Qualcomm Ebook Display Ups the Ante with Full Color and Video [Ebooks]

Qualcomm has developed a 5.7-inch (1,024x768) display for ebook readers that not only renders color and video; it does so with enough power efficiency to challenge a black and white, still-frame Kindle.
The 'mirasol' technology mimics iridescent butterfly wings by deploying charged, color-inducing membranes over a layer of mirror. It's a technology that, if integrated into Kindles today as-is, would increase battery life by an estimated 20%.
Instead, Qualcomm uses that extra power efficiency to drive color and higher refresh rates for smooth video. They contend that a Kindle with their more media-capable display could run about a day with its current battery.
The catch? The lead photo is a non-functional prototype (housing a functional, frozen-image display). Qualcomm is offering the tech to third party partners, and they expect you to see mirasol tech on the market by late 2010.
[Gizmodo via SlashGear]

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ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World's Fastest Graphics Card [Graphics Cards]

The ATI Radeon HD 5970 slaughters the competition in pretty much every benchmark thrown at it. It's outrageously fast. We're talking five teraflops here, people. Teraflops.
MaximumPC put the 5970 to the test, and found that it lives up to its promise. The 2GB dual-GPU card is the first to support DirectX 11, and basically doubles its wholly respectable predecessor (the 5870) in specs, capable of delivering nearly 5 teraflops of raw processing power. It's a massive card, about a foot long, designed mostly for heat dissipation, at which aim it apparently succeeds. It's also got easy access to overclocking via AMD's OverDrive, and can drive up to three displays simultaneously with a maximum resolution of 7680x1600. So it's pretty much the greatest thing ever, and it's got a pricetag to match: $600 upon its undisclosed release.
[Gizmodo via MaximumPC]

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I Never Thought Water Drops Looked Like This [SloMo]

I'm mindboggled, in fact, my whole mind is a bag of beans after watching this high speed video of water drops falling. It's unbelievable how high speed photography can change your perception of the world.
There's nothing special in this video. No special water or additives. It's just that the world gets absolutely crazy at 2,000 frames per second. Surface tension is surprisingly stong though.
[Gizmodo]

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Two-Minute Video Makes a Lot of Sense of Google Wave [Google Wave]

If you're still struggling to understand how you might use Google Wave despite our in-depth first look, this quick video offers an excellent explanation of just one use case for how Wave can outshine email as a collaboration tool.

If you're one of the eager Wavers, whether you've got an invite or not, let's hear what you're looking forward to using Wave for in the comments.
[Lifehacker]

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Madagascar Institute’s Jet-powered Merry-go-round

The sign next to Madagascar Institute’s jet-powered merry-go-round says, “Caution: this may kill you” and with both speed and flames involved, it looks like it just may.
[The Uber-Review via BBG]

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Sony to unveil a 3D 240fps Broadcast Camera at CEATEC

CEATEC will kick on next week and Sony announced today their plan to unveil a 3D (Full HD ?!?!?) capable Camera capable to shoot video up to 240fps.

Anyway, we will see and learn more about this camera next week so stay tuned.

[Akihabaranews.com]

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iPad vs. Windows 7 Tablet Comparison Video

below is vidoe comparison between ipad and windows 7 tablet .Its not about acceptable or losing, we are blessed to alpha seeing some antagonism to industry’s best accepted Book device: Angel iPad.

As illustrated in the video, there are things that iPad would do bigger than Windows 7 tablet, and carnality versa.

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Web Browsing: Windows 7 Book ability be hardly faster at this but layout, awning size-wise, it fails to advertise its appeal.

OnScreen Keyboard: The on-screen keyboards are great, iPad absolutely has a bigger one.

Flash, youtube: Windows runs built-in Beam in browsers and iPad relies on built-in youtube app to accomplish the same. Other beam sites, aloof wont work. However, actionable iPad Beam [Frash] should attach bottomward to adherence and support.

Screen: Windows 7 Tablets will affection altered screens, assorted by the bell-ringer that articles it. But iPad already appearance best in chic IPS display.

Email & apps: As you can see from the video above, Windows 7 book actively lacks on user usability. Its not accessible back it comes to affecting baby areas which were originally meant be acclimated with abrasion cursor.

Connectivity: Windows 7 Tablets accept its bend over actuality as it accommodate all kinds of accepted PC connectivity ports: USB, SDcard and what not.

Battery: Mileage may alter but, iPad gives a bald minimum of 10hours, which is atleast 2x times bigger than any Windows 7 Book accessory that will be advancing anytime soon. This is one of the affidavit why HP windows 7 Slate was dropped.

Multitouch: Nobody, I said cipher can exhausted angel in this. They are the mastters of multitouch action smoothness, google ability be abutting them, but Angel is far added above at this.

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CUPP PunkThis hands-on with Video

CUPP PunkThis hands-on with Video

It is not the primary time we're operate into CUPP Computing's exclusive ability to mix the x86 and ARM platforms into one gadget -- at least in prototype type -- and just before the start of Computex 2011 right here in Taipei we received a chance to experience the company's newest iteration referred to as PunkThis. The product is meant to switch your computer's 2.5-inch SATA difficult drive using a board featuring a full ARM-based system as well as a mini-PCIe socket -- the latter capable of accommodating a physically scaled-down SATA SSD to handle the lacking storage for the x86 host. PunkThis is built about a Texas Instruments DM3730 ARM CPU with 512 MB of RAM and consists of a WiFi radio, as well as connectors and cables to interface the board with present video, audio, and USB facilities on the host pc (no soldering needed).

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