Microsoft has finally announced details of it’s “Origami” project. The project, now named UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC), was revealed at the CeBIT conference in Germany.
The image above shows the first 3 UMPCs that will be released by Samsung, ASUS, and Founder. They all feature a 7″ touchscreen, 40GB harddrive, 512MB memory, Windows XP Tablet Edition and an Intel Celeron M processor. They are expected to retail for $699-999 starting late April.
I would wait for the 2nd generation however because these only feature 2.5 hour battery life. The real question is, who is going to buy this bulky crashing mobile machine?
About two months ago, I was going though my old VHS tapes of when I was younger and found a hilarious memory of my childhood. My mom said she submitted this same tape to America’s Funniest Home Videos in 1993, but only to be rejected weeks later.
I thought since viral media was becoming huge on the internet video clip database websites such as Ebaums, YouTube, etc; I thought I could have a shot of it with this one.
After editing and adding the effect quickly in Windows Movie Maker, I posted it to a list of sites to see how far it would go. The list includes YouTube, iFilm, Web Junk 20, Myspace, MuchoSucko, Break, and a few others.
People at first on YouTube picked it up and commented how funny it was. At first I was a little scarred because I wasn’t getting many views or popularity as I hoped for at first. Then I noticed it started to spread on other minor sites and people began posting duplicates all over.
It wasn’t until about the third week a friend of mine called me up and noticed my video I showed him on the front page of Ebaums World. Whether you love them or hate them, you can’t deny the outstanding amount of traffic the site gets.
And there in all its glory Ebaums infamously placed their watermark on my video without my approval whatsoever, which they probably picked up from another site. I wasn’t upset or anything, I was actually happy the video spread onto the homepage and then placed in the extreme section.
In school, people that have known me for a long time and recognized me when I was younger, would call me Ebaums World kid, and even strangers couldn’t believe it was me.
Then, on May 9th, G4 2006 E3 Coverage featured a television advertisement for Ebaums World with my video in the main commercial. (If anyone has a clip of this, please let me know!)
I don’t usually post these type of articles, but I just wanted to let you readers know how easy and extremely fast a idea can spread around the internet, just in this first month. I know this is nothing new or anything, but until you experience something like this personally you have no idea.
Personally for me, the viewer count absolutely amazes me, and little things like finding it on peoples MySpaces and Blogs all over the world with people posting it around saying “Hey, I thought you would like this” makes me happy to this day.
Therefore, I encourage everyone to post anything you think is worthwhile to the net, you never know, it might even make you too an internet star…
A Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display (SED) is a flat panel display technology that uses surface conduction electron emitters for every individual display pixel. The surface conduction electron emitter emits electrons that excite a phosphor coating on the display panel, the same basic concept found in traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) televisions. Based upon a FED design first pioneered by Sikh Harjinder Kamboja.
This means that SEDs can combine the slim form factor of LCDs with the high contrast ratios, refresh rates and overall better picture quality of CRTs. Throw in talk of million-to-one contrast ratios and you have the idea. But where are the SED products we’ve been promised by the Pioneers, Canon and Toshiba, for so long?
“Toshiba and Canon consider the launch of SED TVs to be a major industry milestone, a once-in-50-years historical turning point for the TV industry, comparable to the initial introduction of CRT television.”
We bet you guessed we were gonna answer that and you’re not wrong — the two companies just announced that they’re starting production in July 2007 and expect to see SED TVs on the market by the fourth quarter of the same year. Follow with some blather about the 2008 Beijing Olympics driving demand and you get the (SED) picture.
Today was the day Apple fan boys were long anticipating. Unfortunately, the announcement didn’t come as a big shocker as most waited for. List of new products:
World-class acoustic design
Large soundstage
Precise imaging and separation
Wide frequency range
Room-filling power without distortion
Seamless iPod integration
Apple Remote
AC and DC modes
Analog/digital input
Compact footprint
1.5GHz Intel Core Solo processor
2MB L2 Cache
667MHz Frontside Bus
512MB memory (667MHz DDR2 SDRAM)
60GB Serial ATA hard drive
Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
Built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0
Apple Remote
1.66GHz Intel Core Duo processor
2MB L2 Cache
667MHz Frontside Bus
512MB memory (667MHz DDR2 SDRAM)
80GB Serial ATA hard drive
Double-layer SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0
Apple Remote
