Just point out with your finger in the air to click on stuff, drag it around, rotate it and put it someplace else. The system uses infrared detectors and many other things detailed in this video.

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The exclusive sponsor of this IFA 2008 video coverage is DivX, Inc.

Kcs Digital presents a Slingbox competitor. It encodes your TV feed at your home using H264 and streams it to your laptop, mobile phone, PMP and other devices remotely automatically adjusting the bitrate of the video stream.

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Greenpeace is pointing their fingers at big IT industry manufacturers and distributors for not caring about the environment. They are also warning people that most so called old recycled computers are actually instead sent to some underdevelopped parts of asia and africa where slaves are melting motherboards and PC circuits with their bare hands to extract the little materials and metals they can that have any resale value on the black markets. So do not believe all those that want to export containers filled with your old computers to give to people in the third world. In some cases 75% of the old computers are unusable, they consume more power then there is available and thus the scheme is only using the charity as a means to escape and illegally monetize electronic waste. The USA doesn’t even have a policy to prevent electronic waste traffic. Hundreds of tons of electronic waste is shipped from the USA every year to be dumped and processed by slaves in the third world. Current PC components in most computers other then the OLPC have toxic chemicals in them that harm those poor people that melt them and that pollute the water and the ground where it is dumped.

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A demonstration of the Soleitec pocket solar charger technology.

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Beez Network was presenting a new MSN logo animated USB device which can be programmed to display different colors and move in certain ways according to the smileys and messages received on the MSN instant messaging software.

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A plugin to watch all the videos from this site directly on your HDTV or standard definition TV, with the remote control is available here:

http://labs.divx.com/node/1320

I think that the DivX Connected set-top-box standard is the beginning of the mass media revolution. Soon the box will cost below $100, currently it is available for £130 at Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/D-Link-DSM-330-Connected-Wireless-Player/dp/B000X4F7RO.

Currently the DivX Connected hardware requires a Windows based computer on your local network to function, it uses a Windows software to stream content from the Internet to your TV using HDMI on a HDTV or using composite, scart and component connections. But there is probably a next version of DivX Connected hardware in the planning that would also provide the option to work without the need to have a Windows desktop or laptop computer in the home, which I think is crucial to reach mass market penetration, to reach and change media consumption for consumers who aren’t using broadband Internet much to watch videos yet.

You can watch my Interview with the DivX Connected products manager Dan Salmonsen demonstrating the technology at IFA 2007: http://techvideoblog.com/ifa/divx-connected/

Portivity designs interactive TV solutions. So imagine being able to click on the coca cola bottle to get more information about it or to be able to buy it. Well there is a standard that could be broadcast with digital TV and with the right user interface input, there could be some sort of interaction possible with the tv broadcast.

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Showing some advanced eye-tracking technology using multiple cameras above the TV, this combined with new 3D monitor technologies could provide a 3D image without the need to use 3D glasses, and that would work for multiple people infront of the TV regardless of where they are actually located infront of the TV. They also have a system that lets the user point at a screen with the finger and use the finger as the mouse, where it calculated the angle of the eyes and the finger to determine where the user is pointing.

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Toshiba was showing some technology where you can just wave infront of a camera to control a computer such as opening your hand to stop, showing your fist to open the main menu and open your hand again to resume the video.

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Toshiba is making some Methanol Fuel Cell technology to supplement or replace the uniquely Lithium Ion batteries in all consumer electronic devices. I didn’t understand though what the main advantages of this technology would be other then near instant recharge.

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