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Imagine yourself a dozen years ago, inhabiting the age of the CRT monitor, where a depth of 16.5 centimeters was considered a space-saving solution. Now open your eyes, breathe in the fresh air of modernity, and gaze upon ASUS’s new line of 16.5mm deep monitors with the admiration they deserve. Coming out with no less than five models ranging from 23.6 to 20 inches — MS246, MS236, MS226, MS227 and MS202 — ASUS has strapped touch-sensitive buttons to 2ms response panels with 250 nits of brightness, and a 50,000:1 dynamic (boo!) contrast ratio. The top three models feature Full HD resolution and HDMI, while the 22-inch MS227 makes do with 1680 x 1050 and the MS202 gets downgraded to a 5ms response time and 1600 x 900 resolution. Prices aren’t yet available, but the read link contains all the painfully exhaustive details you might need.

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ASUS Designo MS Series is 16.5mm thin, venerates form over function originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The GigaPan has opened new doors in ridiculously high-resolution imagery, creating pictures so huge our feeble human minds can’t hope to comprehend them. Sony’s getting in on the action, not so much with the idea of capturing historic events at gigapixel resolutions, but providing the same sort of effect by linking multiple documents and items together and allowing you to zoom from one to the next. The video after the break shows a number of demonstrations, including what looks to be a release calendar that, inside each cell, contains high-resolution photos and even videos of whatever is releasing that day. Hidden advertising is also possible, like a mosquito on a man’s face tagged with an ad only apparent after you’ve gotten uncomfortably close to the poor man’s face. The adult entertainment opportunities are endless. Also demo’d is a new voice recognition library for the PS3, dubbed PS3VR, which can take you straight to your Cindi Lauper albums even if you’re not a girl and are seemingly disinterested in having fun. That tech isn’t quite so interesting, but it and the high-resolution libraries are intended for release to developers… eventually.

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Video: High-res image enlargement tech for PS3 and PSP takes extreme closeups to a new level originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on March 14, 2007 by CyberNet.

The video above demonstrates four new videos that Microsoft just posted for use with the Windows Vista DreamScene preview that they made available in the middle of February. If you’re a Vista Ultimate user you can play around with DreamScene and the new videos by performing a Windows Update. After you’ve got it installed you’ll be able to start using videos as your desktop background much the same way as you would use a wallpaper.

The four new videos in the demo above are:

• A field of thistle, with a bee gathering pollen (10 seconds long)
• A streetlamp reflected in a puddle, with softly falling rain (8 seconds long)
• The rushing water of a forest stream (12 seconds long)
• Orange wisps flowing in a computer-generated scene (14 seconds long)

You can actually use any video with DreamScene, even home movies, but they work best if they loop smoothly from the end to the beginning. I was shocked to see that last video that they provided with the “orange wisps” because that looks like something that would only be tolerable if you had a few too many drinks. Maybe it’s just me, but my eyes surely wouldn’t like to see that when I’m looking at the icons on my desktop.

So if you’re using Windows Vista Ultimate you can check out the latest DreamScenes, and there are also some more great videos available from WinCustomize if you decide you don’t like those.

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You’ve just got to admire an outfit like Netronix. Hardly anyone this side of Asia has heard of ’em, and with outfits like Amazon, Sony, Hearst and ASUS doing their darnedest to corner to rapidly expanding e-reader market, you know it has an uphill climb just to get some respect. That said, we’re somewhat intrigued by what’s on deck for Q1 2010; just a few months after its EB-600 and EB-500 readers were spotted at Computex, the company itself has confessed to having an expansive EB900 in the works. As with the Kindle DX, this bugger is destined to boast a 9.7-inch e-ink display, and you’ll also find a 600MHz processor, WinCE 6.0-based operating system, touch support, a handwriting mode, built-in WiFi / Bluetooth / 3G WWAN and a USB socket for connecting to one’s PC. The minuscule snapshot you see there to the right is all we’ve got to go by as far as images are concerned, but you can rest assured we’ll be keeping an ear to the ground for more.

[Thanks, Tom]

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Netronix sneaking 9.7-inch display, hopes and dreams into forthcoming EB900 e-reader originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Gabriele Meldaikyte’s range of kitchen kit allows cooks to prepare food single-handed. And we mean that literally.

One-Hand Kitchen Equipment is a counter-top convenience that lets anybody with the use of only one hand to chop, slice, open and grate most groceries and foodstuffs. The heart of the system is a secured baseboard with various “walls” which hold things in place.

For instance, the top chopping board has a rear lip, around two-inches high with a curved section. This can be used in conjunction with the front lip to secure a grater, a circular food holder or a spiked board. When slid back, it makes a “vise” which can clamp bread, jars and other packs against another edge-wall.

It’s very well thought out, and gains a lot of respect from the simplicity and flexibility of the design: this is no useless uni-tasker. The One-Hand Kitchen Equipment set is currently available in pixel-form only, existing as a concept design. It looks useful enough for a two-handed user as well, so we hope that it finds its way into a kitchen, soon.

Product page [Yanko Thanks, Radhika!]