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Coliloquy’s Active Publishing Platform Lets Readers Create Designer Heroines (Demo)

Drake Martinet in Dive Into Media on January 31 at 4:26 pm PT

When we were kids, cutting-edge publishing technology was pretty much limited to “choose your own adventure” books. Coliloquy, demoing at D: Dive Into Media, offers a little more interactivity.

Khush’s Songify Live Gives the Tone-Deaf an Auto-Tune-Up (Demo)

Drake Martinet in Dive Into Media on January 31 at 11:21 am PT

Songify Live, a new app from the Gregory Brothers and app makers Khush, can Auto-Tune your voice into a viral pop song. Use with care.

The iKnow-It-All: The Full AsiaD Demo (Video)

Kara Swisher in AsiaD on November 23, 2011 at 6:10 am PT

What does a “personal learning assistant” do? Click in to find out.

Meet Kid Robot, Kibot: The Full AsiaD Demo (Video)

Kara Swisher in AsiaD on November 6, 2011 at 1:05 pm PT

It looks like a monkey, whose nose is an RFID reader, stomach is a control panel and ears are the navigational buttons. Would that my kids were that easy to control.

“Living” Photo Magic With Lytro: The Full AsiaD Demo

Kara Swisher in AsiaD on November 5, 2011 at 8:40 pm PT

Harry Potter “living” images are not just in the movies anymore.

Spooking Flipboard: Yahoo’s Livestand — Followed by Google’s Propeller — Set to Launch Next Week

Kara Swisher in Media on October 28, 2011 at 5:35 am PT

Memo to Flipboard, Pulse, CNN’s Zite and AOL’s Editions: You might want to make some room in the crowded news and social reader space — you’re about to get some bigfoot company.

Viral Video: Microsoft Songsmith Demo (Justin Bieber Can Relax Now)

Kara Swisher in Media on October 27, 2011 at 5:08 am PT

Some things you cannot even make up, such as this achingly awkward demo video for Microsoft’s Songsmith software.

Is It a Tutor, a Child Monitor or a Toy? No, It’s a Kibot (AsiaD Demo)

Bo Kim in AsiaD on October 19, 2011 at 11:42 pm PT

In a demo live on the AsiaD stage, Korea Telecom unveiled Kibot — a kid-seeking, language-teaching, monkey-looking robot aimed at young children and the parents who want to keep an eye on them.

Even More AsiaD Speakers: Yahoo’s Yang, HTC’s Wang, Samsung’s Hong and More!

Kara Swisher in AsiaD on September 12, 2011 at 10:08 pm PT

You want more AsiaD speakers, we got more. And there are more to come, too!

News Byte

I-Postmortem Wants to Make Us All Virtually Immortal

Liz Gannes in Social on September 12, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT

All of us who use the Internet are going to die at some point, and it’s not yet established what we’ll do with our online presences and whether we’ll leave digital legacies. A new entrant to the online cemetery space launching at the DEMO conference today is I-Postmortem, which offers sites for not-dead-yet people to create a sort of time capsule of their last wishes and documents stored at a Swiss data warehouse (costing a hefty $120 per year!). What seems problematic about this approach is that start-ups often die much sooner than people.