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Toshiba is pulling an EyeToy, minus a diabolical plan to actually sell the thing and make a killing off of collectable elemental decks. The company’s Cambridge-based Research Lab has some new video camera-based feature they’re prototyping for possible eventual TV implementation. The real highlight is a fist-based cursor control — just stick out your hand, make a fist, and control a cursor on-screen for navigating the TV’s functions. You can also put up your palm to stop the madness, and even rotate 3D images on-screen, but it’s all a little shaky for now. Another thing we saw was picture recognition: hold up a cue card to the TV with an image on it and the TV recognizes it and performs a pre-assigned function. Tosh is also working on speech recognition and some other things; not really changing the world, but some fun stuff all the same.Gallery: Toshiba’s Cambridge Research Lab shows off gesture-controlled TVs, image recognitionPermalink | Email this | Comments

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After reading the above list, you may feel that most phone card companies are just
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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/tech_news/Panasonic_s_150_inch_Life_Wall_TV_going_production_in_2009′; Although it’s impossible to tell without another object in the display box, that’s Panasonic’s 150-inch TV up there — here at IFA, intimidating its neighbors. Now get this: this massive plasma sporting a 2,160 X 4,096-pixel (4 times 1080p) Advanced HD display will hit the assembly lines just as soon as Panny’s newest factory comes on-line in the May 2009 timeframe. At the moment, the single 150-inch sheet of glass is hand-made and fitted into four of these behemoths currently touring the world. That means 150-inches of goodness could be yours before the year is up. College shmollege, this is quad HD!Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Filed under: LaptopsFujitsu finally got official with its Amilo Mini netbook yesterday after not exactly keeping it a secret these past few months, and it’s now gone out and announced another curiously similar netbook, the M1010, which may or may not actually just be slight variation of the Amilo Mini. Like the Mini, the M1010 weighs in at 2.2 pounds and will pack an 8.9-inch display, a 1.3-megapixel webcam, and built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, plus some removable clip-on covers in an “array of delightful colors.” Fujitsu doesn’t seem to be quite ready to go any further than that, however, which could certainly suggest that it’s not one and the same as the Amilo Mini, as could the fact that Fujitsu describes the M1010 as “easy on the wallet,” which doesn’t exactly apply to the nearly $600 Amilo Mini. We should know for sure soon enough either way though, as the netbook is set to launch sometime in the fourth quarter of this year.[Via Laptoping, thanks Danijel]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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With hope of a summer release fading with the passing of each and every day, Boy Genius Report cites a “pretty solid bit of info” that the BlackBerry Bold is now pegged for launch on AT&T on Thursday, October 2. So if you see a throng of three-piece suits starting to gather around your local store around September 28 or 29, yeah, that’s probably why.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Look, we wouldn’t want to be paused for your wicked, Quad HD amusement either. But seeing such a vivid demo on JVC’s 4K2K (4,096 x 2,400), super high definition LCD as we strolled through IFA’s digital playground reminded us of something: maybe not everything looks better in Quad HD. Think about it before you hustle on over to Japan for Panasonic’s 150-inch Quad HD set next year. All juvenility aside, the image above was created using JVC “soon to arrive” ultra high-definition player attached over dual-link DVI to the 4k2k display. The video uses MPEG-4AVC compression to convert the 6Gbps original 4K source into 50Mbps. More pics in the gallery below.Gallery: Reminder: Quad HD doesn’t make everything look betterPermalink | Email this | Comments

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HTC is keeping the S740 under wraps at IFA, but the crafty folks at newmobile managed to score some time with the new QWERTY slider, and it looks pretty decent. Thinner than the Touch Pro, the keyboard is basically the same, with the same sort of stealth-look backplate as the Diamond. No motion sensor, so the display only rotates when the slide is open, but that’s really all we know — the unit wasn’t running a production-ready version of Windows Mobile, so impressions are a little up in the air. Hit the read link for more shots.[Via Coolsmartphone]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Filed under: HandheldsAlthough Lenovo’s slick IdeaPad U8 has been floating around in prototype form for a while, it only made its formal debut at the Olympics recently, and now it’s starting to appear on Chinese websites — Zol.com.cn has a huge unboxing and review, while Yesky says it’ll be priced at 4,999 yuan, or about $731. That’s a little more than the “smartphone pricing” we were promised, but we’re guessing those of you looking to import this Asia-only piece were likely always expecting to throw down some coin for it. Tons more pics in the read links — we’re not going to try and depend on machine translation to understand the review, anyone care to give us the gist?[Via Pocketables] Read - IdeaPad U8 unboxing and review Read - Yesky pricing infoPermalink | Email this | Comments

Picture it: Italy, 1975 A shortage of coins in Italy in 1975 prompted the vandalism
of thousands of pay phones - thieves began breaking public phones in order to steal
coins. In 1976, a vending machine manufacturer and supplier called SIDA came up
with a way to avoid this and introduced the first magnetic strip international phone
cards so people wouldn’t need to use coins to make a call. But they could only be
used on certain phones, as people were required to insert the card into the phone
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We’re still pondering the difference between Toshiba’s Cell-based Resolution+ technology and its “good enough for everybody else” XDE tech, but we got a look at Resolution+ today — featured in Toshiba’s new ZF575 Regza TVs — and it seems to work well enough. Unlike XDE, which is designed with DVDs in mind to mess with contrast and colors, in addition to sharpness, Resolution+ just focuses on sharpness, for a multitude of SD inputs, and seems to do a decent job of it. Comparison shots up ahead, don’t poke your eye on any jaggies!Gallery: Toshiba’s Resolution+ ZF LCD in the fleshPermalink | Email this | Comments

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Blaupunkt’s TravelPilot nav units have never really stood out from the pack, but it looks like that’s about to change — the new TravelPilot 700 and 500 feature an integrated camera that displays realtime video with nav overlays on their 16:9 screens. That’s definitely a novel and intriguing feature, but there’s not a lot of information on how it works or what kind of hardware is under the hood to keep it running smoothly — with the 700’s estimated list price of $740, we’re guessing it’s pretty beefy. Both units also feature voice control, DVB-T traffic, live traffic, Bluetooth, and the usual PMP features, and the 700 also has a browser, email app, and VoIP client that work over Bluetooth tethering with your phone. Yeah, definitely intriguing — hopefully we’ll see this thing make it Stateside soon. Video after the break.[Via Navigadget; thanks, Khattab]Continue reading Blaupunkt TravelPilot 700 and 500 overlay nav info on realtime videoRead | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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While we can’t say we’ve ever felt the need for a projector with a built-in DVD player and a built-in “surround sound” system, Epson seems to think there’s at least some folks that want a big box of compromises, and it’s hoping its new EH-DM2 projector will be to their liking. This one’s a 3LCD projector, and boasts an “HD compatible” resolution and an adequate 1,200 lumens of brightness, along with a few non-standard features like a USB port to let you view photos, DiVX compatibility from the built-in DVD player and, of course, those built-in 8W speakers that somehow promise to surround you with sound. Not exactly for everyone, to be sure, but the €600 price tag (or just under $900) is certainly reasonable enough, and it’ll apparently be available as soon as next month.[Via About Projectors]
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