China News (Chinese) → Cloned In China → Engadget: A translucent or even a transparent display could be used for augmented reality applications on a mobile phone: put up the translucent display toward a bunch of stores or a gadget and you get relevant information displayed right there. It would update in real-time, of course. Unfortunately, I don’t think the pretty Lenovo S800 is up to that type of task.
CrunchGear: Nintendo did very well during the Black Friday week. Here is the sales breakdown:
On average that’s 9000 per hour. I was just searching through Amazon and found that you can still buy a Nintendo NES System
I’m currently reading the book Disconnect by Devra Davis and wanted to share some rather disturbing information. On page 61:
For the past five years scientists in Moscow have been following two groups of children–one of which uses mobile phones and the other not. [...] The Russian researchers found changes in the working of the brains of cell phone users ranging from decreased capacity to work, increased fatigue, decrease in attention and semantic memory, and significant loss of the ability to tell the difference between different sounds.
There is more, a lot more. I was reading through this chapter and decided that this information needs to be shared. Children have skulls that are much thinner than adults and cell phone radiation can penetrate deeper. I have three children and the findings in this book are opening my eyes to the potential dangers of cell phones. Disconnect on Amazon
Akihabara News: From the video the LG-LU3000 also known as Optimus Mach seems extremely fast compared to the Samsung Galaxy S and iPhone 4.
The Optimus Mach from LG sports a 3.8-inch 800×480 IPS LCD and runs Android 2.2. Other specs include: a 5 megapixel AF camera, HDMI out capable of 1080p, 1GHz Texas Instrument’s OMAP 3630 CPU.
Sony’s Reader ebook goes on sale on December 10 at about 20,000 yen ($240) for a model with a 5 inch screen or 25,000 yen for a 6 inch screen.
It hopes to sell 300,000 Readers in the first year and win half the domestic market by 2012, Sony Marketing Japan president Nobuki Kurita told reporters.
Competition includes Apple’s iPad and Sharp’s Galapagos. I wonder why Amazon doesn’t offer Japanese titles on its Kindle; if it did Sony might be in for a tough fight.
Akihabara News: Sharp will launch its Galapagos tablets and services on December 10th in Japan.
The 5.5-inch Galapagos tablets weigh 220g with 167x92x12.9mm dimensions. The 10.8-inch model weighs 765g and is considerably larger: 286x177x14.7mm. Both sport: WiFi BG, microSD, customized Android, and a web browser.
DigiTimes → Phone Arena → Engadget: Samsung Mobile Display (SMD) makes the Super AMOLED displays that go into every Samsung branded smartphone. Currently SMD makes 3 million of these per month. Starting June 2011 that number will grow to 30 million per month. But these aren’t regular OLED displays: SMD’s Super AMOLEDs make use of a PenTile Matrix sub-pixel structure pioneered by Clairvoyante and now Nouvoyance after being purchased by Samsung. PenTile Matrix has a 2×2 sub-pixel structure that allows for a visual equivalent pixel format of 800xRGBx480. As far as I know there is no OLED volume production technology that can cram 800xRGBx480 pixels into a 3.5-inch panel.
These reports stating that AU Optronics (AUO), Chimei Innolux (CMI) and other China-based display manufacturers are getting in the mobile OLED display game is absurd. They will not be able to get to 800×480; maybe they are thinking of putting expensive OLED displays into budget smartphones? The only way AUO, CMI and other China-based suppliers can be competitive is if all of them licensed PenTile Matrix from Nouvoyance.
Peter Jackson, who’s made a few movies, is preparing to shoot another one called The Hobbit. That’s interesting news! What’s also interesting is how he will film it: Thirty uber-expensive RED EPIC cameras. It’s good to be the king.
Each RED EPIC costs $US58,000.
Light. Strong. Handcrafted in Golden Colorado with love from us to you. Your Blackbox Case is lined with felt for comfort and only weighs as much as a full beer in a glass bottle. Solid Oak construction guarantees that your Apple Macbook Pro will live a life of luxury and safety. Watch out… you might fall in love.
There are two versions: one that fits the unibody 13.3-inch MacBook Pro and the other that fits the larger 15.4 inch. US$129. There’s even an “any reason, any time, any condition” guarantee. Worth it.
I’m just waiting for Chief Dreamer Lance to dream up the 17-inch version…
Tokyoflash → Engadget: The inner LED rings show hour. The outer LED rings show minutes in groups of five. The 12 o’clock five outer dots show single minutes. The ones that are flashing indicate the time. Priced at around US$200, quite reasonable.
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