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Music flowing like water, literally

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:39:04 +0000

I know many of us have thought about the music we listen to as being cool, or heart-warming or whatever, but did you ever see music as running like tap water? If not, and I haven’t also, some crazier people did and they made it happen. The concept is named Music Flow, and it’s the brainchild of Yanko Design.

To play music you turn the faucet knob, and the music starts flowing into headphones that are connected to the spigot. Furthermore, if you pinch the headphone cable, the music stops. But wait, there’s more. The remote "looks like waves" and controls the player without the faucet knob and the faucet knob is actually also a disguised speaker. The spigot has a battery inside that you charge before you attach it to a wall or whatever.

It seems that each item will be sold separately. Me, I prefer a plain-old music player.

Sony tested their new FED Display

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:23:03 +0000

Just when you thought there is nothing cooler than playing Grand Turismo 5 on a Sony Bravia HDTV, Sony comes to outdo themselves. Very interesting, i have to say, and i very hard to be made curious.
It seems that Sony built something they call Nano-Spindt FED/Field Emissions Display (wish they would have given it a shorter name). This display features a frame rate of 240fps, four times the maximum rate of the Grand Turismo 5. The screen that the game was played on was a 19"-er. And now for the technical part. More than 10.000 electron sources, also known as nano-spindt emitter, per pixcel make you lose sense of reality while watching. Each time a fluorescent substance is exposed to the electrons from the emitters, light is produced.
I have to say i am impressed and i am looking forward to seeing one of these babies in stores so i can enjoy playing Mario.

LG and Sharp plead guilty to LCD price-fixing double-cross

admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:10:35 +0000

It seems that these days you can’t trust anybody. Everyone wants to mess with you and take your money when you least expect it. This is the case of the LCD price-fixing lawsuit filled against LG, Sharp and Chunghwa Picture Tubes. And guess what? They all pleaded guilty in this case started by the US Department of Justice and are bound to pay a combined $585m fine. LG only will throw $400 mil out of the piggy bank for conspiring to fix prices from September 2001 to June 2006 and Sharp will lose $120 mil for double-crossing Dell, Motorola and Apple with panels.

That is nice, but what happens to us mere mortals whose money totals the $585 mil? Good luck I guess. Over and out.

Western Digital’s first step into video streaming with WD TV HD Media Player

admin — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:39:26 +0000

Western Digital is the company we all know for making HDD’s, but now they are testing the waters in the video streaming territory. Their finger for testing is called WD TV HD Media Player. Armed with 2 USB 2.0 drives that work simultaneously, you just plug in an watch on your HDTV. Also the Media Player comes with a remote and with a browsing software. The price tag shows $130, which is rather reasonable.

Royal Digital Media gives a new meaning to “I have it all on this disk”

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:47:56 +0000

I realize everyday that I am getting old, because with each passing day, everything I thought was magical, becomes pig food. DVD’s were replaced by Blu-Ray’s, I could have lived with that, but now, only a short while after the blu disk took the reality to the next level, now we will get something bigger and better.

Responsible for this replacement for the Blu-Ray, is Royal Digital Media and DreamStream, but their baby is still unnamed. The info on the disks will have “military-grade” encryption and will allow us to store up to 100GB. This size is not astronomical, as they plan to store on these disks the new generation of high definition, the 1920p.

For those alarmed of having to pay half-a-year salary on a player for these things, the producers announced that they will cost as much as a normal DVD player out there.

Netflix and Samsung sitting in a tree…

admin — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:28:54 +0000

Netflix, the world’s largest online movie rental service has joined hands with Samsung Electronics America and will offer us the ability to instant stream movies and TV episodes directly from Netflix web site and into our living rooms, with the help of Samsung’s BD-P2500 and BD-P2550 Blu-ray disc players.
And now the interesting part, the way this works. First of all you have to connect the Blu-ray players to a wired broadband connection. Netflix members will then pay a visit to the Netflix Web site so that they can add both movies and TV episodes to their individual instant Queues. But you won’t get what you selected right away on your screen, as the data has to travel to your home. In half a minute you can start watching the movie or episode of your desire. As we expected there will also be the option to rewind or fast-forward using the remote.
The BD-P2550 and BD-P2500 can be bought for as much as $399.99 each and those who have older models of Samsung Blu-ray players can upgrade them. Me, I am going to save some money for a new chair and a new popcorn machine.

Interactive Mirror On The Wall…

admin — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:28:15 +0000

Just when you thought you have seen them all, fairy tales come to life but with add-ons. It’s easy as pie to go in front of the mirror and jut touch it to turn it into a computer. Watch a movie, see your stocks falling or just do a virtual make-up of yourself.

The mirror works similar to an iPhone so most of us should have no trouble to use it. The makers of this fair mirror, BlogLitStudios didn’t give any info on the price tag, but if anyone is interested in the Interactive Mirror should contact them. I for one, am curios of how fun it can be to sit in front of one of these contraptions, but not looking forward to seeing how much more time women will spend in front of the mirror.

The Margarator MSB-585

admin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:57:35 +0000

Here is a crazy gadget that caught my eye the other day. We bring you The Margarator MSB-585. No drums and no parade, but it doesn’t matter, I love it. It’s not just a blender to make margueritas, oh no my friends, it can also make other ice-cold drinks to keep us un-sweaty during the summer or to keep our minds off the things that happened at work when we finally get home.

It has a built-in tap and a car plug that will help you to drink and drive and also drink and crash. For me, it’s a gift from the heavens, being a fan of margueritas and of cocktails. We will wait and see what it is for you. Drink responsably.