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Filed under: Displays

It's here friends, Sony's Drive teaser is none other than their 3-mm thin, 1,000,000:1 OLED TV, just announced official with a December 1st Japanese retail date. The 11-inch SonyDrive XEL-1 set features a 960 x 540 pixel resolution, terrestrial digital tuner, 2x 1W speaker, and HDMI, USB, and Ethernet jacks in a package measureing 287 x 140 x 253-mm and 2-kg (3.3-pounds). How much? Well, ¥200,000 or about $1,740 -- That's about $160 per inch of OLED. Rich indeed, but so it goes for first generation technology.

[Via Impress]

 

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Filed under: Cellphones

Ok, time for another unscientific reader poll. Did you upgrade your iPhone to v1.1.1? If so, what happened? Tell us all about it (why you did or didn't upgrade, what happened if you did, etc.) in comments. Let it all out, we're here for you.

 

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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Filed under: Gaming

See that Wii or Xbox sitting under your TV? The PSP or DS tucked away in your messenger bag? That copy of Pac-man on your cellphone which cost five bucks and expires next month? Each of them owe a debt of gratitude to the granddaddy of all videogame consoles, the Atari 2600, which ushered in an era of unprecedented television usage, and which turns 30 years old this month. That's right, the first 2600 units rolled off the assembly line in October of 1977, delighting both children and kids at heart with games like Pitfall and Pole Position, and helping distract the nation after the untimely death of the King, the tragic crash of Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane, and Pele's retirement. So here's to you, dear 2600: Atari may only be a shadow of its former self today, but you've lived on in our fond memories, in retro Flashback products, and last but not least, in tricked-out mods from the great Ben Heckendorn.

 

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Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds

Well if there are still any doubts as to who’s winning the portable console war, let them be dispelled here and now: in the less than three years since it’s been on the market, the Nintendo DS (in both its Lite and Phat flavors) has sold a total of 50 million units, according to the unofficial VG Chartz. Sony’s PSP (released less than one month later in Japan)? Less than half that number. While the PSP will surely get a sales boost now that it too has slimmed down, DS still seems to be the clear choice of the majority of gamers. Next challenge for Mario and friends: hitting 100 million faster than the iPod.

 

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I'm not the sort that readily embraces change. Abrupt shifts in routine, notable differences in loved ones and the gradual acceleration of years can weigh anyone down, but some are more inclined to roll with the punches than others -- I've learned I'm not such a person. Perhaps that is why Canadian actress Sarah Polley's directorial debut, Away from Her, affected me as deeply as it did. It's a film as much about the grueling realities of Alzheimer's disease as it is a thoughtful, considered rumination about life's inevitabilities; Away from Her is a shattering, emotionally brutal experience, anchored by an exquisite Julie Christie performance.

Polley, who adapted the screenplay from Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain," displays a keen eye for the subtle language of long-time married couple Grant and Fiona (Gordon Pinsent and C...Read the entire review

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