The HUD glasses look like Oakley Thumps having a front-facing camera used to gather information and could aid in augmented reality apps. the camera can of course shoot pictures, even in the dark using a small flash. Camera is extremely small yet ranging upto few megapixels.

However, there are differences from a standard heads up display (HUD). This one is only for one eye. It is not transparent nor does it have dual 3D configurations. Among its cool features, the navigation system currently used is a head tilting-to scroll and click. We’ve leant that it is very quick to learn and once the user is adept at navigation, it becomes second nature and almost indistinguishable to outside users.

Not just that, you can control the glasses with voice input and output could also be voice. It is speculated that this device runs Android OS on an older generation hardware ~1GHz ARM A8, 256MB RAM and 8GB of storage. So it also a phone or perhaps can integrate well with phone in your pocket?

We can only speculate what it could become, but it already sounds awesome.

and yes, Motorola already demoed something related to 3d glasses at CES:

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Meet the 4th D, the sense of smell. SmellIt is a miniature gadget meant to connect to your PC and bring a “fourth dimension” to video and gaming.

French company Olf-action will be demoed at Lisbon Design Show, from 11 to 16 October 2011. This would form  the fourth dimension on movie and game entertainment, the smell dimension. Pure smell, pure movie and game experience.

SMELLIT can make you drool, like when you see that Chef taking a hot and crispy pizza from the oven. Or make you turn your head and wish you can take that “putrefaction” cartridge out of the smell board.

How SmellIt 4D works

SMELLIT works just like your printer, but instead of ink cartridges, it works with smell cartridges. As your DVD player reads the video and sound information from your favourite DVD disc, SMELLIT processes the same DVD, but the ”smell CARD” decodes all the smell information from 10 to 20 seconds ahead of the actual scene so the odours have time to reach the spectators. After decoding the smell information, the cartridge vaporizes a very small amount off concentrated “smell gel”, and the central fan distributes equally the smell in all directions. It can be loaded with 118 cartridges, each one with a different concentrated “smell gel”. All the cartridges can be easily changed and last 3 times more than a regular ink cartridge.

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Sony is launching  3D Visor this year priced at $780. It would posses some remarkable features that will take 3D gaming and movies to a whole new level.

The HMZ-T1 Visor  has a 1280×720 0.7-inch OLED panels mounted in front of each eye which give the user a viewing of 750-inch screen as appeared from 20m away. To accompany the cinematic effect would be a 5.1 surround sound from headphones which are of stereo nature, physically.

These are among the most high end VR Head mounted Displays we’ve seen. The color and contrast reproduction is promised to be far more superior than any we’ve seen so far, thanks to stereo OLED displays.

Sony 3d Visor in action at CES:

Of course they’ll be portable and battery operated.

With Lytro, cameras would no longer need to focus to a single object within the image. Nor would they have to adjust apertures, light entrance to get the right focus and defocus. You won’t even have to wait before you click the shutter.

Lytro is the brainchild of Dr. Ren Ng, a Stanford Ph.D whose dissertation on light-field technology five years ago was showered with awards. Now, with the help of $50 million in funding, they are  preparing to launch a focus-free digital camera later this year.

How Lytro Camera works

The camera captures all the information it possibly can about depth of the field in front of it. Result that you get back is a digital photo that is adjustable in an almost infinite number of ways. In the resulting picture, you can focus at any spot, change the light levels (exposure, aperture) and if you have a 3D screen, you can also tilt and shift the photo in three dimensions.

Of course all of that sounds possible with current cameras but what you might be thinking at this point is that resulting image would be large enough to fill memory cards quickly. But in reality the file size is roughly comparable to the average size of a digital photo today. The camera’s onboard DSP does the heavy image processing to make the image size small enough.

It also sports a revolutionary light sensor tahts very sensitive and allows you to capture low-light situations like candle light dinners, without actuating a flash. No more grainy ISOs!

