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Gorilla Glass To Protect TVs From Wiimotes Next Year

The Motorola Droid and Dell Streak are just a couple of the gadgets using Corning’s high-strength Gorilla Glass for their displays, but from next year we could be seeing TVs donning stab-proof protection too. https://gizmodo.com/why-even-clumsy-people-like-you-would-have-trouble-brea-5432300 While Corning is yet to sign on any TV manufacturers, they’re hopeful they will have something on the market by…

Television Kat Hannaford

The Best, Cheapest Ways to Upgrade Your PC

Upgrading your PC can be a head-spinning process. Our Lab experts help you sort through the chaos with 18 products that won’t break the bank. The art of the PC upgrade is simultaneously an expression and a test of one’s diagnostic skills, computing savvy, and fiscal sensibilities. Identify the bottleneck. Research the parts that will…

Tech News MaximumPC

Microsoft Kin Two Gets the Teardown Treatment

Chipworks and iFixit teamed up to take a look beneath the Kin Two’s black and lime exterior, finding some things that were expected, like the NVIDIA Tegra APX2600 processor, and some, like a Sony image sensor, that were, well, not. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-kin-review-the-best-cellphones-youll-never-b-5531082 The full teardowns include a few interesting bits—that 8MP Sony image sensor, for example,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Sharp Conjures Up World’s First 3D Camera For Phones—and the Nintendo 3DS?

Designed for mobile devices such as phones, digital cameras or even netbooks, Sharp’s 3D camera module will start mass production this year—meaning within the next couple of years we could be shooting image-popping HD 3D video. While Sharp isn’t known for phones in our parts, if you walk into any store in Japan you’ll be…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Secrets of Eccentric, Mad-Scientist RadioShacks

They’re described as “eccentric, mad-scientist RadioShacks” and they’re full of gadget guts, cables, and parts you won’t find in the average, corporate-owned locations. Run by “RadioShack nostalgics” who want to keep hobby shops alive, these stores are shrines to tinkering. Our minds are on the past because Wired has a wonderfully sentimental piece which revolves…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

iFixit MacBook Pro Teardown Reveals New Antenna and Bigger Battery

The 15-inch MacBook Pro, with all-new Core i5 chip, got ripped to shreds by iFixit, who found…not much difference between the previous model, really. New screws, a slightly-larger battery (6 per cent bigger, but iFixit says it’s “not enough to explain the 2 hour battery life (22%) improvement Apple is claiming for this machine”), and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Sony Wireless Chip Connections: No More Wires, No More Pins

Connecting devices can take hundreds of pins, which is a lot of real estate. That’s one reason why Sony’s new wireless chip technology is so exciting—a circuit board free of clutter could be here in just three years. Sony’s using millimeter wave technology in the 30 to 300GHz spectrum to to create a short-range link…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Cameraphone Photo Quality Set To Improve With InVisage’s QuantumFilm Chips

On the whole, cameraphone pictures tend to “make do,” but with these new QuantumFilm chips from InVisage Technologies you could potentially ditch the Nikon and rely solely on your HTC. InVisage Technologies’ QuantumFilm uses a layer of nanometer-sized quantom dots, or semiconductor particles, which apparently attracts more light into the sensor than typical silicon sensors…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Laser-Powered Carbon Nanotube Speakers

Laser-powered carbon nanotube speakers! They’ll fit in walls and windows, and can noise-cancel ambient rackets. Or blast some music. “Speakers made with carbon nanotube sheets are extremely thin, light and almost transparent,” Kozlov said. “They have no moving parts and can be attached to any surface, which makes the surface acoustically active. They can be…

Tech News Brian Lam

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Gone In the Blink of an Eye Edition

In today’s Remainders: disappearing acts. TigerText, a new iPhone app, makes your illicit text messages vanish; an official HTC video shows you how to disassemble an HD2; Intel’s new Convertible Classroom netbook makes its keyboard go “Poof!” and more. Grrrr Incriminating text messages, as a thing, aren’t going away any time soon. That is, unless…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Oak Trail Is Name Of Intel Atom Z-Series Replacement (Supposedly)

Intel is moving from conifers to deciduous trees as inspiration for its next Atom Z-series platform, if PC Watch is correct. The Z-series is residing in netbooks and ultra-portables such as the Vaio P from Sony, but with Moorestown not compatible with Windows it makes sense Intel would need a new processor. https://gizmodo.com/intels-new-atom-chips-what-they-mean-for-you-5431479 Enter Oak…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Color-Compensation Chip Will Make Cellphone Displays Viewable Outdoors

LCD displays aren’t exactly made for the outdoors. You have to squint, tilt the screen, and adjust the brightness to decipher anything in bright sunlight. But with NEC’s new color-compensation chip that will hopefully be an issue of the past. Apparently the chip identifies colors which are “problematic” in outdoor light conditions (such as beige…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

