Showing posts with label wearable. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wearable. Show all posts

Apple, Tim Cook and iPhone on stage October 4th

On Wednesday, September 21, 2011 0 comments

The crew over at Walt Mossberg's AllThingsD.com are reporting that Apple will hold their fall product presentation on Tuesday, October 4th. At this event we are expecting the introduction of the iPhone 5.

Speculation of what will be in the iPhone and it's overall design are still ranging from an iPhone 4 update to an all-new design. There is much more leaked information on an update to the iPhone 4 platform but the thoughts here is that this will be the for cost sensitive markets like China.

Specific to the iPhone 5. Best guess is that it will feature a larger retina (high resolution) display and an improved camera and lighting solution.

Also at the event will be the fall update on Apple's iPod line-up. The products will get slight tweaks but nothing earth-shattering is expected. A white version of the iPod Touch and some minor tweaks to the Nano. There has been rumors to the affect of a 3G connected iPod Touch but that hasn't gained any momentum with any leaked component information.

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Video headsets going mainstream? Sony HMZ-T1 3D Video Headset

On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 0 comments

Sony demonstrated a prototype of this head-mounted display at CES in January but the product became legit today at the Sony IFA press conference in Berlin. It's clear this device is to address a quality solution for 3D viewing on content without the need for alternating images on a TV and filtered glasses. The HMZ-T1 can display a separate, clear image for each eye doing away with traditional TV/Film solutions.

Sony has made it clear that they believe their ability to provide a complete 3D solution from movies and PS3 games is a key differentiator for them versus their competition. 

The end result when wearing this obviously "geeky" device is the equivalent of a 150-inch 3D display floating 3 feet away enveloping the users vision. Should hit the US and Japan before Christmas for around $600.

Tech chat: The headset provides a separate .7-inch 720p OLED display for each eye. The headphones provide 5.1 quality sound. Gamers will be excited by the displays .01ms response time...making for smooth scrolling imagery. Video input into the device is standard HDMI so pretty much any modern video output device can be hooked up to the HMZ-T1 for your private viewing pleasure.