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**timmy** · 03-21-2007, 01:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cr@xH3aDMcg33

Apple on Tuesday started selling the Apple TV, the wireless set-top box designed to show video downloaded from the iTunes store on the living-room television.

The device, available through Apple's Web site for $299, includes a 40-Gbyte hard drive capable of storing up to 50 hours of video, and a remote control. The appliance ships in three to five business days, and is also available through retailers, according to Apple's site.

The Apple TV has the potential to alter the media landscape and boost Apple's value as a company, according to Jonathan Hoopes, a ThinkEquity Partners financial analyst. Hoopes predicts 25% to 70% of the 22 million Mac users, and many more PC users, would buy the device in the next five years, overtaking set-top box maker TiVo and mail-order DVD renter Netflix.

The analyst also predicts Apple TV could add more than $10 billion to the company's market capitalization in the next few years.

In February, Apple delayed shipping the Apple TV until mid-March. In announcing the delay, the company said that "wrapping up Apple TV is taking a few weeks longer than we projected."

Or you can just hook your computer to your tv for free.

**Cr@xheadMcgee** · 03-21-2007, 01:41 PM

yea, well a PC can do it but a Mac needs this.

**timmy** · 03-21-2007, 01:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cr@xH3aDMcg33

yea, well a PC can do it but a Mac needs this.

Ah ok that makes sense now. So Apple =

**Cr@xheadMcgee** · 03-23-2007, 08:45 AM

Those mad scientists at Waseda University have already brought us walking and talking robots, but they now seem to have turned their attention to an endeavor less likely to storm out of the lab in a fit of rage, with Gizmag reporting that researchers at the University have developed a so-called "organic radical" battery that's flexible and transparent. In addition to being ridiculously easy to lose, the battery apparently takes only one minute to charge and can last over 1,000 cycles, although it's not clear exactly how much juice that translates to in real world use. It's also, of course, not clear when these see-through batts will ever make it out of the lab, although with transparent circuits and OLEDs also already in the works, it seems like it's only a matter of time before all our gadgets are invisible.

**Cr@xheadMcgee** · 03-23-2007, 08:59 AM

Here’s the promise: two-hour flights from anywhere to the other side of the world, replete with 30 minutes of Space Shuttle-like views while in orbit.

The problem: how to mix fuel in the engine of an efficient, hypersonic space plane invented by Astrox Corporation that travels as fast as Mach 25, or 17,500 miles-per-hour, above the Earth’s atmosphere.

The answer: Through two Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program projects, A. James Clark School of Engineering faculty members Ashwani Gupta and Kenneth Yu, along with graduate student Ram Balar, have successfully designed and tested a combustor for the Astrox space plane, which uses something called an inward-turning scramjet engine.

“Hypersonic space planes could revolutionize the transportation industry, much like jet planes did for subsonic commercial aviation 50 years ago,” said Astrox President Ajay Kothari. “Seemingly remote parts of the world would be nearly as accessible as a two-hour drive.”

Mechanical engines don’t work at hypersonic speeds. Moving parts simply cannot work at 3,500-7,500 miles-per-hour, or 5-10 times faster than the speed of sound, according to Kothari.

Instead, hypersonic jet engines typically employ rectangular, duct-like engines with no moving parts, also called scramjets. Air enters the engine inlet at hypersonic speeds and is compressed to supersonic speeds, after which it is mixed with fuel and ignited. The air leaves the engine traveling faster and at a higher pressure than when it came in-creating thrust.

But the large surface areas created by rectangular designs generate tremendous heat transfer into a vehicle, requiring extra fuel loads just to cool areas around the engine chamber. “Not only are the large surface areas inefficient, but the extra fuel also adds significant volume and weight to the aircraft,” said Kothari, who holds a patent on an inward-turning vehicle design. “Single-stage-to-orbit travel utilizing a rectangular-shaped engine design would be difficult.”

Kothari’s engine is shaped like a funnel, where air comes in through a circular opening, increases in pressure as it passes through, then leaves with more thrust and less heating than through a rectangular design. The challenge is injecting fuel into the fast-moving air efficiently as it travels through the engine.

“Roughly speaking, you’re looking at the air flow traveling 1,000 meters-per-second inside the combustor,” said Yu. “The combustor is a meter long, so you have one millisecond for everything to happen-not just the fuel and air mixing-but the burning as well. “The combustion is fast, so that’s not the problem,” explained Yu, “but before combustion can occur, you have to mix your fuel with the air quickly. This is more difficult when the air’s traveling at such high speeds.”

