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Guess where they met! [Source: Make via Gizmodo]

When getting up from your desk make sure you disconnect your USB powered tie do you don’t destroy your laptop… [Source:Akihabara]

Namba Parks, landscaped architecture in Osaka, Japan. Cities have gone too far with concrete. Now it is time to reverse this trend, unfortunately the hard way… [Source: Freshome]

Denon is soon releasing in Japan the RCD-CX1 combo. It is the merging of the separate DRA-CX3 amp and DCD-CX3 SACD player, and will cost about $1,700. Power will be 75W/4ohms or 35W/8ohms.
Of course SACD is long ago a dead format, but since no changes were required from the DCD-CX3 player it is not an [...]

Since 1998 BusinessWeek is annually compiling a list of the best performing tech companies. Although Amazon and Apple top this list, US companies are fewer in number than ever before, a sign of IT spread to many parts of the world.
The 33 US companies this year were 43 the year before (!) and 75 in [...]

Super Hi-Vision is a crazy project, but that doesn’t stop Japanese manufacturers from developing hardware for it. NHK’s pictured prototype system achieves the 32 megapixel resolution with two LCoS projectors and includes a 22.2 sound system! Now let’s find some applications to use it [Source: CNET]

Remember all the netbook noise back in May? Computex seems months old and in the meantime we have had many distractions in the form of new camcorders, cameras, TVs, iPhones, audio equipment… But the netbooks are coming, and even if there is some delays like in the case of the MSI Wind, the market will [...]

If anything AVCHD above $1000 could lead to a divorce, Sony comes to the rescue with the HDR-CX12. It will cost about $900 and offers 1920×1080i resolution in AVCHD format. Like in the case of the new JVC Everio GZ-HD30/40, you may also choose the 1440×1080i HDV option!
There is a new CMOS sensor -same as [...]

A few days back it was the D10, now it resurfaces as the D700 with the same 12 megapixel full-frame sensor and 51-point autofocus as the D3.
Is it something to believe? There is no smoke without fire, so even if the predicted features do not find their way in the final model, definitely expect some [...]

With enough LED lights to compete with New York’s Times Square, Japanese Dekotora trucks are easily the world’s brightest road distraction. Of course they are just a hobby for space truckers… [Source: Japanite]

Panasonic couldn’t be very far from the new JVC Everio videocamera models covered earlier. They sport 3MOS sensors, Panasonic argues that these are more sensitive than standard CMOS version, something to be of course proven in practice. Otherwise, both have a 2.7 inch screen, HDMI, full HD 1920×1080 resolution and 5.1 Dolby Digital sound.
AVCHD is [...]

Vincent Callebaut’s architectural exercise is an impressive floating city for a population of 50,000 inhabitants. The idea is that in a future of rising sea levels and natural catastrophic events provoked by climate change, these islands will be refugees for the few lucky thousands.
Green walls, solar panels, massive landscaped areas and energy saving take center [...]

The wind/solar recharge Pod by Orange will be able to charge up to 100 mobile telephones per hour in this year’s Glastonbury festival [Smartplanet via Engadget]

In an interesting twist, JVC decides to combine the best of both MPEG-2 -used in Everio models so far- and AVCHD. To fight AVCHD-only models from competitors Sony and Canon, later this summer the Everio line is going to be enriched with three new models, the GZ-HD40, the GZ-HD30 and the GZ-HD10. The first two [...]

Rumours about a VW-Apple iCar resurface, but before you get too excited bear in mind that VW knows everything about cars, Apple knows nothing at all… [Source: Autoblog]