3-d

Amazing DSI Brain Scanning Visualizes Your Mind's Inner Workings In 3D

What's that monkey thinking about when he's mushing down that banana or tossing feces at you? Well, you're looking at it—this is a map of where a macaque's thoughts live. It's made possible by new 3D visualization algorithms developed by neuroscientists at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston which render a brain's billions of individual neuron connections in full-color 3D, with each visible strand representing several tens of thousands of the too-small-to-image neural pathways. It's all done by simply applying new processing to existing MRI scan data, and thankfully, it works on human brains too.
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3:00 PM on Thu Aug 7 2008
By John Mahoney
2,618 views, 24 comments

Latest by n/a: This is really amazing technology. It will open up an entire new level of understanding how the brain works, which will allow scientist to hopefully better understand how drugs work in relation to our brain as well as help them more »

photoshop disasters

Photochopped R2-D2 USB Beverage Cooler Can Be Yours, Actual Product or Not

Add this one to the "ouch, ouch, ouch" Photoshop bin. Yeah, I can use the pen tool to smoothly decapitate R2 and throw a Coke can top and USB cord in too. What I can't do, though, is build an actual USB beverage can cooler out of a shrunken R2-D2 model. Which I would want. It's up for pre-order at Play.com for $36—whether you get a layered .PSD or an actual cooler, though, remains to be seen. [Product Page via Nerd Approved]

12:45 PM on Wed Aug 6 2008
By John Mahoney
2,307 views, 19 comments

Latest by 89macrunner: my dad has an actual R2D2 cooler...it fits a good 3-4 cases of beer too. its life size more »

3d

Seiko Epson Designs Simple 3D Display for Cellphones

Seiko Epson has designed a new glasses-free display that really has the potential to bring 3D-displays to cellphones and PMPs sooner rather than later. It's a bit similar to the old kid's classic lenticular images (you know: they come with a lined plastic face, and when you twist them you see a changing picture,) and in this case a complex array of convex lenses is combined with a high-res 3-inch LCD display. An object is photographed with up to eight cameras, a compound image is created, and when displayed each lens sends a slightly different view to your eyes. Because your eyes see different views of the object, just like in real life your brain reconstructs a 3D image. Sadly, the effect can't be captured in a single image of the screen, but you won't have long to wait: Seiko plans to commercialize the tech in a few years. [FarEastGizmos]

8:15 AM on Wed Aug 6 2008
By Kit Eaton
2,252 views, 5 comments

Latest by n/a: saw this exact product on sale in japan like 5 years ago (in a cell phone)...my guess is it never cought on...3D is just one of those products that everyone has to adopt all at once for it to take more »

dslr

Details Emerge On Nikon's Mysterious D90 DSLR

The popular Nikon D80 is getting a replacement called—wait for it—the D90, and it looks like it's living up to the line's rep. The camera takes the D80's feature set and adds a few more very high-end tools, like live preview on the larger LCD screen,GPS input, HDMI out, video recording with audio, and an upgrade to the CCD sensor from 10-Megapixels to 12. It'll ship in a kit with an 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G zoom lens and should hit the streets at under $1000 if it keeps with the D80's pricing, as is expected. [Nikon Rumors]

5:49 PM on Tue Aug 5 2008
By Matt Hickey
3,996 views, 20 comments

Latest by DMF: Video recording my ASS! Not on a low end model DSLR. Video recording will be introduced on the next gen of SLR's which will cost an arm and a leg... like when they first came out. more »

military

Good News: The Air Force Wants a Holodeck

Finally, we can all agree on something: the Air Force wants a holodeck. I want a holodeck. You want a holodeck. Luckily for us, the Air Force is a good party to have overlapping interests with, technology wise; they have the billions to do it, and according to a recent request for proposals, are now getting serious. Specifically, they want "petabyte command and control databases [that can] be visualized and controlled dynamically in 3-D," and they don't want it to suck. More »

6:50 PM on Mon Aug 4 2008
By John Mahoney
12,716 views, 46 comments

Latest by n/a: I'm just waiting for voice activated doors so when I go, "shh" it opens. Is that really so much to ask? I guess I can stop at my local 7-eleven and pick up a couple of day workers, hook up more »

digital cameras

JD Power Announces the Best Cameras of 2008

JD Power and Associates just released the results of its latest camera survey, culling the responses of over 8,000 digital camera buyers between April of 2007 and March of 2008. They split the categories into DSLRs, Point and Shoots, Premium Point and Shoots, and Ultra Slims. Hit the jump to see the list of winners. More »

