After shelling out at least $3,200 for a 3D-capable HDTV, more serious dough for a 3D-capable Blu-ray player, what else do you need? 3D glasses. How much will the new technology cost? According to a listing at Vann’s, Samsung’s active 3D glasses will cost $150 each.
Steering wheel accessories usually make for a fun driving game experience by adding a little bit more realism and feel. Nintendo usually thinks of ways to make gaming intuitively fun, with controls and interfaces that usually take up a few minutes for anyone to learn. According to this report, Nintendo has filed for a patent that basically claims dibs on touch-based steering wheel controls for their DSi handheld.
That’s not an external optical drive you’re looking at. It’s actually Shuttle’s upcoming Windows-based nettop that runs on Intel’s Atom D510 dual core processor. The fact that it measures only 3.3cm? That’s not what makes it awesome (although the size does add to its overall awesome-factor)—it’s that this small desktop kit comes with Nvidia’s ION2 graphics, making for a really compact desktop kit that can handle HD videos and streaming 3D.
Smartbooks are an emerging new mobile device category that’s coined to describe a compact, netbook-like device running a smartphone’s processor (like Qualcomm’s ARM chip) with built-in 3G data connectivity. This device is not a smartbook. It’s not even a netbook. It’s actually an 11.6-inch Intel CULV-based notebook by German computer maker Smartbook AG called the Smartbook Logo, although it does have some smartbook parts.
This started as a sort of challenge over at Android and Me, with a bounty for anyone who could port a full copy of Quake, a PC-based first person shooter (the original that was released back in 1999), to the mobile Android platform and allow for multiplayer gaming over Wi-fi. After that was accomplished, people started working on mobile (Android) ports of Quake 2 and Quake 3… and succeeded. (video available after the cut.)
