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We’ve seen enough home theater 3D already to be well and sick of it, but mobile 3D is still an upcoming sector, one which Sharp seems to be making a bid for. It’s showing off a mobile device prototype (it looks like it could be your friendly neighborhood carrier’s next Android handset) with a glasses-free 3D parallax screen (akin to the tech used in the Nintendo 3DS ), a 3D camera around back, and 3D output over HDMI. The result isn’t stellar — just because a mobile device is shooting grainy, color-bleeding footage in 3D doesn’t make the footage stop being grainy and color-bleeding — but it most certainly works, as we witnessed both on the device’s own screen and on a regular glasses-required 3D TV the prototype was outputting to over HDMI
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“If you see it, just say it,” says Microsoft’s Kinect , but only in the US, UK, Mexico and Japan to start — those are the only four countries that will support Kinect voice control by the motion-sensing peripheral’s November launch . So said Microsoft PR manager Lidia Pitzalis in an interview with Eurogamer Spain , adding that Germany, Italy, France and even Canada and Spain would have to wait for a Spring 2011 update for additional language support.
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It’s another milestone for NAND flash memory and Toshiba with the announcement that the tech giant is sending its 24nm chips into mass production today.
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Speaking at VMworld’s opening keynote in San Francisco, VMware CEO Paul Maritz said innovation in the tech industry will revolve around IT as a service.
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An anonymous reader writes “Much fanfare has been made about manned missions to moons and planets, but little has been done about travel to the asteroids — until now. NASA is working on plans for a trip to the asteroids by 2025.
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Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today’s movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dt com
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Barence writes “Garmin is recalling 1.25 million of its n
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mewshi_nya writes “A firm run by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen filed suit alleging 11 technology companies are violating patents developed at a Silicon Valley lab that Allen financed more than a decade ago. Named in the lawsuit: Apple, Google, AOL, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo and Google’s YouTube subsidiary. The suit doesn’t name Microsoft, Amazon.com or other tech companies in Seattle where Allen is based, and it doesn’t estimate a damage amount
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We had some fun playing with LG’s Magic Motion gesture remote at CES this past January, which lets you change channels with a flick of the wrist, and now we’re learning a little more about its fancy innards.
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In a little more than a week, the tech industry has lost its M&A mind. Are tech companies thinking outside of the box to boost growth?
