Zediva, an innovative and unlicensed DVD streaming company that ran afoul of Hollywood, has shut the online doors to its private theater to comply with a federal court order.

Zediva sent an e-mail to members late Wednesday with the same message that now adorns its homepage:

You may have heard by now that we’re having to lay off our DVD-changing monkeys… :-)

A couple of years ago we came up with an idea for the next generation of DVD rentals. It seemed to us logical and evolutionary that if a customer was able to rent and play a DVD in his home, there should be no reason why he or she could not...

According to a recent Apple patent, embedded projector technology may be closer to a reality than previously thought. Image: Patently Apple

Maybe an iPhone with an embedded projector isn’t so far off after all.

A patent uncovered by Patently Apple reveals Apple’s intention to eventually include a mini projector in the iPhone and iPad and a pico projector-like accessory for MacBooks.

But the most incredibly novel and useful part of the patent description isn’t the projector. It’s the advanced gesturing analysis that would be used in conjunction with the projector to interpret shadow or silhouette ...