5:30 PM on Sat Aug 2 2008
By Adam Frucci
38,792 views, 44 comments

Latest by n/a: I bought a Nikon D60 and an extra Nikor 12-24mm, wide-angle zoom lens, just recently. The cameras built in stop motion feature just plain rules, and I've been having a great deal of fun with it. The image sensor self-cleaning more »

review

Lightning Review: D-Link DSM-210 Wireless Internet Photo Frame

The Gadget: D-Link's entrance into the 10-inch photo frame market, which contains Wi-Fi to download and display pics from your Flickr, MobileMe, MSN, PIcasa, webshots, Facebook, and various other photo sharing accounts, or your local network. There's also RSS news display, 1GB on-board memory and a USB port for external photos. More »

3:00 PM on Fri Aug 1 2008
By Jason Chen
5,808 views, 23 comments

Latest by skulldriveshaft: I see a wire more »

projectors

Meridian 10MP Projector Displays on 25-Foot Screen With No Pixelation

Meridian's 810 projector boldly claims to be the Reference Video System, and after seeing it for myself I think that's a fair assessment. The $185,000 box (that's right!) uses specially calibrated JVC D-ILA light engine panels to deliver a resolution of 4096 x 2400 pixels, or put simply, 10-freaking-megapixels. Compare that to 1080i's one paltry MP of resolution, or 1080p full HD's skimpy 2MP. So how does the 810 do its magic? With a very unique scaling engine. More »

6:00 AM on Wed Jul 30 2008
By Benny Goldman
4,977 views, 17 comments

Latest by n/a: @steven5737 Stephen Spielberg used 2.35:1 as well. Jaws, Indiana Jones, Munich and Minority Report are films you might be familiar with in the 2.35:1 aspect. Anamorphic 2.35:1 is so popular now that about 98% of home theaters I design are in more »

star wars 3d

Confirmed: All 6 Star Wars Movies to be Released in 3D

Rumors have been floating around about it for quite some time, but it appears that all systems are go for the entire Star Wars franchise to be re-released in the 3D format. DreamWorks Animations CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg confirmed the details in a recent interview with Comingsoon.net saying "Lucas is excited about it" and "He isn't going to put a product out, I think, that isn't anything other than first rate." More »

5:16 PM on Thu Jul 24 2008
By Sean Fallon
11,153 views, 93 comments

Come Sail Away

NASA's First Solar-Sail Powered Craft Set to Ride on a Stream of Photons Next Week

NASA's getting set to launch the NanoSail-D next week, its first solar-sail powered spacecraft which catches photons like wind on a 10 square-meter sail made of a thin metallic polymer. The craft uses a crazy Rube Goldberg-like method to deploy the sail that involves burning fishing line at critical moments to release the spring-loaded sail, which is getting shown off in the video here. More »

4:00 PM on Thu Jul 24 2008
By John Mahoney
5,870 views, 28 comments

Latest by TimeTourist: @Rabid Penguin: NASA isn't using this tech yet, it was a private group founded by Carl Sagan that tried to launch 'Cosmos One' a couple years ago. Unfortunately, the mission failed, but I am excited that NASA is exploring this technology more »

video games

M.A.D. Gamepad Features Tiny, Detachable Steering Wheel

The M.A.D. Gamepad is a mini USB gamepad that features an even minier steering wheel. We're not sure it's the most practical, ergonomic gamepad we've ever seen, but we sure admire the effort and, we'll be honest, the ludicrousness. Here's what just the wheel looks like: More »

3:20 PM on Thu Jul 24 2008
By Mark Wilson
1,993 views, 10 comments

Latest by Upsilon: If you increased the size, this would be the perfect controller to fit in the hands of the Cloverfield monster. ~Y more »

diy

Amazing Wii-Like 3-D Controller Interface Built With Foil, Wiring, Resistors and Arduino

What you're looking at here is an actual Wii-like 3-D controller interface that can track objects like your hand in real time. It may look a little shoddy, but what's amazing is that this very functional 3-D interface was built by a hobbyist with parts most DIYers can find in their couch cushions—six resistors, aluminum foil, wire, a cardboard box, and an Arduino microprocessor to crunch the numbers. That's it. It couldn't be more simple. But how'd he pull it off? More »

5:17 PM on Wed Jul 23 2008
By John Mahoney
4,029 views, 20 comments

Latest by John Mahoney: @kylemcdonald: Thanks for jumping in and answering questions/smiting skeptics. Excellent work with this rig, friend. more »

