Microsoft is never one to miss out on any new trend — though they’re usually the last ones to arrive at the party. ZDNet’s Mary-Jo Foley has received some insider intel that MS has an entire division secretly working on its own cell phone, code-named “Project Pink.” Pink is part of a new strategy to eventually phase out production of Microsoft’s own Zune device and rebrand Zune as “a set of subscription services that will move to mobile phones — including Pink.”
Sounds like a Zune Phone is on the way, don’t you think?

The story gets even more interesting when Foley …read more

Austria’s Media Interaction Lab has put together a fascinating tech demo that turns any coffee table into a digital, touchscreen tabletop. It shows a live video image of your living room, which you can interact with using multi-touch gestures. It’s called CRISTAL, which stands for Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living spaces.

The idea is that as more and more digital appliances make their way into the living room, they bring more and more remote control devices with them. Rather than have everyone in the household fight over control of those remotes, CRISTAL creates an interactive experience …read more