I’ve been extra busy the past week and have kind of skipped covering everything that I wanted too, but now I’m back!

Check out part 4 and part 4 of the Media Center University sessions at EHX.  In these two sessions Todd Rutherford from Microsoft covers everything from online streaming and downloading of content to controlling Media Center in a whole home environment.

In last week Media Center Show Ian Dixon and Ted Singh covered Embedded Automations upcoming mPanel touchscreen. 

I’ve got a post coming on SideShow later, but to get a glimpse of that you just have to see some of the new SideShow gadgets just released by Ikanos Consulting.  AccuWeather, Live Messenger and System Health.  Now yet again if we could get some more SideShow hardware this stuff would really take off.

Now so much Media Center related, but TechCrunch has a great post about building the perfect web tablet.  Their idea is for the community to develop a target $200 touchscreen tablet and then they are going to get some prototypes made up.  I’ve been waiting for the exact same thing, but I’m not sure they are going to meet their $200 price point just yet.  Nonetheless, it is something to watch out for and maybe participate in.