Kothari, Gupta, Yu and Balar designed an injector resembling a small, aerodynamic wing, which enters the engine at an angle in the same direction the air is flowing. Fuel is injected just at the wake where the air crosses the wing-shaped injector.

“You have to inject the fuel in the same direction as the air is traveling,” said Gupta. “That’s where the novelty comes in, as it gives you both high thrust and good mixing.”

The research team has tested the combustor at Mach 2, twice the speed of sound, in the university’s supersonic wind tunnel. Kothari plans to test both his design and the combustor in a small, model space plane.Eventually, Kothari envisions consumer planes taking off horizontally from large airports and reducing 20-hour flights to as little as 1.5 hours.

Astrox will market its vehicle design initially for military use, both as a stand-alone plane and as a weapons delivery system.

Kothari and the MIPS team have published three academic papers on their combustor design, while Astrox has published 25 papers on hypersonic vehicles.

Founded in 1988, the company has won $5 million in contracts from the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration-including three Small Business Innovation Research grants to design hypersonic airplanes and rockets.

**DJ2** · 03-23-2007, 10:40 AM

*yawn

**Cr@xheadMcgee** · 04-06-2007, 08:20 AM

MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) announced today that its membership has approved version 1.1 of the DisplayPort™ interface standard for use in new designs of flat panel displays, projectors, PCs and CE devices.

DisplayPort 1.1 gives manufacturers of LCD panels, monitors, graphics cards, PC chipsets, projectors, peripherals, components, and consumer electronics a next generation digital interface that is designed to replace LVDS, DVI, and eventually VGA. DisplayPort provides the ability to connect to both internal and external displays with a common digital interface. This common interface capability means that DisplayPort can carry pixels directly from any display source to any LCD panel, simplifying the design complexity that is present today. As presented at CES 2007, a DisplayPort Interoperability Guideline that recommends best practices for providing DVI and HDMI connectivity via the DisplayPort connector and simple cable adapters is nearing completion.

DisplayPort 1.1 adds support for High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) version 1.3. HDCP support enables viewing of protected content from Blu-ray and HD-DVD optical media over DisplayPort 1.1 connections.

DisplayPort 1.1 provides for low voltage and low power operation, and enables improved interoperability and reduced EMI through its unique embedded clock architecture. Significant advantages over DVI and VGA include a small USB-sized connector with available latching, two-way display connectivity, optional audio support, higher performance than dual link DVI at 10.8 Gigabits per second, and a unique micro-packet architecture that enables new display features.

“The benefits of version 1.1 are significant, and will encourage adoption of DisplayPort in new generations of computers and consumer electronics equipment,” said Bill Lempesis, VESA executive director. “Our task groups and committees within VESA worked very hard to ensure that DisplayPort 1.1 satisfies the important objectives it is designed for, and as a result, this new version has widespread support among all the leading computer and consumer electronics suppliers.”

Available throughout the industry as a free to use, open and extensible standard, DisplayPort is expected to accelerate adoption of secure digital outputs on PCs, enable higher levels of display performance, and introduce high volume digital displays that are simpler, thinner, and easier to use than VGA.

About VESA

The Video Electronics Standards Association is a worldwide organization with more than 165 member companies. VESA provides a forum to develop, promote and support open standards for the display industry. For more information and a free download of DisplayPort 1.1 visit www.vesa.org.

**Cr@xheadMcgee** · 04-13-2007, 10:45 AM

We’re used to seeing OLED screens in small-ish electronics. But the technology is moving forward by leaps and bounds, and displays getting ever larger. The nice thing about OLED displays is that they don’t have to be quite as thick as their LCD or plasma counterparts. As a matter of fact, Sony’s been caught showing off these gorgeous screens at the Display Expo 2007. While they were announced as far back as CES, it’s nice to see real life pictures of them. The picture you see up there is of the 3mm thin display, which has a maximum resolution of 1024×600.

The other nice thing about OLED is that you can achieve some incredible specs, like a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. Yeah, we counted those zeroes, and we do mean a million-to-one. Want to see a picture of a 1,000,000:1 full-HD (1080p, or 1,920×1,080 ), 9mm thin OLED display? A few more details? Keep reading.

While really very cool, the technology is still not ready for full commercialization. The reference article is in Japanese, and all we know we’ve gleaned from a shaky translation. But to make a long story short, it just sounds like they can’t make these cheap enough for market just yet. Which makes you wonder just how expensive these prototypes must be?

**timmy** · 04-13-2007, 03:26 PM

I saw that on AOTS last night.

Sony should stick to TV's and leave everything else alone.

**Cr@xheadMcgee** · 09-06-2007, 08:05 AM

ACER is buying Gateway to become the thrid largest manufacturer in the world.

