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You’re sitting alone, your house is quiet. You turn your phone off and reach for a novel — your favorite novel. You run your hand along the book’s well-worn spine, then crack open the yellowing pages to the spot you were at last. Suddenly you put the book down. Where are you? You stand up and take off your glasses, looking around frantically at your surroundings. Where are you?

Well, you’re not in Berlin, Germany between the dates of September 1st and 7th, attending IFA. ViewSonic just announced, no, threatened an onslaught of 3D product for the upcoming tradeshow, including a 720p 3D camcorder that will pack a built-in 3D display for a mere $300 (we’re sure it will be delightful). Details are scarce, but our guess would be that it’ll utilize a glasses-free 3D display akin to Nintendo’s 3DS or the Fujifilm Finepix Real 3D W3. Other 3D members of the brood will include a 3D handheld TV, 3D stills camera, and a 3D photo frame — all of which will undoubtedly scream quality. As if that wasn’t enough, ViewSonic will also be showing off a 7-inch Android tablet dubbed the ViewPad 7, along with a 10-inch tablet that can dual boot to Android and Windows. PR is after the break, we’ll let you get back to your book.

Update: Does that 3D camera (the two images on the left) look familiar? It should, it’s almost certainly a rebadge of the Aiptek i2. Poor Viewsonic, what happened to you?

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ViewSonic doing 3D like crazy at IFA, plans to debut 3D camera, camcorder, photo frame, and portable TV originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Love 3-D TV, but hate looking like a four-eyed nerd? Well, Toshiba may have the TV made specifically for you later this year. (There is still no official word from Toshiba). The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper is reporting that the Japanese electronics giant will unveil three models of televisions that creates a 3D effect without the need of glasses.

According to the report, the company has developed a method of method of beaming rays from various angels to create a stereoscopic effect. The technology reportedly will work on viewers regardless of which angle they are viewing the screen. Which is cool. The sets will also reportedly cost “several thousand dollars.”

The company rolled out a line of glass-dependent 3D TVs earlier this year, but sales were disappointing as many viewers complained of being irritated by the glasses.

via Physorg

This article was written on May 08, 2007 by CyberNet.

Joost invites have been a hot commodity lately, but the problem until recently was that in order to get an invite, someone with an account had to send you one of their limited invites. We’ve given away all of our invites, and several readers offered their invites up as well. Joost switched from limited invites to unlimited which made it easier, but now there’s an even easier way of getting a Joost invite.

GigaOM  has teamed up with Joost, and now there’s a page set up that anyone can go to. You just enter in your name and email address, and you’ll receive an invite (click here to get your invite). It really can’t get any easier.

Joost went live on May 1st, but it wasn’t smooth sailing as they expected it would be. On the Joost blog, they had a post titled “A little red-faced” and they went on to explain that the demand was high, which is great, but their system was struggling with it. Perhaps they should have extended the private beta longer before jumping the gun?

One of the biggest complaints so far besides the problems experienced with the public launch is the lack of content. Joost continues to add more, and hopefully they’ll get to a point where the quality of the content and the selection are top-notch. Recently two more partnerships were created which will add additional channels to the list.

On Monday, Joost and video site Heavy announced a partnership. Heavy is popular with the younger male crowd, and the programming includes Heavy Animation, Heavy Comedy and Heavy Gurls. Along with Heavy, Warner Brothers just joined Joost as well. The list keeps getting longer, and it can only mean better content and selection for users.

Sources: WebWire, CNET News (Thanks for the tip Cory!)

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Sure, that Xperia X8 in the picture may look demure, but the FCC doesn’t mess around — mere seconds after we found this shot of the 3-inch, Android 1.6 handset, we stumbled across a PDF showing the phone in — ahem — various states of dress. Now, we try to run a clean site here, so you’ll have to hit our source link to find those salacious pics (and manual) yourself, but if you want some nice, tasteful shots of the device’s exterior and ports you’ll find them immediately below. No new specs here, by the way — it’s the same quad-band GSM HSPA handset with WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, A-GPS and FM radio we’ve seen before.

FCC cracks open Sony’s Xperia X8, posts user’s manual and revealing photos originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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