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ColorEdge CG301W: Eizo’s 30-inch widescreen visual magic

Sunday, August 10th, 2008 by admin

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With every enactment day technology is blurring the lines between the accomplishable and the probable. Visual clarity and splendor are no longer confined to the big rating or the television sets. In the digital age, beautiful images are as that much a half of your system’s score as anywhere else. Taking currently penchant submit is the ColorEdge CG301W launched by Eizo Nanao Technologies at PMA 2008 in Las Vegas. The new age monitor employs a gamut LCD panel which is 100% vs. NTSC and reproduces 97% of the Adobe RGB color space. The monitor is intended to submit amid both ass clarity and perfection in tones in most any likely way. This monitor’s astonishing amalgamation of the present technology obtainable these as 12-bit hardware calibration allows greater clarity. Eizo has calibrated every unit, by measuring most every tone of 0 - 255 to create a gamma curve of 2.2, which guarantees both astounding visuals and moreover the properly color tones.

In situation of the ColorEdge it is the hardware calibration that leads guaranteed so the monitor itself is calibrated in its place as opposed to the computer’s graphics board, as is the state of affairs amongst application calibration. This ensures non-loss of color tones in the calibration process. This additionally causes so one becomes a remarkably factual representation of the previous image and a good sympathy to detail. The calibration utility comes among the CG301W and supplies for setting the worth for brightness, grey point, and gamma. The application in addition emphasizes a good amount calibration devices the as Eye-One, DTP94, DTP94B, and MonacoOPTIX, all for X-Rite.

One of the right portions so instigate the monitor so different is the truth so one can tweak the color environment of the monitor to mimic a color space or color facets of an extra monitor. This leads the approach of interfacing and exchanging info a lot more effortless and problem free, remarkably when it comes to studying data. The native resolution is 2560×1600 (16:10 aspect ratio). A picture-by-picture function divides the display to two equal halves, presenting two 1200×1600 monitors amid no heart bezel. This provides the user to afford and view insert based on what i read in two many computers this type of as a Windows and a Macintosh and go on two tasks simultaneously without suffering to painfully toggle coming back and forth.

The monitor too comes equipped amongst Eizo’s ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit). The ASIC has a 12-bit look-up table provided a whole color palette of 68.1 billion tints based on that the a large amount of appropriate 16.7 million are selected. This once more signals so one becomes the perfect image impending and moreover ensures this the image resolution and color is not concentrated at the middle of the rating and is uniform for the duration of out. This ensures the current the image is as basic at the edges of the score as it is at the center. All in all, the ColorEdge CG301W is a the best buy, essentially for folks who operated a above the usual state of affairs nearly finely enlarged images. I imagine it is a above the usual gift for a forensic investigator; unconventionally talking who is.
[Source:gizmowatch]

Scooter-geek’s dream ride: Yamaha Vino scooter, fully farkled

Friday, May 9th, 2008 by admin

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Though it’s usually the adventure touring crowd that excels at turning their motorcycles into rolling technology test-beds, we’ve recently run across a Yamaha Vino scooter that has been fully farkled. Featuring an on-board computer based around a VIA mini ITX form factor motherboard that’s cleverly been hidden under the stock Vino’s seat, this rolling geek-mobile packs in WiFi, Bluetooth, USB, GPS, FM radio, a TV tuner and a front-mounted camera in its diminutive frame. With the full-spec computer, pretty much anything should be possible right from the road using this scooter. While this is certainly a cool project, we have a few questions regarding its durability. How long will the acrylic plate that makes the structure for the computer hold up? Perhaps most importantly, how long will the scooter’s battery be able to power all this technology? In the name of science, of course, we graciously offer our services for a road trip on the machine to find the answer to these all-important questions. Thanks for the tip, jared!
[Source: Thought Lab]

Dodge Challenger SRT8 sports G-meter, built-in 0-60 timer

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 by admin

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We wade through an unhealthy amount of press releases each day, so even when something big hits – like the release of the Challenger SRT8 – we sometimes miss the occasional detail. Such is the case with Dodge’s new pony car, which apparently comes equipped with an “SRT-exclusive Reconfigurable Display” (RCD). What does that mean? Well, you can customize the readout at the bottom of the SRT8’s 180 mph speedo to display 0-60 acceleration times, 60-0 braking times, 1/4-mile times and g-forces to see if your numbers and Dodge’s agree. According to the video after the jump, you can also log your best runs and see how you faired at a later (read: safer) time.

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Hyundai, Kia to get version of Microsoft’s in-car connectivity

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 by admin

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While Ford has enjoyed a year of exclusivity with its SYNC-branded version of Microsoft’s in-car connectivity technology, the Redmond-based company has been itching to expand the availability of its in-car gadget integration system to other marques. According to the AP, the first post-Ford carmakers to use the platform in the U.S. will be sister companies Hyundai and Kia.

According to the report, the Korean automakers will have the right to offer the technology on its cars in November, but probably won’t do so. The AP report quotes Velle Kolde, senior product manager for Microsoft Auto, saying the two companies are busy developing their own custom applications and don’t plan to be ready until after that date.

There is no word yet on what the new system will be named, its cost or what vehicles it will be offered on. Currently the only automaker offering Microsoft’s system in the U.S. is Ford. Fiat has rights to sell it internationally and calls its version Blue&Me.

UPDATE: Ford reminded us that only its version of Microsoft Auto’s technology is called SYNC, so other brands will have to come up with and market their own names for it.

[Source: Associated Press]