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Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Gone In the Blink of an Eye Edition [Remainders]
Mar 2nd
In today’s Remainders: disappearing acts. TigerText, a new iPhone app, makes your illicit text messages vanish; an official HTC video shows you how to disassemble an HD2; Intel’s new Convertible Classroom netbook makes its keyboard go “Poof!” and more.
Grrrr
Incriminating text messages, as a thing, aren’t going away any time soon. That is, unless they do go away, which is the whole point of Read more ...
Belkin Rolls Out SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Goodness With PCIe Card and ExpressCard [Guts]
Feb 23rd
Hey, you know about
USB 3.0 by now, right? It’s here! It’s fast! And while Belkin’s SuperSpeed
USB 3.0 PCIe Card and ExpressCard may not be superspeedier than any other USB 3.0 product, they are early to the market.
Belkin’s SuperSpeed USB 3.0 PCIe add-in card gives your computer two USB 3.0 ports, which means Read more ...
New CCFL Lamps Could Outshine LED TVs [TVs]
Feb 19th
Cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) backlights are fast disappearing due to the more efficient and brighter LED swaggering onto the TV scene, but the Japanese company Sanken Electric claims its new CCFL technology is 60 per cent cheaper to produce.
Too little, too late for the unfashionable technology? Sanken reckons TVs perform just as well using two of its lamps as opposed to the six normally required. As Read more ...
Splayed, Splendid [Image Cache]
Feb 18th
Photographer
Adam Vorhees has a new hobby he’d like to share with everybody! It involves dismantling everyday objects and spreading them apart into lovely dioramas. Everyday objects like miniature Etch a Sketches, semiautomatic handguns, rotary telephones, and plasticized dead Read more ...
Color-Compensation Chip Will Make Cellphone Displays Viewable Outdoors [Guts]
Feb 17th
LCD displays aren’t exactly made for the outdoors. You have to squint, tilt the screen, and adjust the brightness to decipher anything in bright sunlight. But with NEC’s new color-compensation chip that will hopefully be an issue of the past.
Apparently the chip identifies colors which are “problematic” in outdoor light conditions (such as beige or yellow) and adjusts the contrast accordingly to make them easier to view. There’s no word on when the technology will be integrated into our cellphones, but I hope that it’s soon because between Florida and California, I keep finding myself in bright sunny places. [ Read more ...
