The pinpoint silencing of cease-and-desists speak volumes, so it’s interesting that Engadget Japan received a takedown request of these supposed PS3 Slim shots from a Chinese firm. What does it MEAN? [Engadget]
Dredged from the Far East of the blogosphere and spreading rapidly, these photos are said to be of a new, smaller version of the PS3. They’re plentiful and clear, but could they be real? UPDATED
The 7-inch Mimo display we reviewed was nice, but it was slightly chunky for a 7-inch display. Hence, the Mimo Slim.
Following our anti-Dubai-gigarchitecture article on the slimmest houses in the world, reader Micah Sherman has sent us which may be the thinnest, smallest house in any city in the world. Absolutely crazy.
Screw Dubai. Bouncing Red Ball has a a selection of some of thinnest buildings in the world, all in Japan, where land is so scarce. We’ve featured other cool ones, but these defy belief.
At CES, JVC showed off its super slim LCDs, but at the time there wasn’t a lot of detail on them. Today, the 42″ LT-42SL89 and 46″ LT-46L89 are shipping, priced at US$1,900 and US$2,400. Though the 38mm thick TVs actually measure 74mm in the middle, they come with an integrated HDTV tuner, which other slim TVs barf out into an external box to achieve their sub-inch status. I also admire the engineering involved in building a backlight that uses diffusion panels to kill the spots from placing lights too close to the panel, without killing the light.
It’s pretty clear where Samsung is going with the X360 laptop when you notice it’s branded it as “lighter than air” and say it’s the “lightest notebook in its 13.3 inch class” since it weighs just 1.27 kg. Inside there’s a 45nm Core 2 Duo mobile processor, mated to a 1280 x 800 pixel LED-backlit screen, and the machine has no internal DVD drive: instead it comes with an external one. Sounds a little familiar, no? But the battery life is claimed to be 10 hours, by Samsung, and it’s got a full array of ports, including an RJ45 socket for wired LAN, a mic-in, three USB 2.0 sockets, a PCI express card slot and a HDMI socket. Somewhat strangely it’s also been “sprinkled” with nano silver ion powder to keep the keyboard bacteria-free. It’ll be available in September in some European countries, and Russia, China and Hong Kong, but there’s no info on the US release or pricing. Extensive press release below.
Right back in January we brought you news that JVC had worked out some magic for making super-slim LCD TVs, and now they’re official products. The 42-inch LT-421L89 and the 46-inch LT-46SL89 measure up at just 3.8cm deep (7.4cm at the centre) and let JVC say they’re the “world’s thinnest tuner-equipped LCD TVs.” The tuner-equipped part distinguishes them from skinnier Aquos TVs, which dump the electronics to a separate box. They’re full HD, and will be available July for US$1,899.99 for the 42-inch and US$2,399.99 for the 46-inch. Press release below.
What this means: 5MP iPhones without any extra girth. Most of the high end camera phones like the Nokia N95 and the Sony Ericsson Cybershots have a major drawback of being pretty thick. Kodak’s 5MP sensor is built on an incredible 1.4 micron technology and reworking of regular CMOS design, so it fits inside the same case that a 1.75MP CMOS does. Is this just a meaningless stat push? That’s not what the rumours are saying.
The guys at T3 are saying one of their inside men has heard word that Sony will be producing a slimmer, sexier PS3 heading for the shelves this Spring. While everyone knows that Sony will eventually shrink its very obese console, such news would come as a surprise given that Sony took many more years to shrink their PSOne and PS2 (though Sony has recently successfully shrunken their Blu-ray laser to fit in laptops). Still, Sony’s biggest goal at the moment is building consoles cheaper. Maybe that means small, too. Maybe it doesn’t.
