Hitachi Starboard FX 77
Board seemed impressive enough when the company announced it late last year, but if you’ve been waiting to see one in action before you transported your classroom into the future, Hitachi has now got you covered with a couple of demonstration videos. In this case, Hitachi has paired the rig up with its CP-A100 short-throw projector for maximum showoffiness, although it seems you can use it with any projector of your choosing.
Blu-ray player to stream
Blu-ray Disc Player will begin streaming Netflix movies in the US this September. The player will cost “well under $500″ and allow Netflix members to stream more than 12,000 standard definition TV and films through the device at no additional increase to their monthly paid subscriptions. Members will use the Netflix website to add movies or TV to their individual instant queues. Movies will begin playing in as little as 30 seconds when selected from the TV where users can browse, make selections, read synopses, rate movies, and fast-forward / rewind video streams using the BD300’s remote control.
PlayStation Home beta
Sony expects to drop 10,000 gamers (18 years old and up) into the virtual world when it launches in beta sometime in late August. Closed beta tests are due in other markets (er hem, the US) at about the same time with an open beta coming sometime later in the year.
Dream Pets collection
Now the Japanese toy maker has drummed up a new addition to its Dream Pets collection. The Dream Hamster, a tiny furry thing that moves when you hold it, will be available in Japan on August 8th for around $11, and Sega fully expects to win the hearts of lonely women everywhere with these balls of puffy love. We mean, c’mon: it’s a furry cute thing that wiggles.
A future without Windows
“The Midori documents foresee applications running across a multitude of topologies, ranging from client-server and multi-tier deployments to peer-to-peer at the edge, and in the cloud data center. Those topologies form a heterogeneous mesh where capabilities can exist at separate places.” Like it technical? Hit the read link for an in-depth look at the possible shape of Microsoft’s future.
Mars Phoenix lander defends itself amid one or two quick thought
The Phoenix lander has now verified its mettle by discovering ice on Mars, and now it is gone and proven off its quick-thinking skills by shutting decreased its robotic arm in the wake of taking out a command which may own permanently damaged it. The lander apparently did it is most ideal to discover a workaround first, however, but in the end reached the conclusion the current any surplus movement might suffer bent its wrist out of shape. That left NASA engineers scrambling yesterday to appear up in specific new instructions to send to the lander, and they’re now just expected to see if properties equate surrounded by the robot’s approval.
Remember which Andrée Putman-designed digital photo frame
Remember which Andrée Putman-designed digital photo frame this was showcased in the UK formerly their year? Even if not, Parrot can want to remind you of this moment apparently exquisite device, that portions commonplace facilities desire a 7-inch 720 x 480 resolution display, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, an SD / MMC card slot, an undisclosed total number of internal memory and USB connectivity. Oh, and did we talk about the $449.99 price? Yeah, there is that, too. Heard enough, haven’t you? (Psst… it ships on July 28th in the US.)
Water-powered clock is right here to save the settings
If you are all in regards to the environment, you perhaps suffer a hybrid car, monitor your electricity use, and recycle your detritus. But if you continue to own a power-guzzling alarm clock this plugs to the wall, for shame, you glutton! Fear not, while — the eco-friendly, water-powered Bedol Wall Wave Clock is right here to save the day. Powered by electrodes immersed in water the current extract electricity based on data from compound particles, their thirsty clock will not be obtainable until Augst 15, 2008. To offer circumstances diminished painful, though, it may just run you $19.00 when it comes to save us all.
65-inch “digital posters
Utilizing big honkin’ reports for advertising purposes is not anything new, but East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and East Japan Marketing & Communications hold reached the conclusion to try “digital posters” out for reference. In short, ten 65-inch Sharp PN655R LCDs own been heard installed during “the internal concourse on the above all bottom of Tokyo Station’s Yaesu South Entrance,” and purchasers who stroll by can get a glimpse of at all (the image unrest every minute) in stunning 1080p. The destination here, as you are able to imagine, is to “evaluate the advertising effects of even image ad posters paying larger LCD panels displayed in a rather busy gateway.” If you are apprehensive to lay your eyes on the installation, you’d higher hurry, as there is no guarantee which they will stay following September. At minimum the video requested subsequent to the jump is forever.
HP joins the Centrino 2 crowd, ships heaps of economy laptops
Hey, how do you know? More Centrino 2 bombshell hot on the heels of Intel’s official announcement. Today we have got HP shipping the Centrino 2-based EliteBook, Pavilion and a high amount of HP Compaq arena laptops, providing specs and pricing differing quite wildly rooted on how you are seeming to squeeze out of your rig. If you are appearing to wrap your noodle almost ‘em, tap the looked at link and bust out the taking a look at glasses.