Finns give music back to air guitarists

Students in Finland have written a computer program that can translate the hand and finger movements of an air guitarist into real music. The Virtual Air Guitar Project at the Helsinki University of Technology uses a video camera to track the movements of special gloves worn by the player. The three students, Aki Kanerva, Juha Laitinen and Teemu M?ki-Patola, created a library of guitar sounds based on the pentatonic minor scale commonly used for rock guitar solos. ...more

Brace yourself for more Blue Men

The "Bunny People" may have been ludicrous, but the "Blue Men" are just plain daft. We are talking Intel advertising, and a new $300m Pentium 4 campaign is about to be launched. Yes, the worldwide campaign to trumpet the new processor, which kicks off this coming Monday, features more visual antics from the Blue Man theatre troupe. ...more

LetsBuyIt.com bows out

It looks like it's all over for co-shopping site LetsBuyIt.com, which has finally filed for bankruptcy. The company's troubles began just before Christmas when it asked a Dutch court to protect it from its creditors while it sought extra funding. ...more

New .eu domain is go

All European Union websites will begin operating under the .eu domain from today. The main Europa. ...more

03-05-2002 News roundup...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. 500,000 UK broadband connections According to figures from network operators, there are now over half a million high-speed broadband connections in the UK, Oftel has announced (involving cable and DSL modems, broadband fixed wireless and broadband satellite services). 'The 500,000 doesn't take into account the cable operators' connections for March and April, so the actual figure is significantly more,' said Oftel's Director General, David Edmonds. ...more