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Gizmodo:Look and yearn folks. This here is Sony’s new OLED display. It’s an obscene 9mm thick yet it packs a 1080p resolution along with a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. Just as a recap, OLED displays are thinner and brighter than their LCD counterparts and they suck up less power. Sony was showing this beaut off at […]

Crave: The honeymoon is over for the iPhone.
It’s not that we’re sick of it already (well, maybe a bit), it’s just time for it to answer some questions. Otherwise, it may join the Sony PS3 in the realm of “tech that looks absolutely amazing but is far too expensive for most people to even consider […]

Time Magazine: The iPhone developed the way a lot of cool things do: with a false start. A few years ago Jobs noticed how many development dollars were being spent—particularly in the greater Seattle metropolitan area—on what are called tablet PCs: flat, portable computers that work with a touchscreen instead of a mouse and keyboard. […]

Crave: This sounds almost too good to be true: a wireless technology thatcan be used to charge all devices simultaneously, regardless of type orbrand. Yet that’s what a company called WildCharge claims to do withits new product.
All you need to do is lay your cell phone, PDA or other device on or near its “WildCharger,”a […]

Engadget: Looks like AMD has a sweet new rig they’re readying for January launch, and word on the street is Bill Gates wants to launch it personally. It’s the IQ770 “Crossfire,” the first mass market touchscreen desktop PC we’ve seen, surely good for taking advantage of Vista’s integrated tablet functionality. The Vista Premium system, set […]

InformationWeek:A music player that sends signals through the human body, without wires, Bluetooth, or other conventional transmission technologies,could be on the horizon.
Sony has found a way to transmit radio signals through a wearer’s body to earphones that convert the […]

FierceGameBiz: A new teardown analysis of the PlayStation 3 gives major
kudos to Sony’s creation, saying the console delivers “supercomputer
performance at PC price.” In their eyes the Cell processor, Blu-ray
capability and other components make the PlayStation 3 “an engineering
masterpiece that sets a new high mark for computing price/performance.”
It’s not coming cheap, as we all know.
iSuppli predicts […]

AT&T has just announced a home monitoring service
so that you can spy on your kids / housemates / spouse / pets while
you’re out and about in the wider world. For a one-time fee of $200,
AT&T will sell you an “equipment package” that contains a
tilt-and-pan video camera, a motion sensor for a door / window, a
“central […]

Over the past couple of years, a variety of flat-screen technologies such as plasma have been replacing the bulky home-theater screens that have dominated the market for large televisions. Now, the newest entrant into the field is called laser TV, a flat-panel display based on projection-television technology that uses high-powered lasers to light up the […]

Tech Digest: The digital music revolution seems to have affected all age-groups – with your nan being as likely to listen to her iPod while she’s gardening as your annoying nephew is to be rocking his Walkman ‘phone at the back of the ‘bus. A problem that perhaps affects the older MP3 enthusiast a little […]