Apr 10
Forget your water-cooled gaming rig: Intel is experimenting with a cooling system which fully immerses the entirety of a computer’s electronics in liquid to increase efficiency.
Jan 31
Heads up, Google Glass Explorers! Here’s a way to make your wearable computer draw even more attention to yourself. A company called GPOP is selling vinyl skins for your Glass. The skins are 3M vinyl cut to fit the various parts of Google’s tech.
There skins have a variety of designs, from simple matte white and black…
To skins with graphics printed on them.
GPOP also has fake carbon fiber and fake wood skins.
Okay browser, head to GPOP to buy the skins. Each set costs around $10-$16(USD). Just to show to you that its really ahead of the gadget skin game, GPOP also sells skins for the Pebble smart watch.
[via The Gadget Flow]
Oct 17
A dirty car not only looks bad, it can also lead to reduced fuel efficiency if it affects your car’s aerodynamics. But who wants to spend every weekend washing their vehicle, or ponying up for car washes? No one, especially when 3M has created the perfect alternative: a spray-on invisible film that can be easily peeled off when your car gets too mucked up.
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Sep 26
Evernote expands with new product line: scanners, Post-Its, wallets and socks
Posted in: Today's Chili
Evernote has already ventured beyond apps with a Smart Notebook made by Moleskine, but the company’s now kicked off a new initiative that’ll see its logo appear on some decidedly more surprising products. As the company indicated previously, that includes hardware developed by a partner — an Evernote-branded Fujitisu scanner and a stylus from Adonit, for starters — but also a number of products that have little direct link to Evernote’s core services. Those include a wallet, backpacks, a laptop case and, yes, socks — all of which can be purchased through the Evernote’s online store, which is said to also be coming to its various apps.
Another new partnership also announced today will see 3M produce a new line of Post-It notes that are designed to be captured with a smartphone’s camera, not unlike the aforementioned Moleskine notebook; in this case, Evernote apps will organize Post-Its based on their color. You can browse all the current offerings available in the Evernote Market at the source link below, and count on seeing plenty more in the future. Speaking at the company’s conference in San Francisco today, Evernote CEO Phil Libin spelled it out: “we’re a fashion brand now.”
Filed under: Misc, Peripherals
Via: TechCrunch
Source: Evernote Market
Sep 13
Over-exposure to the sun is of course bad for your skin, but that’s not the only thing adversely affected by its rays. Man-made materials like plastic will slowly degrade when left out in the sun, so 3M has developed a new line of hard hats featuring a color-changing UV sensor that tells the wearer their head protection might not actually be so safe.
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May 22
3M and Nanosys have just announced that they’ll start shipping qualification samples of their Quantum Dot Enhancement Film (QDEF) to manufacturers to bring a 50 percent wider color gamut and lower power consumption to LCD displays. Consisting of trillions of quantum dots tuned to create precise color hues, such films can be swapped in to replace existing backlighting tech, meaning manufacturers will need no special equipment to adopt it. The companies say they’ll have samples for manufacturer design cycles starting “late second quarter this year” — but if you can’t wait that long, you’ll be able to actually buy similar tech from Sony, likely very soon.
Filed under: Displays
Feb 11
We’ve come across a number of DLP-based pico projectors over the years and while these products are getting smaller, brighter and higher resolution, it’s the integration with other devices that’s really captured our imagination. Samsung’s Galaxy Beam, which we reviewed last year, merges a 15-lumen nHD (640×360) DLP-based pico projector with a Galaxy S Advance. More recently at CES 2013, Texas Instruments announced its new Tilt & Roll Pixel chip architecture and demoed a handful of other DLP-equipped products live on our stage, including 3M’s Streaming Projector and Smart Devices’ U7 tablet.
Gallery: Texas Instruments DLP tech hands-on
Gallery: SmartDevices U7 tablet hands-on
The company recently invited us to play with some of these devices and to show us other applications in areas such as 3D printing, 3D scanning, optical research, medical imaging and even automotive. Some of this DLP-equipped tech, like the Interactive Center Console, shows where we’re headed in the near future — other products, like Christie’s VeinViewer Flex, exist today but remind us of something right out of science-fiction. Take a look at our galleries below, then join us after the break for our hands-on video and more info on these devices.
