Audio,Visual Category - Page 107

The first time I read this, I was convinced it was some kind of hoax, but if it is, it may well be one of the most elaborate ones ever released onto mankind. Researchers at the University of Utah are reporting that lasers may make deaf people able to hear.

We talked about it a bit back at the CeBIT show, but now we’ve got the first samples coming off the lines, and one thing’s for sure, these things look impressive. They’re Samsung’s see-through LCD panels, and they’re going to be extremely nice to your electric bill.

You may remember, back in December, when our own J. Angelo Racoma came out with a report detailing possible Apple plans to get a glasses-free 3D display going with the iPhone. But a new twist has emerged, and this dovetails nicely into the other: seems Apple’s also contemplating 3D input [...]

In this day and age, it’s odd when something isn’t out for Blu-Ray but Star Wars has yet to be ported to the high-def media format (although I believe that HD versions of the movies are out there on HDNet and other HD TV channels). George Lucas announced that Star [...]

Do you remember that awesome iPad app from Time Warner Cable that came out a few weeks ago? It allowed Time Warner Cable customers to watch whatever channels they get on their TV to be streamed to their iPad. Cool, right? Unfortunately, the free ride is over as News Corp [...]

Seems that Sony’s been busy lately, and the results of all their industry has yielded a set of new audio devices for the portable market, specifically, the RF865 headphones and the NC-13 earbuds. But wait until you hear what these bring to the table.

Something of a donnybrook getting ready over in London, as three of our favorite things–cars, green tech, and high-def television–get ready to launch a smackdown of epic proportions. The folks out at Tesla have filed a libel suit against the BBC, producers of the legendary car show Top Gear.

Now here’s a question the folks at NCR, one of Netflix‘s current leading competitors (since they took over the Blockbuster Express kiosks), are dying to know the answer to: Are you prepared to pay double, or even triple, the price to get the DVD you want on its release date? [...]

File this one under the heading: good ideas with terrible execution. We’ve seen a lot of those over the years, haven’t we? And I never want to damp down the enthusiasm for innovation, but sometimes, you’ve just got to see the handwriting on the wall. And that’s kind of what [...]

While it was never all that hard to buy a Roku set top box, in the past a purchase meant doing your shopping online and waiting for a delivery. Or for those (like myself) with slightly less patience — paying for overnight delivery in order to get it quickly.