Using a digital camera’s screen can be difficult if you are not directly behind it because LCDs look dim from many angles. Having the screen follow the user is the answer, say Taiwanese researchers. They are developing displays that have a built-in camera which tracks the position of the user’s head. Software then tweaks backlight brightness and liquid-crystal orientations to give great pictures from all angles.
Expect Google to start offering timelines of historical events that you search for. The company has filed a US patent (2007/0179952) on a way of automatically creating a timeline from data that is…
