Archive for December, 2009
Chumby One gets composite video output via marginally difficult mod
The Chumby One , much like the original , is an interesting beast.
Prime View International set to expand E Ink production; LG licenses daylight-viewable LCD tech
The suddenly-booming e-book market means things are starting to heat up for Taiwan-based Prime View International — the company has formally completed its acquisition of E Ink and plans to increase display production up to fourfold next year, and it’s licensing daylight-viewable LCD tech to LG for somewhere in the neighborhood of $30m.
RoyalTek outs RPJ-2000 pico projector
Taiwanese company RoyalTek’s just announced the first of what will apparently be five pico projectors it releases in 2010. The RPJ-2000 boasts 3M’s second generation LCoS chipset, VGA and NTSC / PAL inputs, and 0.5 watt speakers. The projector can project a 65-inch image at 640 x 480 resolution with 14 lumens of brightness
Japanese researchers develop robotic, heroic hummingbird
This is not the first time we’ve heard about a robotic hummingbird , but they’re still a rare enough species to warrant our attention. Japanese researchers at Chiba University near Tokyo have developed a new bot which behaves much like the quick-winged bird, which is controlled by an infrared sensor. The little birdie weighs in at less than an ounce and can fly in a figure eight, moving up, down, left and right
Lenovo possibly developing e-book reader
Look, we don’t like having to constantly be skeptics who don’t believe in anything unless there’s absolute proof of its existence… oh, wait: yes we do
Sanyo’s Eneloop music booster keeps stage musicians effect-ed
If there’s even a faint need for a recharging solution, there’s a decent shot that Sanyo will have an Eneloop device to fit the situation. Take the newly announced music booster, for instance, which is designed to sit alongside your Tube Screamer, TU-2 Chromatic Tuner and RV600 Reverb Machine in order to keep the juice flowin’ even if a breaker trips mid-solo. Truthfully, the device could be used to energize pretty much anything that taps into a 9V power source, and if you’re concerned over noise interference, Sanyo assures us that you shouldn’t be
