D60

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
8,089 views, 85 comments

Latest by n/a: ahahahaha "He isn't going to put a product out, I think, that isn't anything other than first rate." -obviously this guy never saw episode one then. more »

HAS_PROPERTIES

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
5,073 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 »

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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
1,778 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
3,462 views, 19 comments

Latest by n/a: @MarkB: From what I understand, the U-force was primarily a collection of infrared on/off switches that extended vertically, giving an illusion of 3D sensing. One of the main difficulties with infrared sensing, though, is this directionality -- it's not easily 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
3,847 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
2,076 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
2,552 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
5,117 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
3,517 views, 7 comments

Latest by keysereble: no farkin 3Gizzle? no farkin wizzle.... 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
47,790 views, 67 comments

Latest by phor11: 4 words.. Chu Chu Rocket iPhone. more »

japan

Telerobotic Shopper Lets You Hit the Malls Using a Cellphone

Japan, the land of using technology to solve problems we didn't know we had, has come out with a new robot that will let people shop at malls without ever leaving their home. Robot developer tmsuk revealed a telerobotic shopper that can be controlled using NTT DoCoMo's cellphone technology. More »

10:00 AM on Sat Jul 12 2008
By Elaine Chow
2,908 views, 8 comments

canon eos rebel xs

Canon Entry-Level EOS Rebel XS DSLR Priced and Dated

Canon's entry-level EOS Rebel XS (1000D) just got more official stateside, with a price and release date: $699.99 for the kit, with the same f/3.5-5.6 18-55mm image-stabilizing lens as the XSi, and it ships next month. Note that Canon has dropped the "Digital" part of the name, since it's sort of redundant. To see how it stacks up against the XTi and XSi, check out our easy comparison chart here, or hit the press release below. More »

9:22 AM on Tue Jul 8 2008
By matt buchanan
3,712 views, 17 comments

Latest by james-42: @cong123: I think you misread my comments. Though I do print as large as my 6mp D70 will reasonably let me (20x30"), I think the D40 is generally a better camera then the D60 because of the price for exactly more »

d3 d300 firmware

Nikon D3 and D300 Firmware Updates

Hot on the tail of the D700 release, Nikon let loose firmware 2.0 for the D3 DSLR, making the amazing camera even better. The main points of interest are improved autofocus and white balance, but I've blockquoted the laundry list below. The D300 gets a firmware update to 1.03 to fix incorrect battery indicator readouts, which is not nearly as exciting. [Nikon via Rob Galbraith via Gadgetlab, photo by DPReview] More »

12:22 AM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Brian Lam
3,230 views, 8 comments

nikon d700

Differences Between Nikon D3 and D700 (aka Lil' D3)

The lucky and meticulous bastards at DP Review have gotten a hands on preview of the D700, and nicely round up the differences between it and the 20 percent beefier D3 besides the ones we already pointed out: More »

12:45 AM on Tue Jul 1 2008
By matt buchanan
9,346 views, 16 comments

nikon d700

Nikon D700 DSLR Official: D3's Big Sensor In a Smaller Body for $2999

It's real. The mid-range DSLR you've been waiting for: Nikon's D700 DSLR packs the D3's supernaturally low-noise 12.1-megapixel full-frame image sensor into a smaller, lighter body, for only $2999. More »

12:01 AM on Tue Jul 1 2008
By matt buchanan
11,532 views, 44 comments

Latest by lnbolch: @SeattleTed: At the end of a three week intense shoot, from northern California to the Canadian border, identifying locations of shots was a real bitch. A GPS inserts information automatically into the EXIF data part of an image file that more »

digital cameras

Official Nikon D700 Photos Leaked?

Nikon Rumors offers this photo and more as official pics of the D700, with no text explanation. Look real to you? Either way, the rumors are true of a midrange cam with a D3 sensor are worth getting excited over. [Nikon Rumors]

8:12 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Jason Chen
3,126 views, 10 comments

leaks

Nikon D700 Leaked in Magazine

Guess what was spotted in the latest issue of Germany's ProfiFoto magazine? Yes, you guessed it—the absolutely worst-kept secret in the photography world, the Nikon D700. We're still expecting the official announcement on July 1st (as it's been long-rumored). Until then, enjoy this small scan of the magazine from which one can pull absolutely no details other than, like, it has a flash and extended battery mount. [Nikon Rumors]

10:12 AM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Mark Wilson
8,248 views, 11 comments

driving simulator

Mirage 3D DaVinci Driving Simulator Rig Lacks Wheels, Has Passenger Seat

We could only surmise that this "realistic" DaVinci driving simulator from Mirage3D is for teaching this morning. I mean, why else would this thing have a passenger seat? Riding shotgun for a video game? Not when the couch is so comfy, thanks. Then again, this is also the perfect gift for that cousin with a penchant for racing and DUIs, as it lovingly recreates the extreme driving experience with roll bars, uber-realistic, working gauges (controlled by an on-board PC), and Dolby 5.1 surround—all without the danger of having him sloshed on I-90. Oh, and there's a seat belt. That's the DaVinci, alright: safety first, dignity second. More »

10:00 AM on Sat Jun 28 2008
By Jack Loftus
4,601 views, 12 comments

Latest by Y2KGTP: You're beside me on the seat Got your hand between my knees And you control how fast we go by just how hard you wanna squeeze It's hard to steer when you're breathing in my ear But I got both hands on the more »

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