Lytro Demos: Tip: Click on area to focus, double click to zoom

Availability

Lytro would be available by end of 2011, but you can get a sneak peak at the demonstrations that are already available. All of them use Flash, HTML5. Works on all browsers, including webkit smartphone browsers.

Pricing

What would be your guess for such a camera that takes all the pain? Don’t worry its not going to drill holes in your pocket, the company promises that it would not cost more than current digital cameras on the market.

The photography is going to shift to all new level!

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ASUS X21 ultrathin laptop packs Core i7 in under 17mm thickness at its thickest end. The entire body is built from an aluminum alloy that makes it weigh freaking low at 1.1kg. It also features fast resume capability with resumes from sleep as fast as 2 seconds.

Other specs includes a SATA III SSD, USB 3.0 connectivity, a glass trackpad and a metallic keyboard keys. UX21 is coming in September 2011, stay tuned.

image credit: engadget

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Till date, world’s thinnest smartphone was crowned to Samsung Galaxy SII, but the days are not far when such smartphones would go even thinner. The new contendor is flexible enough to fold like a paper.

The e-paper prototype PaperPhone sports a 3.75-inch thin-film display. Its s smartphone and hence can do everything you would expect it to do: make calls, Read books, and Play music. The rest of the phone’s hardware is situated alongside the non-bendablepart, which is also surprisingly thin.

Queen’s Human Media Lab director says, “This is the future. Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years”.

However, the prototype is based on e-ink technology, the same technology that powers Amazon’s kindle ebook readers. It can be operated by bending the corners to turn a page, squeezing to make a call, and even written on with a pen. Were you expecting more ?

The research institute, Vertegaal along with MERG claims that the larger versions of the displays could eliminate paper and printers from offices. This is possible because E-ink displays require no power until the information on screen is refreshed.

So this is flexible, but how much would it cost?  It’s a $7,000 prototype, but the final product would be ultra affordable.

And yes, the prototype uses Android. Of course its not ready for the primetime, but we grab a fairly good idea of where we are heading.

Watch the thinnest bendable phone in action:

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Android phones are certainly getting sexier and smarter thanks to Samsung, HTC, Sony and Motorola and HTC.

HTC’s Sensation 4g is certainly the best phone from HTC so far. Designed with the Nexus S like contour glass display, 4.3-inch super LCD, sporting qHD resolution of 540 x 960, wrapped in a unibody aluminum body, its among the sexiest phones in the market.

Apart from that it has good quality 8 megapixel camera with mind-blowing 1080p HD video capture, 768MB of RAM (uhh no 1GB like Galalxy S2?), 4GB of internal storage.

HTC Sensation also comes with all new Sense UI on Gingerbread  with new support for user customizable lock screens, 3D effects, all new apps for mail, the browser, contacts, weather, and more.

Sensation is coming to T-Mobile this summer for the US residents, worldwide months after. Its also appearing on the Vodafone in UK.

The specs of this device aligns it with Galaxy S2, LG Optimus 2x, and many more to come dual core phones on android.

Video Preview:

Checkout the HTC Sensation 4g Pics below:

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We’ve tried explaining mechanism of LCD displays in the past but nothing actually beats a video that teardowns the LCD display and talks about in detail step by step.

Bill Hammack, a self-appointed Engineer Guy, takes us from the LED arrays that provide the light for most current LCDs, through all the filters and diffusers designed to make that light uniform, and into the ways thin film transistors make it possible for us to show moving color images of cats diving into boxes on such displays. It’s exciting, deeply nerdy stuff, and it awaits your audience after the break.

Watch the video and immerse yourself to LCD display technology:

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MagicWand lets you connect your Apple wireless Keyboard with Magic Trackpad, seamlessly with a simple aluminum half-tube that takes your two Apple wireless peripherals and joins them as one. Of course this setup will not remove the duplication of batteries but you should be happy with the results from a $30 metal strip.

Checkout the Video after the break.

