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cellphones

NVIDIA Mobile GeForce Processor Chews Up HD Video, Aims to Gnaw On Silverthorne

Mobile devices are clearly the next frontier to conquer for established big boy computer gutsmakers. NVIDIA is recharging into the mobile market with "the world's lowest power, high definition computer on a chip" that tears through 720p video among other graphical jujitsu. More »

9:53 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By matt buchanan
6,626 views, 14 comments

gpu

New NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 Has 2 Processors, 1GB Memory, Eats PS3 for Breakfast

The Skinny: NVIDIA's GeForce 9800, launching in late Feb / early March, will be successor to the 8800 Ultra. With an estimated 30% performance increase over the aforementioned top end GPU, and apparent support for "Quad SLI," it is certainly no slacker. More »

4:54 AM on Fri Jan 4 2008
By Haroon Malik
34,899 views, 52 comments

graphics

PS3 Game Developer Claims to have Crossed Uncanny Valley

We're fascinated with the battle against uncanny valley—that point in graphics or robotics where the human likeness isn't quite reached, which in turn repulses the viewer. And while we've seen graphics card makers and robot designers tackling the problem before, for the first time a video game developer claims to have bridged the gap. Quantic Dream is a maker of highly cinematic games and houses one of the most advanced motion capture studios in the world. Here's what they've gone on record to say: More »

9:57 AM on Tue Dec 18 2007
By Mark Wilson
24,606 views, 65 comments

Latest by Kered: @w00zzy: Does it matter? He's 100% correct. more »

displayport

ATI RV635 XT in the Wild - First DisplayPort-Capable Card

Hot Hardware has snagged one of the first graphics cards launched with full DisplayPort support. Before you write off DisplayPort as just another adapter to buy, consider its support for daisy-chaining: multi-head setups can be rigged up easily with the need for only one port on your box. Watch for the RX635 (along with the first DisplayPort LCDs) to hit first quarter '08. [via Hot Hardware]

11:58 PM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By dango
3,206 views, 8 comments

symbian os

Symbian OS's ScreenPlay and FreeWay Enhances UI and Speeds Downloads

In addition to the touchscreen UI we saw in Symbian last week, two new features—ScreenPlay and FreeWay—are coming to add even more sophistication to the platform. ScreenPlay is their new graphics engine that allows transparency and animations without taking up too much more battery life. FreeWay is less visible, but it's a new IP networking stack/architecture on 3G networks/WiMax to allow faster audio/video streaming and VoIP calling. Check out the touch video above again just for a refresher.

3:33 PM on Tue Oct 23 2007
By Jason Chen
5,641 views, 11 comments

Latest by Kim98: I'm surprised how many people are missing the point here. This is about S60 - not about a particular device. S60 is the UI that Nokia runs on top of Symbian OS and the S60 UI will be on tons more »

clips

Total Immersion D'Fusion, Realtime Dynamic 3D Awesomeness

You know those graphics you see on your evening news? Those are lame. But this semi-new D'Fusion software from Total Immersion takes graphical video layovers to the next level—meaning that 3D graphics can be manipulated in real space...and like we said in the headline, real time. This is some crazy cool stuff.

Despite the language barrier, this video gives a nice demo of the technology with some visual explanation of the mechanics behind the magic.[tvinjapan via therawfeed]

6:30 PM on Sat Oct 6 2007
By Mark Wilson
31,947 views, 40 comments

innovation

Smart Scene Carving Resizes Images Without Distortion


Take a look at this smart image resizing algorithm introduced at the SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group: Graphics) convention. Ariel Shamir of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science in Herzliya, Israel, aims to make images just as dynamically resizable as text is on a web page by using a technique he calls "scene carving." We're also thinking it would make a convenient Photoshop plug-in. We really can't stand looking at stretched images, but this is a smart way to stretch or compress them. Bring it on! [Ariel Shamir, via YouTube]

1:00 PM on Wed Aug 22 2007
By Charlie White
17,552 views, 35 comments

Latest by emoreth: I want it, if only because it would let me FINALLY fit still images to 4:3 or 16:9 without cropping them like nuts. Lemme tell ya, there's nothing more annoying than having the perfect pic for that DVD menu and more »

Digital Pencil, Save Your Fingertips Thinking of buying that super-expensive graphics tablet? Maybe you don't need to, because Suck is offering this digital pencil that mimics the human finger, allowing it to be used on touchpads.

