Samsung offers the LE-40R72B in Europe, which has a new 40-inch 1366×768 resolution 5000:1 contrast-ratio LCD TV with some extras for game players.
Samsung indicates that the TV has a special game mode, which improves the game playing experience by enhancing dark areas, sharpness, motion and sound.
The LCD screen has a pixel response time of [...]

RFID jumps out of the industrial/retail sector and into the consumer arena with the launch of the Loc8tor item-finding gadget. The Loc8tor device can find keys, cats and dogs, mobile phones or any misplaced item that has an RFID tag attached to it, and can do so up to a remarkable distance of 600 feet [...]

The 2006 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, worth $30,000, was awarded to Massachusetts Institute of Technology doctoral candidate Carl Dietrich for his design for a flying car dubbed the Transition. Carl took the prize money and sank it into his startup venture called Terrafugia, Inc. with the intention of commercializing the Transition Personal Air Vehicle [...]

Apple Computer tops the annual Business Week list of best performing companies. Business Week ranked the S&P 500 by 10 criteria including return, sales growth, profit growth, net profit margins and long-term earnings, and labelled the top of the list as the 2006 Business Week 50. For the first time, Apple percolated to the top [...]

Leica has rebranded the Panasonic DMC-FX01 and just launched it as the C-LUX 1. The digital camera is attractive and compact at 3.7 x 2 x 0.95 inches and light weight at 0.29 lbs. The stills are up to 6 MP and video up to 16:9 848 x 480 at 30 fps and includes a [...]

Navman has a new model portable/in-car GPS system, the model iCN750. This device is unconventional in that it’s image-driven. Instead of, or more probably, as well as, working from a regular Points of Interest database, the device can also work with geocoded images, ie those with associated latitude and longitude data.
The example given is [...]