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This handy little gadget comes with a marker (a wireless device) which when attached or held with a subject,  drives the rotor of the base station which holds and rotates iPhone/Android or any equivalent Camera.

You’ve to see it to believe it:

The device is an experiment at this time, but can be ordered from their website. You can also help them design the perfect device here.

System Specifications

• Supports both portrait and landscape use of iPhone4 or iPod touch and even android devices.
• Comes with one marker per base
• Rotates 180 degrees
• Works whenever the base can “see” the remote up to 8meters indoors and outdoors
• Base and marker will be battery powered with purchase-able, off the shelf batteries. Marker will be larger than pictured in the “looks like” model to accommodate two AAA batteries and will not be made to dock into the base.
• Does not include video app controls
• Not for use with cameras that weigh more than 6oz.

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Just that you are aware, Texas Instruments’ OMAP3 processor powers Motorola Droid Pro, Droid 2, Palm Pre 2, etc. and OMAP4 powers the BlackBerry Playbook. Now the future is held by Texas Instruments while they raise curtain on OMAP5, with 2Ghz Quad core.

The 28 nanometer OMAP 5 applications processors carry on the OMAP family tradition of delivering significant increases in performance and functionality, while lowering power consumption compared to their predecessors. Specifically, they offer up to 3x processing performance and five-fold 3D graphics improvement, yet provide a nearly 60 percent average power reduction compared to a sample user experience on the OMAP 4 platform. Additionally, the OMAP 5 platform’s software is designed for maximum reuse to ease migration from the OMAP 4 platform.

OMAP5 Specs & facts:

• Core Clock speeds up to 2Ghz Quad core — 2 ARM Cortex-A15 cores capable of speeds up to 2 Ghz, and 2 Cortex-M4 cores
• Lower Power consumption: TI promises processing performance 3x that of OMAP4, all while decreasing average power consumption by 60%.
• TI claims it can support 3 QSXGA displays running at the same time. QSXGA is a resolution of 2560×2048.
• Multiple simultaneous cameras – Ideal for 3D video
• Delivery 2011: mid 2011 production, hits the market around the mid-point of 2012.

via TI

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Sony would be targeting portable Gaming under two segments: Casual gamers : Android based Xperia Play phone aka PSP Phone. The hardcore gamers would fall for Sony’s NGP. Sony claimed that PSP2 Graphics as powerful as PS3, seems like its true.

After much rumour and speculation, Sony has unveiled the PSP2, which it has dubbed the NGP.

The Sony NGP endorses a five-inch, 16 million colour 960×544 OLED touchscreen with soem awesome techs underneath

Sony NGP Specs

• Screen: 5″ 16M colors, resolution: 960×544, Technology: OLED touchscreen.
• Camera: Twin cameras
• Audio: Twin speakers and a microphone.
• Input: There are also twin analogue sticks
• CPU: A quad-core processor based on the ARM Cortex A9.
• GPU: SGX543MP4+, quad-core Imagination Technologies PowerVR graphics processor
• Battery: 4-5 hours of gaming.
• Connectivity: 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, and 3G
• GPS: AGPS, location-aware games via the PlayStation Network
• Memory: Flash memory for storing Games, Media content.
• Sensors: 3axis Gyroscope, 3Axis accelerometer, 3axis compass
• Dimensions: 182.0 x 18.6 x 83.5mm
• Gaming Apps: Available via PSN, also plays Android Games.

The NGP includes a touch-sensitive back so you can control the on-screen action without hiding it behind your fingers. The screen’s multi-touch too. The combination of a touchy front and back is fascinating – Sony talks about it enabling “touch, grab, trace, push and pull hand movements.”

As far as Location based gaming is concerned, an application called Near will let you know if your friends are near you, just like Google Latitude.

The Design
Sony calls the PSP2′s shape Super Oval Design, which is one in the eye for anyone who expected mere Ordinary Oval Design. It looks quite like a PSP, we think. It’ll be 13mm longer than the PSP-3000 at 182mm in length – that’s big. Thickness? 18.6mm.

