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Again, we are changing so fast we don’t even realize it.
Here comes Microsoft Surface…

Microsoft Surface (Codename: Milan), is a forthcoming product from Microsoft which is developed as a software and hardware combination technology that allows a user, or multiple users, to manipulate digital content by the use of natural motions, hand gestures, or physical objects. It was announced on May 30, 2007 at D5, and is expected to be released by commercial partners in November 2007. Initial customers will be in the hospitality businesses, such as restaurants, hotels, retail, and public entertainment venues.

Here’s a Microsoft Surface parody video just for laughs. Remember, this is just a parody.
Still cool though…

Anyway for real facts…
Surface is essentially a Windows Vista PC tucked inside a black table base, topped with a 30-inch touchscreen in a clear acrylic frame. Five cameras that can sense nearby objects are mounted beneath the screen. Users can interact with the machine by touching or dragging their fingertips and objects such as paintbrushes across the screen, or by setting real-world items tagged with special barcode labels on top of it.

Surface has been optimized to respond to 52 touches at a time. During a demonstration with a reporter, Mark Bolger, the Surface Computing group’s marketing director, “dipped” his finger in an on-screen paint palette, then dragged it across the screen to draw a smiley face. Then he used all 10 fingers at once to give the face a full head of hair.

In addition to recognizing finger movements, Microsoft Surface can also identify physical objects. Microsoft says that when a diner sets down a wine glass, for example, the table can automatically offer additional wine choices tailored to the dinner being eaten.

Prices will reportedly be $5,000 to $10,000 per unit.[1] However Microsoft said it expects prices to drop enough to make consumer versions feasible in 3 to 5 years.[2]

The machines, which Microsoft debuted May 30, 2007 at a technology conference in Carlsbad, California, are set to arrive in November in T-Mobile USA stores and properties owned by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. and Harrah’s Entertainment Inc.

Watch out for it…

Nothing really spectacular, just funny and somewhat entertaining.
Some who don’t understand Hokkien may not find it that way though…

This is the original with Gary Oldman

This is the Singaporen version with Some Youngman

LOL they just keep coming at you.
The Japanese are really one of a kind…

We all know the popular game Tetris. I also posted a funny Japanese video about Tetris long ago, you can still find it here: Like Tetris

This time it’s also Tetris, but “human” life-sized Tetris.
Funny stuff…

Global warming? Well, the experts don’t think so…
Prepare for Global Cooling.

Don’t blame rising levels of carbon dioxide (C02) for whatever global warming is now taking place; put the blame on “old sol” — the sun may be getting ready to put the world into the deep freezer.

So say a growing number of scientists who have studied the effect of the sun on the earth’s climate and concluded that the only thing scientists understand about climate change is that it is always changing.

“Climate stability has never been a feature of planet earth,” explains R. Timothy Patterson professor and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University in an article in the Financial Post.

“The only constant about climate is change; it changes continually and, at times, quite rapidly. Many times in the past, temperatures were far higher than today, and occasionally, temperatures were colder. As recently as 6,000 years ago, it was about 3 C warmer than now. Ten thousand years ago, while the world was coming out of the thousand-year-long ‘Younger Dryas’ cold episode, temperatures rose as much as 6 C in a decade — 100 times faster than the past century’s.”

Dr. Patterson insists that even though advocates of the global warming theory such as Al Gore are insisting that the “the science is settled,” that is far from being the case.

Read the rest of the article here http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/6/21/123227.shtml

Nothing spectacular, but definitely something worth mentioning.

This is an extremely realistic water simulation, which will take gaming into a new age of realism. Again, what is the world coming to…

These freaks just never stop to amuse me.
Nothing much I can say, just enjoy them…

More than a month ago I posted about the King of Fighters Spoof, which included Sakura from the Street Fighter series. Check it out here.
And a month before that I posted Part 1 - 3 of Street Fighter: The Later Years which were really funny videos. Check it out here.

Anyway sorry this isn’t Part 4 yet. This is Stop itttttttttttt: Street Fighter Remix instead. It’s actually a Street Fighter parody done by young kids, but still pretty hilarious.

View it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zORvhtRFFY
Sorry I couldn’t embed the video here, it was disabled by the author.

Gimme more of this stuff…

We all know Paris Hilton went to jail, got out, and then went back in.
Well this is a parody MTV of her being in jail.

Watch out for the lyrics as they’re pretty witty. Funny how the actress kinda looks and sounds like Paris. Enjoy your weekend…

Know the recent blockbuster 300, all six-packs, yelling, killing and especially stunning cinematography?
Well guess what. Adobe played a big role for the movie with its versatile After Effects and Photoshop software.

Adobe has posted a case study on its Web site detailing the use of After Effects and Photoshop in the VFX-heavy blockbuster 300.

Photoshop was used to create the concept and poster artwork, and for colour correction and rotoscoping of key scenes. After Effects was used to composite the live-action, bluescreen footage with the CG environments in some scenes.

The piece interviews the film’s visual effects art director, Grant Freckelton, and DFX supervisor Tyler Foell from Pixel Magic, one of the VFX houses that worked on the film.

The case study can be read here.

For Spaarta!!

Another gem not to let go, this video cracked me up also.
A bunch of guys audition for a Kung Fu movie and made a fool out of themselves.
Why would they go in the first place if they’re not even trained or fit.

Anyway, enjoy…

The afro guy with the backflip really is funny. At least he tried.
But the topless guy who tried to kick the apple was the killer. He couldn’t even kick halfway the height he was trying to reach. He achieved his objective though - the apple dropped! >_<

I’m thinking these guys actually get more exposure than they would if they made it to acting. Thousands of people watch them anyway. Who knows they might be in a comedy some day…