BenQ’s monitors may have all come from the same glossy black plastic mold as of late, but the company’s stepped things up a bit for its new 24-inch EW2430 and EW2430V “Vertical Alignment” LED monitors, which pack some high-end specs and some more refined looks to match. Chief among those specs is the VA LED panel used in each monitor, which promises a native 3,000:1 contrast ratio, minimal light leaking, an improved viewing angle, and a true 8-bit color range, among other benefits. You’ll also get a full range of ports (including two HDMI and four USB on each), a pair of 2W speakers, and some added features like “Smart Focus,” “Super Resolution,” and “3D Noise Reduction” on the EW2430V model. Still no word on pricing, but you can look for both monitors to hit Europe and the Asia Pacific region this month, with a worldwide release set to follow sometime thereafter. BenQ debuts high-end EW2430, EW2430V LED monitors originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Not since Hollywood Reporter told us about a possible Asteroids bio-pic have we been excited about a film or TV show: Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Merv Griffin Entertainment has hammered out a deal with Namco Bandai to develop a reality TV show based on Pac-Man. Envisioned by Merv Griffin Entertainment’s president of TV Roy Bank as something “big” and “crazy” like Wipeout or Fear Factor , the company wants “to take what Pac-Man is and bring it to life, to bring what is essentially the world’s biggest game of tag to television.” If this doesn’t sound like the definition of a mid-season replacement, we don’t know what is. Continue reading Pac-Man reality TV show coming, and not a moment too soon Pac-Man reality TV show coming, and not a moment too soon originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …An Indian bank has opened a lockless branch in the small village of Shani Shinganapur, trusting residents’ fear of their deity—Lord Shani—to prevent robberies, the Times of India reports. “We took note of the general belief and faith of the people,” says one bank official. “Ever since the…
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enlarge Charles and David Koch, using their money to make sure the only voices that count in a democracy are theirs. Don’t they look like the brothers from ‘Trading Places’? The Common Cause event will be held in Rancho Mirage , close to where the Koch brothers are holding their 2012 strategy session. Sounds like fun! Progressive and liberal activists are planning at the end of the month to confront the secretive billionaire family that finances the so-called Tea party movement and a host of other right-wing causes and institutions. “Our government is supposed to be of, by and for the people. So are you ready to take it back?” an invitation for the “Uncloaking the Kochs” event asked. The Sunday, Jan. 30 event thrown by Common Cause, a nonpartisan, grassroots organization, aims to educate attendees in California on the Koch brothers who will be strategizing nearby with their mega-wealthy allies to win the 2012 elections. Afterwards, activists will rally in Rancho Mirage. “We can’t sit back while a few billionaires destroy the fragile fabric of democracy and the protections that are so necessary for the health of our society,” Jodie Evans of CodePink told Alternet. “It is time for the progressive community to gather together and say no more, and what better place than where the Koch brothers are plotting their next moves.” Panel discussions will feature Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary; Van Jones, founder of Green for All; Erwin Chemerinsky, UC Irvine Law Dean; Lee Fang, Center for American Progress blogger and Koch Brothers expert; and DeAnn McEwen, co-president of the California Nurses Association. For the last 30 years, the Koch brothers, who inherited their wealth from their father’s oil interests, have funded a large portion of the conservative movement on issues that promote business over the environmental, labor, and public health concerns. Recently, David and Charles Koch through their network of foundations and nonprofits outspent ExxonMobile on astroturf campaigns to misinform the American public about climate change legislation .
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Could it be that Apple and Foxconn engineers have finally found a way to harness and contain the raw, blinding power of the color white? Last we’d heard, the rarest member of the iPhone 4 clan was tracking for a spring ’11 launch — and that’d line up pretty nicely with shots we’ve received from a trusted source today showing new entries in Vodafone Germany’s inventory system for wei
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Nairobi/Juba, Sudan – International election observers on Monday called a landmark referendum on independence for Southern Sudan credible and said a vote in favour of secession looked almost certain. ‘The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) assesses the voting process of the Southern Sudan Referendum as credible and well organized, in a…
Continue reading …As America rails against inflammatory rhetoric in the wake of the Tucson shootings, it’s worth asking: Would Martin Luther King Jr. have been silenced in this political environment? “Even King’s most memorable speech—the ‘I Have a Dream’ address at the March on Washington—was nothing if not a figurative…
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Clicking your way through Ulysses and having a hard time remembering just what it is Bloom ate for breakfast or, indeed, just what he did on the beach? Don’t blame James Joyce, blame your Kindle ! A Princeton study entitled “Fortune favors the bold ( and the Italicized )” (their emphasis) has shown that readers retain information more reliably when they are challenged with so-called “disfluent” fonts (like the top one above). This flies in the face of the belief that easy to read text is easier to remember and should give typographical titans something else to ponder when placing text upon a page character by character. Now, what does this have to do with e-readers? Most are stuck with standard fonts that cannot be changed and fall squarely in the “fluent” category — they’re so easy to read your brain spins down. The solution is, of course, to add more and broader font support to the devices, something we’d love to see regardless of scientific merit. Until that comes to pass try holding your Kindle at odd angles or squinting. Maybe that’ll help. Or, you could just put down the Proust and pick up some Clancy. Princeton study shows that easy fonts make things harder to remember originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Want to snatch up some Facebook shares? Tough luck, if you’re an American. Goldman Sachs is limiting the private offering of up to $1.5 billion in shares to non-US clients only. In a statement to the Wall Street Journal , Goldman says the “intense media attention” surrounding the deal “might…
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No other company is as dependent on one man as Apple is on Steve Jobs. That’s the perception anyway, so when the Apple CEO announced another medical leave, the murmurs about the fate of the world’s second-most valuable company began immediately. The reality is that there are very capable people running the show, and in the coming year they’re expected to announce a new iPad, a new iPhone and plenty of other ways to redistribute your wealth in their direction.
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