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Top 10 Pervasive Tech Myths That Are Only Wasting Your Time It would seem that a certain black-and-silver phone has attracted a bit of a following in the design department. The Japan-only Sophia Nani, launching next week, sports a massive 4.3″ touchscreen TFT display running at a crisp 800×400 resolution. A digital TV tuner rounds out a complete multimedia package, but what crucial feature will inevitably doom this newborn phone to the “design-only” box?
If you’re looking for an incredibly simple way to control iTunes at home from your iPhone, look no further than Signal. Once you’re running iTunes and Signal, all you have to do is connect to your Wi-Fi network (Yes it uses Wi-Fi, so you can go all over your house no more of this IR tomfoolery) and then point your iPhone to the web address that Signal provides you. Instantly you’ve got yourself a fully functional iTunes remote, complete with playlist access, album art and even customizable queues. While it is a bit on the pricey side, $29.95, it does do just about everything that you could ask from a media remote webapp.[AlloySoft]
The Kotaku boys got through a series of Miyamoto interviews, where they ask Shiggy about future revisions of the Wii, shortages, the next-gen of the DS, and (heaven forbid) retirement plans. [Kotaku]
Some Denon and iTunes fanboy set up this fantastic rendering of a concept box that Denon should put to production. AVSForum’s wizards understand it is fake because receiver is spelled wrong, but that doesn’t detract from its desirability. The gadget equivalent of a unicorn fantasy includes a Blu-ray player, 2TB of storage and iTunes compatibility of some sort. Only in our dreams, only in our dreams. Source image:
I was talking to the Midway folks about Unreal Tournament III earlier today and the way the game will allow PS3 users to upload original content to the console when Mark Rein, veep of Epic Games, walked up.
It was a bit hot and he was fanning himself with what looked to be a sizeable pad of paper with a Gears of War cover. Turns out it was the movie script, well a form of the script for the movie. Rein said in a recent meeting with the script writer he apologized that he had only had time to read through the first 22 pages of the script. Not to worry, says the writer, and laid on him this special little Gears book. a graphic novelization of the script created specific for executives who don’t have time to read the entire thing.
Forget the visible light spectrum, any camera can hack that. The Fujifilm IS Pro is the most recent camera in Fujifilm’s pro lineup that can shoot in the ultraviolet and infrared spectrums as well. Tooled for professional snoops, it also has such gumshoey features as one-touch black-and-white Live Image Preview, post capture face-detection that identifies up to 10 faces per image and Mirror Lock-Up and Shutter Delay to reduce image blur in a long exposure. It’s simply the choicest thing to accompany your coffee thermos and box of doughnuts on those long overnight stakeouts. Jump for the details, right from the horse’s mouth.
BlueSky Design Group’s Dosh wallet takes advantage of flexible and semi-flexible polymers so that it’s not only tough and bendable, but waterproof to boot. You’ve got the usual space for credit cards and bills, an area for coins and a compartment that can hold keys and SIM cards. It runs on the large side and is missing the display area we’re used to for a photo ID. Don’t like that safety vest orange? You’ve got a few colors to choose from.
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I had a chance, while chatting yesterday with Kaz Hirai and Jack Tretton, to check get my hands on the Star Wars Edition of the PlayStation Portable. I really liked the look of the thing, and it’s hard to explain how different it feels now that its shed a little weight and gone down a size or two. It certainly feels sexier and, for some reason, I don’t know, maybe firmer. Like it’s more rigid than it was before, which, I know, makes absolutely no sense.
When David Reeves, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s Pres said that the 60GB PS3 was history after this batch of stock goes dry, he was either wrong, or accidentally spilling the beans. Sony is now officially saying that the PS3′s 60GB version will be around for awhile. So no fears about losing the console’s hardware PS2 emulation to the sands of time, just yet. [Kotaku]
The DreamBee is a 3-chip 1080p LCOS (liquid crystal on silicon) projector that is capable of a whopping 15,000:1 contrast ratio. That’s a massive jump over most HD projectors, which hover around the 12,000:1 range. Undeniably awesome, but the DreamBee has got a hard fight ahead of it with cheaper, though still powerful alternatives, like the Panasonic PT-AE1000U and the Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 1080. galleryPost('DreamBeeColors', 4, 'DreamBee Colors');
