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Nordstrom Plays Around With Xbox's Kinect to Create Interactive Window Displays

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 6, 2011 at 5:01 pm PT

A number of hacks have already demonstrated how Microsoft’s Kinect technology can be used beyond playing games. Here’s a look at how it is helping to redefine window shopping at Nordstrom.

BoomTown Casts the Google Movie (You're Welcome, Hollywood!)

Kara Swisher in News on August 23, 2010 at 1:54 am PT

With the news that a Hollywood production company is working on a movie about Google, based on the non-fiction book “Googled: The End of the World as We Know It,” by Ken Auletta, BoomTown has been noodling on which actors would be good to cast in the various roles of the top players. While the Google film is not as juicy as the upcoming fall film about Facebook, there is plenty of opportunity to bring a little glamour to the Googleplex.

Full D8 Tech Demo Video: Microsoft's Project Natal

Kara Swisher in D8 on June 11, 2010 at 10:15 am PT

Since Microsoft will be officially unveiling its Project Natal at the Electronic Entertainment Expo gaming show next week in Los Angeles, take a preview gander of it in action at the eighth D: All Things Digital conference recently. At E3, the software giant will give the innovative gesture-based controller for the Xbox a spanking new name and will likely announce other related features.

Viral Video: Cruise Gets Diazed

Kara Swisher in News on May 17, 2010 at 5:10 am PT

I am not sure why I am enjoying this video so much, which is a viral PR effort for the upcoming Hollywood movie "Knight and Day." Perhaps because in it, Tom Cruise gets the stuffing knocked out of his jaunty grin by co-star Cameron Diaz.

Viral Video: "South Park" Reaches 200 Episodes

Kara Swisher in News on April 14, 2010 at 5:30 am PT

Here’s the teaser for the 200th episode of the animated comedy goldmine that has been “South Park.” One of the most popular shows online, too, after 14 seasons, the Comedy Central television series will air the 200th episode tonight, in which all the celebrities ever mocked on it join in a class-action lawsuit. Tom Cruise, beware!

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CES: From Lady Gaga to Punky Brewster

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 6, 2010 at 9:06 am PT

Celebrities pop up at every annual Consumer Electronics Show, with Tom Cruise, Slash, Stevie Wonder and Hulk Hogan making appearances in recent years. CES 2010, which starts Thursday, is no exception–as long as you keep your definition of celebrity broad.

YouTube Offers a Diet Option for Pudgy PCs: “Feather”

Peter Kafka in Media on December 3, 2009 at 10:17 am PT

Stuck with a slow computer or lousy broadband access, but still want your fill of dogs on skateboards? Check out YouTube Feather, a lightweight version of Google’s video site. Same clips, but with fewer options.

BoomTown Talks About the iPhone Apps Economy on the News Hour (Plus Some Future Stuff Blather)

Kara Swisher in News on September 4, 2009 at 1:52 am PT

Last night, “The News Hour With Jim Lehrer” aired a piece on “how technology companies are innovating amid the recession by designing popular new smart phone applications.” BoomTown was to talk about how perhaps not all of the 65,000 apps being created by legions of third-party developers for the Apple iPhone will result in gold, diamonds and unicorns raining down on entrepreneurs. Oddly enough, I somehow went all Jules Verne at the end and started talking about screens on coffee tables, so I am obviously just as bad.

BoomTown to ChiTown: No Posts Today, but Enjoy These Lovely Chicago Videos

Kara Swisher in News on May 7, 2009 at 3:16 am PT

BoomTown is winging it across the country for a Dow Jones event in Chicago–we do our part for the mother ship here at All Things Digital!–so there will not likely be posts today. That is, unless Yahoo and Microsoft merge, buy Twitter and mount a cavalry attack on the Googleplex. One can dream!

Don't Vote, Vote? Whatever–Spielberg's Directing an Online Video!

Kara Swisher in News on October 30, 2008 at 1:36 am PT

Not many online videos have sequels, but the one below–featuring a passel of celebrities, including Tom Cruise, Will Smith, Borat, Leonardo DiCaprio, Julia Roberts and Harrison Ford–is one and even has famed director Steven Spielberg at the helm. It is a follow-up to a PSA I posted earlier this month, called “Hollywood Declares Themselves,” encouraging young people to vote.