We spend a lot of our time running our greasy little fingers over all kinds of touchscreens, but they just sit there unmoving as untouchable blocks of colors dart around beneath the surface. The Obake display isn’t quite so lifeless, and it’s just begging to be poked and prodded. More »
Looking to save some coin on your tech purchases? Of course you are! In this round-up, we’ll run down a list of the freshest frugal buys, hand-picked with the help of the folks at Slickdeals. You’ll want to act fast, though, as many of these offerings won’t stick around long.
If you’ve been dragging your feet on that new HDTV purchase, today could be the day to commit your funds. A 55-inch Samsung LED unit gets the top slot and Dell has thrown in a $400 gift card to boot. All of the details lie beyond the break alongside the rest of today’s discounted links.
Filed under: Cameras, Displays, Misc, Home Entertainment, Storage
Source: Slickdeals
Universities aren’t just places for students to cut classes and enjoy themselves before eventually embarking on careers. They are also places where problems get solved, like the one facing runners who find it hard to read on the jog. That bane is the focus of a group of researchers at Purdue University, who are working on a system called ReadingMate, which moves text on a display in reaction to the bobbing head of a runner to stabilize what’s being seen. The screen is sent information from a pair of infrared LED-equipped glasses, but it’s not as simple as shifting text in time with head movement — your eyes are performing corrections of their own, so the words dance slightly out of sync with your noggin to take this into account. It’s performed well in testing, and could have applications beyond the gym, such as in heavy machinery and aircraft, where vibration can hamper reading ability in important situations. Those uses make the most sense — we don’t often find ourselves eager to attack that next Twilight chapter during a near-death treadmill experience.
Filed under: Displays, Misc, Wearables, Software
Via: Gizmag
Source: Purdue University
Looking to save some coin on your tech purchases? Of course you are! In this round-up, we’ll run down a list of the freshest frugal buys, hand-picked with the help of the folks at Slickdeals. You’ll want to act fast, though, as many of these offerings won’t stick around long.
If the despair of shelling out funds for taxes or simply a rough start to the week have you down, allow us to propose a much better place to allocate some finances. A 55-inch Vizio HDTV and Panasonic Lumix DMC-G5 camera may be the most attractive on the list, but a few other discounted links are along for the ride as well. Head on past the break to take a look at ’em all.
Filed under: Cellphones, Cameras, Displays, Home Entertainment
Source: Slickdeals
We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, then here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget inquiry is from Icy, who wants to embrace their metro (geddit?) side. If you’re looking to ask one of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.
“As Windows 8 is bringing touch to the desktop, I’m curious what touchscreen monitor I should buy. Any suggestions? Thanks!”
Short and sweet, Icy, just the way we like it. We’ll return the favor by pointing you in the direction of options from Viewsonic, Samsung and LG. Then we’ll bow out and let the massed ranks of the Engadgetarti oblige you with their worldly wisdom.
Filed under: Displays
The entry price for Ultra HDTV plunged by more than $10,000 earlier this week thanks to Sony’s new 4K sets, but now it’s going even lower with this model from Seiki. The brand is new to the US market and as such unfamiliar to most, but with a $1,300 listing on TigerDirect it’s been lighting up AV enthusiast and deal-hunting forums alike. We haven’t yet had a chance to see this display, but hope to take a look shortly. In the meantime, there are plenty of reasons not to be an early adopter — the infamous eye charts suggest 4K’s impact at this size may be reduced, it’s an unknown company with unknown standards for quality and service, a new HDMI standard may be incoming and there’s no content until the $699 FMP-X1 player arrives this summer — but with a sub-$2K pricetag some would say you can’t afford not to have an Ultra HD set in your possession. Those same people would also suggest inviting us over to watch the game (sports, console, but most likely a super high-res PC title if you can manage) on it, and indicate we are willing to bring refreshments.
[Thanks, Eric Kotz]
Filed under: Displays, Home Entertainment, HD
Source: TigerDirect
SiliconSign had a very impressive display of its 1.9mm Super Fine Pitch LED Panel “SiOrchic” at the Display 2013 (9th International FPD Expo) section of the 23rd FINETECH JAPAN at Tokyo Big Sight yesterday.
The super fine LED panels can be stacked together vertically and horizontally with visual graphics data coordinated between the panels to provide super massive video displays at very high resolution.
The panels that we saw at FINETECH JAPAN were 165 inch Full HD (1,920 x 1,080) with 1.9mm dot pitch, 207,008 dots per square meter, with a refresh rate of 1920Hz.
Our video does not do it justice, but the visual experience was clear, natural and spectacular.
SiliconSign is based in Yokohama, Japan.
Samsung, which believes bigger isn’t better, it’s the best, has introduced another mammoth smartphone, the appropriately named Galaxy Mega. It’s the latest handset to embrace the growing trend toward bigger, bigger and still bigger phones — but it’s a trend …
Although the Oculus Rift is one of the more ambitious attempts at making virtual reality accessible, its lack of peripheral version is all too familiar — it’s much like staring into a pair of portholes. Rather than let the disorientation persist unaltered, though, Hack A Day has taken matters into its own hands. Its Oculight hack puts an RGB LED strip inside the headpiece, with the colored lighting set to match the edge of the screen through Adalight code. The result is much like Philips’ Ambilight, but arguably more useful: the virtual world’s light “leaks” into the wearer’s real peripheral view, adding to the immersion. Oculight clearly isn’t for sale and needs a refined installation to create the ideal effect, but the readily available resources will let anyone with an Oculus Rift development kit build their own solution.
Filed under: Displays, Wearables
Source: Hack A Day
Panasonic’s NYC press event had more than pricing for its media streamers and Blu-ray players, as the company also put tags on its 2013 HDTVs. While it wasn’t ready to announces MSRPs for its top of the line ZT60 plasmas that impressed us greatly at CES, it did put prices and shipping windows on its other models (check after the break for a complete list). The former flagship VT60 series will be available in 55-, 60- and 65-inch versions later this month for $2,600, $3,000 and $3,600, respectively. Cheaper plasma models include the ST60 and S60 series, available in sizes up to 60-inches. Its top of the line WT60 LCD LED-lit models will also ship later this month, topped by the 55-inch version with a sticker price of $2,999.
The bad news? While Panasonic’s plasma manufacturing will continue, The Verge reports VP Kiyoshi Okamoto confirmed at the event that development has ceased on its plasma models, although some engineers have been shifted to work on OLED displays. We’ll see if its recovery efforts and technological developments lead to new large-size OLEDs anytime soon, but for now it appears we’re seeing the last of its efforts to push plasma technology forward.
Filed under: Displays, Home Entertainment, HD
Source: Panasonic
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