NAB 2009 To Feature Less Expensive HD Cameras

According to an article posted by TVNEWSDAY, this year’s NAB Show will showcase a variety of cost-effective cameras that feature IT efficiency and fit downsized budgets.
In something that has been historically uncharacteristic JVC, Panasonic and SONY have released a lot of information about their product offerings long in advance of NAB.
In January, JVC introduced new [...]

Coming Soon – Marvell SheevaPlug – Eco Friendly $99 Linux PC

According to SlashGear Marvell’s SheevaPlug is a device that hides an entire Linux PC in a wall-wart power supply. Priced at $99, inside it there is an ARM-based 1.2GHz Sheeva processor, 512MB of DDR2 memory, 512MB of flash storage, gigabit Ethernet and USB 2.0.
Eventually, prices are expected to drop to around $49  and it’s designed [...]

More Than 70 New Exhibitors Join the 2009 NAB Show Floor

The 2009 NAB Show will be held April 18-23 in Las Vegas and according to an NAB press release there will be more than 70 new exhibitors as well as a wide variety of traditional NAB exhibitors on the 850,000 square feet (ouch my feet!) NAB Show floor.
New exhibitors include Electronic Arts, Phillips 3D Solutions [...]

Why pay for cable? Jerry Schwartz, Associated Press Writer Loves ATSC Sidechannels

Just a short post. I found another article about the benefits of switching over to free over-the-air High Definition Digital Television. It’s titled “The wonders of the new digital channels” and its written by Jerry Schwartz of the Associated Press.  As most of you are aware some of the American analogue stations have shut off [...]

Flexible Display Allows Interaction with 3D Media for Design

The Impress flexible touchscreen by Dis.play is soft and is said to break the distance in the relationship of the human and technology. The video below is really impressive especially in the way it allows for hand molding of computer generated 3D media.
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Gasp! Stantum TouchPark – True Multitouch Interaction

Below is a demonstration of how touchscreen interaction is advancing.
Stantum’s technology employs resistive touchscreens that allows for accuracy beyond the pixel density of the display. The display offers some incredible input methods that includes gesture recognition, cursor management and physics processing.
Its market is for phone builders to stick on top of the phone with Symbian, [...]

Pulse Smart Pen

Digital pens have been around for years. They started as devices that write with ink and record the handwriting so it could be displayed on a computer screen.
Livescribe’s Pulse can actually record audio and upload notes to your Windows computer. At US$199.95 it would be an expensive pen to lose.Employing a dot-positioning system, an embedded [...]

Nano-Sized Radio –No Not The iPod Nano!– Plays Derek And The Domino’s “Layla”

Chris Jablonski ZDnet column talks about a breakthrough in radio where a receiver was built  out of a single carbon nanotube. Apparently the radio detects and plays songs and it has been noted by Scientific American as one of the first truly functional nanoscale devices. The magazine believes the radio, which is only 200 nanometers [...]

Android – Much More Than A Mobile Phone OS

In having to do some research of late on Mobile devices for a project at work my attention focused on Android. Whenever I undertake this kind of work and start seeking opinions I usually get it form people who have formed opinions based either from a consumer perspective or an experimental perspective.
Apple’s iPhone
For those who [...]

Bit Bucket Hits #10 In WordPress Fastest Growing English Daily Blog

There have been some banner days relating to this blog and today was one of them. I got a message from WordPress that on this date this blog hit number 10 on its fastest growing Blog category for English and number 19 when compared against all its language blogs. That’s pretty cool considering there are [...]