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ideum MT65 Presenter: Giant 65-Inch Multitouch Display Takes Aim at Surface
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I’ve mentioned some of the multitouch displays from ideum in the past, but this one is one of the biggest off-the-shelf touchscreen interfaces I’ve seen to date. The just announced MT65 Presenter has a whopping 65-inch screen. This makes it about 2.5 times the size of the Microsoft Surface 2.0.… |
January 17th, 2012
55-inch Sony Crystal LED Display Has 6 Million LEDs, Looks Spectacular
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I’m still rocking a several year-old plasma TV and thinking it might be time to step into a the normal LCD/LED backlit era. Now, Sony has already gone beyond that. The company has unveiled the next generation in LED TVs at CES and it is called the Crystal LED Display.… |
January 10th, 2012
Roku Streaming Stick: Smarten Up Your TV
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It looks like Roku has been reduced to a USB stick. The new Roku Streaming Stick is about to make your dumb TV a whole lot smarter, without much of a fuss. The stick now looks like a simply USB flash drive, and I have to say that I like… |
January 5th, 2012
Epson Moverio BT-100 3D Head-Mounted Display: Are You Looking at My Headgear, Stan?
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A short while back, Sony released their take on the wearable 3D display, with their futuristic HMZ-T1 3D Goggles. Now, Epson has jumped onto the 3D head-mounted display bandwagon with their decidedly more subtle Moverio BT-100 goggles [JP].… |
December 25th, 2011
Vivitek H1086-3D Projector Does 3D and 1080p on the Cheap
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Not too long ago, I purchased a projector for my media room and I really wanted a 3D one. At the time, there were very few on the market and most of them only did 720p and 3D. I wanted 1080p since the difference between the two resolutions is obvious… |
September 9th, 2011
Sony’s HMZ-T1 3D Goggles: The Matrix Isn’t Far Behind
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Sony just announced their first head-mounted display using OLED panels. The HMZ-T1 also offer full support for 3D movies and gaming. At just 0.7″, the OLED screens are tiny,but at 1280×720 each, they have plenty of resolution for their size. Sony says that they provide a virtual screen size of… |
September 4th, 2011
Marvel Digital Smart TV Enabler Makes Dumb TVs Slightly More Intelligent
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While the idea of a set-top box is nothing new, this box will allow you to stream digital content and to smarten your ‘dumb’ HDTV thanks to Android. It’s something useful if your TV isn’t ‘smart’ yet, and doesn’t yet allow you to access your home network to stream files.… |
August 18th, 2011
LG Cinema 3D TV: For Once, Being Passive is Good
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The folks at LG were kind enough to loan me one of their Cinema 3D HDTVs for the last couple of weeks, and I wanted to share with you my experiences with the set, and the 3D technology it uses. The set I test-drove was the LG Infinia 47LW5600, a… |
July 9th, 2011
Samsung D9500 75-Inch 3D HDTV Announced: Can a TV Be Too Big?
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The trend in HDTVs is that they are getting bigger and bigger. That makes me wonder how big is too big? Honestly, until I have a TV that’s the size of my wall, there’s still room to grow. However, therein lies the problem. How can such big HDTVs be maneuvered… |
May 9th, 2011
Sharp Creates Awesome Video Room for Theme Park
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The first time I ever saw a 3D movie was at a theme park. Each time we go to the beach we end up having to take the kids over to the IMAX theater that is nearby too so we can see something on the giant screen. The larger the… |
April 27th, 2011
