Samsung has developed a 40-Inch OLED panel for TVs. The panel has a resolution of 1280×800, a contrast ratio of 5,000:1 , delivers a color gamut of 80% and is only 2 inches thick. OLEDs use less energy than LCDs and deliver better resolution. Samsung Develops World’s Largest 40″ OLED Screen

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal has an article about the putative rebirth of the PDA, now seemingly renamed the ‘Hand-Held’. The piece states that sales of these types of devices have stalled and that manufacturers such as palmOne, Archos and Sharp are searching for ways to broaden their appeal. They seem to have settled on a [...]

Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 was unveiled last Friday. The gaming console contains 3 IBM PowerPC cores running at 3.2 GHz each, and a ATI Graphics Processor rendering 500 million triangles per second. Floating point performance peaks at about 115.2 GFLOPS … thus making the PS3 about 2x as powerful as the Xbox 360. [...]

Nintendo, that other game console manufacturer, has released some details about its next-gen product, the Revolution. Its about the size of 3 DVD cases, will support Wi-Fi and have wireless controllers, 2 USB 2.0 ports and slots for DS memory cards. Not much other info was made available, other than the fact [...]

Sony announced their new PlayStation 3 game console today. The PS3’s CPU is based on the Cell processor, and is rated at 218 GFLOPS … which makes it almost, but not quite, a supercomputer. The graphics processor is by Nvidia and SCEI, and hums along at 1.8 TFLOPS. Benefits include improved photo-realism, [...]

Computerworld Singapore has released their list of the best gadgets for the month of May.

LG 50 inch Plasma TV with HD recorder
Pioneer one-button VHS HDD transfer - the DVR-RT7H copies tapes to digital format relatively easily.
Toshiba Libretto U100 - very small PC at only 21×17×3 cm and less than 1Kg [...]

The Samsung YP-MT6Z is a 1 GB MP3 player. OverclockersOnline has reviewed the product, and concluded that there’s nothing much to complain about. They liked the 1GB of memory and the FM tuner ; they were less enamored of the fact that the battery is not rechargable and that file transfer is sluggish. The [...]

The Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa Rangali Island has just opened the world’s first all-glass underwater restaurant. Called the Ithaa Undersea Restaurant, it sits 15 feet below the surface of the Indian Ocean, on a coral reef. The menu reflects what you see. For reservations, call +960-4-50629 . Hilton [...]

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had a brief review of some wireless Home Theater systems … the wirelessness involves doing away with those pesky wires that snake across your room to the rear speakers, by putting them on 2.4 GHz . In summary, they liked the Panasonic SC-HT930, saying that they were “impressed with the [...]

The awkwardly-named LifeDrive Mobile Manager is an leaked/unannounced/next-gen PDA from palmOne. The device will have a 4GB mini-disk, HVGA resolution and 2 radios - WiFi and Bluetooth. Pic courtesy of Amazon. Speculation is that it will be out this month and sell for $500. Rumor: LifeDrive - article at Palm [...]