The 25? DX2500 will see the incorporation of glasses-free parallax barrier 3D and head-tracking technologies, and Si-hwan Park, Vice President of the Monitor Division at LG’s Home Entertainment Company, says, “LG is taking glasses-free 3D monitors mainstream with the DX2500. With the DX2500, we are making the LG brand synonymous with glasses-free 3D monitors. In 2012, we’ll continue to expand our range of glasses-free 3D monitors featuring different designs and advanced functions.”

Of course, not having to wear any 3D glasses would also mean that you as a viewer, will need to make some provisions on your part. In order to enjoy optimal viewing of 3D images, you will still need to stay within a certain angle and distance, but the traditional restrictions have been relaxed thanks to the inclusion of the parallax barrier 3D and head-tracking technologies that see action with the LG DX2500. This results in you enjoying a greater freedom of movement, allowing you to have a more comfortable user experience.

The use of position tracking in the DX2500 will function in the way where a camera that is embedded in the monitor, where it is capable of detecting changes in the user’s eye as well as head position in real-time. Using this information collected, the monitor will then do a little bit of soul searching on its side, where it will calculate the angle and position of the viewer as well as adjust the image to display the optimal 3D effect. Once that is done, it will proceed with its advanced 2D to 3D conversion function, letting DX2500 owners view unlimited 3D content including movies, photos and games with but a single mouse click.

The battery life, meanwhile, reportedly lasts for 12 hours with its 22Wh battery. Also, the keyboard dock will add an additional six hours of power.

Whatever the case, the City of San Francisco seems to be done waiting for a conclusive answer. After a long legal battle, SF’s Supervisors have unanimously approved legislation requiring cell phone shops to warn customers of potential radiation hazards.

“Hey, didn’t something like this pass last year?” Yep. Well, almost. The Board Of Supervisors approved an ordinance requiring each cell phone’s radiation absorption level (or “SAR”) to be posted on the outside of its box, but that law was stifled after the CTIA Wireless Association filed a lawsuit against the city. These ratings being posted everywhere, they suggested, would just confuse consumers into thinking that certain phones were proven to be more dangerous than others.

This second swing at the new law is a bit more lax: gone are the specific radiation details posted on each box, instead replaced by general warnings that cell phone shops will need to have at hand. Shop owners will be expected to post information regarding potential radiation risks (though it doesn’t look like they have to mention “cancer” specifically), and inform folks of ways to lower just how much radiation gets blasted into their body.

No word yet on if CTIA plans to drop another lawsuit bomb on this one. This ordinance will be voted upon once more on July 26th, at which point Mayor Ed Lee will need to sign off on it within 10 days to make it a law.

The last time we heard about Sony’s 3D virtual reality headset, it was still a prototype and concept that was being considered for the the future of 3D. We had no idea that Sony was already experimenting with the OLED VR goggles with PS3 games.

In an interview with Develop, senior director at Sony Worldwide Studios, Mick Hocking, said that although the 3D goggles are just a head-mounted display (for now), the company is doing research and development (R&D) on how to have it tracked for full-on immersive VR.

The thought of Sony exploring VR with its PlayStatation Move doesn’t seem to farfetched. VR failed in the early 1990s because the A.I. and tracking tech was sort of primitive. With Kinect and PlayStation Move tech slapped together on a pair of 3D goggles, the timing for VR’s return couldn’t be better.

So are we seeing another age of Virtual Boy? Hopefully it will be much better than that, since the technology of tracking has improved with the Kinect, not to mention the Move. Yes, the tracking is here. The screen resolution is also here, not to mention the processing power. What I’m trying to say is that the stars aligning for a very cool advancement in 3D in the near future.

If that is the case, then why hasn’t Sony said anything about it? Perhaps they wanted the Vita to get all the press. Man, if Sony does intend to ever have a VR gaming accessory, it certain is taking its sweet time developing it.

Maybe it will become available when the PS4 becomes available. I wonder if the headset will look like this. Right now, it looks like a cross between Tron and Cyclops’ visor from X-men.

Source : Coolets Gadget and dvice.com

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With all the talk about how fast and high quality the camera is the thing that I and a bunch of you really want to know is how the photos look. Nokia has posted up a complete gallery of photos taken by the N9. The photos are not edited or adjusted at all according to Nokia and are just as they came from the camera. The pics look really good. One thing that I really want to know I don’t see a photo to represent is how fast the shutter is. I can’t take a pic of my kids with the iPhone if they are moving because it won’t snap the photo before they are out of the frame.

Nokia has been talking a lot about the camera module that its new N9 smartphone uses over the last few months. A week or so back we talked about Nokia boasting that the camera on the N9 was the fastest around and that it supported NFC image transfers. The key factoid in that claim if fastest camera is that the N9 cam can be on and ready to use in 2.9 seconds. The next closest was the iPhone 4 at about three seconds.

Source : slashgear.com

The complaint filed by Samsung was with the ITC and is complaint number 337-2824. It concerns certain product types like mobile electronics, wireless communication devices, portable music and data processing devices, and tablet computers. What Samsung is really saying is the claim is against the iPod, iPad, and iPhone. Those are all the top products for Apple and the items at the core of the legal battle.

Samsung is asking for an import ban against the iPhone, iPad, and iPod. I would think Samsung is merely getting the most out of its legal team in this instance the odds of an import ban are slim. Still, the ITC has the authority to investigate the claims and with the big target that Apple represents the investigation may take place. It can take a total of 16 to 18 months to complete the investigation if started.

Source : slashgear.com

Smart-grid infrastructure is needed to cope with the fluctuating output of renewable energy sources at large scale, and it could make feasible micro-generation, whereby consumers make their own power and sell any surplus back to the grid. Today’s smart-grid sensors typically use Wi-Fi-like technology with Wi-Fi-like ranges, or unlicensed radio bands that can reach a couple of miles. Cellular networks can also be used, but these connections are under growing pressure from data-hungry phones and tablets.

The 580M is intended for large notebooks and small form factor desktops and touts 384 cores, each running at 1.24GHz, along with 1.5GHz GDDR5 memory and a 256-bit memory bus. Moving to the 570M steps down to 336 cores at 1.15GHz along with a 192-bit bus, although the shrink suits it to more conventional notebooks.

The 580M is headed to Alienware first and will be part of the PC builder’s two fastest notebooks. The 580M has been identified as the mystery chip for the M18x and will be available in one- or two-chip versions. Alienware’s existing M17x is getting a single-chip layout but, through its support for Optimus live graphics switching, can get relatively competent battery life not often seen in a 17-inch notebook. NVIDIA claims to get the full Black Ops benchmark speed when on AC but still a full five hours when it switches over to Intel video for untethered use.

The camera weighs 135g without battery or SD card, making it very pocket friendly. We slipped it into a jacket pocket and almost forgot it was there. With the camera powering up by merely sliding down the upper half of its faceplate to reveal the lens and integral flash, as mentioned at the outset the highlight of the Z900EXR is arguably its grand 3.5-inch touch screen, presented in 16:9 aspect ratio.

The Z900EXR offers up to three frames per second burst shooting that, whilst not the best in class, is at least what’s expected at this level, with the option of 12fps if dropping down in resolution. Plus up to 320fps is offered in video mode for anyone wanting slow motion effects. Although the slide open and shoot faceplate operation makes for a fluid pocket-to-picture process it could perhaps be a little quicker, with a wait of three seconds from cold.