Lenovo komt met 23-inch tablet.

Bron; www.nu.nl
De Chinese computerfabrikant Lenovo komt dit jaar met een 23-inch tablet die op een bureau en met een toetsenbord gebruikt kan worden maar ook gemakkelijk verplaatsbaar is. Dat maakt William Cai, topman bij Lenovo, bekend tegenover Techradar.

Volgens Cai geeft het bezitten van een computer of laptop én een tablet problemen omdat gebruikers constant moeten wisselen tussen twee apparaten.Een tablet die je zowel als computer op een bureau kan gebruiken als kan verplaatsen en bij je kan hebben op de bank is volgens hem de uitkomst.
Volgens Lenovo is de tablet gebaseerd op een alles-in-een desktop maar het scherm is los te gebruiken en de computer weegt ‘aanzienlijk’ minder dan een normaal exemplaar.

“We werken nu nog aan het verlengen van de batterijduur en het verder verminderen van het gewichtsverlies, maar denken dat er een markt is voor een 23-inch tablet”, aldus Cai. “De tablet is uiteraard niet zo mobiel als kleinere varianten, maar kan in huis gemakkelijk verplaatst worden. Ook is de tablet te combineren met een toetsenboord of te gebruiken als televisie.”

New Sony Store.

In addition to celebrity homes, movie studios and walk of fame, Los Angeles can now add one more fun tour bus trivia item to their list. The first newly branded Sony Store in the United States. Announced today, the store is a completely different experience from any Sony in-store encounter you’ve seen to date with a new concept and packed with gadgets to play with.

It would be easy to type out a couple of fancy descriptions telling you about all the fun stuff but we thought we’d step it up and send our SGNL crew to the Westfield Century City shopping mall to give you the grand tour.

23 Awesome Commercial Projectors.

We highlight some great projectors for installs in various venues. Lets face it: for all the designing, programming and various components involved in most commercial installs, the projector often stands out as the tip of the iceberg. It’s what clients see - corporate boardroom clients, education clients, sports bar clients, control room clients, and countless others. Commercial Integrator decided to round up some of the best projector solutions for integrators working in various venues. We chose to highlight some because they’re great for tight, short-throw environments like the Casio XJ-ST155. We picked some take a look here

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OL-521 50" full HD DLP LED-lit projection module.

Barco's 50” OL-521 LED-lit projection module offers an ergonomically excellent viewing experience, with the sharpest and most saturated colors in full HD resolution (1920x1080). The OL-521 video wall has been designed for an entirely maintenance-free operation over several years, without any need for consumables. The OL-521 comes with Sense6, a unique sensor technology that provides brightness and color stability over time and across the entire display. Sense6 continuously measures brightness and color and adjusts the color space to provide an image that is most convenient for the human eye. This means that no maintenance or manual adjustments are needed. Thanks to the small depth of the projection module, the OL-521 video wall can easily be installed in confined spaces. The OL-521's rugged design makes the video wall ideally suited for industrial environments.

Publitec erects 5.7m screen.

A 5.7m wide screen is providing a stunning backdrop to the Publitec stand in hall 9 of Prolight + Sound, Frankfurt. It is created with 12 Sanyo PLC-HF1500 projectors and an AV Stumpfl fast fold screen.

Kinect hack turns tourists into 3D souvenirs.

Bron; www.engadget.com
As souvenirs go, a miniature replica of yourself -- striking a pose of your choosing on Barcelona's La Rambla street -- is a far sight more original than a bullfights-and-senoritas snow globe. This past January, the hilariously titled BlablabLAB enlisted three Kinects and a RepRap machine to snap passersby and render them into personalized tchotchkes, in a project called Be Your Own Souvenir. Subjects stood atop a small platform, mimicking the human statues on La Rambla, as the Kinects captured their likeness in full 360-degree glory. The resulting images were then processed as a mesh reconstruction, saved as a G-code file, and then fed through a 3D printer -- and voila, out popped the tiny statuettes. If you're a fan of flashy editing and Kinect-based street experiments, check out the video.

Be Your Own Souvenir! from blablabLAB on Vimeo.

Local News Team Tricks Anchor Into Licking iPad.

In this heroically coordinated prank by a local news crew, an unsuspecting anchor is tricked into first sniffing, then licking her iPad. You say "piezo-electrics," I say brilliant use of technojumble. Please take note, and hope your less tech-savvy friends haven't seen this clip by the time next April Fool's rolls around.

360-degree video recording to the iPhone 4.

We've seen still photos shot in the round, but wouldn't it be nice to snag some panoramic moving pictures every once in a while too? Well, the folks at EyeSee360 certainly think so, which is why they've given the iPhone 4 some 360-degree video recording capability with the GoPano Micro. Comprised of a plastic case for your handset, a detachable 360-degree lens, and a GoPano app, the system lets iPhone fanboys do a circular pan with the swipe of a finger. That put you in the moviemaking mood? Well, you can't get your hands on one just yet, but the venture has already reached its $20,000 funding goal, so those willing to invest $50 can head over to Kickstarter to reserve one of the first GoPano Micros off the production line

Laser Illuminated Projector Association.

The trend seems to be getting serious with a new association being formed by the giants of the projection industry in the US. The Laser Illuminated Projector Association (LIPA) has launched with the goals of explaining the benefits of laser illuminated projectors, advocating for a positive regulatory environment, and developing appropriate training guidelines. The announcement was made today by the LIPA Advisory Committee, composed of industry leaders Barco, Christie Digital, Eastman Kodak, IMAX Corporation, Laser Light Engines, NEC Display Solutions, Necsel/Ushio Ltd., and Sony. “LIPA will provide an important and appropriate vehicle for the industry to work cooperatively in fostering a welcoming business and regulatory environment,” stated Pete Lude of Sony, a member of the advisory committee. “We are excited about actively participating in accomplishing LIPA’s objectives.” In a laser illuminated projector, the light source is a system of red, green and blue (RGB) lasers. Experts have stated that the use of lasers as the illumination source in digital cinema projectors has several important financial and quality benefits over current illumination technology. These benefits include dramatic reduction of operating costs through increased lifetime and reduction of maintenance, uniform image color and intensity, as well as increased 3D brightness. Meer informatie hier .