03-21-2007, 01:41 PM	#22 (permalink)
Cr@xheadMcgee SOT Administrator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Miami Posts: 31,057	yea, well a PC can do it but a Mac needs this. __________________ SOT - Rape and Bleach!!!

03-23-2007, 08:45 AM	#24 (permalink)
Cr@xheadMcgee SOT Administrator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Miami Posts: 31,057	Researchers develop flexible, see-through battery Those mad scientists at Waseda University have already brought us walking and talking robots, but they now seem to have turned their attention to an endeavor less likely to storm out of the lab in a fit of rage, with Gizmag reporting that researchers at the University have developed a so-called "organic radical" battery that's flexible and transparent. In addition to being ridiculously easy to lose, the battery apparently takes only one minute to charge and can last over 1,000 cycles, although it's not clear exactly how much juice that translates to in real world use. It's also, of course, not clear when these see-through batts will ever make it out of the lab, although with transparent circuits and OLEDs also already in the works, it seems like it's only a matter of time before all our gadgets are invisible. __________________ SOT - Rape and Bleach!!!

03-23-2007, 08:59 AM	#25 (permalink)
Cr@xheadMcgee SOT Administrator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Miami Posts: 31,057	Indian-Americans' Hypersonic Plane: Two-Hours from D.C. to Tokyo Here’s the promise: two-hour flights from anywhere to the other side of the world, replete with 30 minutes of Space Shuttle-like views while in orbit. The problem: how to mix fuel in the engine of an efficient, hypersonic space plane invented by Astrox Corporation that travels as fast as Mach 25, or 17,500 miles-per-hour, above the Earth’s atmosphere. The answer: Through two Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program projects, A. James Clark School of Engineering faculty members Ashwani Gupta and Kenneth Yu, along with graduate student Ram Balar, have successfully designed and tested a combustor for the Astrox space plane, which uses something called an inward-turning scramjet engine. “Hypersonic space planes could revolutionize the transportation industry, much like jet planes did for subsonic commercial aviation 50 years ago,” said Astrox President Ajay Kothari. “Seemingly remote parts of the world would be nearly as accessible as a two-hour drive.” Mechanical engines don’t work at hypersonic speeds. Moving parts simply cannot work at 3,500-7,500 miles-per-hour, or 5-10 times faster than the speed of sound, according to Kothari. Instead, hypersonic jet engines typically employ rectangular, duct-like engines with no moving parts, also called scramjets. Air enters the engine inlet at hypersonic speeds and is compressed to supersonic speeds, after which it is mixed with fuel and ignited. The air leaves the engine traveling faster and at a higher pressure than when it came in-creating thrust. But the large surface areas created by rectangular designs generate tremendous heat transfer into a vehicle, requiring extra fuel loads just to cool areas around the engine chamber. “Not only are the large surface areas inefficient, but the extra fuel also adds significant volume and weight to the aircraft,” said Kothari, who holds a patent on an inward-turning vehicle design. “Single-stage-to-orbit travel utilizing a rectangular-shaped engine design would be difficult.” Kothari’s engine is shaped like a funnel, where air comes in through a circular opening, increases in pressure as it passes through, then leaves with more thrust and less heating than through a rectangular design. The challenge is injecting fuel into the fast-moving air efficiently as it travels through the engine. “Roughly speaking, you’re looking at the air flow traveling 1,000 meters-per-second inside the combustor,” said Yu. “The combustor is a meter long, so you have one millisecond for everything to happen-not just the fuel and air mixing-but the burning as well. “The combustion is fast, so that’s not the problem,” explained Yu, “but before combustion can occur, you have to mix your fuel with the air quickly. This is more difficult when the air’s traveling at such high speeds.” Kothari, Gupta, Yu and Balar designed an injector resembling a small, aerodynamic wing, which enters the engine at an angle in the same direction the air is flowing. Fuel is injected just at the wake where the air crosses the wing-shaped injector. “You have to inject the fuel in the same direction as the air is traveling,” said Gupta. “That’s where the novelty comes in, as it gives you both high thrust and good mixing.” The research team has tested the combustor at Mach 2, twice the speed of sound, in the university’s supersonic wind tunnel. Kothari plans to test both his design and the combustor in a small, model space plane.Eventually, Kothari envisions consumer planes taking off horizontally from large airports and reducing 20-hour flights to as little as 1.5 hours. Astrox will market its vehicle design initially for military use, both as a stand-alone plane and as a weapons delivery system. Kothari and the MIPS team have published three academic papers on their combustor design, while Astrox has published 25 papers on hypersonic vehicles. Founded in 1988, the company has won $5 million in contracts from the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration-including three Small Business Innovation Research grants to design hypersonic airplanes and rockets. __________________ SOT - Rape and Bleach!!!

