Nintendo has made an announcement informing us that Hulu is headed to the Nintendo 3DS and Wii. Support for Hulu on these systems will be added by the end of this year.
Nintendo also mentions that the 3DS will also get an update that will allow it to capture up to 10 minutes of video in 3D.
Virgin has launched Project, an iPad magazine. The app is free to download although it costs £1.79 to download each month. It isn't clear at the moment if you get more than 1 download a month for £1.79, or if Virgin are publishing 1 issue of Project each month.
This months magazine includes a number of articles, some of which are...
DUDE! Jeff Bridges reboots Tron – featuring exclusive “electrified cover”, videos and an audio interview on his best-known roles.
SPEED! Jaguar’s 205mph hypercar... has jet engines. Want to hear it in action?
GODZILLA! Take our in-depth 3D video tour of Tokyo
EARTH 2! How the search for a slightly nicer home planet is going
FORAGING! The superchef who serves soil
MUSIQUE! The world’s coolest record label is... French?
Nikon has announced the Nikon D3100 Digital SLR camera. The new version of the camera allows full HD video to be captured in 1080p and has full time auto focus built in.
The Nikon D3100 has a 14.2 megapixel sensor and as mentioned above, is capable of full time auto focus while using live view. Nikon mention that this is a first for a DSLR camera.
Other features include the new EXPEED 2TM image processing engine that when mixed with the 14.2 megapixel DX-format CMOS sensor, providers rich image quality. [click to continue…]
Joby are known for making the Gorillapod devices that have flexible legs and can carry cameras to capture pictures from cool locations. The company has announced the Gorillatorch Flare that brings the same flexible/magnetic tripod system but to an emergency kit device.
The Gorillatorch Flare brings a bright and powerful beam to the tripod making it in to a powerful flash light that can be used in emergencies. The Gorillatorch Flare can attach to most things either magnetically or by wrapping it's legs around an object such as a tree or fence post.
The device can light a target by using it's four powerful LED's that can shine at 100 lumens. One white LED is included along with 3 red LEDs. Various light modes can be selected which includes low, medium and high for brightness settings along with flashing white light, and steady or flashing red light. [click to continue…]
As far as I can remember back, I don't think we have ever covered the subject of pottery here at GadgetVenue. So, here we have perhaps the worlds first pottery gadget that uses 3D technology with an old art.
The device consists of a 3D scanner that tracks movement of your hands. The 3D scanner part is referred to as a Virtual wheel. This technology is combined with a 3D printer that converts ceramic powder in to a solid form and then cools it down.
So, you create your virtual potter subject and once done, you send it to print and it gets built for you as you designed it. [click to continue…]
The monthly budget calculator is a device that does exactly what it's name suggests... it helps you to calculate your monthly budget.
The idea behind the monthly budget calculator is to let you easily track what money you are spending on various items used each month. This list includes food, apparel, transportation, entertainment and personal care along with a misc category.
When you get the budget calculator you set limits in each category on what you want to spend and then as you buy products or use certain services you enter them as they happen in to the budget calculator. The device then lets you see what you are spending in each category and how much you have available to spend in each category. [click to continue…]
iKat is quite a cool looking Augmented Reality application that requires no real-world prompt to function correctly. Normally when augmented reality is used a place card is held up with an image on it which the phone can then lock on to and replace with the 3D rendered model. In the case if the iKat it just takes a quick scan of what the camera is looking at and can figure out where to place the 3D object.
The iKat application is basically just a cat that walks across a keyboard when holding the phone up to it, but the idea behind it is really what we are interested in here.
"Based on Zenitum's D-Track engine, we are working on markerless mobile augmented reality application, iKat. You are breeding a virtual kitten on the phone. The kitten can be mixed into real world using AR. Since no markers or image targets are needed, you need to recognize the space in front of the camera for creating the appropriate space for your kitten."
Penguin Books have given a demonstration of what their Apple iPad app will function like when launched.
'We will be embedding audio, video and streaming in to everything we do. The .epub format, which is the standard for ebooks at the present, is designed to support traditional narrative text, but not this cool stuff that we're now talking about.
It's interesting to see how publishers are working with the iPad. Rather than creating boring ebooks that you read from cover to cover, they are making completely interactive books allowing children and adults to delve right in to the book. One example shown on video displays a page with the innards of a human body on. When clicking the heart the iPad zooms in and opens up the heard. When tapped again a 3D animated heart is displayed rotating on the screen. [click to continue…]
Sony have announced a new GPS unit designed for bike users. The device is called the Sony NV-U34 and is more rugged than a traditional satnav unit allowing it to be used in all weather conditions.
The unit is quite small measuring 112 x 17.8 x 79mm and weighs 176 grams. It has a 3.5 inch QVGA screen that is also touchscreen displaying 320 x 240 pixels. The software built in allows for both 2D and 3D navigation. A specifically designed handlebar mount is also available allowing it to be securely attached to a bike.
Storage wise it has 8GB of memory built in which can be increased by using Memory Stick Duo cards. [click to continue…]
LG have created a new robot vacuum cleaner called the LG RoboKing. The RoboKing is smaller than the previous model measuring just 90mm tall where as before the previous version was 130mm tall. This allows the vacuum to manoeuvre more easily under objects such as book cases and furniture.
As well as being shorter in height the vacuum has also got 13db quieter and now measures 50db when in use. The LG RoboKing has two cameras built in allowing it to more easily navigate around a room. Programming has also been improved it seems as the vacuum also works 30 percent quicker than previous models perhaps by cleaning a room more efficiently rather than randomly like before. [click to continue…]
If you are looking for a cool Christmas present stocking filler for someone this month then check out Spuda Fett. Spuda Fett is designed after the famous Star Wars Boba Fett character.
The Spuda Fett Potato Head character ads to a a few other Star Wars potato head characters such as Artoo Potatoo, Darth Tater, Princess Tater and several more. [click to continue…]
An event held recently by AMD was recently run where contestants tried to overclock their processors - to the extreme. A few months back those working on the overclocking projects were getting very close to 7GHz but never actually broke through that barrier. CrunchGear have now reported that the 7GHz barrier was smashed through by also setting a record on 3DMark. The AMD processor that was overclocked was a Phenom II. [click to continue…]
