Connect Your PC To Your HDTV

Your HDTV is the centerpiece of your home theater. Check out these five projects that work with your PC, smartphone, and streaming set-top box to make your TV the best that it can be.Your TV has come a long way from the days of rabbit-ear antennas and VHS players. No longer must you suffer the indignity of having to rewind a tape before returning it to Blockbuster, or of bribing a small child to hold the antenna in just the right position so you can enjoy fuzz-free viewing of Hawaii Five-O (the Jack Lord version, not the remake). Don't get complacent, though: You're still probably not on the cutting-edge yet. Have a pile of remote controls...


3D Twin-Lens P2 HD Shoulder-Mount Camcorder with 10-bit, 4:2:2 Independent-Frame by Panasonic

More than a year after introducing industry’s first fully-integrated, 3D camcorder, the AG-3DA1, Panasonic has introduced a simplified and affordable high-quality 3D production system , the AG-3DP1, a 3D twin-lens P2 HD shoulder-mount camcorder with high quality 10-bit 4:2:2 independent-frame, full 1920 x 1080 resolution AVC-Intra recording. The new 3DP1 features two pairs of 1/3 inch, full-HD 2.2 magepixel 3-MOS imagers with enhanced sensitivity and a 20-bit Digital Signal Processor capable of full production quality images. Following the foot steps of its not too distance away predecessor AG-3DA1, the 3DP1 incorporates stereoscopic...


Samsung Wi-Fi Only Galaxy Tab Available Sunday for $349

Samsung is set to challenge the iPad 2 with a cheaper, Wi-Fi only version of the 7-inch Galaxy Tab that will land on store shelves by Sunday and sell for $350. The Samsung tablet also arrives just 10 days beforeResearch In Motion's Blackberry PlayBook, another 7-inch iPad challenger, goes on sale at Best Buy and other retailers. Samsung apparently feels the Android 2.2-based Galaxy Tab still has some life left in it despite the fact the company plans on releasing a 10.1-inch version of the Galaxy Tab running Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) later this year.But if you're hoping to wander into your local box store or electronics shop to get your hands on...


Review: Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS10

The 16X-optical-zoom Panasonic Lumix ZS10 is the touchscreen-equipped successor to last year's Lumix DMC-ZS8. The sum of the DMC-ZS10's parts is a fast-focusing, versatile pocket megazoom with high marks for zoom range, scene modes, 3D still shooting, and in-camera extras. But like many Panasonic cameras, this one presents users with an Auto mode that produces somewhat underexposed images. As a result, you must use the camera's manual settings to get the highest-quality output from it. The camera's GPS capabilities make it handy to have on a road trip, but its in-camera mapping features fall far short of the ones we've seen in the Casio Exilim...


Sony to Launch Streaming Music on PSP

The rumors are true: Music Unlimited, Sony's cloud-based streaming music service, will launch on the PSP platform April 14.The Sony cloud platform, Qriocity, is remarkably similar to the Amazon music-in-a-cloud store announced March 29, and most likely the Google music-in-a-cloud store that's allegedly lurking in the wings."The heart of the offering here is that with the one account you can access this music on your TV, your PS3, your laptop, your Blu-ray player, and have your music follow you wherever you go, rather than having to download all of your music into a device and make that device go with you everywhere," Shawn Layden, executive vice...


DOCOMO unveils its green Mobile Phone Prototype with touch of Style

I guess use of scrap woods or so called surplus woods is becoming a technology trend coinciding with thinning tree activities in maintaining healthy forest. This is my second post on this subject. It all started with Mitsubishi’s announcement on development of new plastic resin from the surplus cedar wood. This follows with today’s DOCOMO announcement on development of mobile phone prototype made of surplus wood of trees culled. Well only the exterior body of the phone is made of wood. The new prototype was developed in corporation with Sharp and Olympus Corporation as well as with the collaboration of “more trees”, a reforestation project which...


“Home Barrier” your simple and Easy Home Security Solution

A Japanese mobile phone design company by the name of GECOMM has come up with an interesting and easy to install home security solution equipped with wireless technology. According to the company the new Home Barrier Security solution brings the cost of home security system to one tenth in comparison to the conventional home security system offered by various security companies in Japan.The Home Barrier is consists of window sensors and a receiver which is connected to PC through USB terminal. The window sensor comes with both shock and magnets sensors, when the window sensor detects some abnormality, the sensor sends a message to the receiver...


