iRiver has recently introduced their new Story Ebook in China. Some chinese online magazine websites has provided with their first Hands-on preview of this product.
Specs:
It measures 203.5 x 127 x 9.4 mm (8″ x 5″ x .4″) and weighs 284 grams (10 ounces). Its pixel resolution is 800 x 600, with 8 levels of greyscale. The iRiver Story supports Adobe DRM for PDF and EPUB ebooks. It also supports office documents such as DOC, PPT, and XLS. For images, comics, and graphic novels it supports ZIP, JPG, BMP, and GIF. The Story has built-in speakers and a headphone jack for listening to music and audiobooks. Additionally, it has a voice recorder for recording notes, lectures, etc. It has 2GB of internal memory, enough for about 1500 ebooks and documents, and has an SD card slot with support up to 32GB.
This would not be your usual thought for playing your usual arcade games. How ever, such game like Wipeout made possible by two hardcore Geeks : Jehmlich and Matthes Mikysec who created Racer, their analog vision and version of Wipeout.
Using an old arcade cabinet, a wireless camera stick on a R/C Car and a cardboard home made Wipeout Like track, racer let you from the comfort of an modified arcade cabinet, control your tiny little R/C car and get immediate feedback thanks to its embedded camera.
Sure the whole setup is a bit messy and need more polish, but the concept is really impressive and I would love to see a company developing something similar for us to play with.
Up to now, we’ve given you only tiny glimpses of the HP slate device coming out later this year. You saw it first in a video we released during CES and most recently in videos demoing its Web experience and Adobe Flash and Air support. We’ve also blogged about the evolution of the slate category and our history in the space.
At E3, Nintendo will be introducing new hardware, the Nintendo 3DS.
In an official release, Nintendo describes the portable as allowing games to be “enjoyed with 3D effects without the need for any special glasses”. It is not yet known how the 3D effects will work, but it is possible that it could work like this Japan-only DSiWare game.
According to Nintendo, the product will go on sale between April 2010 and March 2011.
The Nintendo 3DS will succeeded the Nintendo DS series and will have backward compatibility for Nintendo DS and DSi games. It is important to stress that the Nintendo 3DS is a new hardware series.
In early January, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata gave an interview with Japan’s second largest newspaper The Asahi Shimbun in which he apparently said the Nintendo DS successor will have “highly detailed graphics, and it will be necessary to have a sensor with the ability to read the movements of people playing”.
Nintendo of America later told Kotaku that the Asahi Shimbun had “misinterpreted” Iwata’s remarks. “Mr. Iwata did not make any comments regarding the functions of Nintendo’s future hardware systems,” Charlie Scibetta, Nintendo of America’s senior director of corporate communications told Kotaku. “The answer to the reporter’s question was misinterpreted.”
The Asahi Shimbun stands by its reporting and issued a statement to Kotaku Japan that read: “The article quoted Nintendo President Satoru Iwata’s comment accurately.” The actual quote in the article is a fragment of a longer sentence.
At a Nintendo quarterly Q&A, the exec addressed the issue with the Asahi Shimbun, asserting that the reporter stated, “The graphics for the next DS will be highly detailed and it will contain a motion sensor, right?” Iwata claims he then replied, “Those things are naturally being required. But do you think it would sell with just that?” Iwata emphasized that this last part was left completely out.
It appears that the extra element Nintendo believed was necessary to really sell the DS successor is 3D.
Regarding 3D, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has previously stated that Nintendo would need to look into the “possible health effects” of playing video games in 3D for prolonged periods of time.
Here is a handy summary of what we know about the Nintendo 3DS (and what we think we know).
According to the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japanese Scientists invented “Elastic Water”. Also made it to the news of Japan’s National TV channel NHK, Japanese scientists from Tokyo University invented a new substance that consists of 95% water. Obtained by adding two grams of clay and a small quantity of some organic matter into normal water, this new substance is jelly-like and is considered proper for usage in medicine for the long-term to stick tissues together.
The study period is scheduled to end in September 2010, if the scientists can succeed in increase the density of the substance, it can be used to produce ecologically clean plastic materials.
A report has already been published in the latest issue of British scientific magazine “Nature”.
Okay~ Never made any reviews so be easy on me. This is my 1st review of new Canon DSL EOS D500. Now unleashing the tech out from the box!
Canon EOS 500D Features:
15.1 MP CMOS sensor
Full HD (1080p) movies
High ISO up to 12800 for low-light conditions
3.4fps with up to 170 JPEG burst
3.0” Clear View LCD with Live View mode
9-point AF system
DIGIC 4
EOS Integrated Cleaning System
EF/EF-S and EX Speedlite compatibility
15.1 MP CMOS sensor
Ideal for those who want to create large, poster-size prints – or crop images to perfection without losing any of the detail necessary for printing – Canon’s 15.1MP CMOS sensor is outstanding in low light, and produces images with incredibly low noise.
Full HD movie recording
The EOS 500D combines exceptional still shooting with the ability to shoot Full HD (1080p) video. For occasions when larger amounts of footage need to be stored on a memory card, users can also choose to shoot at 720p or VGA resolution. An HDMI connection allows High Definition playback of footage and images on any HDTV.
High ISO for low light
When light levels fall, the EOS 500D offers an ISO range of up to 3200 – expandable to 12800 for those environments where using flash is undesirable.
3.4fps with up to 170 JPEG burst
The EOS 500D features shooting speeds of up to 3.4fps in continuous bursts of up to 170 large JPEG images (9 RAW).
3.0” Clear View LCD with Live View mode
Detailed checks on images and video are possible with a 3.0” ClearView LCD screen, which features an ultra-high 920,000 dots for increased clarity. Switch to Live View mode and use the real-time visual feed to shoot from awkward angles.
9-point AF system
A high-precision AF system employs 9 AF points AF Points are located throughout the frame to better accommodate off-centre subjects. For accurate focusing with fast aperture lenses, the central AF point features a high sensitivity cross-type sensor, suitable for lenses with an aperture of f/2.8 or faster.
DIGIC 4
Canon’s DIGIC 4 processor works with the CMOS sensor to deliver 14-bit image processing, for smooth gradations and natural looking colours. DIGIC 4 also powers advanced Noise Reduction when shooting at higher ISO speeds, plus split-second startup times and near-instant image review after shooting.
EOS Integrated Cleaning System
Canon’s built-in dust prevention system offers three ways of guarding images against the effects of dust: reduction of internal dust generation; an in-camera sensor cleaning mechanism; and the ability to map stubborn dust spots for removal with the included Digital Photo Professional software.
Full EF/EF-S and EX Speedlite compatibility
The EOS 500D is compatible with Canon’s full range of EF and EF-S lenses and EX-series Speedlites. This allows the creation of a shooting system as unique as the photographer using it.
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