October 29, 2005
The folks over at PCMAG played around with Voodoo's $5000 ARIA Luxury Media Center PC - The Verdict - With a built-in touch screen and high-powered (but quiet) components, the Voodoo ARIA will keep a select group of well-heeled (we take they mean Gucci Heels) users happy.
Th ARIA features a 7 inch built-in touch screen, AMD Athlon FX-57, 1GB of RAM, 400GB of storage, Dual-Layer DVD Burner and a nVidia GeForce 7800GTX video card.
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October 25, 2005
Slim Devices today announced Squeezebox 3. The Squeezebox is an MP3 player for the home network.
It includes a free PC/Mac-side component that scans your music library and shares it out to LAN networked Squeexboxes. The PC/Mac (server-side, really) component is notable because it also provides browser-based control of your LAN's squeezeboxs. This feature allows for remote control-like functionality via a LAN connected PDA or laptop.
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October 19, 2005
The folks over at PCMag takes a look at Sony's Vaio XL1.
Designed to be the true Media Center in your home theater, the XL1 can replace your TiVo, CD changer, DVD player/changer, DVD recorder, and any older Media Center PC you have put in your rec room. The XL1 looks more like a piece of stereo equipment than a computer, and that is part of its appeal. It uses the latest Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 and brings added convenience to those with extensive media libraries. This is the system for the true media collector: Movies and music won't be the same after you load them up in the XL1's changer.
Sony VAIO XL1 Digital Living System Review PCmag
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October 17, 2005
Today, Japan's Toshiba Display Technology Corporation announced plans for mass production of 11.1" wide and very slim - low temperature polysilicon liquid crystal panel.
The new panels offer 1,366x768 dot (16:9) resolution and 240cd/ square m brightness. Measures 255x158.9x2.55 - 2.75mm (width x height x thickness).
via impress.co.jp
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Epson claims to have created a new family of LCD displays that will boast higher resolution, better color rendering and consume less power at the same time. Epson is comparing against current mobile devices LCDs, of course. The displays measure 2.2, 2.8 and 4.5 inches and would be perfect for cellphones, digital cameras, PDAs and Portable Media Players. Via UberGizmo
Developed Screens
2.2" (QVG) Low Temperature Polysilicon TFT, with a 108% coverage of the NTSC spectrum, 185ppi, 16.77 millions colors
2.8" (VGA) Low Temperature Polysilicon TFT, with a 100% coverage of the NTSC spectrum, 290ppi, 16.77 millions colors
4.5" (VGA) Amorphous Silicon TFT, with a 108% coverage of the NTSC spectrum, 180ppi, 260k colors
Meanwhile...
Nec has done the same
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Other Land toys is hawking a miniature replica of R2D2 from the original Star Wars trilogy in the form of a telephone.
Whenever there is an incoming call the R2-D2's head spins, a light flashes and the R2D2 sound is produced.
The R2D2 Telephone produces Star Wars sound effects for incoming calls or on demand! Whenever there is an incoming call the R2-D2's head spins, a light flashes and the R2D2 sound is produced.
R2 D2 Telephone via ubergizmo
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October 4, 2005
CEATEC JAPAN 2005 : Panasonic showed off the prototype of the world's smallest PDP that delivers more than two million pixels (1,920 x 1,080) and the same brightness as its current high definition (1,366 x 768) model TH-50PX500 writes New Launches. With the development of the 50-inch 1080p PDP, Panasonic hopes to accelerate its efforts in furthering its high-resolution and high-quality picture technologies.
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October 3, 2005
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PID.se is offering the Placentero lounge chair for US $ 3,627.74. The Placentero chair swings in different comfortable positions supported by a 18kg counter weight in the bottom of the chair writes i4u
The Outer Cover (plastic) is reinforced with glass fibre and nervaduras de core, finished with coat-gel which generates a 1mm thick aprox. Over the surface, that helps to erase all kind of scratches or hits using polish paste.
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