Hasta La Gadget!

In typical Sony Style, the outfit’s booth was comically large at this year’s Photokina. Not that we’re complaining or anything, particularly when it’s using the show to demonstrate an eight-pack of colorful new mirrorless concepts. Tucked away in the NEX corner were four NEX-3 and four NEX-5 cameras, all doused in colors that aren’t available anywhere at the moment. We’re guessing that Sony’s doing its best to beat Colorware to the punch here, and a kind booth representative noted that these were simply “ideas” and that the company wasn’t yet committed to making any of them. If you’re accepting opinions, Sony, the whole red-black-silver thing is getting a bit tired, so why not throw out a few more options for the style-conscious among us? We’ll take two — an orange and a white. Dankeschön.

Sony reveals ‘color variation concept’ models of NEX-5 and NEX-3 (eyes-on) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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CNET tests the capability of the Sony PlayStation 3 to play 3D Blu-ray discs.

NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference 2010 just kicked off in San Jose, and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has shared something interesting with us on stage — thanks to a partnership with The Portland Group, it’s bringing the CUDA parallel computing framework to x86. Previously limited to NVIDIA GPUs — and the lynchpin of NVIDIA’s argument for GPGPU computing — CUDA applications will now run on “any computer, or any server in the world.” Except those based on ARM, we suppose. Still no word on NVIDIA’s x86 CPU.

NVIDIA teams with PGI for CUDA-x86, gifts its brand of parallelism to the world originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Our eccentric chums at CNET UK have made a lighthearted head-to-head video pitting two of 2010’s hottest cell phones–the iPhone 4 and the Samsung Galaxy S.

We’ve already heard QderoPateo Communications (or QPC) talk up its notion of “articulated naturality” on smartphones, but it looks like the company has really gone all out for the World Economic Forum’s recent Summer Davos Conference. That’s where the company laid out its ambitious vision for an “Articulated Naturality Web,” which promises to take the concept of augmented reality to a whole new level. Described as a “complete renaissance in the way we approach technology,” the system would let you check hotel room availability simply by looking at the outside of the hotel, try out different furniture in an empty office space, look at items from a museum before you go inside, and get a weather forecast just by looking at the sky, to name just a few possibilities. Ambitious to be sure, but is it actually attainable in the near future? We certainly hope so. Head on past the break for the video.

[Thanks, Marius]

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QPC’s Articulated Naturality Web looks to one up augmented reality originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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