U.S. Antitrust Chief Asks Foreign Countries To Lay Off iTunes

Justice Department antitrust chief Thomas Barnett cited proposals by some foreign officials to impose restrictions on iTunes as an example of overzealous regulation that he said could discourage innovation and hurt consumers. The top U.S. antitrust official urged overseas governments to think twice before interfering with popular new technologies, singling out the over zealous scrutiny of Apple Computer’s iTunes online music...

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Go Dance VJ Tool By Belmer Negrillo

Belmer Negrillo has developed the Go Dance, a tool for club VJs to control visuals by the movement of their hands. The prototype consists in a wrist brace, 8 pin-buttons (in fact RFId tags) with icons that identifies basic commands for VJ and a box connected to the computer by USB port. The idea here is to create a tool for the Vjs control remotely, without wires, and with biomechanci gestures the video mixing. A secondary application...

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