New Tech!

For those of you who don't know, it's E3 week, where the public finds out about the next big new electronics gadget/game to come out in the fall or subsequent years. Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and others make their announcements here, and it's a complete nerdy expo with a lot of exciting news all packed into one week. Today was day one, and it started off with a Mike Breen "baaang!".

First off, Microsoft's Keynote was this morning, and even though I'm not a gamer at all, this stuff seems potentially Wii killing. No joke. You know how the wii-mote charts the movement of the controller and turns that into control? What if instead of a physical controller, your body is the controller, and your full body motion (legs, arms, head, the works), coupled with face and voice recognition, was turned into motion? And what if this was a reality? As in today reality? (Come to the conclusion please. . . .yes, it is a reality now). They demonstrated its motion by the way, and it worked very well, which is promising.

Big news, huh? Add that with a bunch of new game titles (in Keynote link, in the earlier posts) that I'm sure hardcore gamers will be happy about, adding movies to your Netflix queue directly from your Xbox, twitter and facebook integration, streaming music, and some other things, and you have a pretty heavy hitting keynote, even by E3 standards.

One more thing for the microsoft fans in all of us, they just unleashed a new search engine bing.com, that apparently changes the way you search. Yeah, that's what they all say, so you'll have to find out for yourself, but on my first test, looking for a work table that folds away, bing found one for me on its first try, while google took me in circles and yielded nothing useable . . . That's one point for bing. I'll keep you updated with more tech stuff as this week progresses.