Video Interface with Recommendation Engine

Here is a further service in the range of new interfaces to access internet video. DNAStream is a video surfboard with a couple of navigation features. What makes it special are automated recommendations.

To navigate there is a menu at the left to access internet tv, a search function at the upper right and by mouse over at the bottom. The menu at the right is what makes DNAStream special. The service integrates several recommendation functions, which are realized by a recommendation engine. Opposite to social networking recommendation engines do suggest interesting stuff by technical means based on a user profile, bookmarks and maybe behavior. DNAStream has several recommendation areas, the menu at the right and a mouse over area at the bottom.

Navigaya, Meta Search Engine and Surfboard

This is a must see meta search engine and surfboard. To me it is the best designed search engine and board I saw for long, which I may describe in the range of new interfaces. For searching the most important search engines are available and for surfing and daily tasks a lot of informative and useful tools. I started this post with a brief description because the site appeared a bit slow to me, probably because of the multimedia features and the amount of tools.

So the name and the link is Navigaya and what a visitor sees first are music videos. These are arranged by top DJ's. To navigate the site one needs to learn and try a bit. Everything works by mouse over functions. If one navigates the mouse to the middle of the site, the box of the meta search appears..While searching the music keeps playing and some popups come up. This is what happens to all tasks. All popups may become expanded to full screen.

At the top left there is a music and video search box with a player to pause the music. When searching for music or videos another popup comes up at the middle of the page. Now one may edit own playlists or choose from one of the DJ's.

Further tools are available at the bottom of the page, which become visible by navigating with the mouse to the bottom. There is a lot of stuff available, the playlists again, links to well known email and social media services, office tools and information like news and weather. There is also a log in to share with others. For news there are two further menus at the middle and the right of the top.

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A TV Set with 3D Screen

I talked about the IFA fair and 3d screens and possible innovations in this range. Now a press release has reached me about a company offering a 3d tv set. Unfortunately I have not seen it at the fair, but I took some information from a press release and related reports on the internet. In former years I saw several manufacturers presenting 3d screens, which I would describe as in an early stage because of the image quality, which at least lags behind the hd trend. The reason why they have disappeared might be problems with the market entry and high product prices because of the early stage or buy out by others. What I have recognized beside the following this year has been a research project in the range of autostereoscopy.

Now there is Charisma (the homepage is german only), which at first presented its innovation in 2006 at the IFA. They have developed a solution to transform usual tv signals into a 3d experience. The up to date product has a modern flat screen and does offer an up to date or even better image quality, which is described and reported as amazing because of the natural 3d experience. While watching one looks into a horizon as one does in the real world, which means a real adventure. There are 3 screen sizes available, 46, 50 and 60 inches. The technology is already employed for medical usage. Prices are from 14,500.- up to 32,500.- Euro.