Hasta La Gadget!

Announced last august, Sony new Windows 8 Ultrabook is in the flesh a great little device! Sure we did not have much time to play with this little convertible but first impressions are just great. The Vaio DUO is indeed light, comes with a stunning 11.6” screen with a mate finish making it ideal both in and outside packed in a sturdy body… Yep I can’t wait to get this little baby in hands to try!

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VAIOTM Duo

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Intel® Core™ i7-3517U, Intel® Core™ i5-3317U or Intel® …

Forget Retina display: Sharp’s new 5-inch, 1080p LCD panels have come out to wow at CEATEC, and at 443ppi they already have us looking at our current phones with disappointment and disgust. Announced yesterday, and set to hit mass production imminently, the new smartphone screens also use advanced CG-Silicon technology to cut down on how many layers are involved in the display sandwich.

Fewer layers mean the image appears closer to the top level of glass. There’s no touch layer in place yet – this is display-only right now – but we can already picture just how vivid and bright the Sharp panels will be when paired with advanced optical lamination touchscreen bonding technology.

Sharp is keeping its customer details close to its chest, and the company wouldn’t say who it was talking with regarding actually putting the new 5-inch display into products. Although the company is already an Apple supplier, right now the Cupertino firm doesn’t have a 5-inch device in its range (and the much-rumored iPad mini is expected to be larger than that).

Still, whoever ends up with this new LCD is getting an impressive screen indeed. Just running through some demos of video playback and mapping showed how useful high-resolution graphics can be on a mobile device.

Sharp 5-inch 1080p display eyes-on: You want this in your next phone is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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“Macho, macho man,” the Village People once sang, “I got to be a macho man.” Not everybody can afford a popstar’s life of personal trainers, however, and so KOA Corporation has stepped in with a compact power-assisted exoskeleton, the KOA Muscle Suit, intended to help regular people lift the sort of weights you’d traditionally need assistance with. We strapped our weak geek bodies in to see if it worked.

Although full-body assisted exoskeletons have been around for some time, KOA’s system is more compact than many. A V-shaped bracket, it sits on the back and braces itself against your upper thighs and lower back, with arm supports and gloves for your hands. Altogether it weighs around 10kg on its own.

When you’re wearing it, however, you can lift loads of 5okg (110 pounds)without breaking a sweat, the motorized arms helping support the weight. KOA ran us through the same demo with the system turned on and off, and it’s definitely a noticeable difference: with the power-assistance running, the load felt like a fifth of its actual weight.

Unfortunately KOA isn’t planning on selling us Muscle Suits direct; instead, it’s focusing on enterprise use, such as in warehouses and other situations where heavy stock might need to be carried. No word on how much being an impromptu Iron Man might cost.

KOA Muscle Suit exoskeleton hands-on is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.

At Japan’s biggest technology trade show Toshiba was demonstrating 4K REGZA televisions with a maximum size of 84″. The company was showing content shot in 4K, but also content that was up-scaled (magnified) from a regular 1080p source and believe me, the demo looked absolutely stunning. Obviously, the footage used during such trade shows is carefully selected and tuned to feature eye-popping colors and contrasts but in the grand scheme of things, it is clear that 4K is much more compelling that stereo-3D will ever be, especially for TVs that are 55″ and more. (more…)

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[CEATEC 2012] So here we are roaming the CEATEC 2012 showfloor, and definitely when you have a potent mix of testosterone with vehicles and technology, the man in us has rolled back the years, where we end up as starry eyed kids. What you see in the video after the jump would be a fake dashboard of an Audi R8 (would we love to have this in our garage!), sporting the Augmented Reality (AR) Heads Up Display (HUD) by Pioneer. The HUD will display current speed as well as all relevant navigation information, but the (virtual) roads which the R8 was driving through seemed to be pretty deserted for a city-scape. Perhaps the zombie apocalypse had struck by then, and there are so few humans around? This is not exactly groundbreaking on its own, but we do wonder whether the driver would be far more interested on the AR display compared to what is right in front of the vehicle when such technology becomes standard in our future rides.

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