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Winner Takes All In Term Of Media Will Have To Fully Support And Simplify The Internet In The Living Room

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How ironic this is!  I’d moved away from watching TV to watching the Internet through computers and laptops, but now I’m moving back to watching TV more than ever.  OK, before the folks who support the traditional media such as Cable companies and the folks who support the new media such as the Internet get the wrong idea of what I had said, let me clear this up right now.  Instead of watching more TV in a normal and traditional sense, I hug the TV only when Apple TV and iPad 2 are humming in symphony.  Thanks to Airplay, iPad 2 has became a remote control for the Internet, and the TV has once again became my gateway to entertainment, politics, learning, gasping moments, laughing moments, and host of other senses.  As more people are changing their behaviors in term of accessing media as I have been doing so in the living room, we are going to see the landscape of the media will evermore be drastically changed for some time to come.

Questions arise when we question what will happen to the traditional media if people are demanding for the Internet to be streamed to their devices evermore, especially to devices that anchor in the living room.  Such questions are:

  • Will traditional Cable companies survive if more people like me don’t use the traditional media more and more?
  • What changes the traditional Cable companies have to adopt in order for them to find hope for their future?
  • How come smart TV isn’t yet a big of a deal even though people are demanding for the Internet to be streamed evermore?
  • Can tablets such as iPad be a more favorable form of remote control than the standard stick-like TV remote control for the TV of the future?
  • Will the Internet has to be faster, cheaper, and bigger (in term of bandwidth) in order for people to be able to enjoy the Internet as their TV media?
  • Will advertisement programs be weaved in a way that do not obstruct the enjoyment of having the Internet as the TV media in the near future?
  • Will the tablet form factor be more important in term of TV computing than general computing for the consumers in the near future?
  • If the tablets will be evermore important to the living room, what will become of the suggestion that the tablet form factor will kill off the desktop form factor?
  • Will the average people get to be evermore informed if the Internet will constantly be watched in the living room in the near future?
  • Will the media industry come up with simpler Internet TV technology so average folks can connect to the Internet through TV, 24/7, easier?
  • Should the sectors within the media industry of today that embrace the Internet in the living room think about promoting less on wonder TV techs and just promote the simplification of any technology which deals with having the Internet in the living room?
  • Will culture in whatever country change dramatically as the Internet overtakes the living room?
  • Will live Internet (such as live stream of whatever) be the revolution of live TV?
  • How will the people of the future define their particular trustworthy sources when the Internet overtakes the living room in the near future?

Of course, if I think harder, I might come up with more questions in regarding to what if and how the Internet will change people/consumers’ lives and behaviors when the Internet overtakes the TV in the living room of most Americans and elsewhere.  Nonetheless, no matter what will become of the TV of the future, right now I feel that the iPad that supports Airplay feature is just an amazing technology which has me crazily hug my TV again.  Before, I prefer to watch the Internet whatever from a small, computer monitor or a tiny, laptop monitor.  Now, thanks to Apple TV device, I prefer the big screen TV as the Internet is streaming to it.  YouTube has been so far my go to place for most stream videos in my living room.  With extremely satisfactory personal experience from watching the Internet in my living room, I predict (rolling my eyes when I use the word predict) that whoever or whatever can make the Internet easier in the living room will be the victor of the next media in term of entertainment and technology industries.  What do you think?

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Microsoft’s Technology Allows The Manipulation Of Digital Objects Behind A Transparent Monitor

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Amusing, but I’m not impressed!  Folks at Microsoft have came up with a technology where you can manipulate digital 3D objects behind transparent monitor.  I don’t know much about this technology by watching the video right after the break, but I do know that it’s uncomfortable for anyone to reach behind a monitor for typing and manipulating their digital belongings.  I guess, no matter how cool a technology might be, to me the comfort of using such technology comes first.

Source:  http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57387057-1/microsofts-3d-computer-offers-a-world-for-your-hands/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title

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Samsung Will Let You Project Up To 50 Inches Of Moving Images With Galaxy Beam Smartphone

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samsung galaxy beam (Photo credit: bhautikjoshi)

I imagine you might have to wear headphones just to hear the sounds of the moving images from a Samsung’s Galaxy Beam smartphone, but the distractions from friends’ own projections might be even more annoying since they too can beam up their own moving images from their Galaxy Beam smartphones next to you.  Maybe, you incline to glance at their projections and slowly ignore the one you’ve been projecting.  Does this sound like a Galaxy Beam projection party?  With few open cans of beer, maybe this sorta party might get even groovier.  Hit the source link for in-depth detail on Samsung’s announcement of its new Galaxy Beam smartphone which will allow you to beam your own projection images up to 50 inches (source:  http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/26/samsung-announces-galaxy-note-10-1-and-projector-smartphone/)

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When It Does Come Down To Size, Samsung Is Huge Indeed (Employing 160,000 Employees); When It Does Come Down To Products, Even Making Tanks Is Part Of The Routines

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Samsung has got a lot headlines lately, because it has been sued by Apple in many parts of the world in regarding to smartphone patents.  Anyhow, Cnet made a video on Samsung’s history.  It is an intriguing video, because it points out how large Samsung has become.  Did you know, besides the making of awesome smartphones that Apple loathes, Samsung made so many things that even a tank was a Samsung product?  Come to think of it, my modern refrigerator is a Samsung.  By the way, Samsung is not only big in brand, but it’s also big in size.  According to the Cnet video below, Samsung employs just about 160,000 employees.  Indeed, Apple is picking on somebody Apple’s own size!

Source:  http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/20/cnet-shows-us-samsungs-history-talent-for-building-tanks-vide/

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Mirror Mirror On The Wall, What Our Future With Glass Might Be?

