Most electric cars are two seats, a monster battery pack, and not much luggage space. A brief ride in the Nissan Leaf, due to ship shortly, is enough to convince you that an electric car can be roomy inside and have decent trunk space. Driving the Leaf is like driving most any other modern compact car: fun to drive, easy to maneuver, relatively uneventful. With gasoline so cheap, a $25,000 electric no bargain. As a steppingstone to the future of cars, it’s breathtaking.
In the wake Nintendo’s stock price-dropping 3DS release delay news, the company late last week announced the names of titles that will be available when the 3D portable console is released in Japan on February 26.
The list, predictably, features a number of familiar franchises, including the latest entries in the Legend of Zelda, Street Fighter, Nintendogs, Monkey Ball, and Pilotwings lines.
The full list, according to Softpedia, is,
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Nintendogs + Cats, Pilotwings Resort (working title), Pro Baseball Spirits from Konami, Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle, Ridge Racer 3D, Samurai Warriors Chronicle, Steel Diver, Super Monkey Ball (working title), and Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition.
That Kid Icarus title that we saw previewed when Nintendo debuted the 3DS at E3 is due out some time in 2011–as is Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D. Also slated for next year is Chocobo Racing 3D, Star Fox 64 3D, Animal Crossing, Dead or Alive: Dimensions, Paper Mario (working title), Mario Kart (working title), Resident Evil: Revelations, and Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D.
Looks like a solidly familiar lineup.
Ceatec 2010, the big Japanese electronics showcase, doesn’t open until tomorrow. But CNET has some early videos from inside that provide a taste of what’s to come.
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High definition TVs are good for some. For those who are okay not seeing everything. But for those of us who need to see the shimmering glimmer in the eye of every fan in the stadium, the future is Super Hi-Vision (also known as SHV, Ultra HDTV, and 8K).
SHV offers 16 times more pixels than the best HDTVs can offer with crazy powerful 7680 x 4320 resolution. New lenses and TVs had to be invented just to be seen in all its pixel packin’ power. It was first demonstrated in 2003, and is now being pushed as the new standard by the BBC, Japan’s NHK, and Italy’s RAI. Last week the BBC and NHK teamed up to broadcast the very first SHV broadcast over the internet: a performance by The Charlatans. Of course, no one could really see it in all it’s glory, but it’s setting the ball rolling.
There are some real constraints to just transmitting the sort of data needed for Super Hi-Vision, but NHK is hoping to have the format in wide release for the 2012 Olympics.
BBC video explaining the first SHV broadcast after the jump.
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Horror, shock, surprise! Microsoft CEO and prime fanboy of all things Windows and developer-related, Steve Ballmer, will be the keynote speaker at Microsoft’s New York launch event for Windows Phone 7. He’ll be joined on stage by AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega and when the pep rally is over, we’re promised opportunities to finally handle the official incarnations of retail Windows Phones for ourselves. We know all this because Microsoft has just dropped a kind little invite into our inbox urging us to attend its October 11 get-together. We will, of course, be there live, but don’t forget Microsoft’s also holding a London event on that day, ostensibly for the same reason, so make sure to be up nice and early next Monday if you don’t wanna miss a thing.
As we reported last night, the company is also holding a gathering centered around T-Mobile WP7 handsets, though details are more scarce on that event. We saw an official invite from the folks in Redmond, but it looks like that showing may be smaller in scale. We have to imagine that AT&T and their GSM competition don’t want to share the stage, but as this is a Microsoft launch, anything is possible. Regardless, if there are multiple carriers showing hardware come October 11th, we’ll have all the goods.
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Martian hopscotch, anyone? Bouncing vehicles proposed by Draper Laboratory could cover dozens of miles on Mars with a few leaps.
We’re just days away from Logitech unveiling its Google TV hardware lineup, but now VP Eric Kintz is saying that’s not all the company will have to show. You may remember that Logitech acquired LifeSize Communications late last year, a company specializing in corporate HD video conferencing, and now that technology will be coming to the living room. Logi isn’t unveiling details yet, but whatever solution it offers will be compatible with Google TV and, given that Logitech’s C910 webcam was recently granted SkypeHD compatibility, we wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some sort of tie-in there. Hardware cost is unknown but no monthly fee will be charged, contrasting with Cisco’s rumored solution — coincidentally also said to be unveiled on Weds. According to The Wall Street Journal Cisco’s HD conferencing option will cost a whopping $600 and, on top of that, will require a $30 monthly fee. That seems somewhat outrageously priced for a one trick pony, so here’s to hoping there’s more to it than that.
Logitech’s Google TV offering to also handle HD video conferencing, challenge Cisco’s upcoming solution? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
At last, Moleskine has come up with its own set of iDevice covers. Since the launch of the iPad, we have seen traditionally-bound covers from Pen & Quill and Dodocase, beautiful, handmade cases which both protect your iDevices and disguise them as old-style notebooks.
Oddly, the official Moleskine covers for the iPad and iPhone (3G and 3GS) are the least Moleskine-like of the lot. Whereas the others do nothing more than put a cover and retaining strap around your gadget, the Moleskine adds a paper notepad and a soft, suede-like lining to the cardboard and faux-leather cover. It also holds the iPad in place with an ugly bezel-covering rectangle, instead of the Dodocase’s elegant, if sometimes slippery, edge-gripping rubber pads.
The paper/iPad combo will surely prove attractive to some, but the added thickness makes things somewhat impractical. The iPhone version is especially encumbered: Look at the picture. So useless does this case render the phone that even Moleskine admits that “the Smartphone Cover is mainly conceived to be used with Bluetooth, headphones or loud speaker.”
The cases are on pre-order at Amazon, but neither launch-date or price have been announced. Our advice? Buy either the Pen & Quill or Dodocase, and sling a regular paper Moleskine in the bag along with it. Or just make your own.
Moleskine Covers for iPhone and iPad [Moleskine]
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Finally a bit of competition to pep up the transparent OLED market. Samsung and LG seem to have had this party all to themselves until now, but TDK is stepping in with a 2-inch passive matrix screen and a humble QVGA (320 x 240) resolution. Sure, those aren’t groundbreaking specs, but a claimed 50 percent transmittance — meaning that half of what’s behind the screen can be seen through it — beats its Korean competitors rather handily. Another prototype being shown off by the company is a 3.5-inch flexible OLED panel that redefines thinness with a slinky 0.3mm profile. It’s made using a resin substrate and covers an unimpressive 256 x 54 pixels at the moment, but again, that’s just how good things get started: with small steps of awesome. We’ll keep an eye out for both of these as we prowl the halls of CEATEC 2010.
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