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Curious Displays Populates Your Home With Hundreds of Tiny, Autonomous Displays [Concept]
Feb 23rd
I love weirdo concept designs as much as the next guy, but these “ Curious Displays” seem a bit too far out of left field for me. Essentially, they’re hundreds of mini display blocks that can form wherever they want.
So if you needed a reminder of where the remote was, a bunch could go form an Read more ...
Worker Dies From N-hexane Poisoning At Touchscreen Factory (That Also Makes Apple’s Screens) [Poisoning]
Feb 22nd
Wintek, who supplies touchscreen components to Apple for the iPhone and iPod touch, just got “exposed” for “hazardous work conditions.” One of the most severe conditions?
N-hexane poisoning, which the company illegally used Read more ...
The Nexus One’s Dirty Display Secret [Google]
Feb 22nd
If
Nexus One
reviewers could agree on one thing, it was that the phone has a stunning screen. But for those inky Read more ...
Medal of Honor screens lack renowned facial hair rendering
Feb 19th
We’ve got some good news and some bad news for those of you eagerly awaiting EA’s Medal of Honor reboot this summer. The good news first: Five new, high-resolution images of the game — albeit stills from the debut trailer — are in the gallery below. Now, the bad: We count only one Tier 1 Operator featured in the screens with a beard. We know, we know — it shocked us, too!
We’ll make some calls and demand that the appropriate amount of facial hair rendering be included in the next batch. You can thank us later.
Square Enix admits FFXIII screen fakery
Feb 15th
Square Enix has admitted that some Final Fantasy XIII screenshots it released last week, which purported to show the PS3 and 360 versions of the game but were virtually identical, were “altered”.
In a statement to Kotaku, the company said that the screens were intended for “pre-production”, “non-promotional” use, and their release was a mistake.
It was Kotaku that noticed that the screens were absolutely identical save for the controller button prompts.
Square Enix said it would release new screens soon, but argued that the two console versions were as close as could be anyway. “Unfortunately we did mistakenly include screenshots taken for pre-production (non-promotional use only) in our latest release of Read more ...
