Don't take my word for it, go check what BBC�has to say on the matter and don't forget to see the video at the bottom of the news, it is promising! You can also check Engadget and PCWorld take on it.

Just imaging what kind of cool things can be done with this? Are you thinking of role calls training? Boxing that really follows your moves? It reminds you of the screens used in the Minority Report movie?

Is it only my impression or we are becoming increasingly impatient? I remember my dad owned one of the first PCs ever... an Apple. The antique had a memory of 2MB, its screen was yellow and black and it was able to run a couple of games on those 5 1/4 inches disks. I remember I thought the thing was really fast until he brought a new one. One of the first Acers 284 with the first version of Win 3.11. I thought the Apple was now odd and slow. Same happened when dad brought an 3.84, later on a Pentium, Petium II, etc. I found them all slow when I got my laptop, with a powerful Centrino and now I find computers with Duo are becoming slow. Same thing happens if I remember the old versions of the internet and its usenet, its old chatrooms and I realize now I will wait a millisecond for a page to display before thinking it is only crap and I will close the window.

So how long will you wait for anything? And anyway... what is the rush?

90 seconds rule

We?ve interviewed lots of shoppers on the subject and have found this interesting result: When people wait up to about a minute and a half, their sense of how much time has elapsed is fairly accurate. Anything over ninety or so seconds, however, and their sense of time distorts?if you ask how long they?ve been waiting, their honest answer can often be a very exaggerated one. If they?ve waited two minutes, they?ll say it?s been three or four. In the shopper?s mind, the waiting period goes from being a transitional phase in a larger enterprise (purchasing goods) to being a full-fledged activity of its own. That?s when time becomes very bad. Taking care of a customer in two minutes is a success; doing it in three minutes is a failure.

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