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This is great stuff. The American astronaut was inspired by the TV series to become an astrronaut. NASA encoded the new movie for them and “beamed it up” to them this weekend.

See this NYT article for details.

The BBC filmed just a small piece of the amazing tech found on the MS Redmond campus in the Home of the Future. I’ve been pretty happy with my two TouchSmart PC’s, but I’m drooling again.

I’m especially craving the whole wall interactive piece at the end of this video.

There is a Big Brother is watching you aspect to all of this though…

As a registered geek, I never thought I’d see the day when I didn’t want to build myself an impossible screaming desktop for personal use. My real world personal desktop was getting long in the tooth (i.e., it was Circa Windows XP hardware wise and to beef it up would require a new proc, more RAM, better video, and more HD space).

Somewhere between the list of components for a new box (not to mention a high end monitor), I gave in to temptation and started playing with an IQ504 in a local store last summer. The sleek design actually was (to me) the best of that genre and really appealed to me. And it was just, well, a lot of FUN to use.

The IQ816 was “to die for” but at least $500 more. For my purposes, the IQ506 had enough awesomeness. (And I already have two Media Center OCUR/DCT boxes connected to high res widescreen displays for HDTV goodness). At the time, I didn’t have any Blu-Ray DVDs so I was pretty happy with the specs of the IQ506.

So I ordered myself an IQ506 in early October. Before the stock market and the economy took an atomic nose dive. And I knew someone that could put the old desktop to good use, so I gifted it. I’m not sorry I spent the money even though it is going to now put a cramp in my holiday plans.

Click the image above to watch a VERY entertaining demo.

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Rumors are flying that this will be officially announced tomorrow. Full frame, here I come.

Scan from a German magazine being released tomorrow.