It seems that Sony’s Trophies system from the PlayStation Network will also appear so you can score points wherever you play – even on your Android mobile.

The PSP2 will play Android games; Android will get PlayStation games

The newly announced PS Suite is fascinating: it’ll bring PlayStation games to Android, and casual games from Android to the NGP.

Sony NGP Release date will be late 2011.

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Microsoft has announced a brand new Microsoft Surface at CES 2011 featuring all new windows 7 based surface that runs on a regular desktop config and is much thinner, and portable than before. “. The absence of the cameras, makes it thinner. One of the most amazing things about the new Microsoft Surface is its “Pixel sense“, a technology that lets the large surface screen to see things placed over it.

Microsoft Surface 2 Demo at CES 2011

The SUR40 comes equipped with pedestals and mounts in order to maneuver and position the 40-inch, 4-inch-thick, 1080p screen and make it less of Microsoft Surface 2 and more of Microsoft Computer Monitor 2. The device sports a 2.9 AMD Athlon II X2 processor and a Radeon HD 6700M graphics card, runs Windows 7, and has Windows Phone 7 support. The Samsung SUR40 also employs the use of Gorilla Glass, a type of glass that can withstand more abuse than regular glass.

The SUR40 costs a cool (uncool) $7,600 at the moment, which is hilariously cheaper than the $12,500 original.

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The first and most striking characteristic of the phone is its similarity in design to the iPhone, something that could be considered as a considerable contributor to its success. The 1GHz processor runs at an impressive and convenient speed and also matches that of the iPhone4. The screen resolution is stated as being lower than the iPhone, but with Super AMOLED technology the quality is still superb and higher than many other smartphones.

Although it’s a fairly debatable and subjective area the weight of the handset can determine whether a customer will buy or not. The Galaxy is considerably lighter than the iPhone, but to some this can seem cheap and fragile.

With regards to memory the Galaxy does match the iPhone with a potential 32GB of space, but unfortunately this option only comes with the purchase of an external memory card, compared to the built in memory of the iPhone.

It is the uniqueness of the technology that separates this phone from the iPhone models and other smartphones. Samsung has taken an individual approach to their product but applied design ideas and software concepts that they know to work. The combination of these two things has led to the development of an attractive product that really offers itself up as a good quality phone.
Now, More recently, Galaxy S has brought the interest to Google to chose Samsing as their official partner for nexus Series. The popularity came as a result of brilliant Hummingbird processor and a great GPU for gaming.

Nexus S is essentially an upgraded version of Galaxy S and has reimaged Samsung’s position in the Android.

The largest obstacle for Samsung was exposure of their product and the comparison of their reputation to that of Apple and iPhone. The iPhone’s reputation seemed to many to be the most secure in the smartphone market and in many respects it is, but through matching the capabilities of the iPhone and its design structure Samsung have provided an honest alternative to the Apple technology.

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Notion Ink has been working on a Dual core TEgra2 Android Tablet for a year now.  It recently became available for preorders and now it has just released a video of the Adam tablet in action, complete with that snappy new Eden UI.

Unfortunately, the video is not of a high quality but you can get a fair idea of what this device is all about – Real multitasking, running more apps at the same time on the screen. The device is worthy of the hype, with a responsive screen, a multitask-friendly interface and plug ‘n play peripherals via  USB.

iPad vs. NotionInk Adam Tablet

Adam Video Preview:

Another Video Preview:

Another interesting feature places the touch pad on the back, its a new experience to control a tablet from touchpad which is actually not seen during normal operation. The Adam tablet also features 3 USB ports, one HDMI out port for full HD in 1080p, eco-friendly using a tenth of the power, and boasting 24 hours of battery life (more than 10 hours 1080p HD video).

Notion Ink is based on a modified Android Gingerbread OS to fit the large screen. Also, there is a special SDK available for the device. The final date is not announced, but it should be in next 2 months time frame, with a price tag of $400-$550.

