SecondLight, New Generation of Microsoft Surface

After the Microsoft Surface, Microsoft is now re-develop the next generation of Surface. Technology is called SecondLight, a second generation of Microsoft's Surface is still in development phase, but Microsoft already mendemonstrasikannya in TechFest 2009, the end of February.

Demo shows how SecondLight can capture the image, thanks to a projector in the device, and then detect the gesture on the display, of course thanks to infrared sensors in it. This means that the user interface does not need to appear in the surface SecondLight. According to BBC News, Microsoft SecondLight will be completed in the estimated two to three years.

Microsoft Research technology SecondLight describe your work using this pembaur LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) which can be an electronic switch or with the electric power, as the projector display SecondLight. Materials will switch between the status and turn back 'clean', so that the process of switching to be very fast and does not appear. When the turn, then a system such as Microsoft Surface normal, but when the 'clean' the project area will be up to the image display.

If the paper or placed in a glass display at the top of the Microsoft Surface SecondLight, and the secret will be seen below. LCD screen can switch between transparent and dark color, with a speed of 60 times per second. One projector displays the light from the bottom of the screen when the display in dark-colored surface, and the projector will give the other rays passing through the transparent screen.

Representation Cultural Values in Java Indonesia prose Fiction

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Various Indonesia fiction represent Javanese cultural values. Based on a study of 16 representative Indonesian fiction, it is found that the Javanese cultural values represented in them include religious, philosophical, ethical and aesthetical values. Within the works, the four kinds of values are treated as a form of symptomization toward Javanese cultural values, as a affirmation and at the same time conservation and restoration, diagnosis, critic and reformation towards Javanese cultural values and negation towards other alternatives of Javanese cultural values. They can be contrued as the writer's cultural response towards the locality of Javanese tradition and the Indonesia nationality-modernity.