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A Day Made of Glass (玻璃打造的未來生活)

A Day Made of Glass (玻璃打造的未來生活) (Photo credit: Mr.850)

It was not hard to see why Forbes reported Corning’s “A Day Made Of Glass” first video had attracted at least 17 million views on YouTube.  It was a well made video which depicted a highly futuristic lifestyle evolved around glass.  According to Forbes, Corning, 160 year old glass company, wanted their customers and future prospects to the see the potential for applying highly engineered glass futuristically in daily lives.

Corning’s “A Day Made Of Glass” second video showed the potential of highly engineered glass to be expanded to schools, hospitals, and even parks.   So a wall of a school might suddenly be turned into interactive display by the application of glass, but at first look the wall might not resemble something that had been made by glass.  Some glass were engineered to be thin and plastic like, allowing children to effortlessly carrying them around for the purposes of computing, learning, playing games, and augmenting the reality.  Inside the hospitals, doctors would use glass to examine patient records and past illness history on site while patients might be under emergency care.

The futuristic scenarios that depicted people would constantly interact with glass to enhance their lives might not be too farfetched. As now we already have such capability in producing similar things.  Tablets and smartphones keep on getting smaller, thinner, and more powerful.  At CES 2012, Samsung revealed its smart transparent window which allowed passersby to check information on weather and close a virtual blind.  Check out Corning’s “A Day Made Of Glass” videos right after the break.

Source:  http://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethwoyke/2012/02/03/corning-hopes-for-another-viral-hit-with-sequel-to-its-a-day-made-of-glass-video/

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Samsung Flexible AMOLED Touts 3D, Bendable Tablet Size Touchscreen Device; As If It’s A Thin See Through Plastic Paper

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I come to love Apple for one reason, their products make me feel good.  Yes, just like that.  If you want more, I’ll tell you more.  Apple products emphasize simplicity within exquisite designs.  So, when you hold a MacBook Pro or MacBook Air in your hand, the logo shines on the back, the curvature of the machine, and the feel of its metal, all of it speaks to me beautifully.  On the software side, it’s solid until Mac OS X Lion gives my MacBook Pro few hiccups, but Apple went extra mile in helping me out by fixing my machine at zero cost to me even though my one year manufacturer warranty had expired.  OK, it wasn’t as if Apple was being super nice, but it is more of how the logic board of mid 2010 MacBook Pro has had real issues with Mac OS X Lion.  After the fix, I once again vouch for Apple products.  Great customer service speaks volumes, I guess.

I guess we have great Apple products thanks to Steve Jobs great insights.  He knew how to push his company to develop things that speak to customers beautifully.  Since his passing, I fear Apple may not be able pushing for things that speak to customers beautifully.  Great innovation and great insight are the two things that I think a tech company must always thrive for.  Oh, let not forget about great customer service too, and this would apply for all businesses.  Anyhow, lately, I keep hearing how Apple blocks Samsung from selling Samsung tablets in several countries, and I start to think that Apple might have spending too much time on patent wars and not enough time on coming up with great innovations and bringing about great insights.  But what do I know since it’s clearly that I’m not working for Apple and I’m not the innovator, the engineer, or having any caliber of that sorts.

Speaking of Samsung, this company is being sued by Apple on the matter of iPad infringement on one hand, and on the other hand Samsung goes ahead by working on their futuristic bendable devices, hoping to have it be released sooner than later.  I should say Samsung is working on a bendable tablet.  The video right after the break shows how awesome bendable tablet could be.

Have you seen the video above?  I think it’s amazing!  If Samsung is able to make this product a reality sooner than later, I think Samsung will have something that Apple wishes it would be the one who has had it first.  The feeling of carrying something as light as a piece of paper (I hope it would be as light as a piece of paper, but what do I know), 3D display or holographic capability, invisible speakers as how a commenter commented under the YouTube video above, and powerful as a small netbook or a sizable laptop — is simply breathtaking.  Now, let add the bendable attribute into the whole shebang, and you got the winner.  Another interesting point brought up by another commenter who had commented under the YouTube video above – How about the battery, how are they going to tuck that away?

Sure, Samsung Flexible AMOLED or should I say bendable tablet might face the same obstacles as iPad 2 of today, but it does have more of the same goodness and than more of goodness than what iPad 2 or all other tablets of today have already been carried.  One obstacle comes to mind right away is that typing on whatever surface without a real keyboard feeling is just plain suck.  Perhaps iPad 2 will soon have a winner in regarding to real feeling keyboard through a Kickstarter project Touchfire, but I have to wonder will there be something similar or better for Samsung Flexible AMOLED (assuming Samsung Flexible AMOLED will come true).  I have seen some bendable concept devices through various online videos that tout bendable attribute as a great feature for manipulating features on such devices, but I sure hope Samsung isn’t going down such route with their touchable Samsung Flexible AMOLED.  To me, I think I like the idea of how bendable devices could be less prone to breakage, therefore providing somewhat greater invincibility to devices’ durableness.  Let backtrack just a tad, bending to manipulate features on device seems to me a lot more work than touching.

In summary, I like Apple now, but can I say the same few years later if Apple lets other zooms by?  Samsung seems to head in the right direction as I like how they try to develop a bendable tablet size device with multitouch capability.  I could be wrong about the multitouch capability, because I did not see pinch to zoom and similar features in the YouTube video above.  I just assume that the video has someone touches the screen with one finger is somehow inferring that multitouch is also possible on such a device.  I guess time will tell.  For now, let us dream about how soon Samsung Flexible AMOLED would come true.

Source:  http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/05/samsung-teases-flexible-transparent-display-in-concept-video/,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/benzingainsights/2011/12/05/samsungs-secret-weapon-against-apple/