I’m up in Redmond this week and I stopped by to abuse the CodePlex.com team. I got to see their hardware, build servers, server room and more. You can even see how they abuse the test team. Lots of fun with Sara, Jonathan and the Whole Codeplex.com Team.
Braincandy for your needs…
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Hanselminutes on 9 – Inside CodePlex.com
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HP Touchsmart 9100 Multitouch Business PC
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When I heard Microsoft’s Brion Taylor would be visiting the HP Smart Home to see the new TouchSmart hardware, I grabbed a camera and tagged along. This hardware refresh has some significant improvements including better multitouch detection, ambient light, Blu-Ray, TV Tuners and HP software. For consumers, there is the 20″ TouchSmart 300 at $899, and the 23″ TouchSmart 600 ($1049) (see that video here). The 600 has the best options for a more robust processor, different TV Tuners. Both have HDMI inputs on the side for your Xbox 1080p gaming goodness. For business users there is the TouchSmart 9100 ($1299), with DVI output instead of HDMI. There is also a refreshed TouchSmart TX2 laptop, you can see a video on that here.
These launch with Windows 7 starting October 22nd with the TouchSmart 300 launching on November 1.
A Look at HP TouchSmart 300 and 600
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When I heard Microsoft’s Brion Taylor would be visiting the HP Smart Home to see the new TouchSmart hardware, I grabbed a camera and tagged along. This hardware refresh has some significant improvements including better multitouch detection, ambient light, Blu-Ray, TV Tuners and HP software. For consumers, there is the 20″ TouchSmart 300 at $899, and the 23″ TouchSmart 600 ($1049). The 600 has the best options for a more robust processor, different TV Tuners. Both have HDMI inputs on the side for your Xbox 1080p gaming goodness. For business users there is the TouchSmart 9100 ($1299), with DVI output instead of HDMI (see that video here). There is also a refreshed TouchSmart TX2 laptop, you can see a video on that here.
These launch with Windows 7 starting October 22nd with the TouchSmart 300 launching on November 1.
Dare to Dream Different was a contest held to see what cool ideas people could come up with using a standard hardware reference board using .NET Micro Framework. During the final judging, I got together with the finalists and talked to them about the projects they submitted.
Second Place winner Deon Schaffer shows us his very fragarent system that controls aroma therapy in a home both locally and remotely.
Dare to Dream Different was a contest held to see what cool ideas people could come up with using a standard hardware reference board using .NET Micro Framework. During the final judging, I got together with the finalists and talked to them about the projects they submitted.
In this video, second place winner Slava Vassiliev, who speaks a little more English than I speak Russian, shows us his system for tracking health statistics from remote devices and interfaces with HealthVault.
Dare to Dream Different – Finalist Gudmund Aasgaard
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Dare to Dream Different was a contest held to see what cool ideas people could come up with using a standard hardware reference board using .NET Micro Framework. During the final judging, I got together with the finalists and talked to them about the projects they submitted.
In this video, we meet Gudmund Aasgaard from Norway who created a device to remotely control large animals using a system of dynamic fences. Gudmund was one of two finalists in the contest.
The Labs of Microsoft Hardware 6 of 6
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You may have heard that Microsoft recently expanded the campus a little, one of the teams that had grown out of their space was Microsoft Hardware. The hardware team invited me over to see The Labs of Microsoft Hardware and check out the process behind creating and testing products like the Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000 and the Lifecam Cinema HD.
We end our look at the Labs of Microsoft Hardware by looking at one of the coolest rooms I’ve ever been in. It is the anechoic chamber in the Audio Lab. Now, I knew going in that this was going to be a quiet room. But I had no idea just how quiet. Even when you have the best soundproofing on your head, you’re still subjected to vibrations through your entire body. This room is even vibration-proof. The results are almost scary, leaving you with a feeling that you’ve just disconnected from the world.
The Labs of Microsoft Hardware 5 of 6
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You may have heard that Microsoft recently expanded the campus a little, one of the teams that had grown out of their space was Microsoft Hardware. The hardware team invited me over to see The Labs of Microsoft Hardware and check out the process behind creating and testing products like the Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000 and the Lifecam Cinema HD.
Today we look at the Reliability Lab, where more devastation is rained upon Microsoft products than at a WWDC parking lot. Cables are pulled, stains are applied, even a fake Sun is cast upon our plastic, all in an effort to give you products that can take abuse with the best of them.
See all previous videos here.
The Labs of Microsoft Hardware 5 of 6
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You may have heard that Microsoft recently expanded the campus a little, one of the teams that had grown out of their space was Microsoft Hardware. The hardware team invited me over to see The Labs of Microsoft Hardware and check out the process behind creating and testing products like the Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000 and the Lifecam Cinema HD.
Today we look at the Reliability Lab, where more devastation is rained upon Microsoft products than at a WWDC parking lot. Cables are pulled, stains are applied, even a fake Sun is cast upon our plastic, all in an effort to give you products that can take abuse with the best of them.
See all previous videos here.
The Labs of Microsoft Hardware 4 of 6
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Microsoft recently expanded the campus a little, one of the teams that had grown out of their space was Microsoft Hardware. The hardware team invited me over to see The Labs of Microsoft Hardware and check out the process behind creating and testing products like the Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000 and the Lifecam Cinema HD.
Today we look at the Video Lab, where webcams are tested against subjective and objective measures to make sure that they give you an accurate picture, but also to make you look your best when the conditions and lighting in the room are bad.
See all previous videos here.