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3D technology’s inevitable race to the bottom officially kicked off today with ViewSonic’s announcement of its new ViewFun line. The Palm 3D HD was the priciest item shared thanks to its ability to record full HD 1080p in 3D or 2D at 60fps. Some of its other notable features include a rechargeable Li-ion battery, an SD slot for expandable storage, and a 3.2-inch LCD screen which uses parallax technology to display 3D video without wearing glasses. If you can’t afford to spend $250, ViewSonic also announced the ViewFun 3D Pocket, ViewFun 3D PocketHD, and ViewFun 3D Snap Pocket camcorders for $149, $179, and $199. The thing is the ViewFun 3D PocketHD isn’t really new, and we still remember when it was called the 3DV5 earlier this year; so unless you’re desperate to spend under $180 on a 3D camcorder, we’d wager Sony’s new 3D Bloggie Touch line is a smarter use of funds.

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Skype-compatible BabyView has SD recording so you can upload pics and video of your kids and share with friends.

Originally posted at CES 2011

Sadly Ford isn’t confirming the Focus Electric that it saw fit to tease earlier this week, but we can now tell you all about the new smartphone app that will let you monitor the charging of… certain Ford vehicles. The app is called MyFord Mobile and it offers similar features to the apps we’ve already seen for the Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Volt, notably car’s charging status from afar and deliver some climate settings to ensure that the car is properly hot or cold before you leave on your cold or hot commute. The car will also let you find the car by GPS and, once you do, unlock the doors with your phone.

When the car and the app launches there will be versions for Android, BlackBerry, and iOS, though interestingly there will be a an HTML-5 browser interface that’ll even work on featurephones. Yes, featurephones. Interestingly, the app can automatically charge… whatever mystery vehicle you connect it to at the optimal time of the night to ensure you get the lowest cost for your juice, automatically pulling down rates from your utility so that you don’t have to worry about it. That is what we like to call smart. And thrifty.

Again the app will be available with a certain car that has a plug whenever that certain car is available, and if you want to know when that is going to happen you’re going to have to wait.

Update: Yes, that’s a WP7 phone up there, a Samsung Focus to be exact. No, the app is not announced for Windows Phone 7. Conclusion? Cloudy. We’ll have a little more clarification for you later today and you’re just going to have to wait. Plenty of time to sharpen up those conspiracy theories.

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Well, that was quick. It was just two days ago when the elusive PlayStation Phone popped up on a Hong Kong forum, and now it’s back again in full exposure thanks to Chinese website IT168. It’s now confirmed that said Xperia-branded device is powered by a Qualcomm Adreno 205 GPU, along with what’s likely to be a 1GHz Snapdragon QSD8255 as featured on the HTC Desire HD. Interestingly, Neocore is reporting an impressive 59.1fps benchmark, which is a huge improvement from our exclusive look back in early December. Quadrant also reports a high score of 1,733, but hey, there’s no saying that this is the final build, so the graphics performance may get even better.

Other tidbits found in the latest leak include the generous battery capacity of 1,500mAh, the 854 x 480 resolution on a 4-inch LCD, a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash sans 720p video recording (although it’s probably just that the leaksters didn’t look in all the submenu in the camera app), 512MB RAM, 512MB ROM, a microSD slot, SIM slot, micro-USB, and a second mic on the back for active noise cancellation à la Nexus One. Interestingly, the still-empty game launcher app is now called “PlayStation Pocket.” We’re still unclear just what the app will run; will it be PSOne games (the company has written an emulator before), PSP games, or an entirely new lineup? (In contrast, the PSP Go has a 333MHz processor, 64MB RAM, and a 3.8-inch 480 x 272 display — albeit on different, not-quite-comparable architecture.) Hopefully we’ll know soon enough, eh Kaz? Anyhow, you can peruse some pictures and videos below, and definitely check out IT168 for the full skinny on this (somewhat tick) device.

[Thanks, Dave]

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This article was written on May 28, 2008 by CyberNet.

The Al l Things D conference is going on right now and one of the most interesting things to come from it was when Walt Mossburg was interviewing Jeff Bezos, founder, president, and chief executive offer of Amazon.com. Bezos announced that within the next couple of weeks, Amazon will be launching a streaming movie service that users will pay for. Bezos was quoted as saying, “We are working on a new version of video on demand, a for-pay streaming service we will release in the next couple of weeks. The streaming service will start instantly and it’s a la carte, for pay.” To clarify, this new streaming movie service would be separate from Amazon Unbox (a download service).

Amazon sure likes competing, don’t they? It is nice for us consumers that there are multiple sites out there to choose from. Bezos says he’s serious about music and video downloads. Now we’re left with a few questions like how much will movies cost to stream and how many titles will they have available in their library? Oh, and we can’t forget how recent the titles were either. Hopefully they’ll have more recently released movies available as well as some of the older ones. These are all things that could make em’ or break em’!

Source: Gizmodo

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