‘TeleHuman’ uses Kinect for 3D holographic chat, bumps up options for contacting Obi-Wan (video)

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Looks like virtual Tupac might have some company. With Kinect , you are the hologram. Besides logging in lots of quality time at a South Korean theme park, the Kinect is now doing double duty at the Human Media Lab of Queen's University in Canada thanks to a 3D holographic chat system called "TeleHuman." The setup basically creates a life-size rendering of its subject by using six Kinect sensors, a 3D projector and a cylindrical display.

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Sony unveils Crystal White PlayStation Vita, limited digital diva edition

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Remember that line-up of colorful consoles we eyed back at TGS? One of eight of those mock-ups is about to become a reality, at least in Japan.

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Adobe Creative Suite 6 now available, Creative Cloud floating into action May 11th

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Eager to get your fancy new mask on? Open up the wallet

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Rovio intros Angry Birds Facebook Share & Play, helps you get your feathery fix

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Granted it's not quite, you know, organ donation , but Rovio's offering up some Facebook magic of its own. The casual game maker has rolled out the Share & Play feature, which lets users embed their latest Angry Birds level onto their friends' Timelines for some slingshot-happy bragging rights. Sharing goes beyond just Facebook however -- you can embed the playable level on other sites as well

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Google’s Language Immersion Chrome extension translates random text to teach foreign lingo

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Berlitz may be the best way to learn a foreign language, but most of us have neither the time nor the ability to fully immerse ourselves in the vocabulary of another country. Hot on the heels of Gmail's automatic translation feature hitting the big time, Google's Translate team has crafted a Chrome extension to make language learning a bit more accessible. The extension does the trick by translating random portions of text to any of its 64 supported languages, so that your native tongue is interspersed with the lingo you're learning

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Microsoft shows devs the secrets to creating fluid animations in Windows 8 Metro apps

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As Microsoft brings its Metro style from the mobile world back to the desktop in Windows 8 , it's also focusing on keeping the smooth animated transitions users have gotten used to on certain mobile platforms intact. A new post on the Windows 8 app developer blog breaks down exactly what devs can do to achieve a consistent and fluid style in their apps even when they're using the new look. Unless you're planning on getting your hands dirty with code there's not much to see other than the (incredibly brief) animation sample embedded after the break

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A bird in the hand thanks to a robot that can perch

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Land-bound robots? Been there, done that.

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Verbatim’s Store ‘n’ Go V3 thumb drives pack USB 3.0, start at $20 for 8GB

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Portable flash drives specced to USB 3.0 have been around since before Apple's original iPad was introduced, but finding 'em on the cheap can still be quite the task.

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NVIDIA unleashes GeForce GTX 690 graphics card, loads it with dual Kepler GPUs, charges $1k

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Would you look at that?

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AT&T stockholders vote down net neutrality proposal

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AT&T stockholders took to the ballot box today at their annual meeting and voted not only to reelect the entire board of directors, but also on a number of measures concerning how the company should conduct business. Chief amongst them was a provision that would have required the carrier to operate its network according to the tenets of net neutrality . Unfortunately for you (unless you're an AT&T exec), the proposal was voted down by a pretty stunning margin.

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