Microsofts Business Division president Stephen Elop unveiled the latest production from Microsoft Office Labs called Office “Labs 2019” at the Wharton Business Technology Conference, starring stock photo men, women and children playing with the next-generation of communication, collaboration and production technologies.
This 5-minutes impressing video shows what Microsoft means for future.
It starts with a transparent wall between two classrooms around the world and goes on with animated drawings, realtime conversation translations, surface displays, electronic boarding cards and newspapers, transparent displays, mini projectors and many others things that never stop to impress.
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The TV – which Philips claimed is the world’s first set able to offer a true cinematic display in your living room, thanks to its 21:9 aspect ratio – will hit UK shops in June.
But, as you’d probably have guessed, the set’s a wee bit more expensive than the average cinema ticket.
The 56-inch ultra-widescreen panel will run you €4,000 ($5,045).
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Known as the MBL 101 X-Treme Speaker System it features four omni-directional mirror imaged speaker arrays with a single bass tower and integral amplifier.
This World-class loudspeaker uses three pulsating spheres (for bass, midrange, and high frequencies) as a starting point, MBL’s engineers and craftspeople employed carbon fiber, aluminum, steel, acrylic, and wood to create this massive four-tower speaker system.
Priced at a whopping $250,000 and weighing 1.5 tons this is definitely the most expensive and stylish speaker system for your home. Source: Newlauches
A revolutionary dual screen LCD laptop from Italian design studio V12 could actually be produced by the American firm Estari.
Notebook Estari Canova dual-head, this is the complete name, is a very cool concept, because it can be at the same time Tablet PC, e-book reader, workstation, music mixer and the list could go on.
Canova is exactly this: a pc portable with 2 touch screen display, featuring little hinges for move the notebook as you prefer. Its possibilities are nevertheless attractive.
The I-Quad uses tile shaped LED electronic boards held together by a simple frame and interacts with external devices via USB or wireless.
Each tile is capable of a low-res, almost dot matrix-like resolution.
Basically anything can be displayed across these tiles; from communication, entertainment, even ambient lighting. Via YankoDesign
Amazon introduced Amazon Kindle 2, latest generation of his reading device with a significantly slimmer design and longer battery life (up to 4 days with wireless on, two weeks with wireless off).
The Kindle 2 features a high-resolution 6-inch electronic paper display (600 x 800 pixel), faster page turns, a sharper greyscale screen, 2GBs of storage, and external stereo speakers and a new read-to-me feature.
