iCinema Puts You In The Movie, Use At Own Risk

February 25, 2008

iCinema is a new way of viewing movies. 360 degrees of picture, interactivity, and action. It can also project into a dome-shaped screen to cover your peripheral vision.
iCinema is a fully immersed virtual environment simulator and interactive control system. iCinema leverages new film techniques to create content, world class software development to support real and […]

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Inferno Speaker Causes Pain, Is Bad for Home Theater

February 13, 2008

The Inferno Speaker is the newest toy of the US Government in non-lethal torture devices defense measures.  This “Sonic Barrier” generates four different frequencies of sound which range between 2 and 5 KHz, and is no louder than 120db (not quite as loud as a “rock concert”).  The effects of this device are, according to […]

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JVC’s Surround Sound Cubes Make Noise

February 4, 2008

JVC has just unleashed the SP-A440 Surround Sound Simulators upon an unsuspecting Japan.  It seems that these boxy little bastards are causing mass confusion among the general population.  There are only two speakers, yet they sound nothing exactly like more expensive, space-consuming surround sound systems.  Each of the two speakers house a pair of 1.3 […]

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Kaossilator Makes Noises, Lets you Touch it

January 31, 2008

The Kaossilator Touchpad Synthesizer is a touch-based music synthesizer now available over at thinkgeek. The Kaossilator allows you to move your finger left-to-right to change the pitch of the note, and up and down to change the sound that is being made. It also doubles as a drum-synthesizer for creation of some psychedelic […]

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Sharp Aquos X-Series is Sharp

January 25, 2008

Only figuratively. But one step closer to being true. With a thickness of only 3.44cm (world’s thinnest to date), we are getting closer to making some very pointy TVs. Apple has already shown us we can get there with laptops. The deadly force of home electronics is growing exponentially with every new innovation. […]

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Sony Shrinks Laser, Rick Moranis: “No Comment”

January 25, 2008

Sony is reporting that they have managed to shrink the BluRay laser down to 3 mm. thick units. This will allow for thinner drive bays (to be installed more easily into laptops), and hopefully cheaper players in the near future. BluRay lasers are becoming easier to manufacture at large-scale, and are now […]

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Samsung Discontinues BD-UP5000, Toshiba Heard Crying

January 24, 2008

With so many people ringing HD-DVD’s Death Bell these days, I can barely hear myself think. It seems like Samsung is the latest in the long line of people to declare the death of HD-DVD, and Blu-Ray the victor in the format battle. It’s kind of a bummer, too, because the BD-UP5000 was […]

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Serenata is Innovative, Expensive

January 18, 2008

Famed Danish audio/visual design company Bang & Olufsen has teamed up with Samsung to create the newest in high-end cell phone technology: The Serenata. The Serenata features 4GB of internal storage, a 240×240 resolution 2.26 in. touch-sensitive LCD screen, a click wheel located above the LCD screen, and stereo speakers hidden behind a fold-out […]

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