Filed under: Displays
Researchers at USC have taken another step towards that holiest of sci-fi dreams: the 3D holographic display. Using a spinning mirror covered with a “holographic diffuser,” a special DVI implementation, and a high-speed projector, the team’s device can project a three-dimensional image that can be viewed from 360 degrees — regardless of […]
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio, Wireless
The goods from Philips just keep on comin’, but it’s not like we’re kvetching or anything. On deck is the WAC3500D, the firm’s latest Streamium home stereo, which weds an 80GB internal hard drive, iPod connectivity, and a USB port to create a fairly well appointed audio center. Additionally, […]
Filed under: Storage
Sandisk just kicked out a quartet of announcements for IFA. First up, an 8GB Memory Stick Micro (M2) card for use (primarily) in Sony Ericsson’s cellphones expected sometime in Q4. Yeah, that’s the world’s highest capacity M2 card in case you’re wondering. Also of significance is their new 2GB to 8GB uSSD 5000 […]
Filed under: Laptops
Shortly after loosing a slew of AMD-based desktops, HP and Compaq have now unleashed a trio of Pavilion and Presario laptops powered by Advanced Micro Devices. The 17-inch Pavilion dv9500z series offers up a nice selection of AMD Turion 64 X2 processors, Windows Vista, up to 4GB of DDR2 RAM, an NVIDIA GeForce […]
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Ouch. Another in a long line of disagreements with Apple about the pricing of content on iTunes, another somewhat unexpected blow to the internet’s largest digital media etailer. NBC Universal, iTunes’s number one seller, apparently backed out of renewing its contract with Apple after failing to get Cupertino to come […]