I went up to the coffee machine and for a quick moment I was expecting dispenser to recognize me and serve me a coffee of my taste, I make daily for myself at my office kitchen. This happened right after I came back after watching Microsoft’s announcement of Natal at E3.

Natal, as you might be aware is a new xbox project announced by Microsoft, which would change the way players interact with their gaming system (xbox console). You dont need any controller to do whatever you have been using it to play on xbox.

This is a dawn of a Natural User Interaction (NUI).

All of this and other observation leads me to this conclusion:

As we become computers, computer becomes us (human).

We first trained ourself to to be able to interact with computer the way it understand, and now we are making computer to understand human. I believe this is a law of human machine interaction. I would call it Garg’s law of human machine interaction.

While Natal is a big step towards the realization of NUI, I believe its just a scratch on the surface of the possibilities.  There are machines/equipments/tools all around us which decides its behaviour (or perform it function) taking external factors into consideration (say thermometer, barometer), but now machines would be capable of considering one more a very important factor i.e. human body.

Be  it getting trained on salsa in front of your TV screen, lessons on table etiquette, or practicing or even conducting interviews via Natal enabled system, possibilities are endless.

Just try to imagine a human in a machine when you go near a machine next time and tell me what you thought it could do.

Till than game On!!

You must watch this video interview for two reasons:

1. They way video has been hyperlinked within itself to browse through the talk.
2. Actual talk from Eric, who speaks in general about innovation, management, future challenges and more.

What a video ))

I found Tata-Sky very useful especially because it has a feature of setting reminders for the programs which are scheduled to be telecasted later.

What I dont like…or rather I would say I wish I had a feature in TataSky which allowed me to set reminders not only via the indexed program list, but also when there is some commercial going on for a movie or a soap I wish to watch.

To explain it a bit further, say I am watching a channel on which they are broadcasting an advertisement about a forthcoming movie next week at 8pm. So if I wish to watch this movie, either I should rely on very limited and short memory OR I should go to program list, browse through it so that i can reach that particular timeslot and set reminder (which is just soooo many clicks/presses if this movie is scheduled after a week).

There should be single button click option right there which should allow me to set reminder than and there for this telecast. Right there!

Technically, I think this should be quite possible. What TataSky needs to do probably is to get broadcasters like Sony or Star to tag there advertisement pertaining to forthcoming telecast. Just catch these tags and display an option for user to click ‘red’ button to set reminder.

Simple isnt?

I just received latest edition of Business Today Magazine at my office desk, which confirms Microsoft is the place to be!.

Microsoft tops the list of the Best companies to work for in India Study, 2007 jointly conducted by Business Today, Mercer and TNS India.

Complete Story here.

Must be wondering why I am blogging about Apple iPhone. By the time you will read this post, you might already have read much about its cool features, user experience and what not.

I am just trying to bring some attention to other contextual news, happened in and around same time Steve announced its launch

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I found two interesting links today:

1- Yahoo Messenger for Vista:

A really good UI and much improved User Experience in the new Yahoo messenger made for Windows Vista Machine using WPF technology. I really liked the features explained in this video and waiting to use it as soon as its available. Read More

2- CPUID.com : Lately I am thinking to upgrade my old & slow Compaq Presario 2109 laptop’s RAM to 1 Gig so that Vibha can work effectively on her memory intensive graphic design work. I had no idea how much RAM i can upgrade that into and what all frequency my machine can support.

I found one program cpu-z on www.cpuid.com which allowed me to peek into too many intricacies about various hardware installed on my machine. It told be about type of ram, slot available, frequency and what not.

Interestingly both of these links I got from my friend Vinil.

Tried hugging YouTube.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4]
I have been waiting for a while so that YouTube allows me to post videos to my wordpress self hosted blog, and here it is.

Lets see how it comes to the blog

Update: this doesnt seems to be working well with wordpress self hosted blog. Does anyone was able to do it successfully??

All of us have sun glasses, but ever wondered what does it take to make one?

Check this MetaCafe Movie.

He could finally came to meet us and talked about TeNet and lot of interesting things, some of the which I found interesting are below

• TeNet incubated some 18 companies.
• Quote ‘Entrepreneurship scales nothing else’
• Created Midas first company for wireless in local loop
• n-Logue another incubated company which created PCO styled low cost internet cafe for villages.
• VorTex low cost ATM  for village which actually have fingure print recognition.
• Online tutorial for SSLC Public Examination got created by TeNet group.
• Interesting Rain Insurance for farmers who have dependent on rain water heavily in India.
• Rural BPO initiative: What urban people are doing it for west, villages can do for urban people.
• And he talked about dreaming big, certainly biggest thing we need to be successful.

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