Pandas, East Asia, wood. Nope, “laptop” hasn’t ever been on the list of words we typically associate with “bamboo,” but ASUS sure has us willing to tack it on with the introduction of its U Bamboo Series
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ASUS U33Jc-A1 Bamboo series review
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?
Sony talked up its cylindrical no-glasses 3D 360-degree prototype display last fall , and now it’s showing off the tech, dubbed RayModeler 3D, on US soil at SIGGRAPH 2010 through tomorrow. A major bonus of that showcase is an English language video — embedded after the break, plus a hands on including a game of Pong Breakout from Core77 and our videos from the Japanese exhibition — showing how it all works, including the eight-camera rig and turntable that capture objects in 45-degree separations before they are interpolated to create a continuous 360-degree motion image. Sony claims this is the first of its type capable of high quality images, full color and interactive live motion — check it out and imagine keeping a tiny 3D pet or floating, disembodied head on your bedside table, where it can respond and react to your every gesture.
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Sony’s 360-degree RayModeler 3D display brings its glasses-free act to LA, plays Breakout (video)
President Eisenhower, in his famous farewell speech in 1961, warned against the the acquisition of unwarranted influence by the ” military industrial complex .” If he had given those remarks some sixty years later, he might have worked academia into the phrase — especially if he knew about the snakes ! Certainly one of the more viscerally unnerving wargadgets we’ve encountered over the last few years, the creepy-crawly automatons of the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute are a big hit at the U.S.
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Carnegie Mellon’s robot snakes converge into creepy hand-like wargadget
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General Electric may have a host of smart appliances in the works , but looks like one Indesit may beat it to the punch — at least on the washing machine front. The Italian home appliance firm just unveiled a ZigBee-compatible washer at the Freescale Technology Forum in Florida this week, capable of communicating with the smart grid and then timing its loads according to variable electricity cost
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Indesit unveils smart-grid washer, thumbs nose at GE
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
Remember the first time you used Google Street View? Amazing, right? Thing is, traversing a busy urban street in a 360-degree photographic bubble can be disorienting, especially when searching for a specific address or business
We’ve seen quadriplegic transportation directed by brainwaves , speech and even the occasional Wiimote , but your best bet might be to follow your nose. Israeli nasal researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science unveiled a “sniff controller” this week, that measures nasal pressure to control a wheelchair joystick with surprising precision (see a video after the break) and a specially-developed typing interface
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The nose knows… how to let quadriplegics move and speak (video)
A British computer expert has been entrusted with part of a digital key, to help restart the internet in the event of a major catastrophe. Paul Kane talked to Eddie Mair on Radio 4’s PM programme about what he might be called upon to do in an international online emergency.
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The man with the keys to the web
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