Sony’s HMZ-T1 is a head-mounted 3D headset, to be released later this year in Japan. Two 1280×720 OLED displays, each just 7/10 of an inch across, create a virtual 750″ screen. Perceived 20m from the viewer, it “corresponds to the sense of cinema as seen from a large central seat.” It’ll be 60,000 Yen ($785) from mid-november.
Source [Impress.co.jp]
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Yesterday, we reported about Sony, Hitachi and Toshiba planning to establish a joint venture for small and mid-size LCD panels in Japan. And today, the three companies, plus major shareholder Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, made the plan official.
As reported, the semi-public organization will control 70% of the venture (to be set up by the end of the year), with the other partners holding a 10% stake each. Tentatively named “Japan Display”, the venture will launch with a cool US$2.6 billion investment and instantly control 21.5% of the world market for small and medium-sized LCDs.
According to Japanese business daily The Nikkei, Sharp will be the second-largest maker of this type of displays with a 20% market share. The same newspaper says the four companies involved in Japan Display are currently trying to figure out where to set up plants in order to start production as quickly as possible.
Apart from LCDs, Japan Display will also invest in OLED-related research and development.
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You know what’s great? Mechanical keyboards — what with their satisfying clicks. You know what’s less awesome? Having to listen to that obnoxious racket all day. Razer claims you can have your cake (in this case, tactile feedback) and eat it too (blessed silence!) with its BlackWidow Stealth Editions. These are, more or less, the same boards that debuted last August, but with quieter switches and a matte finish. Both models are available now, with the same programmable keys and on-the-fly macro recording, while the Ultimate version adds “extreme anti-ghosting” to its already impressive noise pwnage. The standard model will run you a cool $80, while the Ultimate weighs in at a hefty $140. Check out the gallery below, as well as the PR and video after the break.
Gallery: Razer BlackWidow Stealth Edition
Continue reading Razer BlackWidow Stealth keyboards keep the mechanical keys, ditch the noise
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Photo: Jerome Rozen / American Museum of Natural History
These sure aren’t your ordinary beehives! Behold the nest of the O. avoseta
bee, which is made from flower petals:
Each nest is a multicolored, textured little cocoon — a papier-mache
husk surrounding a single egg, protecting it while it develops into
an adult bee. […]To learn more, the scientists watched the busy mama bees. Building
a nest takes a day or two, and the female might create about 10 nests
in total, often right next to each other. To begin construction, she
bites the petals off of flowers and flies each petal — one by
one — back to the nest, a peanut-sized burrow in the ground.She then shapes the multi-colored petals into a cocoon-like structure,
laying one petal on top of the other and occasionally using some nectar
as glue. When the outer petal casing is complete, she reinforces the
inside with a paper-thin layer of mud, and then another layer of petals,
so both the outside and inside are wallpapered — a potpourri of
purple, pink and yellow.
NPR’s Kathleen Masterson has the fascinating story: Link
Tony Spore of the VV2C tells us all about upcoming Open Source projects!
Enrolled in the iOS developer program and interested in iTunes Match? Better point that browser towards Apple’s dev portal, as Cupertino’s just flipped the switch for its upcoming music laundering service. There you’ll find iTunes 10.5 beta 6.1 with iTunes Match which’ll let you sign up for a yearly $24.99 fee. Hopping on the bandwagon early has extra rewards too — early birds get three months (on top of their yearly sub) for free. A tipster also provided us with a screencap (after the break) of his iPod touch running the current iOS beta, which now magically has a toggle for the service under the Music section of the Settings app. Taking the plunge? Let us know how you fare in the comments.
[Thanks, Matt]
Update: Looks like the initial signups have stopped, but Apple plans to expand the number of testers “over the next days.” So, keep compulsively checking iTunes if you want in on the next round.
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Continue reading Netgear’s WNDR 3800 with ReadySHARE, the roll-your-own cloud service
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As some of you might be aware, we’ve recently been seeing low levels of reports of Win32/Morto – a worm that causes headaches for users who may have less than ideal password policies – so we thought we’d look at this in more detail.
The number of computers reporting infections or infection attempts continues to remain quite low. In total, the MMPC has seen only a few thousand unique computers report this issue.
[Video Link] Scott Beale says: “Cornell Creative Machines Lab wanted to see what would happend if two Cleverbot AI ChatBots had a conversation with each other.”
I think I’ve just seen the beginning of the end.
Two AI ChatBots Attempt To Have A Conversation With Each Other
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Two AI chatBots attempt to have a conversation with each other
Enrolled in the iOS developer program and interested in iTunes Match? Better point that browser towards Apple’s dev portal, as Cupertino’s just flipped the switch for its upcoming music laundering service. There you’ll find iTunes 10.5 beta 6.1 with iTunes Match which’ll let you sign up for a yearly $24.99 fee. Hopping on the bandwagon early has extra rewards too — early birds get three months (on top of their yearly sub) for free. A tipster also provided us with a screencap (after the break) of his iPod touch running the current iOS beta, which now magically has a toggle for the service under the Music section of the Settings app. Taking the plunge? Let us know how you fare in the comments.
[Thanks, Matt]
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