The gadgets that received huge reception in 2011 – Part 5

7. Apple’s Macbook Air

The third and last Apple product in the list, Macbook Air did not offer many new things but the company released its benchmarking thinnest laptop with new prices this fall. The bottom line Air is ‘All Yours’ for a mere $899.

The second generation of Apple’s MacBook Air fixes many of our gripes about the ambitious original MacBook Air, adding more USB ports, an SD card slot, and a more powerful processor. Now, the Air stands to define an entire generation of so-called ultrabooks.
These superthin laptops have no hard drive, start up instantly, and–short of a touch screen–do much of what a tablet can’t thanks to their built-in keyboard. It turns out, the world still needs keyboards.

8. Siri in iOS and Kinect in Microsoft’s XBOX 360

Call 2011 the year when voice recognition and control went mainstream. Siri, the iPhone 4S’ voice controlled digital assistant, has gotten the most attention, but Microsoft made its own play with the voice-controlled Xbox 360 Kinect gaming system. (Kinect
technically debuted late in 2010, but we’ll let it slide, since a lot of the Kinect voice control fun came from hackers doing their work in 2011.)

Siri delights many, frustrates some, and has had her share of public relations crises. Still, these popular voice-controlled interfaces put speech technology in the forefront and set the tone for years of voice innovation.

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Posted by Usman Khalid on Dec 31 2011. Filed under Sci-Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry