About a year ago, Matt and Tom created a video showing several HP printers printing an animation. The video was created because of a student competition with the brief being as follows… “Present an idea which promotes HP Workstations ability to bring to life anything the creative mind can conceive”. The original can be found here.

The team who created it were asked by HP to create another film for the company, ie a sequel. The short film follows the same style as the last in that it uses HP printers to print out frames of an animation.

The video took a week to film and used HP Photosmart printers with paper fed in real time. The footage captured was then sped up showing off an animation. [Read more…]

Apple [AAPL] could be bringing a new version of iTunes out soon that will bring a number of new features to the program. One of the new services will be iTunes Cloud that allows streaming music and movies from Apple to your computer and other devices as well as being able to stream from your own computer to other computers on the network.

The Cloud system will allow any device with wireless capability to stream audio and video. For example, you purchase a song on your computer at home… from what we understand you can simply log in to your iTunes account on your iPhone and stream that particular song to your phone. This will help cut down storage issues essentially giving you a full library of music to access whilst on the move. [Read more…]

TechCrunch managed to get hold of a copy of a desktop version of Google Voice. The software came thanks to a request to a source who they wanted some pictures from. Instead, he sent them the full app to test.

The app looks basic in layout and is simply a dialler with access to your address book. Call quality is described on the demo video over at TechCrunch as being good with no echos and very good clarity. A couple of test calls were made to show the call quality. [Read more…]

Seagate has launched a new external desktop hard drive with a huge 3 Terabyte capacity. The drive is called the FreeAgent GoFlex and is the first drive of it’s kind to be capable of storing this amount of data.

The 3TB capacity of the FreeAgent GoFlex allows 120HD movies to be stored or 1500 video games, thousands of pictures and a lot of hours of music.

“Consumer capacity demands are quickly out-pacing the needs of business as people continue to collect high-definition videos, photos and music”

[Read more…]

Microsoft [MSFT] is building their next browser called Internet Explorer 9. The browser is available to download now as a preview (number 3) and now has the ability to use HTML5.

Microsoft allows the browser to be downloaded primarily for developers to get familiar with it, but it’s an open download allowing anyone to download and test if they so wish.

Included in Internet Explorer 9 is support for hardware accelerated HTML5 audio, video and canvas tags as well as the Chakra JavaScript engine. CSS3, SVG 1.1 and DOM is also included. [Read more…]

HP has launched the TouchSmart 600 multi-touch tablet PC. The HP TouchSmart 600 runs Windows 7 Home Premium, has a 23 inch 1080p Full HD display and runs Intel Core 2 Duo Processors (or Core i3 and i5).

For connectivity it has WiFi built in as well as a BlueTooth connection.

To make use of the large screen as a TV, an optional TV card can be purchased with the TouchSmart 600 allowing you to tune in to TV channels as well as record them if needed. [Read more…]

Microsoft [MSFT] has hit quite a large milestone it seems by announcing that 150 million copies of Microsoft Windows 7 have been sold since launch.

Engadget did some calculations and figured out that on average Microsoft are selling 7 licenses per second for the software.

That’s quite some achievement and something MS should be quite happy with. [Read more…]

The Jimmy Fallon show last night had the Microsoft Kinect being demonstrated. The Kinect is a new device from Microsoft [MSFT] that uses a camera system to track your body movements and basically use you as the controller.

The demonstration looks quite good. There is a little bit of lag in the game play in that when the people jump, the characters follow shortly after. However, it does look like a cool way to interact with games and could be a lot of fun when launched in a few months time (by the way, pre-orders are detailed here). [Read more…]

Microsoft [MSFT] has revealed that the Microsoft Kinect will cost $149.99. The price was confirmed on the Microsoft store website where the Kinect just went up and has been made available for pre-order.

The official shipping date is not revealed although we expect that it isn’t too far away with pre-orders being made available just now.

The Kinect was announced at E3 last week where we found out that Kinect was the official name of Project Natal. Full details of what it can do and what’s included in the box are found below. [Read more…]

Best Buy has the Nook eBook reader listed on it’s site at $149.99. The version listed is a new WiFi model that passed through the FCC late last month.

Last night, Engadget received a tip that it was launching at Best Buy, and then Best Buy eventually listed it just this morning with the expected price tag of $150. [Read more…]

Last week we mentioned that the new Xbox 360 slim from Microsoft [MSFT] had done away with the red ring of death and replaced it with a red dot of death.

We now learn that this isn’t quite the case. The red dot represents the Xbox shutting down to prevent it from overheating, which makes it instead, just a warning rather than a death.

It’s good that Microsoft can now detect the problem and do something about it before the Xbox dies. It’s just a shame that they can’t get enough ventilation through the device to prevent that message from ever appearing. [Read more…]

We are expecting that one day we might see Gran Turismo 5 launch. For now, you’ll just have to make do with the video. The video does give a lunch date of November 2 2010 which is good to hear.

New things we have seen in the video show that the Top Gear Test Track will be available to drive around when the game launches. Stig makes an appearance in the video as well as Sebastian Vettel.

The video is impressive making Gran Turismo 5 one to watch out for when it launches. Video is below… [Read more…]