Netflix for magazines and games

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It is now more than just rumours, Netflix will be setting up shop in Denmark – Lovely, although I do fear that it will be a LIGHT version as the European right holders are notorious for being greedy and thus the titles online will likely be a lot smaller than the US version. Anyhow, I just realized that there are actually services like Netflix for both Magazines and Games; www.onlive.com Is a gaming portal where you can “stream” your games, the game is actually run on the companies server and thus you only get the video streamed.  You can sign up for a package that will contain a bunch of games, not as attractive as Netflix but still for younger kids maybe still worth while – you can also get a settop box and controller so you can play on your livingroom tv.  Sadly of course its US only 😐  but with a VPN service and a little ingenuity you should be able to bypass this..   http://www.nextissue.com/storefront/ Is for Magazines what Netflix is for video, here you can pay a monthly fee and get access to a bunch of magazines. Sadly of course its US only 😐  but with a VPN service and a little ingenuity you should be able to bypass this..
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Holographics monitor!? 3D to the extreme…

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Some of my friends keep telling me that 3D is only a buzz thing that will go away again, I must say I don’t think so, 3D although not as major a breakthrough as surround sound is fairly neat and once we get to the version without glasses people will be caught on the idea..  Myself, I don’t mind the glasses much, ok I do wear glasses daily and thus it’s same-same to me but the once they use at my local cinema tend to make things slightly darkish (it’s the Dolby once, those reusable once) – now I last year visited an IMAX cinema in China and those glasses were a LOT better though they tended to slip off the nose a bit..  so clearly 3D without glasses would be neat..

But how about this, a holographic display!?  Now THAT sound NEAT like hell…
http://youtu.be/Ux6aD6vE9sk

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“Star Wars” projection keyboard – well what else do you call it!?

Do you recall years ago we saw this projection keyboard being showed off, often they were connected to handheld devices without a real keyboard.  They would project a keyboard to a surface (eg. table) and you could they type on it by placing your finger where the corresponding letters were projected!?

Well the idea never really hit the shelf’s from what I could tell, at least I never saw a retail version – that is till now…  ok ok, I admit I did not really look for one so they may have existed for some time, but now I came across one it seemed worth mentioning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0qARDGJj1w

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