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Kodak PlayTouch preview

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:21:00 +0000

While Sony’s new Bloggie Touch provides the template for how simple and easy a touchscreen camcorder could really be, Kodak’s similarly well built and attractive PlayTouch provides a stark contrast, with a modicum of simplicity on the surface, but a megaton of functionality to uncover. The PlayTouch isn’t as pick-up-and go as the Bloggie, but the basic touchscreen controls can be quickly mastered. What sets the PlayTouch apart are the in-depth features like an external microphone jack (complete with gain control), video effects (like black & white and sepia modes), and the particularly ambitious video editor.

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Holy localization, Badman! It’s No Heroes Allowed for PSP

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:15:00 +0000

Though a European trailer for No Heroes Allowed , the third game in the What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord!? series, was released during Gamescom, news of a North American release remained up in the air (instead of buried in a hastily-dug dungeon, where it belonged).

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Holy localization, Badman! It’s No Heroes Allowed for PSP

Global Qi wireless power standard released, Energizer and Sanyo announce products

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:02:00 +0000

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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Silicon oxide forms solid state memory pathways just five nanometers wide

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:47:00 +0000

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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Sony Bloggie Touch preview: an actually simple ’simple camcorder’

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:31:00 +0000

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’

Philips Dimenco glasses-less 3D TV of the future, hopefully our future

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:15:00 +0000

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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Make a music video for Left 4 Dead’s Midnight Riders

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:00:00 +0000

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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iFixit celebrates Friday with teardown of Virtual Boy, the greatest game console man has ever known

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:00:00 +0000

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

Infrared Nerf autocannon hunts predators, little sisters too (video)

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:43:00 +0000

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)

LG’s 31-inch OLED spin-slices its way into our cold LCD hearts

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:19:00 +0000

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