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January 13, 08 @ 23:35 GMT - Panasonic shows off 150-inch TV |
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Now the significance is not that they made a huge TV or they will sell these things by the 10s if and when they come out. No, the significance, and also the technical reason why they can do it are the same, a new back end process and tools from companies like Applied Materials.
All big TVs are made from a sheet of mother glass, a massive sheet of glass that is cut up into smaller pieces. The older generation process had glass in the 100-110 inch diagonal size range. The new process has tools that can handle glass in about the, wait for it, 150 inch range. Guess what this means?
What you will see from this 150 inch monster is the same thing you see when Intel and AMD went from 8 to 12 inch wafers, more chips at a lower cost. The 150 inch mother glass means more and larger monitors at a lower cost. Added capacity changes the supply and demand curve.
Overall, don't expect to see many 150 inch TVs cropping up at the local Crazy Al's TV shop, but do expect the monitors you buy to go up an inch or two for the same money. That is a good thing.
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September 23, 07 @ 14:32 GMT - Coolermaster offers $10,000 for a gaming video |
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Cooler Master just launched a video shootout with USD10.000 jackpot. All you need to do is film your gaming video and you can win Cooler Master gear and a trip to China for the KODE5 2007 Global Finals, to be held in first quarter of next year in China.
Entering the contest is quite easy - sign up for a free account at Cooler Master.com from October 1st to February 2008, upload your video to Google Video or YouTube, lasting no less than three minutes. After that, fill in the contest form, and judges from Cooler Master will award prizes in categories of Best Screenplay, Best Visual Effect and Audience Popularity Award.
Those awards will result in ton of cases and coolers being given away, and at the end of the contest, ultimate winner will see himself (or herself) flying off to China. This could be quite a experience, since my last trip to KODE5 bears nothing else but good memories.
- Official contest webpage
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September 23, 07 @ 14:22 GMT - The Microsoft (Xtreme) Hardware Day |
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“I think one of the most critical things about our design process” Sean said, casually tossing a memory mouse from one hand to the other, “is that we don’t design in CAD systems at all at first. Instead, we actually physically sculpt the shapes we want out of a variety of materials to try and get a tactile understanding of the mouse and the processes used.”
Of course, it wasn’t just a question of ergonomics either and the Memory mouse had a whole series of cool little tricks up its sleeve. It is, for example, the first rechargeable mouse with integrated flash memory, having a separate USB drive with 1GB of space on it. When the wireless mouse gets low on energy however, you can just hook it up to the USB drive and let it start charging via a short cable, continuing to use it while the mouse charges.
- The Microsoft (Xtreme) Hardware Day
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