A-DATA had plenty on display at its Nangang booth, but for us, clearly the most interesting thing was its SSD demonstration showing off eight A-DATA 500 Series SSD’s configured in RAID 0.
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Engadget has posted a hands on demo and initial impressions of the new Microsoft Project Natal, a code name for a revolutionary new way to play, no controller required.
Overall their impressions were very positive and the demo proved to function with accuracy. A source explained a how exactly the system operates…
The box uses two sensors for input: a video camera, and an infrared camera (that light you see in the press photo is either power, or some part of the IR setup). The infrared data is used to gauge depth and the video camera movement, but it’s the software Microsoft has developed which is really doing the magic. We were shown an example of the raw output of the system, which melds the two sources and then breaks them down into a wireframe of objects, a heatmap (for depth), and a point-map (which is akin to one of those hand imprint needle toys). The software merges all of this together to create a picture of movement in the room, allowing for some pretty crazy detail of what is going on.
You can watch the hands on demo video below or hit the link for a more detailed write up of their experiences with the console.
Steve Ballmer himself demonstrated to Engadget some of the new features on his Zune HD during D7.
The site has posted a gallery of their shots which picture the device, its OLED screen, and Balmer playing a Pixar movie.
Microsoft recently announced the Zune HD as its answer to the iPod touch.
“Zune HD is the first portable media player with built-in HD Radio receiver, HD video output capabilities, OLED touch screen, wi-fi and an internet browser.”
The Zune HD is expected to ship in the fall of this year.
Vic Gundotra, VP of engineering at Google has demonstrated an offline version of Gmail for the iPhone 3G.
The app relies on HTML5 standards which allow for a local database and app cache. These standards allow your device to save a copy of your Gmail locally for access while your phone is in Airport mode or out of service. When you go back online the database could sync back with Gmail.
For more information you can watch Gundotra’s presentation below…