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LG Optimus 2x

Nvidia’s Tegra2 is the most powerful processor in the market serving two cores, each at 1Ghz, having onboard powerful Graphics processor capable of playing 1080p video with no trouble at all.

LG is accelerating its Android Optimus line with a new Flagship phone featuring 8 megapixel camera. The phone features 1080p video-recording, and as earlier said, dual-core processor powered by ARM9 based Nvidia Tegra2.

The phone was earlier expected to make first appearance next year, but goodness and gracious, its here! This phone also becomes the first phone (correct me if I’m wrong) to record Video @ 1080p FullHD. In addition, phone features a 1.3MP front-facing camera for video calls, includes microSD memory expandability, microUSB connectivity, and a 1500mAh battery, which should give a much better life knowing the fact that Tegra2 consumes less power than Snapdragon.

It has also got full 1080p TV-out via HDMI.

Right now the Optimus 2x runs Android 2.2 froyo, but LG has promised for Gingerbread in the near future. Its a 4-inch WVGA display (not SuperAMOLED) with 8GB of on-board storage (expandable with up to 32GB of microSD), which makes up 40GB of total storage.
Related:

• Dual Core Tegra2 Android vs iPhone 4
• Cheapest Dual Core Tegra2 Android Tablet – eLocity A7 for $399

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For some obvious reason, users now agree that 7″ is a much better form factor for a Tablet rather than bulky iPad’s 10″. Success of Galaxy Tab says more than what we could question.

The 7-inch eLocity A7 tablet (comes from Stream TV networks), runs Android 2.2 on NVIDIA’s Tegra 2  T250 dual core silicon and the best part — its ultra affordable for the specs — $399 only. Its available on sale via Amazon, and soon on Walmart, NewEgg, BJs, Tiger Direct and Micro Center.

What’s more is that it has front camera for Video chat and plays 1080 FullHD videos.

From the press release:

The A7 optimizes portability, connectivity, and computing power like never before in one sleek device. The first mobile tablet available in the U.S. running Android 2.2 Froyo, the eLocity A7 offers a wide range of mobile apps, supports Adobe Flash and is enabled for 3D gaming with the NVIDIA Tegra T-250 dual core processor. Sporting a high resolution seven-inch capacitive and multi-touch screen, 4GB of high speed internal flash memory, the eLocity A7 is a multipurpose device that provides a full entertainment solution along with business productivity and wireless connectivity. The tablet is equipped with a micro SD slot supporting up to 32GB of added storage, a USB port supporting up to 64GB of added storage and a 1080p HDMI output. With streamlined dimensions of 8.2 inches by 4.8 inches and weighing just over a pound, the new eLocity A7 tablet is more portable than the iPad and sports a striking design expected to appeal to a wide demographic of users.

Update: eLocity Team has confirmed that Gingerbread update is pending:

Hello Tarandeep

Thank you for your interest in the eLocity A7. The A7 will be upgraded to Gingerbread when its made available. As with regard to Honeycomb, we are releasing tablets with a much higher resolution that will support all aspects of Honeycomb in a better way.

Let us know if you have any other question. Thank you once again.

Team eLocity

The introduction of the eLocity A7 tablet is the first step in Stream TV’s strategic growth plan to bring to market innovative products featuring state-of-the-art technology designed to transform consumer communications and digital lifestyle.

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LG Star would be the first android phone with Nvidia Tegra2 dual core processor clocked at 1Ghz x 2. The UI on this phone is much like the Samsung Galaxy S, but the most interesting part of this phone is its dual-core processor.

GSM Israel has got the first handson video for the LGP990 (aka the Star) compared side-by-side with an iPhone 4.

The handset is powered by a 4-inch display and 8MP camera, as well as a front-facing counterpart and an HDMI port. At this time its running on a non-optimized Android Froyo, and is expected to improve speeds with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, which would be optimized for dual core Tegra2 processors.