Filed under: Cellphones, Misc, Tablets, Transportation, Science, Mobile, Samsung
Jan 06
We’ve seen a lot of really impressive products at CES Unveiled, but one of the coolest has to be this massive multi-touch table from 3M. Coming in at 84-inches in size, it’s safe to classify this thing as a beast. Even though 3M doesn’t have a price figured out yet, we can naturally assume that this bad boy is going to cost a significant amount of money.
Perhaps cost is the reason that 3M says it’s targeting businesses with this rather than just your average consumer. To be a little more specific, this 84-inch multi-touch screen is actually a 4K display, and just because we’re seeing it in table form today, that doesn’t mean it’ll be released as a table when it eventually makes it to market.
Instead, consider this as more of a “platform” that businesses can use in a number of ways. The display is wall-mounted, so right away, we can see that there are a variety of uses for something like this. Ultimately, it’ll be up to businesses to determine how this product is used, but we can’t help but think of those large touchscreens newscasters use when they want to show us all forms of graphs, statistics, and maps.
Again, this display doesn’t have a price right now, but consider for a moment that 3M’s 46-inch multi-touch display runs $6,500. Almost all of the 4K displays we’ve seen come in over $10,000, and given the fact that this is multi-touch, we can probably expect this new one from 3M to demand an even higher price. Also keep in mind that what we’ve seen today is only a prototype, but we’ll probably find out more about it as we get closer to the display’s release date, which 3M says will be rolling around later this year.
3M 84-inch multi-touch table eyes-on is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jan 06
We knew we’d be seeing 3M Touch Systems’ monster capacitive display once again, but we had no idea just how massive this year’s iteration would be. Taking up residence in a corner of CES Unveiled 2013, the company’s latest multi-touch prototype now measures in at 84 inches, far surpassing its 46-inch predecessor, with 100-inch versions waiting in the wings. This particular touch table now supports Ultra HD resolution (4K) and was shown running a software demo currently in use at Chicago’s Museum of Science. As you may be able to tell from the accompanying gallery, those floating images aren’t of the crispest quality, but that’s because the files aren’t fully high-res. Of course, tech of this kind isn’t necessarily intended for households — not yet, anyway — it makes for a more natural fit in commercial environments (think: airports, car dealerships or wireless retailers). At present, the table here on the showfloor is calibrated to support 40 individual touch points, but a company rep assured us it could be configured for up to 60, allowing for large groups of people to interact simultaneously. While touch tabletops of this kind are still quite rare in the wild, expect to see them crop up more commonly in the near future. Check out our gallery below and stay tuned for a video demo.
Sarah Silbert contributed to this report.
Filed under: Displays
Nov 09
In their yearly list of most innovative companies in the world, the folks at analytical group Booz & Co. found with a survey of participants that Apple was the most innovative group – for the third year running. This year it appears that Apple made a substantial lead increase over either of its previous years in the lead, with a massive near-80-percent of respondents naming Apple as one of the most innovative companies in the world. This number is up from 70 percent of those questioned last year.
In second place is Google with 43 percent of respondents naming the company as one of their top three “most innovative” company choices – this “essentially unchanged” from last year’s report, so they say. Perhaps astoundingly, if you only read tech and gadget news, the third place spot in this list goes to 3M who, the study says, “may not make headlines often, but the company again took place, capturing the votes of just more than 15 percent of respondents.” Speaking specifically on Apple, the study speaks highly of the gap the company is making.
“This year, Apple didn’t just top the rankings (as it did the past two years); it increased its lead substantially. The company — which in August 2012 became the most valuable in history, measured by market capitalization — was named by almost 80 percent of respondents as one of the three most innovative companies in the world, up from 70 percent last year.” – Booz and Co.
The rest of the list you’ll find contains companies you’ll be quite familiar with, for the most part. After 3M is Samsung followed by GE, Microsoft, and Toyoya. In 8th place there’s a tie between Proctor & Gamble and IBM, while Amazon this year has kicked Facebook out of the top 10 ranking entirely.
This study also shows some information on Research & Development spending, showing Apple to have nearly doubled their spending on R&D over the past three years. Apple’s $2.4 billion in R&D is 2.2 percent of its sales and just over a third of what the national average is at 6.5 percent. Inside the overall Global Innovation 1000 list, Apple ranks 53rd for R&D spending while Google ranks 26th and Toyota ranks #1. Samsung ranks #6, if you’d like to know, while Microsoft edges them out in 5th place.
[via Booz & Co.]
Apple named Most Innovative Company of 2012 by Booz & Co is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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