New Chipset May Triple the Speed of USB 3.0

Hardware manufacturer NEC has built a chipset which could allow USB 3.0 to reach speeds of up to 16Gbps. In comparison, the fastest technology hitting the production lines right now is Intel’s Light Peak, “which could provide as much as 10Gbps by the end of this year.” It will take some time before this chipset…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

OmniVision’s 5-Megapixel Sensor Shoots RAW on Cellphones

This is OmniVision’s newest 1/4-inch, 5 megapixel RAW sensor. It’s tiny, has low light sensitivity, captures 720p video at 60 fps or 1080p at 30 fps, and shoots in RAW. The best part? It could be in cellphones soon. Now if only phones had lenses which would truly take advantage of sensors like this. [PR…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Samsung Shows The Future Of Its Camera Phones With New Sensor Technology

Samsung’s headline act may’ve been the new Wave handset yesterday, but here at Gizmodo we’re equally interested in the guts of these portable talky-phones. Take their two new CMOS sensors for phones, which show the future for Samsung’s new camphones. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-waves-hello-to-wave-s8500-smartphone-with-bada-5471459 The S5K4E2 is a 5.0-megapixel sensor that measures just 1/4 of an inch and…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Capacitive Touchscreens To Become The Norm In 2010

Good news—Digitimes is reporting that many of the Taiwanese phone suppliers are ditching resistive touchscreens and focusing their attentions on ramping up production of the much more superior capacitive panels. Today is a great day to be a finger. [Digitimes]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Color Touch-Sensitive Ereader Screens Coming This Year, Sez Kindle Supplier

The company that supplies Amazon with its Kindle displays is working on touchscreen electrophoretic panels according to Digitimes. This doesn’t necessarily mean Amazon will be using them, considering their recent snap-up of Touchco. https://gizmodo.com/hello-kindle-touch-amazon-buys-a-little-multitouch-com-5463577 Scott Liu, chairman of PVI (which bought e-ink mid last year) reckons their color pressure-sensitive touchscreen EPDs will support animation this…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

Turn Your Monitor Into a Touchscreen That Can Detect 16 Fingers, Using a Polymer Film

What if you could convert the monitor you’re looking at right now into a touchscreen? Sounds crazy, but the Portuguese company Displax has created a polymer film that can do just that, for up to 120-inch screens. It’s not just glass that Displax is claiming their film will work with—apparently plastic and wood can be…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Samsung’s 64GB Chip Means Serious Storage for iPhones and PMPs

Samsung’s new 64GB flash NAND and 32GB microSD card may be the first of each to market, bringing lots more storage space to phones like the iPhone, Droid and Nexus One as well as other handheld devices. Big win! We don’t have specific information on either of the products (no pricing, availability, or speed) but…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Why Calls Sound So Good on Nexus One: The Audience A1026 Voice Processor

The reason calls on the Nexus One sound great is Audience’s A1026 voice processor, which works with its dual mics to pluck out voice, eliminate background and dynamically adjust audio properties. I hope it goes standard, like oleophobic screens. [VentureBeat] https://gizmodo.com/nexus-one-review-5443835

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Gorilla Glass To Protect TVs From Wiimotes Next Year

The Best, Cheapest Ways to Upgrade Your PC

Microsoft Kin Two Gets the Teardown Treatment

Sharp Conjures Up World’s First 3D Camera For Phones—and the Nintendo 3DS?

The Secrets of Eccentric, Mad-Scientist RadioShacks

iFixit MacBook Pro Teardown Reveals New Antenna and Bigger Battery

Sony Wireless Chip Connections: No More Wires, No More Pins

Cameraphone Photo Quality Set To Improve With InVisage’s QuantumFilm Chips

Laser-Powered Carbon Nanotube Speakers

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Gone In the Blink of an Eye Edition

Oak Trail Is Name Of Intel Atom Z-Series Replacement (Supposedly)

Color-Compensation Chip Will Make Cellphone Displays Viewable Outdoors

New Chipset May Triple the Speed of USB 3.0

OmniVision’s 5-Megapixel Sensor Shoots RAW on Cellphones

Samsung Shows The Future Of Its Camera Phones With New Sensor Technology

Capacitive Touchscreens To Become The Norm In 2010

Color Touch-Sensitive Ereader Screens Coming This Year, Sez Kindle Supplier

Turn Your Monitor Into a Touchscreen That Can Detect 16 Fingers, Using a Polymer Film

Samsung’s 64GB Chip Means Serious Storage for iPhones and PMPs

Why Calls Sound So Good on Nexus One: The Audience A1026 Voice Processor

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