Nvidia Tegra 2 offers full support for real-time run Full HD 1080p encoding, In terms of build quality, its sturdy,   combines elements of plastics and metal.

The screen is very bright and very high quality and even though it (apparently) is not a Super AMOLED or SLCD.

Despite running non-optimized Froyo 2.2, it is still very fast relative to all other Android device we’ve seen and iPhone 4 at everything. It performs equally well vs. iPhone 4 even when Flash is turned ON. Now that’s a big thing. With Gingerbread, native support for Dual core Tegra2 will be embedded into the kernel, and hence make the dual core phones perform much faster than iPhone 4 or any other device in the market.

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Printers with TouchSmart Technology

Today, everyone wants to go  wireless with everything.

While phones and computers seem to have advanced greatly in the last few years, printers seem to have stagnated. They still do same old paper printing, connected over same cables and havent gained much speed either. However, Hewlett-Packard has developed an All-in-One Printer with TouchSmart technology which is perfect for users who have been clamoring of a web-connected printer.

With the HP TouchSmart printer, the printing machine becomes so much more than ink cartridges and glossy paper. This printer allows users to be connected to your favorite sites, all at the touch of a button. In addition, specialized apps allow users to not only connect to the sites they visit often, but also allow for a printer-friendly interface. This way, you can have constant access to your Google Calendar or print those movie tickets from Fandango at a flick of an eye. The result is a true Web 2.0 enabled Printer that understands webapps.

This HP printer is also perfect for printing photos from the web. With a direct connection to Snapfish, printing has never been easier. Users can save time by accessing photos directly from the printer. The HP TouchSmart printer also comes with automatic paper sensing and quality settings, which allow it to save paper and ink.  As paper and ink are often the highest auxiliary expenses associated with printing, HP is really saving consumers money by saving ink cartridges.

By making the interface smarter and more intuitive, these printers can be more successfully integrated into our on-the-go lifestyle. Choose wisely, print wisely.

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Augmented Reality is all about filling the Real world with augmented objects that fit the Real world, nicely. Watching virtual balls fall through a digital gap in a table, and a life-sized virtual human sitting in an empty chair, those are things  we expect from a good Augmented Reality glasses.

Virtual Reality vs. Augmented Reality

Whereas virtual reality shows you only a digital landscape, augmented reality (AR) mixes virtual information, like text or images, into your view of the real world in real-time.

In the last few years, AR has started appearing on smart phones. On phones, software superimposes information on top of your view of the world, as seen through the device’s screen. But AR eyewear is superior because of inherent advantages —  it provides a more immersive experience.

Best Augmented Reality Glasses

The Wrap 920AR glasses from Vuzix does it perfectly. It costs around $1,995, which is about half the price of other AR goggles with similar image resolution. The glasses will primarily appeal gamers, animators, architects, and software developers, and it has developed software for building AR environments, which is included with the glasses.

So what does it feel like wearing one of these Glasses? Wearing the 920AR means looking at the world through a pair of LCD video displays.

The glasses have two video cameras for 3d augmentation of depth. Apart form that glasses are equipped with accelerometers, gyro sensors, and magnetometers that track the direction in which the wearer is looking. The best part of the glasses is that this Augmented reality glasses work with iPhone, and compatible devices like Android, for portable power and controls, such as loading a particular AR object or environment.

The Vuzix software can recognize and track visual markers and lock onto a certain object or color. By tracking head movements, the software can make sure that virtual objects are perfectly positioned atop the real world.

“There are other folks who make stereo, see-through eyewear, but there’s no one making anything near the price point of Vuzix’s,” says Steve Feiner, professor of computer science at Columbia University, and a lead AR researcher since the 1990s. Also,  the integration of cameras and motion sensors into the display makes the glasses less bulky.

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Sony is offering deals very different from Logitech Revue, the only other OEM for Google TV. As per the plan, Sony is launching integrated LED Google TVs along with a second option of a Bluray player-cum-set-top-box that plugs to your existing TVs.

