All these while, Santa is fake. No, really! If he’s real, then he really owes me lots of toys. Christmas is coming near, and I can already hear the songs in the malls. Feels really great, as this is the time where we get broke from buying all those useless presents. Luckily the turkey made up for it. Read more…

Yes, we all know that Gingerbread aka Android 2.3 is very near the horizon. But how near is it, we’re not sure. Google has been keeping Gingerbread’s features very tight lip, but now we finally sees a somewhat ‘official’ video of Gingerbread’s one new feature being demoed by a Cantonese dude from GoogleHK. The demo device in said video was seen to be running the elusive Gingerbread OS.

At first glance, it’s pretty hard to tell the difference from previous iterations, but as pointed out by the Android Police, a few minor UI changes confirmed the upgraded UI. Gone are the grey’s and white’s of the taskbars and menus, and instead they are replaced with sleeker blacks and greens.

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It seemed that Kinect hacks just won’t stop. That shows how create humans can be. Here’s one that’ll make you look like Predator. Or do you prefer Hollow Man? A Japanese coder by the name of Takayuki Fukatsu has exploited the versatile openFrameworks to give Kinect a mode where it tracks your movement and position, but turns the dull details of your visage into an almost perfectly transparent outline. Of course, you’re not actually transparent. The system is just skinning an image of the background onto the contours of your body in real time. Still, that sounds pretty cool right?

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I’m not sure how many people are still rocking their PC with no antivirus installed. Well, in my case, antivirus is really just to provide you with some confidence to browse the net, and as an act of precautions. Many users have AVG and Avira free edition installed in their PC, unless your system comes preloaded with some other Antivirus, like how Dell gives 15-month McAfee for free in their new computers.

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Sometimes design comes in the form of reusing old and retro products that nobody wants anymore. Here, Transparent House Inc. has created the Tape Lamp, which is a very unique table lamp which makes use of a laser cut plexi glass and a hundred translucent micro-cassettes. The bulb type used for the lamp is a 40 Watt Vida Large G-16.5 Globe. The Tape Lamp is priced at a hefty $1200, with a shipping price of $35. Then again, it does look good. Read more…

NEC is planning on launching their latest Full HD monitor MultiSync EA232WMi in Europe later this month. Hopefully there’ll be people paying attention to it, as the weather’s freezing cold in UK right now. Though I’m not sure how there’re still kids out there playing snowballs.

Anyway, this new 23-inch W-LED backlight monitor makes use of an IPS (In-Plane Switching) panel and has a 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution for all your Full HD needs. The monitor has a 1000:1 typical contrast ratio, 300 cd/m2 brightness and 14ms response time. What’s more, the monitor is also Energy Star 5.0 certified and comes with two built-in 1W speakers, four USB, D-Sub, DVI and DisplayPort connectors. The NEC MultiSync EA232WMi will sell for €374 (about USD 494).

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Corsair today introduced two new members from the Force Series SSD family. As the name already imply, the Corsair Force Series F90 and F180 SSDs are built using the mighty Sandforce SF-1200 SSD processor, which provides an exceptional performance, including read speeds of up to 285MB/sec and write speeds of up to 275MB/sec, with a 4K random write throughput of up to 50,000 IOPs. The Corsair Force Series F90 and F180 SSDs are now available for $189.99 and $399.99, respectively.

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Aside from the mainstream graphic cards and all the rumours and fights going on, Nvidia has rolled out a new graphic card targeted for enterprise segment. Called the Nvidia NVS300, the graphics card delivers an exceptional visual fidelity across up to eight displays, while consuming minimal power (25% less than typical graphic card). The GPU also provides several connectivity options including VGA, DVI, DisplayPort and HDMI at resolutions as high as 2560×1600 pixels. Specifications include 16 CUDA cores, a 512 MB DDR3 memory with 64-bit interface and a 12.6 GB/s memory bandwidth. The Nvidia NVS 300 is currently available in PCI Express x16 and x1 configurations for $149 each.

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Graeme Taylor shot out the window of a train at 210 frames per second, reversing the usual trick of shooting and slowing down a high-speed object from a stationary spot; rather, he shot a stationary spot from a high-speed object. The effect is something like a mundane bullet-time, where the world has stopped so that no one can do anything much of anything. It’s mesmerizing.

“The ‘trick’ is the camera collects images at a rate of 210 per second – but the film is played back at 30 frames per second.”

SOURCE via BoingBoing