Liquavista pursues full color e-ink displays

Liquavista pursues full color e-ink displays: "


Liquavista is not a name that many of us are familiar with, but the company is coming up with full color, e-ink screens which are supposedly easy on the eyes, with its prototype being more than ready to be demonstrated if you're interested. This is the result of a collaboration with Texas Instruments, and they hope to release an e-reader sometime down the road. Could this be the perfect e-reader display which toes the line between the Kindle and the iPad? Only time will tell. Texas Instruments will be doing their part by providing support for its OMAP platform so that e-readers running on Liquavista displays will be a snap to roll out, with word that developer kits are on their way out as well. Excited yet?




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[Oscars 2010] Datos de la octagésima segunda entrega del Oscar

[Oscars 2010] Datos de la octagésima segunda entrega del Oscar
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Faltan dos semanas para el gran evento del cinematográfico del año ¡la ceremonia de los Oscars! Para hacer la espera un poco más ligera, siempre es bueno dar un vistazo a los datos que se generaron con las nominaciones de la presente entrega, una recapitulación. Son las llamadas trivias que coleccionan los hechos a destacar de los nominados, las tendencias y las nuevas decisiones tomadas por la Academia de Ciencias y Artes Cinematográficas de Hollywood.

Este año notamos datos interesantes en cuanto a los actores nominados — con una tendencia a reconocer a los nuevos talentos y a los que, por alguna razón, han pasado desapercibidos hasta ahora —. También la animación ha tomado una posición privilegiada en torno a los premios, contando con la nominación de “Up” a Mejor Película. A continuación, los datos que se tomaron a consideración:


Las diez títulos compitiendo por ser la Mejor Película: En junio del año pasado, la Academia anunció que a partir de este año serían diez las producciones nominadas a la categoría más importante de la ceremonia, Mejor Película. Esta decisión significa retomar la tradición de los inicios de la premiación, siendo que a partir de 1943 se redujo a cinco el número de candidatos a lo mejor del año.

Una animación a Mejor Película: Como lo habíamos mencionado antes, “Up” es la segunda producción completamente animada en colocarse entre los nominados a Mejor Película. La primera fue “Beauty and the Beast” (1991).

Mayor presencia de largometrajes animados: Debido a la cantidad de animaciones que aplicaron para la categoría se tomó la decisión de nominar a cinco producciones. El premio a Mejor Largometraje Animado se crea en 2001, siendo “Shrek” la primera película reconocida con el galardón. Hasta el momento todas las animaciones ganadoras han sido producidas completamente en CGI, con excepción de “Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi” — animación tradicional — y “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” — animación stop motion —.

La presencia de las directoras: Kathryn Bigelow es la cuarta mujer en ser nominada por su trabajo en la dirección, la segunda estadounidense después de Sofia Coppola, en 2003. La primera nominada es la italiana Lina Wertmüller, seguida de la neozelandesa Jane Campion por “The Piano“, en 1993.

La carrera “oscaril” de una actriz: Cada año Meryl Streep tiene la oportunidad de agregar un número más a sus nominaciones. Actualmente su récord registra 16 nominaciones, dejando muy atrás a Katherine Hepburn y al buen Jack Nicholson, ambos con un empate de 12 nominaciones. Nuestra compañera Liliana realizó recientemente una revisión de las nominaciones de Streep.

El año de los nominados por primera ocasión: En esta ocasión son 12 los nominados por primera vez en las categorías actorales —en general—: Colin Firth por “A Single Man”, Jeremy Renner por “The Hurt Locker”, Christopher Plummer por “The Last Station”, Stanley Tucci por “The Lovely Bones”, Christoph Waltz por “Inglourious Basterds”, Sandra Bullock por “The Blind Side”, Carey Mulligan por “An Education”, Gabourey Sidibe y Mo’Nique por “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”, Maggie Gyllenhaal por “Crazy Heart”, Vera Farmiga y Anna Kendrick por “Up in the Air“. En el caso de Matt Damon por “Invictus”, ya fue nominado previamente pero por su trabajo como guionista de “Good Will Hunting“.
Google es autorizado para comprar y vender energía en Estados Unidos: "

s-GOOGLE-ENERGY-largeLa Federal Energy Regulatory Commission de Estados Unidos (FERC) otorgó a Google la autorización para comprar y vender energía al por mayor.


Google comenzó el proceso de postulación en diciembre del año pasado a través de una filial llamada Google Energy.


A pesar de que el documento emitido por la FERC aprueba la compra y venta de energía como un negocio, Niki Fenwick, un vocero de Google, dijo: “hemos tomado esta decisión para que podamos tener más flexibilidad en la adquisición de energía para las operaciones propias de Google, incluyendo a nuestros centros de datos”.


