Kinect – Top Selling Tech Toy, with an estimated 100,000 units per day being sold.

With Kinect for Xbox 360, a Microsoft product
You are the controller. No gadgets, no gizmos, just you!

Kinect brings games and entertainment to life in extraordinary new ways without using a controller. Imagine controlling movies and music with the wave of a hand or the sound of your voice. With Kinect, technology evaporates, letting the natural magic in all of us shine.

Controller-free gaming means full body play. Kinect responds to how you move. So if you have to kick, then kick. If you have to jump, then jump. You already know how to play. All you have to do now is to get off the couch.

Sounds like a lot of fun!

This is cool. We need some of this in Canada. China has begun operating the world’s fastest dedicted rail line: a 968-kilometer line linking Wuhan, in the heart of central China, to Guangzhou, on the southeastern coast. The “WuGuang” line trains (locally built variants of Japan’s Shinkansen and Germany’s InterCity Express high-speed trains) raced along at up to 394 kilometers per hour (or 245 miles per hour). They have also recorded an average speed of 312 kph in nonstop runs four times daily since the WuGuang’s December 26 launch, slashing travel time from Wuhan to Guangzhou from 10.5 hours to less than three.

EmTech India 2010will be held March 8-9th, is a two-day summit exploring next-generation technologies and their impact on business and society. The event will attract top decision makers from the technology, engineering, investment and management communities from around the world. The event will also feature the first ever India TR35 list and awards ceremony, which recognizes the 35 top innovators under the age of 35.

It’s 2010 now! Lists, lists, lists, all kinds of the Best of Lists.

One of interest to us, is Times Best Inventions of 2009! A big list of 50 best inventions.

My TOP 5 Favs include, #2 Tuna in a Tank (love sushi), #3 a new light bulb by Phillips (saves energy), #6 Teleportation, #35 Handyman’s Xray, and #42 the super suit.

Check them out here Best Inventions of 2009

All kinds of industry sectors are involved, these new products and services will hopefully serve us well.

the future is waiting, and lots of new tech is out there. Top stuff coming our way…

1 Google’s push into mobile, with rumours it will be launching its own handset, the Nexus One, on 5 January on both sides of the Atlantic

2 The long-awaited Apple tablet is due out in March-Apr 2010. If it does appear in 2010, the most fascinating effect will be on the burgeoning e-reading market.

Here a link to some interesting design info

3 Cloud computing. The benefits of storing data online rather than on your computer are still a mystery to many, but the expansion of Google’s App Engine and the launch of Microsoft’s Azure Platform on 1 January

4 The life recorder. Hang these on your neck and the quantity of personal data will leap, capturing photos, video, sound and location data, like a personal black box.

5 Flexi-displays, Wistron is rumoured to be launching an e-reader next year with a flexible, pull-out display – heralding a new era of affordable and foldable electronics.

macbook touch design

a new MACbook Pro, 17″ just landed on my desk, wow, i am loving this technology, my first MAC. I wonder what took so long to MAC!

This should help me immensely as we go forward, blogging about ideas, inventions, innovations and technology.