit long. I saw it, that’s nice, I’m still seeing it, that’s annoying. I much rather watch you flub.
I am glad you enjoyed my native isle.
sgtret
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:58 pm
its cool to navigate with your hands but if the web page takes 1000000000 years to load who really cares? I’ll chose a mouse over the wait any day.
love the show
April 24th, 2008 at 2:08 am
Is it just me or has your Podshow/Mevio feed been hijacked by Dr. Cockney? I just came home to find a dozen episodes of Dr. Cockney downloading in iTunes under the Geekbrief feed – and yes iTunes still tells me the feed is http://www.podshow.com/feeds/geekbrief.xml
April 24th, 2008 at 10:46 am
The exhaust air jacks aren’t so new, they’ve been available in Australia for the last 20 years or so.
April 24th, 2008 at 11:12 am
@Allister – see here http://www.geekbrief.tv/podcast-feed-announcement
April 24th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
The web cam site navigation is pretty amazing and I cannot wait to see where this will go in the future.
@above_poster The material for the exhaust lift looks like a thick durable rubber, kind of like that used in moon bounces, or whatever they are called. I think it would be fine for the max 30 minutes it would take for somebody to change their tire.
Ohh an, i dont think ive said this to anybody in a long time, but i love the shirt cali xD
-TJ
April 25th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Have you seen the 3D camera control demo for Second Life?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t52gkAwJq8
April 27th, 2008 at 4:31 am
Internet Explorer 7, Firefox, Safari, they all die when confronted to the hrp website. shame, the idea is cool and the demo on the podcast was tempting – oh yes, I run Vosta on this thing, I must try winth another of my various OS (Xandros, G-OS, macOS, xP Pro and 2000 … I hear “ubergeek …”) maybe is it because in Ireland we don’t have yet great bandwidth available at home? Here 2mb is as high as it goes. Love the show, Cali and Neil.
May 1st, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Sorry to be off-topic, but the black New York text tshirt is made of awesome. My daughter says she must have one. Where did you get it? My google-fu fails me.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Actually, I got it from a street vendor in New York. :)