It’s no good buying an eCoupled inductive charger if it won’t work with your Powermat , or your Touchstone . Non-standard chargers suck, so we’re glad to see that the Global Qi wireless power standard has been released, and the first products have been announced. A number of companies, Nokia and RIM to name but a few, have signed on their support, with Energizer stepping up first with the Energizer Inductive Charger.
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Global Qi wireless power standard released, Energizer and Sanyo announce products
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Silicon oxide has long played the sidekick, insulating electronics from damage, but scientists at Rice University have just discovered the dielectric material itself could become a fantastic form of storage. Replacing the 10-nanometer-thick strips of graphite used in previous experiments with a layer of SiOx, graduate student Jun Yao discovered the latter material worked just as well, creating 5nm silicon nanowires that can be easily joined or broken (to form the bits and bytes of computer storage) when a voltage is temporarily applied.
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Silicon oxide forms solid state memory pathways just five nanometers wide
Maybe we’re a bunch of idiots, but while the Flip and its ultra-simple camcorder ilk have certainly made shooting video simpler and more accessible for the masses, we still find many of these cameras surprisingly unintuitive or just “blah” at doing what they do (Kodak’s otherwise excellent Zi8 and PlaySport cameras come to mind) when it comes to UI. After playing with the horrendous Flip Slide HD , we were almost sure touchscreens would act as another obstacle to using these things, but of all people, Sony has come to the rescue
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Sony Bloggie Touch preview: an actually simple ’simple camcorder’
The problem with the future is that it’s always 3 to 5 years away. Nevertheless, what you’re looking at is what Philips and Dimenco, a small company of ex-Philips engineers, say will be coming to the consumer television market as early as 2013 — earlier if you’re in the professional advertising business or just want to view your family photos on a small 3D photo frame.
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Philips Dimenco glasses-less 3D TV of the future, hopefully our future
If you found yourself particularly inspired by the quartet of southern rock troubadours prominently featured in Left 4 Dead 2 ’s “Dark Carnival” campaign, you can now stretch your creative muscles to give one of the fictional band’s hit songs some visual flair. Valve recently announced a contest to create the best music video for the Riders’ chart topper ” Save Me Some Sugar (This Won’t Take Long) ,” which will make its debut in the upcoming ” The Sacrifice ” DLC campaign
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Make a music video for Left 4 Dead’s Midnight Riders
We still have memories — some would say nightmares, but we digress — of hanging out at a neighbor’s house and taking turns playing matches of Mario’s Tennis , our biological ocular displays assimilated into a rubber mask that engulfed our brains and left us in a permanent state of viewing the world in red wireframe. Crude 3D though it may be, it’s still a part of history we must accept, and if you happen to own a Virtual Boy, we have just two things to say to you.
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iFixit celebrates Friday with teardown of Virtual Boy, the greatest game console man has ever known
When it comes to keeping unwanted personnel out of your property, whether that be an estate or an alcove, you can’t be expected to hang around holding the big guns all day long.
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Infrared Nerf autocannon hunts predators, little sisters too (video)
Yeah, we spied a few of LG’s new 31-inch, 2.9mm thick displays the other day , but we hadn’t seen the standard TV-like configurations — which don’t mean too much, because this is still a prototype, but they’re a comfort all the same. We also managed to peep a 3D setup with the screens, which used polarized glasses and was surprisingly sharp. We promised ourselves it would just be a quick look, and that we had important things to do today, and that we really don’t need a new TV all that much..
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LG’s 31-inch OLED spin-slices its way into our cold LCD hearts
As beta testing programs go, Microsoft’s Kinect venture has been kind of… leaky
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Microsoft Kinect starts making home deliveries to beta testers
A game based on roller derby is something that never occurred to us, but it seems incredibly obvious now that someone’s doing it. Frozen Codebase announced Jam City Rollergirls , a WiiWare game based on women’s flat track roller derby and featuring real roller derby leagues. This is the second “official,” licensed WiiWare game for an unconventional sport that we can think of, and it’s far less disgusting than its contemporary
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Jam City Rollergirls rolling out on WiiWare later this year