03-23-2007, 10:40 AM	#26 (permalink)
DJ2 SOT Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: NOT BFE Arizona Posts: 16,109	*yawn __________________ You're more retarded than a dog with Downs, and I hate you.

04-06-2007, 08:20 AM	#27 (permalink)
Cr@xheadMcgee SOT Administrator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Miami Posts: 31,057	VESA approves display port 1.1 standard. DVI deddeded itself. MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) announced today that its membership has approved version 1.1 of the DisplayPort™ interface standard for use in new designs of flat panel displays, projectors, PCs and CE devices. DisplayPort 1.1 gives manufacturers of LCD panels, monitors, graphics cards, PC chipsets, projectors, peripherals, components, and consumer electronics a next generation digital interface that is designed to replace LVDS, DVI, and eventually VGA. DisplayPort provides the ability to connect to both internal and external displays with a common digital interface. This common interface capability means that DisplayPort can carry pixels directly from any display source to any LCD panel, simplifying the design complexity that is present today. As presented at CES 2007, a DisplayPort Interoperability Guideline that recommends best practices for providing DVI and HDMI connectivity via the DisplayPort connector and simple cable adapters is nearing completion. DisplayPort 1.1 adds support for High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) version 1.3. HDCP support enables viewing of protected content from Blu-ray and HD-DVD optical media over DisplayPort 1.1 connections. DisplayPort 1.1 provides for low voltage and low power operation, and enables improved interoperability and reduced EMI through its unique embedded clock architecture. Significant advantages over DVI and VGA include a small USB-sized connector with available latching, two-way display connectivity, optional audio support, higher performance than dual link DVI at 10.8 Gigabits per second, and a unique micro-packet architecture that enables new display features. “The benefits of version 1.1 are significant, and will encourage adoption of DisplayPort in new generations of computers and consumer electronics equipment,” said Bill Lempesis, VESA executive director. “Our task groups and committees within VESA worked very hard to ensure that DisplayPort 1.1 satisfies the important objectives it is designed for, and as a result, this new version has widespread support among all the leading computer and consumer electronics suppliers.” Available throughout the industry as a free to use, open and extensible standard, DisplayPort is expected to accelerate adoption of secure digital outputs on PCs, enable higher levels of display performance, and introduce high volume digital displays that are simpler, thinner, and easier to use than VGA. About VESA The Video Electronics Standards Association is a worldwide organization with more than 165 member companies. VESA provides a forum to develop, promote and support open standards for the display industry. For more information and a free download of DisplayPort 1.1 visit www.vesa.org. __________________ SOT - Rape and Bleach!!!

04-13-2007, 10:45 AM	#28 (permalink)
Cr@xheadMcgee SOT Administrator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Miami Posts: 31,057	We’re used to seeing OLED screens in small-ish electronics. But the technology is moving forward by leaps and bounds, and displays getting ever larger. The nice thing about OLED displays is that they don’t have to be quite as thick as their LCD or plasma counterparts. As a matter of fact, Sony’s been caught showing off these gorgeous screens at the Display Expo 2007. While they were announced as far back as CES, it’s nice to see real life pictures of them. The picture you see up there is of the 3mm thin display, which has a maximum resolution of 1024×600. The other nice thing about OLED is that you can achieve some incredible specs, like a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. Yeah, we counted those zeroes, and we do mean a million-to-one. Want to see a picture of a 1,000,000:1 full-HD (1080p, or 1,920×1,080 ), 9mm thin OLED display? A few more details? Keep reading. While really very cool, the technology is still not ready for full commercialization. The reference article is in Japanese, and all we know we’ve gleaned from a shaky translation. But to make a long story short, it just sounds like they can’t make these cheap enough for market just yet. Which makes you wonder just how expensive these prototypes must be? __________________ SOT - Rape and Bleach!!!

04-13-2007, 03:26 PM	#29 (permalink)
timmy SOT Post Whore Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: TN Posts: 17,270 gXboxLive Leaderboard: 42^nd	I saw that on AOTS last night. Sony should stick to TV's and leave everything else alone. __________________ SOT - Very funny

09-06-2007, 08:05 AM	#30 (permalink)
Cr@xheadMcgee SOT Administrator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Miami Posts: 31,057	ACER is buying Gateway to become the thrid largest manufacturer in the world. __________________ SOT - Rape and Bleach!!! Last edited by Cr@xheadMcgee; 09-06-2007 at 08:16 AM.

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