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A Sony spokesman has stated that Sony will soon be exiting the Rear Projection TV business as soon as their current inventory is gone. Even though Sony’s rear projection TVs were still popular, they will be shifting their resources towards LCDs, which they believe is “what people really want”. This news isn’t too strange since Sony isn’t the first to be dropping Rear Projection from their line up; Philips, Toshiba and Hitachi have already done the same. [Twice]
After Apple posted a job listing for a Reliability Engineer who would work in multi-touch development, blogs have been speculating left and right about Apple’s plans. We went over to Apple’s jobs page and found they’re not just hiring a single reliability engineer, but a whole team of engineers specifically for multi-touch products.
As long as your toothbrush is sitting around unused and unloved, you might as well put it to good use with this DIY Bristlebot courtesy of the folks at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. All you need is a brush with angled bristles, a pager motor and a watch battery. Minutes of fun and tooth decay will be your reward. To see the Bristelbot in action, and learn how to build one yourself, hit the video after the jump.
The Polar mobile phone is a concept piece from Yuta Watanabe that is intended for cold weather climates where thick gloves are obstacles to effective communication. The phone looks to be a bit bulkier than usual, with bigger buttons arranged in an easy-to-press vertical layout.
This is just weird, even for the giddy parents-to-be types who like to run around showing off copies of their ultrasound at work. A hospital in England is one (two?)-upping old-school 2D ultrasounds with 4D scans of your in utero spawn. The new scanner produces a moving 3D image, which is why we guess they’re calling it 4D—not ’cause it’s like tesseract, which I would much rather look at. The article about the new tech’s kind of trend-fishing with the iPod angle, since the hospital gives you the file on a CD or DVD, which you can load up on any portable media player. But sweet christ, I hope this doesn’t become a real trend. [Evening Standard via Spluch]
Being homeless would suck, but being homeless in Canada during the winter would suck even harder. A Toronto ad firm called Taxi aims to help around 3,000 of these unfortunate souls (and drum up a little business while they are at it) using their new 15 Below jacket.The lightweight jacket was designed to be waterproof, windproof and capable of withstanding extreme cold temperatures with the help of pockets that can be insulated with crumpled newspaper.More info and an additional pic after the break.
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In an effort to get to know our readers better, we’re kicking off a series of polls that will figure out just where you guys stand on certain technologies. We’ll start it with a big one: which do you use, Macs or PCs? We’ll round all these answers up into a big something-or-other that you guys will like. Maybe we’ll even include bar graphs!
Half the reason we like the Eee PC is that mods to it just keep getting further out there. The latest, and greatest, is a touchscreen. Jkkmobile’s 4G is loaded up with Windows XP, but not the tablet version, so it’s admittedly more of an interesting way to browse the web and play around with your fingers than a certifiable productivity booster, but we think it’s pretty cool anyway. [jkkmobile via jkOnTheRun]
There have been many solutions to the problem of fat AC adapters clogging up your surge protectors (like this), but this ezSpace UFO flying saucer protector from ezGear looks like it can actually be filled with all AC adapters without colliding. The secret is that it’s pretty huge and shaped like an flipped-over bowl, but it does the job in four and six-plug versions. There’s even a wall-mounted version as well. The first products will ship in January. [EZGear]
