Princeton University Press, Oxford, Yale and the University of California schools are putting a portion of their titles into e-book format. This will allow Kindle users to simply download the books they need and have near instant access to them. Kindle will begin carrying titles from Princeton University Press this fall. Searching for information will [...]
Nokia Supernova Specifications
Display: 2.2″ TFT LCD
Pixel Format: 240 x 320
Camera: 3.2MP (still images), 640 x 480 (video), LED Flash, 8x Digital Zoom
Storage: 30MB built-in, microSD
Audio: FM Radio with RDS, MP3, MP4, AAC, ACC+, eAAC
Video: MPEG4, 3GP
Connectivity: A-GPS, GPRS, EDGE, GSM, Bluetooth 2.0
Battery: 860mAh Lithium Ion (5.4 hours talk, 300 hours standby)
Dimension: 3.9 x 1.9 x [...]
Vizio SV420XVT Specifications
Display: 42″ TFT LCD
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Pixel Format: 1920 x 1080
Response Time: 5ms
Contrast Ratio: 6500:1
Connectivity: HDMI (4), Component, Composite, S-Video
Frequency: 120Hz
Other: Smooth Motion Technology (motion interpolation), SRS TruSurround XT
Availability: July 2008 at Circuit City, Sears, Costco, Sam’s Club
Price: US$1200
On June 25, 2008, VIZIO introduced a new line of LCD TVs called XVT. The SV420XVT [...]
NASA hyperwall-2 Specifications
Display: 128 LCD Monitors
Pixels: 1 Billion
Size: 23′ x 10′
GPU: 128 GPUs
CPU: 1024 CPU Cores, 74 Teraflops
Storage: 475 Terabytes
Image source: Gizmodo
NASA’s hyperwall-2 is a huge improvement over its original 49-screen hyperwall that was developed just 6 years ago in 2002 by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) visualization team. NASA’s hypwerwall-2 almost triples the number [...]
Welcome to the future: touch screens for ordering meals. It can be extremely frustrating waiting for a waitress or waiter when you’ve already asked them a couple of times just for a bit more water. I travel to Korea from time to time and they have a good thing going: buzzers. If you need your [...]
How many of you read a book two pages at a time? I’m sure some of you do, but the majority folks that actually read books read them one page at a time. Whether it is a book, the newspaper, a magazine, etc. we read one page at a time. So what is the big [...]
Samsung Omnia Specifications
Display: 3.2″ Resistive Touch TFT LCD
Pixel Format: 240 x 400
Camera: 5MP CMOS (Auto Focus, Image Stabilizer, Geo Tagging, Auto Panorama, Wide Dynamic Range, Face Detection, Smile Detection, no Frown Detection?)
Video: DivX, XviD, H.263, H.264, WMV, MP4
Audio: MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, OGG, AMR, FM Radio with RDS
Connectivity: Bluetooth with A2DP, GPS, USB 2.0, WiFi
Storage: [...]
Updated 2008.06.27 8:34AM PST
A roundup of reviews, thanks to Engadget, and a lot more pictures. The Studio line of Dell’s new pseudo-XPS notebooks are said to be slightly thicker than XPS versions (that’s not good). But the design is there. But Centrino 2 is just around the corner. Choices. But if you dig the design [...]
Numark PT-01USB Specifications
Connectivity: Mac and PC via USB, Stereo RCA Out, Headphone
Power: AC or six D batteries
Software: Numark EZ Vinyl Converter 2 (PC), EZ Audio Converter (Mac)
Availability: Q3′08
One hallmark of classic or retro gear is that they lack displays. Instead, these simply cool devices have a lot of knobs. Numark’s PT-01USB is a case in [...]
Engadget posted up an entry regarding BlackBerry’s Bold smarphone. They came away “happily impressed” with the newest member of the CrackBerry family. The physical QWERTY keyboard was easy to use and easier than the previous generation 8830. The user interface was a good point with clean and easy to read menus with quick response times.
But [...]
