Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
After being hampered by habitual delays both
legal and
technical, it looks like the
long-awaited über-tech of the display world may finally be on the cusp of reaching market, as Canon is reportedly developing a way to build surface-conduction electron-emitter display (
SED) TVs without using contentious IP. Specifically, Japanese newspaper Asahi is reporting -- without citing sources -- that Canon is working on a "non-carbon" method of producing the sets that bypasses the
Nano-Proprietary patents at the heart of that lawsuit. Still no hint on when we'll actually be able to install one of these models in our home theater, but the
promise of unrivaled black levels, brightness, and contrast could well have us drinking the SED Kool-Aid for years to come.
[Via
Bloomberg, thanks Dr. MORO]
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Written by Evan Blass · Filed Under Gizmos
Filed under: Portable Audio, Transportation
Alpine's cutting straight to the chase with its new iDA-X200 and iDA-X300 headunits. Forgoing a CD mechanism entirely, the two systems are designed primarily for use with an iPod, though they do pack a few extra goodies. The X200 works with Alpine's Sound Imprint system for some fancy DSP, while the X300 has USB input for pulling media off of non-iPod sources. No word on price or availability.
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Written by Paul Miller · Filed Under Gizmos
Filed under: Cellphones
There's certainly no shortage of solutions out there for those looking to
control their home from their cellphone, but it looks like the select few with a HAI home automation system will soon have an app specially tailored to them. Set to be officially unveiled at CES, HAI's Snap-Link Mobile app will work with any Windows Mobile-based smartphone or PDA, and promises to give you control over lighting, security cameras, heating, alarms, and music in each room of your house, among other things. No word on what it'll cost, but HAI says it'll be sold without any subscription fees and should be available by the end of the first quarter of 2008.
[Via
CE Pro]
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Written by Donald Melanson · Filed Under Gizmos
Filed under: Cellphones
We're not planning on seeing any sort of confirmation from Sprint on this, but word on the street has it that the carrier has actually halted shipments of the
LG Rumor to its retail outlets. Apparently, the handset has a "known issue where certain sets of key presses during startup can trigger a complete erasure of the phone's firmware." Purportedly, the device cannot be restored once triggered save for at the factory, but LG is hard at work creating an updated firmware that "removes the code from being accessible." Once that's completed and approved, existing users can expect an over-the-air download to be made available, and users to-be can expect the mobiles to start showing back up with the update already loaded on.
[Via
PhoneScoop]
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Written by Darren Murph · Filed Under Gizmos
