Head-mounted displays are one of those great ideas that, in practice, few people actually go for. Yes, having the effect of a full-sized TV with the bulk (and cost) of a set of chunky designer sunglasses is good in theory, but the look can put people off. Vuzix sent us their OLED-toting iWear AV230XL headset, which promises the experience of watching a 44-inch screen from nine feet away. Big-screen or big-letdown? SlashGear set to finding out.
A recent German store catalog has slipped though a photography community forum and the screen shot of it indicated an EOS-1D Mark III N listed in the store inventory system. There weren’t any technical details to support the claim but a price tag of 4,250 Euros ($5,637) with the associated model. Could it be true? Will we see this overdue Mark III N in the upcoming PMA 2009 this March?
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Buffalo have become the latest firm to roll out a USB LCD sub-display. The 7-inch FTD-W71, like the Nanovision MIMO monitors and Century Japan display, is a compact desktop screen intended to give a little extra real-estate for IM windows, media players, Twitter clients and other often-glanced-at apps.
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Creepy but true: researchers at the University of California, Berkley, have managed to create a live remote-control beetle. Using six electrodes hooked up to the beetle's brain and muscles, and a 1.3g radio module carried on the bug's back, the flying rhinoceros beetle can be remotely-controlled from a nearby laptop. While the researchers have managed to electrically-control insects before, this is the first time it has been done wirelessly.
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Sony's achingly slim ZX1 HDTV - which, at 9.9mm, is being called the world's thinnest production LCD TV - will go on sale in the UK from tomorrow. The screen, which boasts full 1080p resolution, 3,000:1 contrast ratio and 100Hz refresh rate, will be available in three sizes - 42, 46 and 52-inches - and relies on side-mounted backlighting LEDs for its skinniness.
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Take a big step back, because Canon's profits are seriously tumbling. The firm - the world's largest digital camera manufacturer -reported a huge 81-percent fall in Q4 2008 profits, blaming low demand for both cameras and office equipment, together with the increasing strength of the yen.
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Mitsubishi has announced a wide color gamut 26-inch (25.5-inch) H-IPS LCD panel, RDT262WH, in Japan. Its specification, including the of claim of 97% Adobe RGB color range are closely resembling the new NEC 26-inch MultiSync LCD2690WUXi2 we reported early.
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When Apple's Phil Schiller told us that the company had picked the best facial recognition software they could find for the newest version of iPhoto, he obviously wasn't kidding. Despite claims from the Apple representatives back at Macworld that iPhoto wouldn't recognize pets, early tests by MacLife suggests otherwise. The app was capable of spotting their test subject - Lola the cat - with just as high accuracy as humans, after a little manual training.
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Accelerometers are found in all manner of cellphones and mobile devices nowadays, usually responsible for flipping screen orientation from vertical to horizontal when you want a widescreen view of a webpage. However that's not all they're good for, as this DIY motion-controlled MP3 player demonstrates. The work of an unnamed Japanese engineer, different motions - such as tilting, tapping and rotating - translate to controls such as play, pause, track skipping and volume control.
Video demo of the Motion-Controlled MP3 Player after the cut
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After Verizon Wireless' strong financial report yesterday, we've been waiting to see whether AT&T could match their arch-rival's performance. The good news (for investors and employees) is that it's been a pretty successful quarter - and year - for them too, helped in no small part by Apple's iPhone 3G. In fact AT&T activated 1.9m new iPhone 3G handsets, nearly 40-percent of which were new to the carrier, helping push Q4 2008 net income to $2.4bn and whole-year net income to $12.9bn on revenues of $124bn.
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With Velocity Mobile's 103 (not to mention its other handsets) conspicuous by its absence in the market, the company's ODM supplier, Invantec, is back with a new brand and a very slightly tweaked device. The Pharos Traveller 117, which has just cleared the FCC, looks like it's coming to the US, bringing with it a 2.8-inch VGA resolution touchscreen, quadband GSM, triband UMTS, WiFi and GPS.
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Oh, what utter fools we've been. While everyone was expecting the robot invasion to come from the skies, wiping us out in sleets of laser beams (or maybe just nets) , in actual fact they're planning on taking us one piece at a time. A Japanese 3-year-old has lost the tip of a finger in the deadly transforming limbs of a TV tie-in toy robot; apparently he's one of several young people affected by the finger-feasting monster.
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