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Intel is looking for software engineers "for a revolutionary graphics product" to create "shock-and-awe launch demos." [theinquirer]

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adwatch

Adobe's Interactive Wall Is Like Minority Report Future Sans Apple and Microsoft


See Adobe's interactive wall, featured in the New York Times and in fact on Giz, fewer than 24 hours ago. See nerds trying to get exercise they wouldn't otherwise dream of, in the hopes of triggering one of Adobe's—what was that, infrared?—motion sensors. Enjoy the man-on-the-street critiques of this cutting-edge technology, and most of all, without a doubt—Look, flying toasters! – Video by Nick McGlynn

1:07 AM on Sat Jul 14 2007
By Wilson Rothman
78,342 views, 35 comments

adwatch

Adobe Pimps Creative Suite 3 With Interactive Wall in Union Square

Adobe is shilling for its Creative Suite 3 with a 7x15 ft. interactive wall outside of the Virgin Megastore in Union Square that debuts this morning. The display grants the closest passerby control of a slider button on the bottom that manipulates what's projected based on their walking speed and direction, producing different effects in the animation. It also reacts incidentally to the crowd around it, which should make the glorious pedestrian congestion in that area even more awesome. More »

7:00 AM on Fri Jul 13 2007
By Matt Buchanan
6,699 views, 11 comments

Latest by bombaH: EHy really cool! I have seen something very similar in Brasil last mounth, for Tim Brasil... it's an interactive window, like a big touch screen!!! this is the link... tinyurl.com/yswbzp more »

cheap

NVIDIA's GeForce 7200 GS Gets You Windows Vista Aero For Peanuts

If you're like Adam over at Lifehacker who has a copy of Vista but a graphics card from 1997, nVidia's got you covered. The latest entry-level GeForce 7200 GS is their cheapest standalone graphics card, but still meets the requirements Microsoft's set for running Aero. It's 50% better than integrated graphics cards, which is like saying you're 50% stronger than your infant child—technically true, but nothing worth bragging about. More »

8:00 PM on Tue May 8 2007
By Jason Chen
5,668 views, 12 comments

software

Vista Grades You With The Windows Experience Index

Vista ranks us at 3.7. We blame it on our graphics card. You see, Vista gives you an "experience score" based on your components in your system, which is supposed to give you a good idea of how well Vista will run. In our upgraded XP to Vista system, Vista gave us a 3.7 because we only had a Radeon 9600 with 128MB of RAM. More »

6:40 PM on Mon Jan 29 2007
By Jason Chen
19,920 views, 32 comments

3d

Adrianne Curry - Full Video This Time

You kids just can't get enough of the Adrianne Curry. So we've got two more video for you regarding the Most Important NVIDIA technology of all time. The first is a demo of the model in full, glorious YouTube compressed detail. The second is newsreportish, but has a nice clip of Adrianne critiquing her digital body. More »

10:40 AM on Sat Dec 30 2006
By Mark Wilson
2,160 views, 11 comments

pcs

Digital Adrianne Curry Smolders Like the Real One

Sure, you can tell which one of the pictures above is the digital Adrianne Curry, America's Next Top Model and all-around smokin' celebrity, but the digital version still manages to raise the gigahertz level a bit. She's teamed up with graphics cardmeister NVIDIA to create "the world's first real-time virtual 3-D celebrity." More »

8:36 AM on Fri Dec 29 2006
By Charlie White
8,362 views, 35 comments

peripherals

uPlusPen is like a Tablet, Minus the Tablet

uPlusPen is the latest input device straight out of Korea. It is similar to a Wacom-style tablet, but there is no actual tablet. The pen can write on any surface and be transferred to the computer. This could be perfect for those on-the-go graphic designers who don't want to lug a tablet everywhere, or for someone who doesn't have the office-space for a giant tablet. No word on availability or pricing. Image via Aving – Travis Hudson More »

12:26 PM on Fri Dec 22 2006
By Travis Hudson
1,936 views, 13 comments

Latest by lcllam: Hm... would this require some form of smart paper? There was a type of paper with a dot-pattern printed in infrared ink which (invisible to the user) allowed the pen to determine spatial orientation, on top of location. The more »

peripherals

NVIDIA Announces Quadro Plex, Monster Graphics for Pros

NVIDIA has decided to plunk down a big honking graphics system for professionals only, showing the rest of the world that it's not just playing games any more. The company's latest leap into the graphics stratosphere is Quadro Plex, a dedicated visual computing system that combines up to eight NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics processing units (GPUs) into one, giving its users more graphics power than they can shake a stick at. More »

10:30 AM on Tue Aug 1 2006
By Charlie White
5,247 views, 10 comments

peripherals

Sapphire HDMI X1600 in the Wild

Just when I got my head around DVI they stick us with an HDMI graphics card. The X1600 has been floating around quite a bit and they're rarely in stock. It's a low-profile card so it will fit in a media center, naturally, and its the first card that is fully HDMI/HDCP compliant, which is kind of a big deal. I'd love to see this thing in action, although there aren't very many compatible titles right now. Mmmmm... Half-Life HD. More »

12:38 PM on Fri Jun 9 2006
By johnb
433 views, 1 comment

Latest by bazald: Half-Life can already be played in higher than "HD" resolutions if the have the GPU power available. HDMI is only relevant to DRM'd HD movies. Do you know something about an upcoming game to movie transition that we more »