¿Google Maps, Earth, Buzz, Docs, Gmail, Wifi, Android, fibra óptica (etc) y ahora Google Energy? Esta es otra razón más que se suma a las tantas que ya hemos comentado, que nos hace pensar hasta dónde llegará el poder de la gran G.


Link: Google Gets US Approval To Buy and Sell Energy (IT World)







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Find products by scanning barcodes, cover art with Google Shopper for Android: "

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Google has just rolled out a new application for Android called Google Shopper that lets you comparison shop for items by scanning a barcode or cover art of books, music, movies, and other objects with your Android smartphone's camera. You can also use Google's voice search capabilities.



In other words, if you see a book in a store and want to know if you can get it cheaper online, you can grab your phone and point it at the barcode or cover, or while nobody's within earshot, you can speak the title into your phone. Google Shopper will attempt to find the correct book and hook you up with the prices at various web retailers... presumably emphasizing those that use Google Checkout for payment.



The search results pages don't just have prices though. You also get reviews, item specifications, and much of the other image available at Google Product Search.



Google isn't the first company to put out a product that offers this kind of quick, scan-based shopping comparison ability. The Amazon application for Google Android also lets you search for products by scanning barcodes or snapping pictures. But that app obviously only searches Amazon.com. And it's also not quite as fast or efficient.



That's because you have to sign into Amazon, snap an actual picture, click a button confirming you want to use that image, and then see what results pop up. If the picture was out of focus or at an awkward angle you have to start over again with the Amazon app. Google Shopper continues scanning the image art or barcode until it's got a lock on the product and then automatically opens a results page. You don't have to click the camera button to actually snap a photo. Google does all the heavy lifting -- which actually makes Google Shopper a little easier to use than Google's other Android image-based search toy, Google Goggles as well.

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Kingston ships 256GB DataTraveler 310 USB flash drive to affluent Yanks

Kingston ships 256GB DataTraveler 310 USB flash drive to affluent Yanks: "

No matter how you slice it, having 256GB on your keychain is pretty rad. For those living in various regions of the world not named America, they've had access to the DataTraveler 300 for just under a year. Thankfully, the Kingston finally realized that Yanks love capaciousness as well, and the DataTraveler 310 is the solution that very sect has been longing for. Hailed as the first 256GB flash drive to ship in the States, the DT 310 is capable of holding up to 54 DVDs or 1,984 JPEGs of your undercover lover, and it'll function just fine with Windows, Linux and OS X-based systems. We're told that it'll sport data transfer rates of 25MB/sec (read) and 12MB/sec (write), but chances are you'll never get the opportunity to put those claims to the test. You know, given that astronomical $1,108 MSRP.

Kingston ships 256GB DataTraveler 310 USB flash drive to affluent Yanks originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Travel the Trans-Siberian Railway From Your Sofa, Using Google Russia's YouTube and Maps Mash-up [Google]: "

Traveling on the Trans Siberian Railway has always appealed to me, but it's difficult finding a spare eight days to ride the 9,259km long journey. Now I can complete the journey using YouTube and Google Maps...in 150 hours.


The website takes the viewer on a journey from the starter point of Moscow to the final station of Vladivostok, using multiple YouTube videos of a camera aimed out a window. You can choose to listen to just the rumble of the wheels, or Russian radio—even a reading of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. In Russian, of course.


The journey is tracked on Google Maps, with key details being pointed out, such as how far you've traveled and how much longer there is to go. If you want to skip ahead to the scenic mountains of Barguzin for example, you're more than welcome to—and don't need to pay for a fare.


It took 30 days for Google to film the 150 hours used in the YouTube videos, with two camera crews shooting out the windows of the train last summer. It's pretty much the epitome of armchair viewing, and I must say that the noise the train coursing down the tracks is a very relaxing sound. Perfect blogging soundtrack, in fact. [Google.ru Moscow-Vladivostok via the Guardian]


Here's the first video, which shows the train leaving Moscow:









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Japan to soon enjoy the X-TUBE USB DTS wonder.: "


Owning a laptop or notebook may not be the most perfect tool in order enjoy DTS movies, so if you ever dream to get for cheap a DTS capable notebook, why not trying the X-Tube AS301DTS, a little Vacuum tube designed USB dongle that will let you enjoy DTS Surround sound on any XP, Vista or Windows 7 notebooks.


Powered by a VIA VT1610 Chipset, our 4000 Yen little dongle, just weight 12g and has a size of 45mm height and a 23mm diameter.


Finally you will also need a pair of AH-516 headphones in order to fully enjoy your DTS experience.




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