Humm… a 1, 2, or 4 GB USB 2 memory stick in the shape of Darth Vader? Too bad it won’t be ready in time for Christmas! But you can pre-order them.
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Category: Computers
ifusion Stereo PMP Display
In the ever popular search for cool gear for your gear I saw this. It says that by sticking this special screen over your personal media player and bam! You get eye popping 3d media. Well… Hold on there. i know a little bit about autostereo displays. I’m going to take a stab in the dark and make a guess how this works. First you are going to need some content in 3D. Left and right images or clips of video taken with a 3d camera. That’s a no brainer. Second, the content will have to go through a special media player that will either interlace the left and right feeds on the fly or will play back stuff that you have converted on your PC. It more than likely has more horsepower than a PMP. What you will get when you look at the PMP with out the special screen will be a sliced up picture that has striped of content side by side. Maybe a few pixels wide. The screen is a lenticular lens array that will shift the slices of image to it’s respective eye. A good example of all this is an article on DIY lenticular prints that I wrote up a few days ago. I’ve seen professional systems that have these, nice 36" LCD screens, and the images look pretty good. Or it will use a red/green color image anaglyph. Those look ok in my opinion. I’ve never seen a color anaglyph that looks 100 percent real. I’m hoping for a true stereo image but you can never tell.
I’m looking forward to seeing one of these sceens in place one day. I have a crap load of stereo images and I’d love to show them to people from my PDA.
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CF to IDE Adapter
I’ve seen these in a local monster computer store here in Arizona. I was tempted to get one but I couldn’t think of a good reason to own one. Of course, if you want one you can get a CF to IDE
I did speak to a guy that was building a robot that would run Linux off from an old desktop computer. He was trying to figure out a way to extend the battery life of the system, the motorcycle batteries just weren’t lasting as long as he had hoped. I told him about these and he was quite pleased. Using a compact flash card in place of a hard drive should save him a few amps off his power load.
Wired Nextfest 2006
I had the happy accident of seeing a sign for the Wired Nextfest in a subway on Tuesday and made it one of the last things on the big list for NYC.
Holy crap, all the time I was there I kept thinking Roy Batty’s line from Blade Runner "I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…’ This was stuff that I had blogged about or read of in magazines…
Manipulator For Graphical Information
Holy heavy hardware Batman! These Russkie mice are the pinnacle of Soviet technology in their day.
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Atari video game keychains
When I first saw these I thought they were inert key chain toys and it wasn’t until I saw that they took batteries that I realized that these babies make the sweet 8 bit gamez. [[Atari]] still rocks!
Plug ‘n play keychains are here! Pick
Pong, Asteroids, or Centipede! Pong
also comes w/ Breakout & Warlords!
Asteroids has Millipede & Centipede
includes Yar’s Revenge! Comes with
6’ cord w/ RCA jacks to plug in TV!!
Uses 3 AAA batteries, not included.
Each measure approx. 1.5”x2”x1.5”
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