Toshiba goes all Blu-Ray and even add some 3D in its flagship BDX3000 player
Well look at that, it seems that Toshiba decided to kick some serious “buttocks” at CES and not only they added 3 new BD player to their line-up but they also added 3D capabilities to their High End player the BDX3000. While being the only one capable to support 3D, the BDX3000 along side its bothers the BDX2700 and BDX2500 also have Wi-Fi in their guts.
CES, LAS VEGAS – JANUARY 6, 2010– Toshiba America Consumer Products, L.L.C. (“Toshiba”), a market leader in home entertainment products, expands its range of Blu-ray players with the introduction of three new players, the BDX2500, BDX2700 and the BDX3000. The BDX3000 will feature Blu-ray 3D™ capability for added entertainment.
ith all models featuring online connectivity, consumers will enjoy access to online streaming entertainment from partners such as Netflix®, Cinema Now® and Pandora®. These Toshiba Blu-ray models will also feature access to 1080p VUDU™ content.
“Entertainment options have come full circle, not just from high quality, high definition disc based Blu-ray content, but now also through online streaming of movies, TV shows and music,” said Jodi Sally, Vice President of Digital Audio/Video Marketing. “With these new devices, consumers will now not only be able to enjoy thousands of TV episodes and movies streamed from Netflix and Cinema Now, but also 1080p content from VUDU. In addition, to round out the offerings, consumers can enjoy their favorite music playlists created with Pandora for a fuller experience.”
With the recent announcement of the finalized Blu-ray 3D format specification, Toshiba will also add the new BDX3000 Blu-ray player with 3D playback to complement the Toshiba 3D television products. The BDX3000 is planned to become available in the third quarter and adds 3D playback in addition to the full slate of features found on the BDX2700.
All models feature 1080p/24fps playback of Blu-ray titles, as well as upconversion of standard definition DVD, are BD-Live™ capable, offer online streaming capability, playback of MP3, HD-JPEG, WMA and AVCHD for home movie viewing. Audio features of all models include on-board decoding of Dolby® True HD and DTS HD Master Audio | Essential ™ via the analog 7.1 channel outputs or pass through via HDMI® interface for outboard decoding. The BDX2500 will be “wireless ready” via its USB port, with an optional Toshiba USB wireless “dongle*” for connection to a wireless home network. The BDX2700 is packed with the same features of the BDX2500 but adds built-in wireless connectivity. The BDX3000, which will ship later in the year, features a fresh new design, 3D capabilities and a wide-range of added features, with full details to follow closer to launch date.
The BDX2500 will have a suggested price of $199.99, the BDX2700 $249.99; both will become available in spring 2010. The BDX3000 is planned to become available in the third quarter.
Cooky Robo
The so-called COOKY ROBOTS are the result of one of the research projects undertaken by JST’s (Japan Science and Technology Agency) ERATO (Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology) division . As you can see from the pictures and in the related video, the original thing about it is that it is wheeled robots doing the cooking work instead of some androids or robot arms that we are used to be offered. The user prepares the ingredients, labels them and pre-programs cooking time and temperature.
It looks nice and futuristic but to be honest, I can’t help thinking that it could be better if they were dealing with ‘the preparation of ingredients’ part as that is the real toil…not the cooking, itself.
Anyways, in case some of you may be interested, the full title of the project is “Cooking with Robots: Designing a Household System Working in Open Environments” and actually is said to be scheduled to appear at the 28th international Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI2010, Atlanta, USA, April 10-15, 2010.
SushiDisk USB
Solid Alliance just sent us a mail to announce a new and special version of their now very famous SushiDisk USB ThumbDrive: “The SushiDisk Nano? Strap”
Indeed, the Japanese manufacturer miniaturized their Thumbkey and turned them into Mobile Phone Strap!
Like the original version, these SushiDisk are handmade products designed by “Sato Sample”, you know this company behind all fake food exhibited in front of Restaurant… If you wanna know more about this company, we realized an exclusive video coverage of the company last summer:
Akihabara News Jumps Into the World Of fake Japanese Food Making
Regarding specs, these USB Thumbdrive features 2GB of memory, weight around 19g, and measure around 19ｘ50ｘ29mm… Available from December 15th.
Need to import this before Christmas? Don’t worry, just ask GeekStuff4U.com
Warm up your hands with USB Gloves
Warm up your hands with Thanko USB Gloves
We don’t know about you, but there are people who really suffer from what we can call ‘cold-hands-syndrome’, meaning whatever they do, even in regular gloves, their hands are incurably cold. You would need to grab a hot drink or carry a portable heater with you etc. to fight it. The case being as such, these products seem to offer an alternative convenient solution (at least wherever you have a USB port).
Working through the USB port of either your PC or AC adapter, these gloves are offered in three versions: Black, grey and (for girls) white. Heater in the Black version is positioned on the back of the gloves, whereas for the other 2 versions with removable hook, it is located in the palm and the hood parts of the gloves.
Kemari matsuri
The game of kemari is a form of football that was played widely in shrine grounds, and was particularly popular in Japan’s Heian Period. The Kemari festival is held biannually at this shrine to commemorate the historical fact that former governor Fujiwara Kamatari and Prince Nakano Oe–who played very important roles in Taika Reforms–first met at a kemari game during the 7th century. The game is quite simple: players try to keep a deerskin ball aloft by using their feet, knees and shoulders. There is no victory or defeat; players are expected to conform to the games manners to make it enjoyable for everyone, whilst striving for an attractive style.
‘NO BLOOMERS, NO LIFE!’ Huh?
Now this is perfect gift for the Japanese otaku/perv– a wallet made of schoolgirl “bloomers” (gym suit bottoms).
The Japanese Akiba blog describes them (machine translation) in the following breathless prose: “Romance for a man is new lifestyle product–a cute item of the palm size that is simple and is full of beautilities of an elegant design…just the thing to show it off your friends and the workplace.” The perv-wallet is packaged with its related “Strawberries” manga as though it is a special edition comic.
Japanese wankers buy these burusera/bloomers (Wiki) for their fantasy romances with pre-high-school girls. Eew.
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