FujiFilm Real 3D camera given a video hands-on by fake 3D journalists
The first thing you notice about FujiFilm’s €499 Real 3D W1 camera is its size. It’s big — big in the way that bloggers see main stream media journalists as big. And the industrial design is straight-up Cold War. Still, it delivers 3D without special glasses and does so with surprisingly realistic detail — it really does work. Yeah, you have to position yourself oh so carefully just in front of FujiFilm’s €349 FinePix 3D Viewer or printed photos courtesy of a FujiFilm web service, but the novelty might be worthwhile for those with money to burn. It begins shipping to Europe and likely beyond in late September. Check the video demonstration from IFA and let Germania wash over you.
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Sony hedges on plans for PS3 update to enable 3D gaming on old titles
It’s not a straight up rebuttal, but apparently Sony corporate is singing a different tune than what we heard from a Sony rep on the floor of IFA (multiple times) the other day: that all existing PS3 games would be playable in 3D after the software update next year. According to Sony, it’s “conducting a technological investigation” as to the possibility of this, but claims there’s “no plan for the market launch of this at this time.” It makes sense that many titles — especially ones designed with widely divergent game engines — would be incompatible with a simple software update, but details are slim on how Sony is adding this function to its own games in the first place, so we’ll have to wait to find out more. We do know the PS3 is going 3D in 2010, but as for available titles it looks like we’re going to be in the dark for the time being — though Ubisoft’s upcoming Avatar game, along with a couple of Sony racing titles, are already shoe-ins for 3D presentation of some form.
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Carrie Prejean Made a Pact With the Devil (or Perez)?!
Quick, who’s the reigning Miss America?
Don’t feel bad for being stumped. These days, pageant queens are anonymous. If they didn’t wear I.D. sashes, we’d mistake them…
Poll: Just Kidding…and Kidding…and Kidding
If you’re driving anywhere with your family this weekend, we’re guessing that however many kids you have seems like plenty. That’s not so in the media, of course, where more is always…
Showering with Tera Patrick
Fantasies, fantasies. And one of them could be showering with Tera Patrick
Sony VAIO X stars in esoteric promo video
We’d have much rather gotten a VAIO X video promising us an upgrade to CULV internals over the Atom in the demo units, but instead we’re getting tinkling pianos and sword-based visual metaphors. At least there’s a hint of an “autumn” release date, we suppose. Full video after the break.
[Thanks, Bob]
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Sony VAIO X stars in esoteric promo video originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Turn a Fridge into a Household Chalkboard
In many kitchens, the side of a refrigerator can’t be hidden, and serves, at best, as a spare surface for random magnets. Unless you bust out some make-it-yourself chalkboard paint and turn it into a colorful, helpful organizer.
That’s what Kristin Hoppe did, and she thankfully detailed her purchases, costs, mixing, painting, sanding, and final product in words and photos at her blog. The total project ran about $24 and required about three hours of actual work, with two days for everything to dry and set in place. Looks a bit better than just a big beige surface when walking into the kitchen, and it’s now useful as a space to write reminders or compile a grocery list. Thanks Kristin!
DIY Indestructible Thumb Drive
We love carrying handy little thumb drives everywhere we go, but at times they can be delicate little fellows. Blogger Dmitry Brant—having lost too many thumb drives to his washing machine—set out to make his thumb drive impervious to harm.
His solution: epoxy.
At the office where I work, I had found a supply of epoxy that the hardware engineers use for various purposes. This epoxy comes in little packets, with each packet composed of two pouches containing different substances that, when mixed together, produce the hardening epoxy. I knew about the supply of epoxy for a while, but I hadn’t made the connection between the epoxy and the flash drives until one day, in a moment of total enlightenment, I held up my flash drive in one hand, and an epoxy packet in the other, and began to laugh uncontrollably.
That same day, I took an ordinary USB flash drive, removed the plastic case so that the PC board was completely exposed, mixed up some epoxy, and poured it onto both sides of the board, making sure that all the electronic components were fully covered, and only the USB connector exposed. After about 5 minutes the epoxy hardened, and the result was even better than I hoped. The flash drive became indestructible!
Hit up Dmitry’s post for the full rundown on how to turn your regular thumb drive to an indestructible epoxy drive. Got your own methods? Let’s hear ‘em in the comments.
Olympus E-P1 meets 50-200mm SWD lens monstrosity, hilarity ensues
We’ve already seen plenty of the Olympus E-P1, but when we dropped by Olympus’ booth today at IFA we just couldn’t resist slapping on the biggest lens they had, courtesy of the micro four thirds to standard four thirds adapter, and shooting a bit of dramatic show floor footage. The verdict? It’s totally impractical, especially because there’s no autofocus during video with certain lenses, meaning we’re stuck working the manual focus ring, D90-style. Still, we didn’t expect anything different, and our short film entitled “People Wandering Around, Totally Out of Focus” really made the effort worth while. Oh, and for our money? The white model is about twice as sexy as the gray. Videos are after the break.
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