Tag Archives: displays

Xbox 360 Notebook Converter confirmed!

Gamers have been waiting for this announcement for who the hell knows how long. It seems that the possibility of a portable Xbox 360 is all but officially confirmed. Peripheral company, Hori, prematurely announced their release of a no-hassle Compact TFT Monitor EX, an LCD that easily connects to the Xbox 360 with very minimal effort. The 12.1 inch monitor ...

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Intel’s Metro Notebook concept for the fashionable urbanite

Intel has some pretty cool stuff up their sleeves as of late. This “Metro Notebook” concept is Intel’s attempt at creating a restyled, ultra-slim and ultra-light laptop that takes into consideration, the young urbanites need for class and style. The sub-0.7 thick, 1 kg sized Metro has an outside display built into the back of the monitor which serves as ...

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coo.boo: The spatula-shaped digital cookbook

We find so many great recipes for our woman to cook for us on the Internet, but there is no way to give them the recipe unless we want to print out the whole thing. What a waste of paper! The coo.boo is a spatula-shaped digital cookbook that automatically syncs through a wireless dock. The coo.boo is completely washable and ...

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Digital Jewel Box changing the face of portable media and album art

Sometimes, the days of holding a good old CD case in our hands as we listen to an album makes us yearn for simpler times when MP3 players only held a few gigs of data. This concept by David Friedman mixes the modern technology of digital displays, high powered PMP systems, and the days of old jewel CD case, to ...

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Roy Block: Mixed reality video game concept will blow your mind

[ev type=”youtube” data=”kOpeKBOKXz0″][/ev] Roy Block is one of those things you don’t see very often. A creation that can revolutionize how we look at something, in this case, gaming. Using a tangible interface, the came stands on the edge of a mixed reality, integrating our world, with the game world. If words could do the concept justice, we would describe ...

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RoCo Robotic Computer Monitor feels your pain

A research project by MIT Media Lab’s Affective Computing Group has sprung up RoCo, an interesting robotic computer monitor prototype. RoCo is not your everyday monitor. This monitor will be able to cater to human emotions and needs. How can a monitor cater to human needs? …capable of recognizing and physically responding to human socio-emotive cues such as postural shifts ...

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ACME Tri-fold Laptop at CeBIT

Three LCD screens on a laptop? Oh, don’t doubt it so quick, fellow gearheads. Check out the ACME tri-folding laptop featured at CeBIT. Don’t get your hope panties all up in a bundle just yet. This ACME product is for now, just a prototype, but this rugged piece of lap gear is sure to turn a lot of heads. Especially ...

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The HeadThere Giraffe Telepresence Robot

Talk about getting a heads up at work. The Giraffe Telepresence Robot lets you put your “head there” along with your coworkers or client. The Giraffe works with a video display and a camera attached to a robotic base. The base height can be lowered or extended depending if your coworker is sitting or standing, or a midget. The 2 ...

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Study: 30 inch screens increase efficiency and productivity…obviously

Captain Obvious, reporting for duty sir! A new study released shows that having a larger computer screen can increase efficiency and productivity compared to smaller screens. Well, you don’t say? Could it have something to do with having A LOT more room?! Don’t answer that question. It’s meant to be rhetorical. Gains in productivity were not only seen in the ...

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Samsung Cannes PDP TV brings a ray of DayLight

Samsung Korea has announced its new line of PDP TV’s, being released under the name ‘Cannes’. The TV will be available in three sizes. The 42″ ($2200), 50″ ($3500), and 63″ ($9450), will all respectively come with Ultra DayLight technology, which will adjust the contrast ratio automatically depending on the ambient lighting environment of your room. Ultra Daylight allows for ...

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