TV lovers rejoice! Thanks to the recently ratified ATSC mobile digital TV standard, you may soon find yourself watching live broadcast TV via a portable device. While all those NTSC compatible Sony Watchmen will still be trash, expect innumerable ATSC enabled portable personal media devices to flood the market in the very near future. The full [...]
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Tags: ATSC, HD, NTSC, PMP, Sony, TV 
1 Comment »New TechClickers may not realize how excited wireless power news makes us. We were stoked even when the Wireless Power Consortium changed its logo! So needless to say, Sony’s announcement today that it’s sustainably sending 60W of power over 20 inches of empty air has the TechClicker office abuzz. Sony is using the relatively common magnetic resonance [...]
Well it looks like Asus has decided to up the ante in the ongoing game of eBook reader development. Trying to compete with Amazon’s market leading Kindle and Sony’s highly anticipated Reader series, Asus is planning on a dual screen eBook reader to better simulate the two sidedness of reading an actual paper based book. [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Cool or Annoying?, eBooks Tags: Asus, eBook, Eee, reader, Sony 2 Comments »In case anyone was wondering about the validity of 3D TV after Sony’s release yesterday, Philips and Panasonic today both announced plans to begin incorporating high definition 3D technology into some of their upcoming products. The announcements came at the IFA 2009 consumer electronics show in Berlin. Panasonic is launching a cross country promotional tour [...]
Posted in 3D Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Displays and Projectors, Emerging Technology, TV and Video, Technology Tags: 3D, Blu-ray, LCD, Panasonic, Philips, plasma, Sony, TV 1 Comment »We recently posted news of LG’s pending release of large format OLED TVs, in which it was suggested that anyone currently considering buying a new TV may want to wait for that technology to fully materialize (and come down in price). Well, today Sony, adding to its slew of recent new product releases in what [...]
Posted in 3D Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Displays and Projectors, Emerging Technology, TV and Video, Technology Tags: 3D, Bravia, HD, LCD, Sony, TV 3 Comments »In what can only be described as a harsh reality check for Microsoft, Sony today made public its plans to ship all of its Vaio laptops with the Google Chrome web browser pre-installed instead of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer has enjoyed unrivaled ubiquity since the demise of Netscape Navigator years ago and it being the [...]
The next generation of flat screen TVs may soon be upon us. Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology has been around for a few years now, mostly finding use in cell phones, personal media players, and Sony’s 11″ XEL-1 TV which debuted in 2007. Up until now and at great cost with an MSRP of $2500, [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Displays and Projectors, TV and Video, Technology Tags: LCD, LG, OLED, Sony, TV 1 Comment »
