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Christie creates baffling 3D HD CAVE ‘visual environment,’ or your average Halo display in 2020
Whenever the word ” Christie ” is involved, you can generally count on two things: 1) you can’t afford it and 2) you’ll want to afford it. The high-end projection company is at it once again, this time installing a truly insane visual environment at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York
I-O Data TransferJet USB dongle announced in Japan
Been dying to get in on some TransferJet high-speed low-range wireless data transfer action since Sony made such a big fuss of it at CES? Well you can go the all-Sony route and pick up a VAIO F or one of Sony’s Cyber-Shot bundles with a reader, or you can head to Japan and snag this I-O Data USB2-TJC reader, when it comes out later this month for ?10,000 ($115)
Burger King uses ‘musical shower’ as latest trick to entice Japanese clientele
A new Burger King eatery opening up in Japan isn’t usually something we concern ourselves too much with, but this one comes with an interesting new twist. Those umbrella-aping translucent cones hanging over the tables are known as “musical showers,” and their function is to deliver music in an isolated fashion to you and your significant — but not too significant, it’s still BK, after all — other.
Okoro’s GX series HTPCs ship with SSD, USB 3.0, Core i7 and… an iPad?
Yeah, it’s true — Okoro Media Systems is shamelessly hopping on the tablet PC bandwagon, and it’s actually bundling an iPad with each GX series HTPC in order to give customers an elegant way to control their multi-zone audio setup (or whatever else you feel like controlling).
Sony’s latest Cyber-shots boast 3D sweep panorama, background defocusing
It’s getting to be that time of the year again — time for Sony to expand / refresh its Cyber-shot lineup. Say hello to the 14.1 megapixel T99 and the 12.2 megapixel WX5 and TX9
Canon updates EOS-1D Mark IV and Rebel T2i / 550D firmware, squashes manual exposure movie bug
When we asked fine readers like yourself how you’d improve the EOS-1D Mark IV and Rebel T2i not a soul mentioned manually exposed video, but if you were personally plagued by a jittery aperture when shooting said footage with certain lenses (a bug that previously appeared in the 5D Mark II ) you’ll be happy to hear Canon diligently decided to fix the issue anyhow. The 1.0.8 firmware updates for both aforementioned DSLRs are now available at our source link, but unless you’ve personally had a problem they may not be worth your time; Canon’s changelog shows aside from fixing a few menu misspellings, the new code does absolutely nothing else.
