NewnHam Research, a startup company in Cambridge UK, has launched a device that allows you to connect monitors to PCs using a standard USB 2.0 connection.
Newnham’s technology solutions allow any number of monitors to be connected to a single PC and, if required, function independently to display different content.
http://www.newnhamresearch.com/index.htm
The USB NIVO technology provides a high quality display response over a USB 2.0 connection and enables the display of static 24-bit colour images without loss of quality, colour reduction or distortion. Full motion HD video can be played in real-time.
There’s a review at Extreme Tech
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1948556,00.asp
The first fruits of the technology will appear in partnership with Kensington Computer Products Group, who will use the USB NIVO in a universal laptop docking station later this year. The Kensington product allows a laptop user to attach a VGA monitor, an Ethernet network, microphone and speakers, and up to four USB peripherals, to their laptop via a single USB 2.0 connection.
There seems to be a lot of interest in dual booting Macs …
Marc Orchant at ZDNet has been trying to install Vista on a MacBook
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Orchant/?p=63
and failing
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Orchant/?p=64
Looks like BootCamp will support Linux
http://theweeklyrant.com/article/8/news-apple-bootcamp-boots-linux
You can load International Editions of Windows
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2006/0406/apple2.htm
and Media Center
http://www.furrygoat.com/2006/04/apples_boot_cam.html
Accessing the Mac OS X partition from your Windows session could be handled by software from Media Four
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/.
Something special happened this week (Wednesday) when the following event occurred at two minutes and three seconds after one am …
01:02:03 04/05/06 (US date format)
(of course it happens again on 4th May for us Brits…)
Solid Edge Version 18 introduces a new add-on application for wire harness design. It allows electrical and mechanical design teams to collaborate, providing integration between popular electrical wiring design packages for electrical circuit simulation, and Solid Edge, to create a complete digital mock-up.
Read more at SolidEdge
http://www.solidedge.com/overview/v18_wireharness.htm
A feature, currently called “Boot Camp”, will be incorporated in the next major release of Mac OS X that enables you to install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Intel-based Mac.
At startup you will then have the option of booting either Mac OS X or Windows…
Currently available as a public beta, details from Apple
http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp.
DataTiles
A DataTiles “tile” is a transparent acrylic square object with an embedded RFID tag. In principle, a tile acts as a graspable window for digital information. When a tile is placed on the tray, its associated function is automatically triggered. For example, placing a weather tile onto the tray automatically retrieves the current weather forecast information from the Internet and displays the processed results on the region of the screen under the tile.
Read a published paper “DataTiles: A Modular Platform for Mixed Physical and Graphical Interactions” by Jun Rekimoto from the Sony Computer Science Laboratories.
http://kf12.com/blogs/uploads/datatiles.pdf
Recently had a browse around the CoCreate site and noted a set of demos available for OneSpace Modelling at
http://www.cocreate.com/osdm_history_free_demo.cfm
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