At the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) in Santa Barbara, California this week, Microsoft Researchers are showing off some experimental touch interaction projects that look beyond the flat glass touchscreen and move into different areas where touch-sensitivity could be employed. OmniTouch, one of the projects making a major appearance this week, uses a pico projector and… Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : BetaNews – CES 2007 Discovery Date : 17/10/2011 05:08 Number of articles : 2
‘You kinda gotta step up and be a family man, and she deserves it,’ newly engaged MC tells MTV News. By Matt Elias Game and fiancee Tiffany Cambridge Photo: James Michael Lacsina/ MTV News INGLEWOOD, California — You would never consider rapper the Game “soft,” especially on his home turf of Los Angeles. But the MC showed us his vulnerable side by proposing to longtime girlfriend Tiffany Cambridge on Wednesday afternoon (October 12). Game staged the big surprise at Frank D. Parent Elementary School, where Cambridge works as a teacher. The school’s principal even got in on the plan, calling Cambridge to an afterschool “meeting” where Game was waiting anxiously with the couple’s two children. Cambridge arrived with a big look of suspicion on her face to a room full of people. As family, faculty, media and the couple’s bishop looked on, Game got down on one knee and said, “I just wanted to ask you: Would you marry me?” Game’s girl immediately answered with, “Oh, yes, Jayceon” (his actual first name), and the two embraced to a cheering crowd. “I’m just, like, in shock right now, so excuse my expression,” Cambridge told the room. “I am the deer-in-a-headlight type of person.” The same could be said for Game. For an artist who exudes confidence, it was rare to see the rapper nervous — well, as much as he would let on. But he admitted prior to popping the question that he was pretty anxious. “As a man, this is that day where you throw your player card away and you kinda gotta step up and be a family man, and she deserves it,” Game told MTV News immediately following the proposal. “It’s been a long run, and we’ve been together at least seven years. We’ve been off, we’ve been on, we’ve been arguing, we fought. We had good times and bad times, and I think that at the end of the day, as a man, this is something that I owed to her and I owed to my family, so it was time.” While the proposal seemed planned to the very last detail, you would be surprised how it all came together. “The planning was all quick, last minute. I woke up today with a different headspace, and I just started planning this at 10 a.m., and we pulled it off by 2 [p.m.]. Four hours to pull all these media outlets, get the school in line, the principal, the bishop from the church to come down. The sun came out, obviously [I’m] sweating here, crazy.” With Game’s success at prepping all these details, he might even get in on the wedding planning himself. Well, maybe. “No, no, no — I’m gonna stay on the Xbox, I’m gonna play ‘Madden,’ I’m gonna let her plan it all the way out, and then I’m gonna go overseas and get whatever she needs so she can successfully have the wedding of her life,” Game said. So what’s the next step for the engaged couple? “Hopefully a nice dinner and some lovemaking!” Game joked. This caps a successful couple of months for the rapper, whose R.E.D. Album debuted at #1 in late August. Share your well-wishes for the newly engaged couple in the comments! Related Artists The Game
The real-life case of Dr. Evil’s Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery henchman Random Task continues to get more and more disturbing in ways that even the most twisted Bond villains couldn’t match. Mixed martial artist-turned-actor Joseph Son, currently serving a life sentence for a 1990 gang rape, is now suspected of killing his cellmate in California’s Wasco State Prison. An autopsy and investigation is underway. [ THR ]
A leading cardiologist for the California Medical Board told a jury today that Dr. Conrad Murray was grossly negligent in his treatment of Michael Jackson. Dr. Alon Steinberg testified that Murray, who’s facing involuntary manslaughter charges in the June 2009 death of the pop icon, demonstrated an “extreme deviation” from standard practices in the medical care he provided. That, more than anything else, could lead to Murray’s conviction. The Michael Jackson autopsy photo displayed in court Tuesday and Murray’s recording of the delirious star are chilling, but don’t necessarily prove his guilt. Steinberg’s testimony is a different ballgame. We’re not on the jury, but it’s hard to imagine they won’t be influenced by some of this expert’s views. He reviewed Murray’s case relying solely on transcripts from his police interview because he wanted “to judge Dr. Murray on his very own words.” Dr. Steinberg made it clear that he is a cardiologist, not an anesthesiologist. That said, these are a few of his observations of Murray’s medical care: Murray did not take notes, typically standard for insurance and legal reasons, but most importantly for the patient … this caused confusion in the ER. Murray lacked basic medical equipment in case of an emergency; In addition, Murray didn’t have an assistant on hand in case of an emergency. There were six separate, distinct deviations of standard of medical care. Each example of Murray’s deviations amounts to “gross negligence.” Propofol is used for procedures in a hospital, never as a sleep aid. Murray’s biggest mistake was not making the 911 call immediately .
Prince Harry sure knows how to make splash in the U.S. Having arrived in California for military training, the Prince of Wales proved himself quite the hero on a night off, coming to the rescue in a poolside bar incident. Harry and his Army buddies were watching an England rugby match on TV at the rooftop pool of San Diego’s Andaz Hotel, when someone got the bright idea to toss another bar-goer, Lindsay Swagerty, into the water – fully clothed . ” Prince Harry was the first to notice me when I got out and he wrapped his towel around me to keep me warm,” Swagerty, 23, said after her unexpected plunge. “It was such a gentlemanly thing to do.” The young professional not only kept Harry’s towel as a souvenir, but the next night she and her friends met up with him and his friends for beer and shots. Says Swagerty: “He is probably the most charming man I’ll ever meet.” He is single, from what we’ve heard … sorry, Chelsy Davy . Which begs the question: Who should Prince Harry marry?