Review

Lightning Review: Sony MDR-NC500D Digital Noise Canceling Headphones

The Gadget: Sony's MDR-NC500D, the "world's first headphones with digital technology for noise canceling." These over the ear noise canceling headphones have three different environmental modes, a monitor mode, internal reachable battery and a case full of accessories and adapters. More »

12:00 PM on Wed Jul 23 2008
By Christopher Mascari
4,126 views, 23 comments

3-d

Film Industry Wants to Set a Standard For 3D Viewing at Home

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, the folks behind such innovations as the color bar test pattern, want to codify a standard for watching 3D content in home theaters. They're casting the net wide to include all possible sources and displays, from over-the-air broadcast to DVDs and Blu-ray. Ars points out that Hollywood is both excited to sell you their movies again, this time in glorious 3D, and worried about potential lost revenues at 3D theater screenings of, say, George Lucas's 3D Star Wars remake. [Ars Technica]

11:45 AM on Tue Jul 22 2008
By John Mahoney
2,261 views, 24 comments

Latest by Fierock: @Fierock: ok I found a large part of my answer after reading a different [gizmodo.com] thread. It has to do with Anamorphic lenses. But that doesn't answer why they go to all the trouble. more »

d'oh

Intel CEO: Atom Platform Something "Most of Us Wouldn't Use"

In a quarterly conference call today, Intel CEO Paul Otellini dropped the aforementioned diss of the low-cost, low-power 45nm Atom chipset that can be found in a few current and many future netbooks, redirecting attention to the just-updated Centrino 2 and somehow-still-alive Celeron platforms as more viable for most consumers, and more profitable evidently for Intel. Otellini has also described Atom as "something for the next 2 billion computer users" in developing markets, so I guess this is a us/them, poor/rich tech classes pair of statements. This does nothing to explain the strange excitement most of us have when thinking about $200 laptops like the Asus eee, though. [Daily Tech

3:35 PM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By John Mahoney
2,756 views, 16 comments

Latest by hkmp5n: Atom is awesome. Sure its low power and performance aint that great but stick 5 or 6 of the dual-core versions into a couple of cheap cases with a couple gigs of RAM each and you got a great little more »

Nikon D90 Coming in Early September? Or is it the D3X? Or BOTH??

Nikon has been sending out press invites for an event on September 3rd. What could they possibly want to talk about just a few weeks before Germany's Photokina expo? It could be Nikon's sequel to their D80, the D90. Or, it could be the 24.4-megapixel D3x that was spotted in Nikon firmware. Or, in a slight breach of etiquette, Nikon could skip the D90 and just release the D100, making the entire photography world crap itself. Because that would be a photo op. [Nikon Rumors via electronista]

2:58 PM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By Mark Wilson
8,488 views, 23 comments

Latest by n/a: The advantage of a 35mm sensor is that it's about as big as it can be and still work with legacy lenses. The bigger the sensor, the better the output, more or less. more »

cellphones

Samsung D980 Dual-SIM Touchscreen Phone Hits Intertubes

Samsung has kept developing its LG Prada knock-off F480 full-touchscreen phone and turned it into the D980. This is a dual-SIM version of the phone, hitting China first in a D988 version and then apparently the rest of the world as the D980 DuoS. It's a tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE device, with 2.6-inch QVGA screen and 5-megapixel auto-focus cam with a flash. There's no pricing or timing info yet, but since Blam had some bad things to say about the F480 cellphone back in February, let's hope they've improved the touchscreen too. [Unwiredview]

6:56 AM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By Kit Eaton
4,401 views, 8 comments

Latest by n/a: All this mess was created by Apple. Why won't the just do what Apple did (design something revolutionary)?? Cant they just make up a new outlook?! more »

iphone apps

Sega Says the iPhone Is As Powerful As the Dreamcast

Developers are just getting their heads around the concepts introduced by the iPhone, but so far they like what they see. EA said it's more powerful than the DS, and now Sega—the guys who made Super Monkey Ball for the platform—is saying that it's just as powerful as the Dreamcast. The Dreamcast! Do you remember how good that was? Soul Calibur? House of the Dead? Typing of the Dead? Shenmue? Those were some quality games. Who else wants some of that action in the next few years? [Kotaku] More »

7:39 PM on Wed Jul 16 2008
By Jason Chen
49,142 views, 68 comments

Latest by michaelleung: Dreamcast? No thanks... more »

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