Project Natal from Xbox

You Are the Controller.
Introducing Project Natal, a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun — the only experience [...]

2010: Year of digital distraction?

By Pete Cashmore, Special to CNN
December 23, 2009 2:35 p.m. EST
Editor’s note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about social media. He writes a weekly column about social networking and tech for CNN.com.
(CNN) — The “real-time Web” is booming. From Twitter to Facebook to new search engines that discover information posted [...]

Google OS: the end of the hard drive?

By Dylan F. Tweney
November 20, 2009 8:23 a.m. EST

Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks.
With a strong focus on speed, the Chrome OS promises nearly instant boot times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their computers.
“We want Google Chrome OS to be blazingly fast … [...]