Earlier this summer, Sony closed another fiscal year of being in the red , but it’s starting the 2010/11 ledger with its quill dipped firmly in the black inkwell. For the quarter ending June 30, the Japanese megacorp clocked up

Some of the biggest names in Japan’s technology industry report earnings later today and the likes of Panasonic and Sony are betting on 3D to drive sales of new TVs, DVD players and camcorders.

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Who will win the 3D TV war?

The Sky 3D channel has so far been officially available only in 1,500 or so UK pubs , but now its residential launch for all Sky+HD customers is slated for October 1. The 2010 Ryder Cup will serve as a launch event with three days of live coverage from Celtic Manor as the US and European teams do battle; the first ever in 3D, but the third such event it’s covered in high definition.

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Sky 3D channel comes home October 1 with Ryder Cup, EPL, movies and more

You might’ve heard about a new Kindle model or two this evening, and good news if they tickled your fancy — they’re now on Amazon and available for pre-order. Both the WiFi-only and WiFi / 3G models are shipping August 27th, the former in graphite and the latter in graphite and white options. Search your pocketbook, if you know it to be coveted.

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New Kindles now available for pre-order

At the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, Satoshi Nariai demonstrates something called the head-mounted Mobile Video Communication System. With acceleration and position sensors built into a head-mounted display, the remote camera moves in relation to your head’s movements

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Head-mounted display controls video camera, keeps you painfully single

Ready to climb Mount Fuji and see what the next top Japanese TV will look like?

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Toshiba’s latest Cell Regza LCDs are Slim, but don’t go calling them 2D

Panasonic’s not letting us know exactly how cheap it’s going with the new DMP-BDT100 Blu-ray player, but with an existing lineup that starts at $399 for the DMP-BDT300 it’s not hard to see why it would need a mainstream option to compete with Samsung , Sony and the rest. The DMP-BDT100 still promises high quality playback and Viera Cast features including Netflix, Amazon VOD and Pandora access, but it does it in a smaller, energy efficient package as Panasonic’s first single-HDMI out 3D Blu-ray player

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Panasonic’s new DMP-BDT100 is a cheaper, slimmer choice for Blu-ray 3D playback

Amazon’s Kindle may have the price advantage when it comes to its e-reading competitors, but right now it’s sorely lacking in the availability department. Looks like the device is out of commission and has been for at least 24 hours as of this writing.

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Amazon Kindle listed as ‘temporarily out of stock,’ Nook and Sony Reader smile coyly

Monsoon — after taking advantage of a few delays since our initial hands-on by adjusting the name and pricing — is finally ready to show off the followup to its HAVA line of placeshifting media streamers, the Vulkano.

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Monsoon Vulkano all-in-one DVR/placeshifting/media streaming box ready for preorder, ships August 10

The fabled cloak of invincibility was once considered impossible for modern science, chilling out with perpetual motion up in the clouds, but these days scientists are tilting at blurry windmills with a modicum of success several times a year.

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Invisibility cloak upgraded to bend infrared light, not to mention our minds