The Tek Panel 420 is the first Tek Panel product designed with digital signage as the primary function of the system. It features a 42-inch TFT/LCD display in addition to a full-powered, upgradeable, integrated PC. It has a slim front bezel and options such as built-in touchscreen and internal stereo speakers. The 42-inch LCD display represents the “sweet spot” of digital signage displays, with the ideal size for viewing content in public areas and lower cost of ownership. [I4U]...
The satire gurus over at The Onion share some thoughts on violent video games. As always they are hilarious....
Installed at Kawasaki More’s department store in Japan this 5 step escalator is the world’s shortest escalator according to the Guinness Book of Records. It was in 1989 and will still retain the record if someone has not built a small and useless automatic staircase in the two decades. [BBG via Wired]...
Rockstar has finally posted a gameplay video of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Due to release in March, it will be the first 18-rated title for the Nintendo DS. Well, here it is. It's small, but you can get a good idea of what's going on. The game uses the touch-screen in a few pretty neat ways, none of which seem to invasive, either. The car-jacking/hot-wiring instances don't have all of the time, for example, only on...
Urban Space Station project – A mini farm for urban dwellers (Eco-Concept) Recycling oil rigs into hotels and spa (Eco- Architecture) Mountain dew bottles to be recycled into fine tailored suits by Sears (Eco-Fashion) Acqua Liana - A $29 million mansion stands out for eco-friendly opulence (Eco-Architecture) Australia's VICOSC discovers way to print solar cells as easily as money (Eco-Technology) Bentley Continental Supersports is mean and green (Eco-Transport)...
Sony seems to have taken the Hollywood movie scenario of the earth freezing into oblivion a tad too seriously. They decided to develop a TV that can withstand the pressures of the elements and yet live to tell the tale. In its case show brilliant images even after facing all that heat, snow, global economic meltdowns and other extremes. The 65-inch GXD-L65H1 LCD is completely dust proof and comes in a sleek aluminum front a back framing. I still...
The last episode of Family Guy 'Oceans three and a half' takes on Bill Gates and the ill fated Zune. However what I liked most was the spoof of Christian Bale's outburst on the sets of Terminator 4. (Youtube link)....
Earlier mobile phones were the size of suitcases, which was until the bricklike Motorola phones changed the way we communicate and appreciated mobile phone design. However, there are still plenty people who want the tactile feel of the rotary phone along with those huge mouth pieces. A company called SparkFun has come out with a new Bluetooth enabled rotary mobile phone that has the look and feel of those old phones; it features a dial tone when you lift...
While the world still debates if mermaids are real or not, the special effects team at WETA have managed to make a prosthetic tail fin for an amputee. Nadya Vessey's legs were amputated below the knee when she was a child due to illness, as a child she would tell her friends that she was actually a mermaid. She decided to stick to her story well into adulthood so much so that she wrote into the special effects firm...
If you thought the price of oil is down now, wait till markets get back to normal, that’s why car companies are aggressively looking at reducing their ecological foot print. If the new concept car comes to realization, a decade from now you could be driving a Toyota made from seaweed. This Toyota concept car is made from carbon fibre. In the future it could be made with plastics produced from seaweed. seaweed, specifically a kelp-based bioplastic. Bioplastics are...
Remember the Evil Super Mario? Well someone has drawn inspiration from it and derived this alternate ending where Bowser gets the princess and Mario well....... [Digg]...
Sony's new glucose-operated battery defines the company's green initiative from the ground up. Instead of using ethanol and methanol it has chosen Glucose as its main source of energy. Sony successfully figured out how to generate the most power out of carbohydrates by breaking down enzymes that release active energy, which then can power small electronic devices, very similar to the human body. The Bio Battery is capable of generating up to 50mW of power, enough to power many...
Toshiba has been working on what science fiction writers call video wallpaper - a thin covering for large walls that could be used for illumination and color scheme(at a minimum) and full-wall, full-motion video at the far end of the scale. What this technology allows you to do is paper your wall in a very thin OLED screen. Companies in the last few years have managed to create ultra thin screens that are capable of being rolled up and...
Nokia seems to be planning to expand its niche and its next order of business will be to invade the laptop industry. The so-called Nokia Sparrow, which is said to be something in between a laptop and a MID (mobile internet device) is high on the list of rumored stories online. This news comes a week after No 3 PC brand Acer launched a foray into the phone business with eight mobile phone models, joining leader Hewlett-Packard and No....
Philips has finally spilled the beans on its upcoming LCD TV which sports an unbelievable 21:9 image ratio. The 56 inch LCD will be hitting Europe starting with the UK, the panel supports a resolution of 2,560 x 1,080 pixels, 80000:1 contrast ratio, response speed of 1ms along with Philips's Perfect Natural Motion technology. The TV has 5 HDMI ports, Ethernet port along with Wi-Fi, in addition to this it can access net service of Youtube, Ebay etc and...
