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Wired Wednesday: Tribe, Project Zanzibar & Magic Pixels

ByJohn

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I spoke about these tech topics for Wired Wednesday with Ben Wilson:

  • Tribe combines arcade games with group video chat (source)
  • Microsoft’s Project Zanzibar: Smart mat interaction device (source)
  • Mind-bending new screen technology uses ‘magic pixels’ to display different content to multiple people (source)

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