Posted 01/08/2009 at 05:16:37pm

Alongside having Denis Leary as the voice over in their commercials and Mike Rowe telling you how to stop an airplane, Ford is looking to make trucks appealing to today’s money minded consumer by adding remote computing to their line of trucks.

Ford will be integrating the remote access product LogMeIn to their trucks in the near future. Primarily, their flagship monster, the F-150 will be getting the product, but it will be reportedly available on other models as well. LogMeIn will provide “mobile workers using the remote access product to work on billing and other office documents without requiring them to carry a laptop in their vehicle.”

No word yet on how exactly it’ll be integrated, or if it will be usable if the truck is moving.

Posted 01/08/2009 at 02:50:05pm

Today Nvidia announced their wireless 3D solution aimed at games, photos and movies, GeForce 3D Vision.

GeForce 3D Vision will work with “the new pure Samsung and ViewSonic 120 HZ LCD monitors, Mitsubishi DLP HDTVs, and the DepthQ HD 3D Projector by Lightspeed Design, Inc.” And instead of working on the principles of polarized light, it will work with a sequence of high-speed LCD shutters in a pair of special glasses that will alternate on a timed sequence along with the images as they’re displayed on the monitor.

Nvidia’s newest step into the 3D realm will be available starting today from online retailers such as CompUSA, Tiger Direct and straight from Nvidia.com. It’ll be priced at $199.

Posted 01/08/2009 at 01:55:41pm

Yep, you read that headline right, Burger King is offering a free Whopper to anyone that will delete 10 of his or her Facebook friends.

Going along with their string of strange marketing campaigns (read: The King), Burger King is offering the free Whopper alongside their Facebook app. Once the app is installed, you can delete 10 of your friends for a coupon good for one free Whopper. It’ll even update your friends that haven’t been deleted on the activity feed, for example, “Andy Salisbury sacrificed Norman Chan for a free Whopper.”

Sadly, the promotion is only good for one free sandwich, so folks with thousands of friends won’t be able to stock up for the recession. Oh, and to my Facebook friends, if I delete you it’s nothing personal – I’m just hungry.

Posted 01/07/2009 at 04:05:35pm

Real-View recently announced their Real View 360° 3D Desktop 3D Scanner (catchy) as the first real solution for cheap 3D scanning. The release of this scanner comes alongside some pretty sizeable advances with medical cameras aimed at providing patients with options for non-invasive surgery.

The images captured by the 3D scanner can be rendered and viewed from any position, and a topographical 360° version can be exported into any web based document, online catalog or online auction.

“Topographical 360° 3D capture is the next logical step in image capture and display for e-trailers,” states Real-View 3D founder J.J. Howard.  The 3D scans that Real-View hopes will become commonplace are expected (by them) to change the faces of online auctions and online catalogs.

Truthfully speaking, it would be pretty cool to see an accurate 3D model of the item that you’re looking to snag on eBay before you shell out some cash for it. It’d be pretty cool to see technology like this take off.

Posted 01/07/2009 at 02:58:42pm

Dell, playing to the beat of their own drummer, has oh-so-secretly snuck some new Studio XPS laptops onto their online store.

The new machines, the Studio XPS 1340 and Studio XPS 1640 are upgraded versions of the previous Studio XPS 13. Both of the machines bear the exact same $1,199 price tag (seriously), pack Intel Core 2 Duo processors, and Vista Home Premium. The main discernable difference is that the smaller, 13-inch version is packing Nvidia GeForce 9400M G graphic while the slightly bigger, 16-inch version is rocking an ATI Mobility Radeon M86XT chip.

While both of these notebooks look like pretty solid additions to Dell’s lineup, the lack of a price difference is a bit confusing.

Posted 01/07/2009 at 02:15:34pm

The SD Association recently announced a new card spec called SDXC (short for extended capacity) that will be able to support up to 2TB of memory with read/write speeds of 104MB/second.

If what they say is true, then that means that one of these SD cards will be able to store 100 high-def movies, 60 hours of HD recording or 17,000 high-resolution photos on a portable device.

Keeping in mind that this is still simply a spec, not an actual product, it’s feasible that we’ll see products based off of this as early as next year. And with memory of this capacity in such a small package, it’s possible that this could help the industry as a whole.