Just a brief note to let you all know that my wife has ordered an Amazon Kindle for her Christmas present this year which will mean another round of the unboxing, preview and review videos. Not being such a huge reader of books (or ebooks) myself, my wife may actually end up doing the guest …
Category: Display
Nov 15 2010
New Gadget – Panasonic VIErA Full-HD 3D Neo Plasma TV
A few months back, I came across an article on Gizmodo Australia spruiking the opportunity to get involved in the Panasonic Insider Crew and the chance to win a Panasonic 3D TV. The Panasonic Insider Crew is run by Soup which conducts market research on new products across a number of projects. People can sign …
Nov 01 2010
Track Your Activity With the Fitbit
If you had a look at the title of this blog entry you might be wondering what exactly is a “Fitbit”. I actually came across this little gadget that I hope will help keep me honest and on track with some weight loss. The fitbit looks a bit like one of them Bluetooth earpieces that …
Aug 07 2010
3D Newspaper – Genius or Gimmick
A couple of days ago the miss us and I arrived in Bangkok and I was surprised yesterday to see that the Bangkok Post had printed most of its photos and a good deal of its advertisements in 3D. Given that it was a printed newspaper, it had to use the traditional blue and red …
Jul 08 2010
Borders Selling Kobo In-Store – Bold or Desperate?
Last weekend, the missus brought it to my attention that Borders had started to sell their own eBook reader in-store. This comes at a time when Amazon have had the market to themselves for ages with their Kindle before the Apple iPad made its recent entrance and the launch of the iBooks application on the …
Jun 16 2010
Make the Resolution to Capture in High Definition
During the course of the last decade, consumers have had megapixels, “high definition” and refresh rates thrown at them. I would suggest that the average person would not know about these concepts in any great detail apart from generic marketing that larger numbers are better in terms of picture resolution. These days, there are fairly …
May 29 2010
Apple iPad Wi-Fi + 3G Preview
Following on from yesterday’s unboxing, I have done a quick video preview of the Apple iPad Wi-Fi + 3G. I happened to pick up a 16GB model and I have gone over some of the major features of the iPad in a two part video (you also have the option of viewing in high definition …
Apr 17 2010
LCD Screens – Check the Dead Pixel Policy
Liquid Crystal Display (or LCD) technology has been with us for quite a while and most of us would have a device that would incorporate an LCD component (be it laptops, televisions, mobile phones or touchscreen devices amongst other things). As with any technology, defects can come about as a result of imperfections in the …
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