XpanD has taken the wraps off what they lauding as the world’s first “Universal 3D Glasses” for use with consumer televisions as well as XpanD 3D-powered theater experiences. You would be able to purchase 1 set of glasses that you can use anywhere “active shutter” 3D technology is used.
Active Shutter glasses are battery-powered lenses that [...]
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XpanD Announces World’s First Universal 3D Glasses
AJAX Base 64 Decode/Encoder & MD5 Generator Utilities
I would like to announce the launch of a couple new AJAX-enabled online utilities that software developers might find handy:
Base64 Encoder/Decoder
MD5 Generator
For those interested the utilities are written using the Play! Framework (Java) and JQuery/JQuery UI and the Base64 and MD5 generation is backed by the Commons Codec project.
These utilities are free to use, enjoy!
Announcing Upcoming OtterBox iPhone 4 Case Giveaway!
The Buzz Media will be doing a series of reviews and Free Giveaways of the brand new OtterBox iPhone 4 cases in the coming weeks.
OtterBox is developing and releasing 3 new cases for the iPhone 4 that match 3 different levels of use:
Defender Series: The most protection, solid case, full enclosure, full protection. For worksite [...]
AT&T Announces No More Unlimited Data Plan for iPad
PRNewswire is reporting (more here) that today AT&T (the 3G carrier everyone loves) has announced that the $30/month, iPad unlimited data plan is no more for new customers. Instead the best you can get is a $25/month 2GB data plan.
Customers with existing unlimited data plans will be grandfathered in, but new iPad customers coming on [...]
Treyarch Thrusts Call of Duty Franchise Forward with Black Ops
The “Call of Duty” franchise has been shaken up this year with the venerated Infinity Ward crew responsible for the franchise and all the highest-rated releases in the series falling apart with lawsuits flying up on both sites.
Fortunately, it looks like the previous goto company for 1-off Call of Duty releases, Treyarch, has risen to [...]
GDC: Sony Announces ‘Move’ EyeToy-based Motion Controller for PS3
Sony has announced the PlayStation Move – also know as “Sony’s Wiimote” or “PlayStation Ice Cream Cone” as I like to call it.
This new motion control for the PS3 from Sony is a hybrid between Microsoft’s Project Natal and Nintendo’s Wiimote. The physical design and layout of the controller duplicates what is essentially the Wiimote [...]
Mitsubishi Announces Seamless 1080p to 4k2k Upscaling
Thanks goes to Akihabara News for the heads up that Mitsubishi has announced seamless HD upscaling to 4k2k resolution. The technology currently supports HDMI 1.4 spec but no direct Blu-ray upscaling according to Mitsubishi — which we don’t entirely understand. If the display is upscaling the signal it’s getting, what does it care of it’s [...]
redbox Blu-ray Disk Rentals Coming Q2 2010
HomeMediaMag reports that this week, Coinstar CEO Paul Davis (the parent company of redbox), said that Blu-ray disk rentals would start rolling out to the redbox kiosks mid-year and are already being tested in a few select redbox rental units around the country (currently there are around 22k redbox rental units deployed nationwide).
Davis promises the [...]
AMD Releasing 12-core "Magny Cours" CPUs in March
You need to go get your hat… and then hold onto it. What you see above is AMD’s upcoming “Magny-Cours” 12-core CPU slated for release this March — as in 2 weeks away.
These upcoming chips will be part of the Opteron 6000 family and have 3 offerings starting at speeds:
1.90 Ghz
2.10 Ghz
2.20 Ghz
Xbit Labs also [...]
HTC Unloads Nexus One Clones with Updated Custom Sense UI
For the first day of Mobile World Congress convention HTC decided to take the wraps off of 2 new pieces of hardware that directly re-use the Google Nexus One insides but installed inside some slightly nicer shells with HTC’s much-nicer custom Sense UI running on top of it.
The two devices released are:
HTC Desire (pictured above)
HTC [...]
