The battle has begun. Blackberry's Playbook vs Apple's iPad. The Round one of the battle for tablet supremacy is initiated by RIM and they have created a side-by-side comparison of the Blackberry PlayBook and Apple iPad. The comparison runs tests on browser speed to see which of the two tablets performs best on loading up particular websites. It also focuses on Adobe Flash support and HTML5 performance.
In order to keep the test fair, they cleared the cache of the browsers to make sure each device was pulling down fresh data from the webservers. Of course it's RIM's demo, but the tests did reveal the better processing capabilities of Playbook.
iPad has a big advantage over PlayBook because of its better and bigger 10" screen compared to PlayBook's 7" display. Check out the video now
Playbook's firmware is still work-in-progress. So we can expect the browser to get even better as RIM polish the firmware closer to launch. But then, PlayBook isn't expected until Q1 of 2011. By then we might have iPad 2 as well.
We would like to reserve our judgment till we...
Not even a fortnight since Microsoft's Project Natal aka Kinect launch, hackers & developers have managed to break the Kinect code and forge an open source driver. Now, the real experimentation have begun.
The latest concept being demoed on YouTube, comes from Oliver Kreylos has developed a C++ implementation of Kinect that allows for 3D reconstruction of a room using a single Kinect system.
By combining the color and the depth image captured by the Microsoft Kinect, one can project the color image back out into space and create a “holographic” representation of the persons or objects that were captured. Some extra details picked up from Oliver's page gives fodder to the geeks & techies-
Based on the reverse engineering work of Hector Martin (@marcan42 on twitter and YouTube). I didn't use any of his code, but the "magic incantations" that need to be sent to the Kinect to enable the cameras and start streaming. Those incantations were essential, because I don't own an Xbox myself, so I couldn't snoop its USB protocol.Kreylos has some pretty big plans for his solution, the next step being to actually combine real and computer-generated imagery into a single feed,...
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Raju PP is the founder-editor of Technically Personal, which is one of the most widely read technology blogs on the web. He holds an Engineering degree in Electronics & Communication, and has previously worked as a Technical Specialist in Banking Software domain.
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