Pricing  & The Hardware

Sony has branded all its offering under Sony Internet TV which has a range of models: 24 inches ($600), 32 inches ($800), 40 inches ($1000) and 46 inches ($1400). All of them do 1080p edge-lit LED and backed with built-in Wi-Fi, four HDMI ports and four USB ports. Other TV features include Motionflow 240Hz refresh rate, BRAVIA Engine 3, BRAVIA Internet Video/Widgets, and is DLNA Certified.

Logitech Revue does pretty much the same minus 2 usbs and plus Integrated Logitech Harmony® Link IR blaster (for A/V device control) & Logitech Unifying wireless technology.

Logitech Revue costs $299 & Sony’s Bluray set-top-box costs $399 .

Processor (CPU) & RAM:

Logitech Revue: 1.2Ghz Intel Atom Processor Z515 & 4GB RAM

Sony Internet TV: 1.2Ghz Intel Atom CE4100 & unknown RAM.

Availability

All of the Sony’s offerings are available for pre-order at SonyStyle.com now available in US from 16th October and Logitech Revue starts shipping from 21st October.

The Google TV Software
Just like the early previews of Google TV, overall feel of the OS is good, and it  just keeps on getting better.
Google TV uses Chrome for its browser and search functionality. Search will fetch results from live TV, your DVR, the web: youtube, other video sources.

If we compare the smoothness of navigation, it felt bit better in Logitech Revue. The difference could be the hardware graphics processor (GPU) that might have some performance issues with Sony’s offerings, but its too early to conclude that. We will have to see some games running on these devices.

Sony hasn’t customized any bit of Google TV, apart from adding Sony recommended stuff.

The generic feel of the Sony Internet TV is great, but it lacks some of the key features of Logitech Revue like Video chat.

The Remote

For a smarter web-enabled TV, you definitely need a keyboard/remote that doesn’t suck. Sony has played nice by creating a  more compact PS3 console kind of remote, which  has a compact keyboard & mouse onboard. Although, the keyboard is perfectly usable, it may not be suited for a lot of text input unlike Logitech’s Revue. But, on a TV, you would practically type less and watch more, so Sony’s idea makes sense. And not to forget, the gaming would be joyful.

The Bottom Line

Both OEMs offer great deals for Smarter Internet TVs. The choice of the device should nail down to obvious decisions:

• If you are planning to buy anew HDTV, go for Sony Internet TV
• If you are looking for an upgrade for your existing TV set, Logitech offers better deal for the buck. But if you wish to have BluRay upgrade, $100 is the only additional premium you have to pay with Sony’s STB.
• Sony’s controller should suit most users and Gamers, but Logitech’s Revue offers more choices for connectivity (e.g. through iPhone, Android) and a better hardware keyboard for Power users.

iPhone 4 Retina display was touted by Apple as the most advanced displays ever made for Mobiles. Buut aare samsung’s claims true that Super AMOLED featured in Samsung Galaxy S is better? These new displays promised to be brighter, less reflective, and consume less power than the previous generation of AMOLED, used in Google Nexus One.

DisplayMate has released their evaluation of the displays, and though they found the Super AMOLED to be excellent and awarded it “Best New Technology,” called the Apple iPhone 4 still has the best mobile display.

Google Nexus One vs. iPhone 4 s Motorola Droid vs Samsung Galaxy S

Samsung’s display was 25 percent brighter, used 20 percent less power and reflected less than a third as much ambient light as compared to normal AMOLED.

Te Super AMOLED possess  incredible contrast and low screen reflectance. But “Super AMOLED’s contrast ratio is visually insignificant as compared to iPhone 4 retina display,  except under dark ambient lighting.The report also highlights 14 ways the iPhone 4 has the best display. For instance, the iPhone’s LCD is the sharpest (with the Highest Resolution i.e. most pixels per inch)

Here is the report in  brief,  summarizing five of Soneira’s results: brightness, contrast, screen reflectance, color accuracy, and power consumption.