Google Chrome OS Based on Ubuntu
As we type this Google is in the process of announcing their new Chrome OS operating system at a Google Event (TechCrunch Live Coverage). Just like the Chrome browser is based on the Chromium OS project, Chrome OS will be based on the Chromium OS project.
Glancing around the source repository for Chromium OS it looks [...]
Video and Pictures from Microsoft Store Grand Opening in Scottsdale
Many thanks to Chris Hunkele for the pics and video’s from the grand opening!
If you live in Phoenix or Scottsdale you like saw the news that Microsoft has opened it’s first (new) Microsoft Store in the Scottsdale Fashion Square mall and from the looks of things, it was a huge hit. With a few hundred [...]
Canon 5D Mark II Firmware Update Coming
Thanks to Grant Gochnauer for the heads up on the news that Canon is working on a firmware upgrade for the 5D Mark II folks that will allow 1080p video recording at 24 and 25fps.
London, 20 October 2009 – Canon today announces that it is currently developing a firmware update to the EOS 5D Mark [...]
kallasoft SmugMug Album Downloader Announced
kallasoft would like to announce the initial release of the SmugMug Album Downloader. The purpose of this software is to help you download your albums from SmugMug onto your local machine on Windows, Linux or Mac.
Comments and feedback welcome!
NETGEAR ReadyNAS RAIDiator 4.1.5 Released
NETGEAR has made available the 4.1.5 release of the RAIDiator firmware (operating system) that their ReadyNAS line of personal NAS devices run.
For those that aren’t familiar with the ReadyNAS line, they originally started as personal servers from a company named Infrant that provided more than just dumb network-attached disk space (like the Drobo), they focused [...]
Lost Planet 2 Announcement Trailer
Lost Planet 2 was announced yesterday on Xbox Live Marketplace. I don’t want to spoil all the details for eveyone so I’ll just let you watch the video for yourself.
Sony Releases New Stupid Piece of Sh1t
The Onion is awesome… for all the Sony-haters out there, I thought this was brilliant:
Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work
Kindle 2 Released – $359.00, Longer Battery, Text to Speech, More Memory, Thinner
Looks like it’s official now, the Kindle 2 has been released! Here are the highlights:
Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines
Lightweight: At 10.2 ounces, lighter than a typical paperback
Wireless: 3G wireless lets you download books right from your Kindle, anytime, anywhere; no monthly fees, service plans, or hunting [...]
Resident Evil 5 Demo Premiering on Xbox 360
Microsoft announced today that while Resident Evil 5 does not release until Friday, March 13th there will be a playable demo coming to Xbox Live on January 26th, 2008. The demo will have 2 levels that can played through in co-op mode either by yourself with AI support, two-player split-screen on a single Xbox 360, [...]
Lenovo Confirms Dual Screen Laptop
Rumors have been circulating for a while now but Lenovo has finally confirmed the details of their first dual screen laptop. The ThinkPad W700ds has a 17-inch primary display and a 10-inch secondary screen that slides out to the right. Hopefully this is the first in what will become a main stream feature for laptops. [...]
Panasonic Set to Release New Powerline Adapters at CES
PCWorld reports that Panasonic has announced they will be debuting some new Powerline devices at CES this year (in less than 2 days!).
We can only hope that these new powerline adapters are the HomePlug Powerline AV II spec-compliant devices that we’ve been waiting for… for like 2 years. The hope being that the Powerline AV [...]
Tabula Rasa Now Free
If you’ve been thinking of checking out Tabula Rasa but have not wanted to pay for a monthly subscription today’s announcement is great news for you. Not only is Tabula Rasa free going forward, but they released a lot of additional content today too. Sound too good to be true? Well there is a catch. [...]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine Game Details
While I have been known to play movie based games which turn out to be not that great I’m starting to get my hopes up a little for the X-Men Origins: Wolverine game. While no trailer has been released yet there is a single high resolution screenshot that has been released and it looks gorgeous.
Activision [...]
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