Steve Jobs was one of us. The ultimate anti-establishment rebel who became the establishment, yet refused to play by anyone else’s rules. A geek kid from California who dropped out of college, played with electronics in his garage, and over the course of his 56 years, changed the world forever. Jobs’ fans and admirers are paying tribute to him today in whatever ways they know how, and here are 20 of… Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : Forever Geek Discovery Date : 06/10/2011 23:18 Number of articles : 3
Among other testimony, a much-hyped slurred phone recording is played in full. By Gil Kaufman and Kara Warner Dr. Conrad Murray looks on during trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court on October 5 Photo: Getty Images After bringing a succession of Dr. Conrad Murray’s girlfriends to the witness stand, on Wednesday (October 5), prosecutors in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson ‘s personal physician focused on the kinds and amounts of drugs Murray ordered in the months leading up to the pop star’s death at age 50 on June 25, 2009. The most anticipated moment of the day was the promise of the full recording of a slurred-sounding Jackson recorded on Murray’s phone in the weeks before the “Thriller” singer’s death. Bits of the tape were played during the prosecution’s opening statements. Among the testimony Wednesday:
Producer Tricky Stewart reveals that singer is in studio working on leftovers from their Teenage Dream sessions. By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Vanessa White Wolf Katy Perry Photo: Steve Granitz/ WireImage She may still be releasing tracks off Teenage Dream thanks to her latest single, “The One That Got Away,” but Katy Perry is already hard at work on some other super-special, top-secret musical project. Producer Tricky Stewart, who worked with Perry on three Teenage Dream songs, is back at work with the California Gurl herself, prepping some music with the singer. “Katy and I went into [the studio] just to address some issues with records that we had done in the past that didn’t end up going on Teenage Dream, ” he told MTV News. “So we are in the process of just listening and freshening up things and getting ready for something special she has going on.” What is it that she is readying? Well, Stewart doesn’t exactly know, or maybe he just doesn’t want to say. “I don’t know what it is, but I know she has something going on because she wants to be in the studio,” he said. “So that’s good. … I can tell you that Katy likes the studio again; that’s always a good thing.” While he couldn’t shed much light on the project itself, he did reveal the name of the song. “This song is really special. It’s called ‘Dressing Up,’ so it’s going to be a big record, I think,” he said. “It definitely fits. It’s right there in what her sensibilities are as a musician and a songwriter. She doesn’t change much. She has a very keen musical taste. It’ll be really good.” The music they are working on is using some leftovers from their Teenage Dream sessions. And they hope to finally put that magic out into the world. “We always knew that the records we created were special [and] at the time it was more contractual obligation [that they didn’t make the record],” he explained, noting all the success the singer has experienced with the record, which includes five #1 songs . “I can only have so many songs produced by me on the record. She didn’t need to have extra songs at the same time.” Related Photos The Evolution Of: Katy Perry
The two married in California over the weekend, with Jonah Hill, Adam Sandler, Paul Rudd in attendance. By Jocelyn Vena Lauren Miller and Seth Rogen (file) Photo: Theo Wargo/ Getty Images A big mazel tov to Seth Rogen! While fans were hitting up the movie theaters this weekend to see his film “50/50,” Rogen was busy marrying his longtime lady love, Lauren Miller. People.com reports that a number of Rogen’s pals and former co-stars, including Jonah Hill, Adam Sandler and Paul Rudd, attended the California ceremony on Saturday. The pair married in Sonoma in a location overlooking a nearby vineyard. A female rabbi married the pair with other friends like “Knocked Up” director Judd Apatow, his actress wife Leslie Mann and “The Office” star Craig Robinson in attendance. After the pair tied the knot they reportedly drove off in a convertible to another location for the A-list reception. A source tells Usmagazine.com that “the wedding was more laughs than anything else. Every other line was a joke and the crowd couldn’t contain their laughter. It was nonstop fun!” The festivities reportedly took place over three days. Rogen’s cancer dramedy, “50/50,” co-starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, opened on Friday and came in at a solid #4, right behind “Dolphin Tale” (#1), “Moneyball” (#2) and “The Lion King” (#3). Rogen and his writer bride met back in 2004 when he was a writer on “Da Ali G Show.” When he was on “Conan” last November he opened up about popping the question to Miller a couple months before, in September. “Literally, I felt like someone had given me like a truckload of heroin to hold onto, I felt like the feds were going to kick in my door at any second,” he said of buying the engagement ring. “I couldn’t have a conversation with my girlfriend. All I could think of was this ring. Like, ‘Don’t say ‘Lord of the Rings’! Don’t mention anything about a ring!” He joked that the proposal wasn’t perfect: He did it while she was dressing. “I didn’t picture it like this, and I know she didn’t picture it like this,” he recalled. “No little girl is like ‘It’ll happen in a closet with my [chest] out.’ ” Leave your well-wishes for the couple in the comments below!