The Super AMOLED reflected the least ambient light out of any display. This is also an important factor for viewing outdoors; the least reflective screen shows the least amount of glare.

The Super AMOLED on the Samsung Vibrant was 25 percent brighter than the AMOLED on the Google Nexus One. However, the iPhone 4′s LCD was the brightest. The brighter the screen, the easier it is to view the display in bright environments (like outdoors on sunny days.)

When all displays were set to the same level of brightness (229 cd/m2), the Super AMOLED consumed 20 percent less power than the AMOLED, but iPhone 4′s LCD used even less power.

The AMOLED on the Google Nexus One had lower black levels, which resulted in the highest contrast, though Soneria considered the contrast on the the AMOLED and Super AMOLED outstanding.

The LCD on the Motorola DROID offered the most accurate representation of the sRGB color gamut. Colors on the Super AMOLED were oversaturated by 38 percent percent, and on the iPhone’s LCD were undersaturated by 36 percent.

Verdict

At most practical things, he Retina Display really whoops on the Super AMOLED on the pixel level. Definition still looks ridiculous on the iPhone 4. The Super AMOLED seems to exhibit stronger color saturation and sharper definition, in spite of looking pixelated sat next to Apple’s smoother resolution. BUT, when viewed from a normal distance away from the user, and it will look identical, difference is saturation and contrast.

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RIM’s  CEO announced the new tablet at keynote of BlackBerry Developer Conference on Monday. The new 7″ 1024 x 600 pixel widescreen device which they call as the “first professional tablet,” with BlackBerry enterprise integration and full web experience with HTML5 and Flash 10.1 compatibility.

Hardware Overview:

The PlayBook sports a 1GHz dual-core ARM Cortex A9-based processor with fair-enough 1GB of RAM, and GPU capable of running OpenGL code. The camera is good enough with front-facing camera rated at 3MP and rear at 5MP. The good part is that both of them can record HD video @ 1080p resolution.

On the connectivity side, it has robust 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth, microUSB, and microHDMI with  3G connectivity as of today and 4G options planned sometime next  year.

The device is fast but not as fast as android based Samsung Tab powered with single-core 1Ghz. Apart from  that, device’s design is pretty much similar.

There’s no official word on Battery life, but RIM promises battery life would be good enough.

The Operating System

RIM’s new PlayBook is based on QNX multitasking OS called BlackBerry Tablet OS. On the good side, BlackBerry will offer a full POSIX-compatible native SDK for its tablet OS, as well as a JavaVM to run apps written for BlackBerry OS 6, just like Android’s Dalvik VM.

Web Performance had been priortiy for RIM and that’s why Full native API support is available via JavaScript, and leverages the same WebKit-based browser as BlackBerry OS 6 for HTML5 compatibility. Even Flash 10.1 is hardware accelerated. And thats why Flash and AIR-based apps will have their doors opened for developers on the PlayBook.

It is said  that Cisco’s Android tablet woulds target similar Enterprise solutions with more media collaboration stressing of Video conferencing, VoIP and email.

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Availability

Expected time-frame for PlayBook’s launch would be early 2011 but, Developers can sign up for access to cross-platform BlackBerry Tablet OS developer tools here, starting today.

Reelated: Cisco to Launch Android Tablet for Real-time Collaboration

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With HTC Desire HD, HTC has revamped its Sense UI on Android to bring a bunch of UI improvements, packed with some remarkable Features.

Some of the new Features which are non-standard on other Android devices:

• Revamped UI with advanced text selection, in-browser cover-art tab switching and 100s of other stuff.
• Auto-phone tracking for lost phones.
• Automatic-phone ring volume. Smarter than you can think of.
• HDMI, DLNA (multimedia sharing)
• Live Social contact status, when you receive a call.
• Offline maps navigation
• Receive sms via web
• Forward calls remotely and many more

The awesomeness cannot be described in words, watch the video after the break: