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  • New NEC technology detects pirated online videos “in seconds”

    New NEC technology detects pirated online videos “in seconds”

    Posted on May 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Software that helps to detect "illegal" video content on the web automatically isn't really new, but NEC claims its technology has two selling points that sets it apart from similar solutions: speed and accuracy. The company says its system can identify pirated video material in a "matter of seconds", with a detection rate of 96% and at a false alarm rate of just five in one million cases.

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  • Here It Is: Google’s Kick-Ass Chrome Speed Test Video

    Here It Is: Google’s Kick-Ass Chrome Speed Test Video

    Posted on May 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Yesterday, we noted that with its newest release of Chrome, Google wanted to show us how fast it is rather than just tell us how fast it is. To do that, they made a Rube Goldberg-ian video showing how fast web pages load in Chrome. Yesterday, we got the making of the video. Today, we get the video itself. And yes, it’s awesome. Watch below. This is a web page loading at 2,700 frames per second. Here’s what Google says about the video:

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  • Coming soon: 50% lighter LCD TVs

    Coming soon: 50% lighter LCD TVs

    Posted on March 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Another possible breakthrough for LCD TVs? Researchers at Japanese chemical company Teijin and Yamaguchi University claim they have developed a new technology that makes it possible halve the weight of LCD TVs. Conventional LCDs are based on silicon solid-state devices on glass substrates, which "sandwich" liquid crystals. These devices generate heat when used, prompting manufacturers to go for heat-resistant (heavy) glass substrates.

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  • Tiny $20 camcorder shoots 640×480 video

    Tiny $20 camcorder shoots 640×480 video

    Posted on March 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Look at this little guy. It’s just a $20 camcorder that promises to shoot 640x480 video at 30 frames per second. Will you get awesome looking footage out of it? Probably not. Probably absolutely not. Maybe. Probably not, though.

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  • LED flashlight records nightvision video

    LED flashlight records nightvision video

    Posted on March 3, 2010 | No Comments
    Ghost hunters, rejoice. Not only does this $150 LED flashlight record 640x480 video at 30 frames per second, it’s also got an eight foot nightvision range that allows it to record in complete darkness.

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  • The next frontier: Converting 2D to 3D

    The next frontier: Converting 2D to 3D

    Posted on January 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember at CES when all of the companies were like "We'll convert your 2D to 3D?" Yeah, ummm, nah. What will happen is that studios will back-convert some of their old movies - or movies not shot in 3D - to 3D using a time-consuming, partially automated process. Like in love, the first cut is the deepest:
    The first step is to separate the shot into somewhere between two and eight layers of depth. Take, for example, an image of a man standing in front of a brick wall, with a blue sky behind the wall. The graphic artist might separate the shot into three layers: the man, the wall, and the sky. Then, he would take each layer and draw contour lines around any object that appeared there. He'd start by marking depth lines on the man using a computer, turning the image into a sort of topographical map. He'd repeat the process for any objects in the other layers. (If there were a bird in the sky, he'd draw lines there, too.)

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  • More screenshots of Perfect Dark for Xbox Live.

    More screenshots of Perfect Dark for Xbox Live.

    Posted on December 29, 2009 | No Comments
    The Xbox Live Arcade port of Perfect Dark still carries that frustratingly (well...) vague "winter 2010" release date, but we're beginning to see more and more screenshots trickle out from wherever these things trickle out from. Who knows. Anyhow, there's a series of new screenshots on some dude's Photobucket that may interest you.

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  • Apple approves a chintzy video app for older iPhones

    Apple approves a chintzy video app for older iPhones

    Posted on December 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Do you have 99 cents burning a hole in your pocket? Do you have an old iPhone 2G or 3G? Get yourself this video camera app. The catch? It takes 160x213 video at three frames per second. Three frames per second. Do you know what kind of video that is? That's flip book quality.

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