Samsung Series 9: The First True MacBook Air Competitor

Samsung's Series 9 laptop isn't the first Windows-bearing PC to try to steal Apple's MacBook Air limelight. Remember the troubled Adamofrom Dell, set to compete with the first-generation Air? At less than three pounds and 0.7 inch thick, the Series 9 is trying again where Dell slipped up the first time. While the Adamo offered inferior hardware at a dramatically higher price than Apple, Samsung at least gets the hardware part right, and narrows the price gap a little. The Series 9 is costlier than the competing 13-inch MacBook Air with a starting price of $1649 (compared with Apple's $1299), but it offers mostly superior hardware and is eminently...


Release of 21.3-Inch 5 Megapixel 3D Monochrome LCD Monitor for Digital Mammography by Eizo Nanao

Eizo Nanao Corporation has announced the release of RadiForce GS521-ST, a 21.3-inch 5 megapixel monochrome LCD monitor capable of displaying 3D stereoscopic digital mammography. In developing the RadiForce GS521-ST Eizo has utilized a half-silvered mirror method for achieving high image quality required for displaying digital mammography.Using the half-silvered mirror method, the image for the right and left eye are displayed separately on the two separate monitors that are mounted vertically and horizontally. The half-silvered mirror is placed between the two monitors, responsible for sorting the two images and projecting them in the...


Release of World’s First DCI Compliant 4K Digital Cinema Projection System by SONY

DCI specification with its great emphasis on digital movie content security prescribes “Digital Cinema Package” (DCP) as its data file format which includes encryption for digital movie content. The DCP file can be distributed via satellite or they could be delivered physically to theaters on a hard disc drive (HDD), with cryptography key to be delivered separately to theaters, where DCP file can later on decrypted with cryptographic key by cinema server, and screened by the projector. To further expand the security measure on the DCP file, the file is embedded with an electronic watermark or otherwise known as forensic mark in preventing...


Apple iPad 2: White 16GB Unboxing

Well, as big of an iPad 2 skeptic as I have been, ultimately I could not resist. Here are some quick shots of my new white iPad 2 16GB Wifi+3G. Here I contrast it with my Galaxy Tab and iPhone 3GS. Keep reading for the all the photo goodness! I’ve started with some closeup shots of the white iPad 2 (Wifi+3G, AT&T model) and have some comparisons with it with the Galaxy Tab and iPhone 3GS. Enjoy! ...


TV Remote With Apple PC

If you don’t need to have yet another remote or you’re tired of the couch eating your Apple TV’s remote, you can have your device learn your TV’s remote control and use it instead. This works both both the first and second generations of the ATV. 1. Use your Apple TV remote and turn on the Apple TV device. 2. Select Settings from the menu. 3. Select General. 4. Select Remotes. 5. Select Start. 6. Most TV remotes have options to control multiple devices, set your TV remote for an unused device (like VCR). 6. Put down the Apple TV Remote and use the TV remote. 7. A screen will appear with up, down, left, and right arrows as well as SELECT...


How to : pick the perfect point-and-shoot camera

If you're in the market for a new point-and-shoot camera—whether for yourself or for someone on your holiday shopping list—the array of choices can make it difficult to find one that's right. Here are some tips to help you narrow down the options. First things first—do not get wrapped up in the number of megapixels. Many point-and-shoot cameras have 12 megapixels or more, which exceeds the number of pixels that many professional cameras could capture just five years ago. Increased megapixel counts on the tiny sensors used in most compact cameras just means more noise, not necessarily sharper images. Instead, there are a few...


How-to : Update your Nexus One to Android 2.2

Google unveiled Android 2.2, codenamed Froyo, at the Google I/O developer conference last week. The new version brings significant performance enhancements and a number of compelling new features. Google intends to roll out the new version to Nexus One users in over-the-air (OTA) updates over the next few weeks. Users who want to get their hands on the latest version right away, however, can manually update their handsets. In a concise message published in the XDA Developer forum, well-known Android modder Cyanogen posted a link to Google's official Froyo update package—a compressed zip archive that can be manually installed on unmodified...


HTC EVO 3D Sprint Unleashes

The first 4G phone with a qHD 4.3-inch 3D display. The EVO 3D is powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor and sports dual 5-megapixel rear-facing cameras for 3D photo and video capture. The processors support advanced 3D technology including full 1080p 30 frames per second HD video and stereoscopic 3D video capture and playback. Another sweet detail is that the EVO 3D will ship with the latest version of Android 2.3 aka Gingerbread. It also will come with a 4G hotpsot and you can connect up to 5 Wi-Fi-enabled devices to it. Personally, I think 3D on a small phone display is a bit of a gimmick. When I played with the LG Optimus...


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