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Sanyo’s been a relatively large player in the short-focus / short-throw projector game for awhile now, so frankly, this was inevitable. As everyone (and their third cousin, in fact) races to jump on the three-dee bandwagon, the aforesaid company has just pumped out its first 3D short-focus PJ. The PDG-DWL2500J doesn’t boast the most amazing of specs — the native resolution sits at just WXGA — but it can project a 3D image from a distance as short as 2.4 centimeters. It also touts a maximum projection size of 110 inches, and it can be installed vertically or horizontally depending on your mood. There’s also an HDMI socket, Ethernet port, 16:10 aspect ratio, 2,500 lumens of brightness, a single 10-watt speaker and a price tag that’ll probably make you spit out your morning coffee. Word on the street has it that this one will launch next month in Japan for ¥450,000, and if that $4,868 conversion follows it stateside, you can bet only a handful will be lined up to drag one home.

Sanyo brings short-focus projector into the third dimension, may never look back originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 May 2010 10:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We haven’t heard from the folks at Tranquil in some time, the UK-based firm’s employees surely too busy watching all the As Time Goes By episodes they stuffed onto their last five-bay media server, but they’ve sent Gene and Lionel on their way and are back to announce two new HTPCs. First is the T7-MP2, a tiny, fanless Ion- and Atom-powered machine that offers HDMI output for direct connectivity to your HDTV and up to 1TB of storage, starting at a rather pricey £479 (about $700). The other is a more powerful beast, the ixVL, coming sometime next month with either an Intel Core i3 or i5 CPU inside and an optical drive (DVD or Blu-ray), but still no fans for quiet operation. No price on this one yet, but expect it to cost, you know, more than the other one.

Tranquil PC serves up a pair of high-end but laid-back HTPCs originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 May 2010 09:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple sneaked in a few minor updates to the basic white polycarbonate $999 MacBook this morning–a move widely expected by the Internet rumor mill.

When we found out that the Ion 2-packing Eee PC 1201PNs lacked NVIDIA Optimus tech for switching graphics hardware on the fly, well, it was a bit of a bummer to say the least. But, ASUS is at least fixing its successor, the Eee PC 1215. It’s largely the same machine as the 1201, packing a dual-core Atom D510 processor and Ion graphics to complement the onboard graphics. This one, though, will have the Optimus hardware to switch betwixt the two, saving battery life all the while. The case has also been subtly refreshed but, most interestingly, ASUS saw fit to throw in a pair of USB 3.0 ports, their cerulean insides shining like beacons to guide us toward the future of high-speed file transfers. We’re not sure when the 1215 is destined to hit retail and make the 1201PN obsolete, nor how much of a premium it will cost when it does, but there are plenty more pictures of the thing and even a few benchmarks at the source link.

ASUS Eee PC 1215 with Ion receives Optimus and USB 3.0 augmentation originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 May 2010 08:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Another week, another Android phone. This latest HTC device, the Wildfire, is aimed at the social networking youth of Europe and Asia. Featuring Android 2.1 and Sense UI, the handset should do well for users graduating to their first smart phone. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-20005156-251.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Android Atlas/a/p