Computing

Glasses-Less 3D UI For Android Heading To Tegra Devices

It’s difficult to gauge the full power of the autostereoscopic 3D from a video, but as with Sharp’s parallax barrier technology, you can see how Scaleform’s glasses-less 3D works. The video presenter’s “ooh! ahh!”-ing just endorses it even more.


June 21, 2010
Computing

Toshiba AC100 Netbook Runs Android, Has Massive 7 Days Of Standby Battery Life

Finishing off the hat-trick of laptops, Toshiba’s AC100 is their first machine to run on Android, and is shaping up to be a very tidy netbook with up to eight hours of battery or up to SEVEN DAYS’ standby life.


February 23, 2010

Manufacturing Complicated Chips For Phones Is Real Expensive-Like

That’s the moral of this NYT story about the bubbling war in mobile chips. They’re expensive to make. And, no one’s better at making them than Intel, whose manufacturing tech is years ahead of anybody else.


January 22, 2010
Computing

Viewsonic VTablet 101 Has Decent Specs, Terrible Timing

Let’s take a moment to appreciate Viewsonic’s new Android tablet while we can, before it gets crushed in the tidal wave of coverage that a certain other tablet’s debut will get next week. And it’s got some things worth appreciating!


January 15, 2010
Cars

Audi Turning To Nvidia To Make Dashboards Pop

If I had $US80,000 to spend on a car, I would probably go with an Audi A8. And now I have even more reason to want one since they partnered with Nvidia for their dashboard graphics.


January 8, 2010
Entertainment

Boxee Beta Now Available For Download, Box Has Tegra 2 Chip

Boxee just confirmed that their upcoming Boxee Box made in conjunction with D-Link will have NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 chipset. They also mentioned that the Boxee Beta is free for the world to download. Rejoice!


NVIDIA Confirms Tegra 2 Will Be In Tablets In 2010

It was a badly kept secret, but NVIDIA has just confirmed they’re working on a Tegra 2 chip, which will be out “in the marketplace in 2010,” according to the general manager of NVIDIA.


January 7, 2010
Computing

Hands On With Nvidia’s 7-inch Tegra Android Tablet

This won’t be officially “announced” until tomorrow, so there’s no name or anything to it, but we just played around with Nvidia’s 7-inch Tegra tablet design that runs Android.


Gaming

Next DS To Have HD Screen, Potentially 720p

Boy, that Satoru Iwata has been awfully mouthy recently. In addition to sounding off about the next DS having a motion sensor, he also told Asahi that it’ll have a higher-resolution screen. A HIGH DEFINITION screen.


January 6, 2010
Gaming

Next-Gen Nintendo DS Will Have Some Kind Of Motion Detection

Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata was more mouthy than most presidents are about their upcoming – but unannounced – products, and said that the upcoming DS will have an accelerometer. Or, some kind of motion sensor.