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xyZ autostereoscopic display takes the glasses out of 3D for (relatively) cheap {Engadget HD}
Jul 7th 2009 4:38AM Problem with glasses-free (lenticular) displays is that if your head is not in the right position, the effect gets messed up. This TV apparently can let about 4 people watch at the same time, but only if they're at just the right positions and angles. Also, you get half the horizontal resolution.
Personally, I don't see the problem with wearing glasses, since most people at least wear sunglasses occasionally anyway, and you generally get better quality. Passive-polarised displays are easier to view, though half the brightness, and need only ordinary sunglasses with differently-polarised lenses. Active-polarised displays give the best results but need bulkier LCD-shutter glasses, though these are getting rapidly smaller.
Dyson's Airblade dries hands with 400MPH blast of air {Engadget}
Jun 29th 2009 9:13PM Ah, but was it a 400MPH airblast?
Did you *measure* it??
Acer AspireRevo: the Ion-infused unboxing {Engadget}
Jun 4th 2009 10:18PM I actually get significantly better results (using CoreAVC) from CUDA than from DXVA. Dropped the CPU usage on my old AthlonX2 HTPC from 80-90% down to 10-15%, and it works on a wider variety of formats too, in my experience.
Partygoers ponder the highs and lows of Microsoft's press briefing {Joystiq}
Jun 3rd 2009 12:32AM Face/voice recog is entirely software, not hardware - Microsoft's domain, not Sony's.
Natal hardware is just a webcam with a clever IR cam that senses depth. Everything else is software.
Partygoers ponder the highs and lows of Microsoft's press briefing {Joystiq}
Jun 3rd 2009 12:29AM Trailer? Faked. On-stage demos? Not faked.
Read the reports from journos who've played with it first-hand. They're impressed. Natal does actually work, at least so far.
Partygoers ponder the highs and lows of Microsoft's press briefing {Joystiq}
Jun 3rd 2009 12:24AM I don't believe MS ever ridiculed the Wii, did they? They had a pretty similar concept in the works themselves at the time, only without the balls to bet their console on it like Nintendo did.
Thing is, Natal isn't going to *replace* our precious controllers. It can't, not for a lot of games, and those games aren't going anywhere either, so don't feel obliged to bitch about it. What it will do is allow a bunch of novel, easy-to-play, casual games to be made (Spielberg certainly thinks so), which MS would love to sell to that huge casual market that Nintendo discovered.
Samsung's WVGA AMOLED: 800x480 pixels and swine-flu immune {Engadget}
Jun 1st 2009 11:42PM I've got a 3" piece of glossy paper here with a resolution of at least 2500 x 1800, and funny, I can still read everything on it.
Welcome Home: PlayStation Home Beta is live! {Joystiq}
Dec 11th 2008 11:29PM jackal: 16kbps? Bliss!
The only thing worse than my old 300 baud modem (that's 0.3kbps, kids) was when my new-fangled 1200/75 baud connected the wrong way around, and gave me a whole 75 characters per second.
Blu-ray releases on October 28th 2008 {Engadget HD}
Oct 28th 2008 8:59PM Exactly! What happened to Baraka?
Baraka "is the finest video disc I have ever viewed or ever imagined", according to Ebert, and "'Baraka' by itself is sufficient reason to acquire a Blu-ray player" - and it doesn't even make your list?
Microsoft's New Xbox Experience storage "solution": Free memory cards, discounted hard drives {Engadget}
Oct 13th 2008 11:54PM While that DIY approach does work - it *will* get your arse banned on XBL damn quick.
