Do your friends point and call you "six eyes" when you invite them over for a 3D movie on your new 3DTV and slip on a pair of 3D specs over your corrective lenses? Sounds like you need new friends. Otherwise, Samsung's prescription 3D glasses might be just what you've been waiting for.
So far they're only available in Korea, though we imagine it won't be long before you see all kinds of 3D prescription options stateside. The special glasses are custom made by an optometrist and take about 7 days to make.
For those of you who wear glasses, would you find 3D technology more appealing if you could order prescription 3D specs?
Listen up fellas. Before you pop the big question, here's a quick test to find out if she's "the one." Head over to Black Milk Clothing and pick up an R2-D2 one-piece swimsuit. If she wears it, you know you've finally found the droid life partner you've been looking for. And if she doesn't, well, you're out $85 and should have known better than to get your girl something like this. Try flowers and diamonds next time.
The geeky one-piece is made by designer James Lillis and consists of a Polyester/Lycra mix. It comes from Australia, and if we had to gamble, we'd bet on this not being an officially licensed product. In other words, if you think this is the coolest thing you've ever seen, and aren't scared off by the price tag, don't procrastinate -- a cease and desist order can't be far behind.
With so many smartphones now sporting 1GHz processors, we were a little surprised to find out T-Mobile's G2 smartphone would ship at 'just' 800MHz. This led us to believe it would have some overclocking headroom tucked inside, and boy does it ever.
XDA forum member "coolbho3000" dropped an overclocking kernel module into the wild that allows adventurous G2 owners to push their smartphone's MSM7x30 processor to new heights. Keeping in mind that overclocking smartphones is risky business and you could very well brick your device, coolbho3000 managed to push his G2 all the way to 1.42GHz.
"Benchmark scores are very, very high, and the improved CPU performance is in line with what you'd expect from such a high clock frequency," coolbho3000 said. "All of this is possible without permanent root (and the ability to flash kernels) because we are using a kernel module and not flashing an actual kernel."
Full instructions can be found here, though allow us to reiterate this is not for the faint of heart. If you kill your device trying to overclock it, you're on your own.
Motorola this week announced the introduction of its new FDD LTE USB-lte 7110 modem, a plug-and-play device rated for FDD-LTE Category 3. In theory, Motorola's 4G modem should be capable of up to 100Mb/s downloads and 50Mb/s uploads.
"We are pleased to introduce Motorola's first LTE device to the industry to complement our own LTE networks and provide an LTE device to operators worldwide for the profitable delivery of 4G broadband wireless services to the mass market," said Fred Gabbard, vice president, Product Management, Motorola. "We look forward to the opportunity to team with operators worldwide for an end-to-end LTE solution or to provide interoperability testing of the new USB-lt 7110 device on their own LTE networks."
The device pops into any gadget with a USB port, such as your notebook, netbook, or tablet, and doesn't require any installation. It uses a pair of omni-directional MIMO (multiple-input, multiple-output) antennas and also includes Motorola's self-organizing network (SON) technology.
There is some major news for those of you waiting for Apple to bring its outdated MacBook Air into the present. The Cupertino-based company has performed another unimaginably improbable feat by updating the outdated ultrathin, while still failing at the herculean task of bringing it into the post Core 2 Duo era. But given Apple’s numerous “magical and groundbreaking” exploits, it shouldn’t be too difficult to cut it some slack, right?
The Air, which will now be available in 11.6-inch (new) and 13.3-inch screen sizes, is said to have become lighter, thinner and faster following the update. Apple has eschewed the hard drive in favor of solid-state storage, allowing the new Air models to have instant-on functionality and a longer battery life. As the flash storage is housed directly on the system board, as opposed to a solid-state drive enclosure, there is more room for the battery and other components.
The 11.6-inch model is priced $999 and features a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of memory, 64GB of storage. You can double the storage for a couple of Franklins. Its 13.3-inch cousin is priced $1,299 and features a 1.86GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of memory, and 128GB of flash storage (double the storage for three Benjamins).
Lenovo seems in no rush to enter the US tablet market. After pushing back the release of the IdeaPad U1 notebook-tablet hybrid to 2011, it has now done the same with the more orthodox Android-based LePad. The Chinese PC maker was last month reported to be aiming for a December, 2010 launch for the 10.1-inch LePad.
According to a report on PCMag.com, which quotes Lenovo president and chief operating officer Rory Read, Lenovo is waiting for the next major Android release (Code-named “Honeycomb”) to come out as it will be the first Android version to have been optimized for tablets. It could take the company as many as four months after Honeycomb’s release to launch its maiden tablet, pushing the release of its first tablet for the US market well into 2011.
TomTom and HTC have announced that the navigation company's GPS maps will be showing up on HTC phones in the coming months. HTC's new HTC Locations software will have TomTom's maps built in. This app is free to use for checking maps and finding locations, but users will have to pay for actual turn-by-turn navigation.
The purchase will be made through the app, or with HTC's Sync software. This may be a tough sell on Android phones as Google's free navigation software is preloaded. The HTC navigation service may be more useful as the maps will be stored on the device. Google Navigation requires a net connection to use.
The new HTC Locations with TomTom will be rolled out on the HTC Desire HD and Desire Z first in Europe and Asia. Future smartphones for other regions will get the software as well. No details on how much the navigation capability will cost, but it will need to be low to lure people away from Google's free option.
In a joint press release today, Verizon and Samsung announced that the former will carry the latter's Galaxy Tab starting November 11, 2010 for $600.
"This is an incredible time in mobile technology, and as a company we're excited to add the Samsung Galaxy Tab to our portfolio," said Marni Walden, vice president and chief marketing officer for Verizon Wireless. "The Samsung Galaxy Tab brings together the reliability of Verizon Wireless' 3G network and the power of Android 2.2 to deliver on our promise of providing consumers and business customers with a host of options to help manager their lives."
In addition to running Froyo, the Galaxy Tab will feature a 7-inch touchscreen, though no sandpaper to file down those nubby digits. Other features include a 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird processor, native Flash 10.1 support, 3MP camera, GPS, 3.5mm headphone jack, and 16GB of storage (upgradeable to 32GB).
No need to pout and pound sand if don't have an extra $8 million lying around for a diamond encrusted iPhone. For a mere $27,000 (or thereabouts), you can transform yourself into a walking target for thugs by yakking in public on your Vertu Constellation Quest.
Still too much, you say? No problem -- if you can do without the yellow gold trim, the plain jane model will only set you back around $7,500. If you can't afford that, well, you really have no business owning a smartphone (that's tongue-in-cheek folks, save the hate mail).
The Symbian-powered smartphone sports a high-res VGA screen, video output jack, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, FM radio, 32GB microSD card, full QWERTY keyboard, and crystal sapphire keys with silkscreen printed characters.
Zound Industries, makers of the, um, Coloud / Hello Kitty headset, has partnered with Marshall to develop a pair of Marshall branded cans for your skull.
Marshall specializes primarily in amps of various sizes, and as far as we can tell, the Marshall Headphones will mark the company's first foray into headsets.
"Nothing has been compromised when expanding the Marshall heritage of big stage performance to the individual enjoyment of good music," Marshall said. "These headphones are conceived from Marshall’s time-tested fundaments of performance and endurance, designed to thrive on daily use and to render music the way it was meant to sound, no matter what your flavor is. The greatest of effort has also been put into the aesthetics, making the headphones ooze of that iconic Marshall look."
Other than a partial sneak peek at the design, Marshall is keeping tight lipped about its upcoming headset, which is slated to launch on November 15, 2010.
