Today’s personal media player’s, or PMPs, screens are too small. Even worse is the solution: bulky glasses with embedded screens (aka head mounted displays) that obstructs the user’s vision. Brother’s solution is a small and light weight attachment that can be fitted to any pair of glasses, which ‘irradiates low-intensity light’ on to the retina Ultimately, the retina is the display and a result it doesn’t completely obstruct vision. Don’t expect this retinal imager until 2010, though.
At first glance the demo appears to be nothing special. But once the demo get’s into the ordering part, and you realize that the Surface is the actual table you’ll be sitting at, it’s pretty damn cool. Just watch the video already!
The Turn Signal Biking Jacket would be a welcome addition to my biking paraphernalia. The LEDs are controlled via a wrist mounted switch and it would double as a nice warning signal to drivers at night.
Playing Guitar Hero 3 requires me to stand such that I can my best guitar moves on. The first few plays are always crap because I have to acclimate to looking down at the TV - an awkward angle if you know what I mean. The Thanko Motorized TV Stand solves this problem by moving the TV up and down in a range of 51 inches. Included in the package is a wireless remote and the stand can handle sets up to 110lbs.
For a mere $175 you can build your own electronic Post-It note. Doesn’t sound that cheap to me, but there probably isn’t a cheaper or cooler commercial solution.
Looking like the IN82, the IN83 has been updated with a Texas’ instruments DarkChip4 combined with BrilliantColor. It projects in a 2.35:1 widescreen ratio and won’t require an external scaler for up or downconversion. It also sports HDMI 1.3 Deep Color which can apparently produce over 1.3 billion colors, a native 5000:1 contrast ratio (max is 15,000:1), 1,600 max ANSI lumens and Pixelworks DNX 10-bit video processing.
Friday I posted some satirical like ads from the folks at Microvision, you know the ones building the ultra small Pico projectors to be used in cell phones. Well, it looks like 3M has emerged as a contender in the ultra-ultra portable projector market, although they’ve yet to name the outsourced company to build it. This bite sized LED projector can display an image up to 50-inches, diagonally and is intended as an add-on to the cell phones, computers and cameras. It’s expected to cost $300 - 400, but come on, who really knows how much these things are gonna go for.
By now we’re all anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Pico, a projector small enough to fit into a cell phone. Even though the product has yet to be unveiled that hasn’t stopped their marketing team from releasing a set of commercials promoting it…well promoting the stand alone product. The ads are pretty cheesy with the silliest one featuring 30-something hipsters displaying images at a bar to pick up on a guy.
