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Sleep mask is for sleepy train passengers

Brenda Stokes, Oct 17th 2008 Discuss [0]

If you have to take a train a lot in order to commute to work or around town, you no doubt get sleepy sometimes. That's why Pyocotan, a manga artist, has come up with "Noriko-san," a sleek mask that relies on the kindness of other passengers to work. Read The Full Story

Objet Alaris 30 Desktop 3D Printer creates prototypes on the fly

Brenda Stokes, Oct 15th 2008 Discuss [0]

3D printers have been around for quite some time, but they're just now getting streamlined enough to fit in an office space. That's what makes the Alaris 30 Desktop 3D printer from Objet stand out. Read The Full Story

Samsung & LG Display showcase OLED & AMOLED panels

Chris Davies, Oct 15th 2008 Discuss [0]

The International Meeting on Information Display (IMID) 2008 kicked off in Korea yesterday, and both Samsung and LG Display brought along their latest OLED-based displays for a little screen-quality sparring. LG tried valiantly, with their 19-inch OLED panel, but Samsung's smaller, 14-inch panel fought back with the lower power-requirements of AMOLED while their larger 31-inch full-HD panel won the war of inches. Read The Full Story

Digital Cube Telson UMPC with 3D video camera set for release

Chris Davies, Oct 3rd 2008 Discuss [0]

Telson's 3D UMPC prototype, last seen in June, could be closer to a commercial release than expected, after new company owners Digital Cube announced their intentions to bring it to market. With a 4.3-inch touchscreen, 1.2GHz VIA C7-M processor, 512MB RAM and 30GB hard drive, the Telson device's particular talent is its 3D screen and - courtesy of a newly unveiled attachment - 3D video capture. Read The Full Story

Hitachi concept WOOO camcorder can stream HD video on TV wirelessly

Daniel Lim, Oct 2nd 2008 Discuss [0]

Hitachi at CEDIA 2008 showcases a concept digital camcorder that is capable of streaming HD video to a TV display wirelessly. The prototype video camera captures video on its HDD in HD MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format, and has an SDIO standard IEEE802.11g module to transmit live feed or captured video to TV via an access point. Read The Full Story

JVC Pseudo 3D glasses are a step up from the 3D glasses of yore

Brenda Stokes, Oct 2nd 2008 Discuss [1]

A lot of prototypes for all sorts of devices are showing up at CEATEC in Japan this week. One such prototype is a pair of "pseudo 3D" glasses from JVC that convert 2D video in real time to something that resembles 3D. Read The Full Story

Sophia Peartree MID reference design: touchscreen, Atom & SSD

Chris Davies, Oct 1st 2008 Discuss [0]

Sophia isn't a name you'll likely be familiar with, unless Mobile Internet Devices are your bread & butter, but you may nonetheless be interested in their Peartree MID reference design. On show at CEATEC 2008 today, Ubergizmo got some live shots of the lime-green touchscreen device. The specs are impressive for the size: an Intel Atom CPU, 4GB SSD storage and 5-inch WSVGA display (1024 x 600) display. Read The Full Story

Microsoft Research Codex: dual OQO touchscreen digital book

Chris Davies, Oct 1st 2008 Discuss [1]

Ken Hinckley, of Microsoft Research, has been working on a dual-touchscreen multi-tasking prototype called Codex, taking two of OQO's Model 2 UMPCs and using intelligent software to manage how information is spread between the displays. Rather than manually positioning different windows on a single large screen, Ken's concept recognizes that, say, reference and in-progress documents are more appropriately separated for efficiency; it can therefore automatically adjust them to fit the two touchscreens. Read The Full Story

Hitachi shows prototype of new wooo display- Features RGB backlit LCD with 15mm thin profile

Daniel Lim, Sep 26th 2008 Discuss [0]

Hitachi has today announced an ultra thin LCD display prototype at CEATEC Japan. Measured at a mere 15mm in depth, the new WOOO is 58% thinner than current production of Wooo UT series. The 37-inch prototype replaced IPS panel with newest and better RGB backlit LCD model and also boasted a huge color gamut of 150% wider than HD Rec.709 color space. Read The Full Story

Seek wristband combines GPS, MP3 player

Brenda Stokes, Sep 2nd 2008 Discuss [1]

How would you like to have a GPS device on your wrist? It certainly would make traveling easier and jogging in unknown territory less perilous. And though the Seek isn’t all that attractive, in principle, it’s going places. Read The Full Story

Microsoft Spherical Surface to be shown at DemoFest 2008

Chris Davies, Jul 24th 2008 Discuss [1]

Microsoft will be demonstrating a spherical version of their multitouch-capable Surface system at the company's Research Faculty Summit 2008 DemoFest, according to their own booth map. The phrasing suggests that Surface, which is currently a flat table that can respond to multiple points of contact (see our two hands-on demos here and here), has developed into a round display that would be more usable by a larger number of people. Read The Full Story

ASUS Trinity triple-GPU video card benchmarked

Chris Davies, Jul 24th 2008 Discuss [0]

When they're not pumping out minute variations in Eee designs, ASUS have been taking the time to throw together some interesting prototypes. Today's example, the ASUS Trinity, is a proof-of-concept video card that comprises three GPUs; basically, it's three notebook versions of the ATI Radeon HD 3850 fitted into a specially crafted CrossFireX 'board. Read The Full Story