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UAE will get Podium, world’s largest LED screen
By Brenda Stokes on Wednesday, Oct 8th 2008 2 CommentsEpson low-cost Anti-Shake Technology helps reduce blur for phone cam
By Daniel Lim on Tuesday, Oct 7th 2008 No CommentsNovice user of camera on a phone are less likely to know the relation between shutter speed and blur images. In general, the faster the shutter speed the more accurately you can freeze actions to avoid blur image. Unfortunately most camera phone doesn’t allow basic operation like aperture, shutter, and ISO control – images shot at low light condition are potentially blur. Epson Toyocom Corp has developed a new anti-shake technology based on the relation without the high cost of optical or sensor-based image stabilizer.
DARPA submersible aircraft is part plane, part submarine
By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Oct 7th 2008 1 CommentNew concepts and science breakthroughs are always interesting to read up on. That’s why when I saw what DARPA was up to yesterday, I just had to write about it for you all. DARPA is working to develop a submersible aircraft. Yup, you read that right.
Sanyo develops 12x Blu-ray laser diode, boosts twice the capacity and speed
By Daniel Lim on Monday, Oct 6th 2008 1 CommentSanyo has announced the development of a new a Blue Laser Diode, twice as fast and about the same size as Sharp’s Blue-Violet, to offer multi-layer recording on Blu-rays disc up to 100GB in 10 minutes.
Silicon Image’s InstaPort promises sub second HDMI switching
By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Oct 2nd 2008 No Comments
If you have multiple HDMI sources connected to a pre-pro, switcher or TV display, have you ever noticed the rather irritating lag time during switching? I do, I have a desktop display that take about 10 seconds then display a failed HDCP authentication message (it works nevertheless) on the screen every time I turn the TV on. On my Home Theater setup, I have five HDMI sources connected to a Preamp processor. The lag time varies from 3 to 5 seconds, better than the LCD display but could definitely improve with the InstaPort from Silicon Image.
NASA turns 50 today
By Brenda Stokes on Wednesday, Oct 1st 2008 No Comments
Can you believe it, folks? NASA started up for business 50 years ago today on October 1, 1958 when the first employees sat down to a day’s work. And even better yet, NASA is still doing what they do best: giving us permission to look to the sky in wonder with a tangible hope of knowing what lies beyond our world.
NASA has done many an impressive thing over the past 50 years. There were the moon landings, the space stations, satellite launches and more. And of course, they have been associated with a few tragedies as well including the Challenger, Columbia and a launchpad fire.
TDK records highest surface recording density of HDD
By Daniel Lim on Tuesday, Sep 30th 2008 No Comments
Last week Toshiba claimed the world’s largest 1.8-inch hard drive with industry’s highest areal density at 378Gbit/inch²; TDK has taken the new lead the announcement of 803Gbits/inch2 at CEATEC today. A technology would result in a single 1.8 inch double side disk of 260GB thanks to an improve TMP head.
Sigma Design SOC’s SMP8644, good candidate for Tivo S4?
By Daniel Lim on Monday, Sep 29th 2008 No Comments
Robust interactivity and powerful multimedia processing System-On-Chip will soon feature on next generation IPTV set-top boxes, IP cable set-top boxes, and Blu-ray players thanks to the availability of Sigma Design’s SMP8644. The company has announced its highest performance SOC yet promised to deliver feature-rich SOC at CEATEC show this week. Tru2Way, BR Profile 2.0, Dual SATA-2, USB, Ethernet controller, NAND and NOR flash module controllers are among many features integrated in SMP8644 SOC.
Hyperion Power’s portable nuclear reactors could ship by 2013
By Brenda Stokes on Friday, Sep 26th 2008 4 CommentsLate last year word first got around about the portable nuclear reactors Hyperion Power was planning on developing. But now in late 2008, the company is still committed to the idea and have even set a shipping date of June 2013. That’s pretty ambitious!
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Hitachi shows prototype of new wooo display- Features RGB backlit LCD with 15mm thin profile
By Daniel Lim on Friday, Sep 26th 2008 No CommentsHitachi 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.
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