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Nobody likes to wait for their computers/cellphones/devices to boot-up and many technologies are now being worked upon to get rid of the startup delays, we already have solutions like Instant On Splashtop OS before us and developments like "SwiftBoot" providing sub-second boot speeds for embedded Linux devices has made things look much more promising in near future.

Check-out the video demonstration of this super-fast Linux boot next.

VLC Media Player has been trusted by millions on PC, Linux and Mac platforms as being one of the most easy to use, no-frills multimedia player. Well-known for it's ability to play almost any multimedia format, the player made it's debut to Apple iOS platform recently but has now been pulled down from iTunes Store as it's Terms and Conditions don’t allow users to install any hosted app on more than five devices which is against the GNU license VLC’s code is supplied under.

Thankfully VLC Media Player For iOS application is still available via Cydia and as an independent install for advanced users, download links available after the jump.

We want our computers to be as fast as possible, and one of the most annoying issue with today's operating-systems has been slow booting time. While there are already various developments going on to make computer booting faster, how about an Instant-On addon to your existing operating-system for times when you want fast-access to internet, email, chat, multimedia and files on your computer without needing to boot-up the fully-loaded operating-system ?

Well if you said "yes" Splashtop OS is for you - a fast instant-on Linux-based platform running Chromium delivering power-on and go desktop experience, Splastop OS has been available for quite some time as an customized OEM bundle with various laptops and net-books and now has been made available for free to anyone as an install on top of your existing OS version.

After installation when you computer power is switched-on it boots into Splashtop which automatically boots-out to Windows after pre-configured time passes without any action.

Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 was aimed to bring games and entertainment to life in extraordinary new ways with no controller required, the intelligent senors inside Kinect recognize and respond to body gestures allowing a completely different way to enjoy games. Kinect is officially supplied as an addon-accessory for Microsoft XBOX 360 but thanks to OpenNI driver-port releases for Windows and Linux enthusiast are expanding a whole new horizon of gesture control applications and hacks utilizing Kinect platform.

In some interesting progress at Technical University of Munich, Germany, researchers utilized Kinect to produce a virtual X-ray that allows users to see the skeleton under their skin. The project name Kinect Magic Mirror generates an overlay of a video image with volume visualization from a CT volume and body-movement tracking using Kinect resulting in an impressive 3D Augmented Reality output as shown in the video posted next.