LG’s E90 monitor slims down to 7.3mm thickness by stuffing everything into its excessively glossy base
December 13, 2010 No Comment
LG’s just announced a new desktop visualizer for us all and it looks a promising proposition with its stupendously thin 7.3mm profile and minimal bezels surrounding the screen. But wait, it can’t be all good news and it’s not, as LG’s also decided to apply an ultra-glossy finish to the E90, which should easily neutralize any understated appeal it might otherwise have had. As usual with these ultraslim displays, most of the electronics are encased in the E90′s base, though the specs themselves don’t seem to be showing any sacrifices. You’re looking at an LED-backlit panel with a 2-millisecond response time, a 1920 x 1080 resolution (on the 21.5-inch E2290V), 250 nits of brightness, analog, digital and HDMI inputs, a 10,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, and a €329 ($435) MSRP. It should be available at some point later this month, see video of its appearance at IFA this year after the break. Continue reading LG’s E90 monitor slims down to 7.3mm thickness by stuffing everything into its excessively glossy base LG’s E90 monitor slims down to 7.3mm thickness by stuffing everything into its excessively glossy base originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Our British mates aboard the VOD ship may look a little cheerier today as The Guardian reports both ITV and Channel 4 — two of the nation’s foremost commercial channels — are bringing their video catchup services to the PlayStation 3 . The ITV Player and 4OD have been available as web-based services for a while, but they’ve both now agreed deals with Sony, who projects their overall traffic will improve by around 10 percent as a result. ITV’s leaving the door wide open for adding its content to “other consoles,” web-connected TVs, and tablets like the iPad, whereas Channel 4 has found Microsoft unforthcoming about Xbox 360 deals and the Wii inhospitable because it doesn’t support advertising. For its part, Sony’s clearly making a big content push, having recently welcomed Lovefilm into the fold and completed the rollout of its Qriocity on-demand facility across Europe . Does anyone even play games on these things anymore? PS3 to start streaming ITV and Channel 4 content in the UK this week originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Dec 2010 03:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Google’s Teach Parents Tech site to help mom and dad find the ‘any’ key this Christmas?
December 13, 2010 No Comment
It happens every December. You head home for the holidays only to be accosted by parents who need help fixing their computers. This year, it looks like Google will be lending a hand with its unannounced Teach Parents Tech series of public service videos. The Google-registered website teachparentstech.com still shows a “coming soon…” graphic and the videos are still unlisted on YouTube, but that shouldn’t stop you from sending the source link below to your parents right now. At the moment, we’re counting 54 cross-platform how-to videos covering topics as simple as as “how to copy and paste” and “how to attach a file to an email” to more advanced topics like “how to setup an email autoresponder” and “how to find cheap flights.” Unfortunately, even Google can’t explain to parents how to create a FAT32 hard drive partition. See what we mean after the break. [Thanks, Nathan G. ] Continue reading Google’s Teach Parents Tech site to help mom and dad find the ‘any’ key this Christmas? Google’s Teach Parents Tech site to help mom and dad find the ‘any’ key this Christmas? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Dec 2010 02:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Largest storm in 20 years pours two meters of snow on mountain’s peaks, Sea of Galilee up 5 cm
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Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said on Sunday that she hoped for a “military airlift” to bring supplies to Haiti, during a brief humanitarian visit to the impoverished nation. (Dec. 12)
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Apple’s iPod nano and the Sony Ericsson LiveView may have disappointed as wrist computers, but our Dick Tracy dream soldiers on, to the point where we found ourselves taking another look at that most dubious of converged devices: the watch phone . There, we discovered the Rebel, the latest creation from UK manufacturer Swap , a quad-band GSM wrist unit with a 1.46-inch color touchscreen and a built-in camera for both video and stills. It may look like a sterile medical wristband, but that silicone strap actually hides a USB port on one end, the better to let you transfer your MP3s and MP4 video to its paltry 2GB of expandable microSD storage. The watch also does FM radio, beams audio to your Bluetooth headset and comes with the typical smattering of basic apps. Still, there’s not a lot for the asking price of
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. The same year the Magna Carta was signed and just when news arrived that tens of thousands of children crusaders who set out for the Holy Land were captured and sold into slavery, St. Dominic was in Rome to seek authorization for his new order which was to be lived through simplicity and love. The Pope gave him a tour of the Vatican’s magnificent palaces and most coveted treasures. Remarking how Peter and John, in the Acts of the Apostles, saw a lame beggar asking for alms and said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have I give you; in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, stand up and walk;” the Pope boasted: “Peter can no longer say, ‘Silver and…
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US forces capture Iraq’s ousted dictator Saddam Hussein; Authorities in communist Poland impose martial law; Union forces suffer defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia; Actor Dick Van Dyke is born. (Dec. 13)
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Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, chairman of Rabbinical Council for Netherlands, says ‘it is a good idea for Dutch Jews to move to Israel, but only if it is out of free will and not to be forced out’
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Israeli human rights group says police take Palestinian minors from east Jerusalem who are suspected of stone-throwing from their beds in the middle of the night; use unnecessary violence against them. ‘Hooded men put me in a car; I was so scared I wet my pants,’ one of them recalls
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