Happy New Year (again)!
Dong and I waste no time getting right to some serious business by tackling San Francisco’s homeless problem, or more our problem with the homeless–not all homeless, of course. Well, just check it out. It’s very un-PC, although maybe not in the way you’…
Originally posted at Inside CNET Labs Podcast
From the “how in the hell do I get this guy’s job?” corner of the tubes comes an interesting video from Engadget.
In it, a guy dressed in a white lab coat takes out his frustrations on a Vissumo touch-screen monitor using a 9mm. There are days I wish …
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As good as the setting looks I'm much more excited about how new and creative the level design will hopefully be.
(Credit: U.S. Army)
I haven’t seriously played America’s Army in about three years. By “seriously” i mean I was obsessed and played as much …
See, business users will enjoy this monitor. How do I know? No. How could I not know? Look at all the charts and graphs and stuff. That proves it!
(Credit: Westinghouse)
Westinghouse seems to have completely moved into the same 16:9 spacious flat that most other monitor vendors have …
(Credit: Sony)So it looks like the Playstation 3 is about a couple years away from becoming self-aware, taking over the world, and making us all its human slaves–if a few of us aren’t already.
Sony announced on Tuesday that an upcoming firmware update (v2.60) for the PS3 …
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Like Amazo, we cannot be stopped.
(Credit: Warner Bros.)
OK, that was kind of a longer break than we expected. Sorry about the whole no warning thing. We’re back on at least a weekly schedule now and to because we’ve been away so long we’re giving you …
Originally posted at Inside CNET Labs Podcast
(Credit: Acer)Hot on the heels of the announcement of their B Series of displays, on Monday Acer introduced another 23-incher. The H233H bmid.
As is becoming common with PC monitors this year, the Acer H233H has a 16:9 aspect ratio, as apposed to 16:10 that most widescreen …
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The 16:9 monitor revolution (or is that resolution? ha ha…ahem!) has begun. I reported last week that most monitor vendors were moving their lines from a 16:10 aspect ratio to 16:9, since 16:9 is what HDTVs use and monitor vendors would like HD content to …
(Credit: Philips)Many people may just now be getting used to the idea of the 16:9 aspect ratio HDTVs have. The whole black bars at the top and bottom just kinda throws people off I guess.
Personally, I’ve never had a problem with this. I just never understood …
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If you’ve been keeping up with my monitor blog posts from CES 2009, there’s one term you’ve probably heard tossed around more any other: “Full HD.”
Samsung's LED-based 2370L is more than a little easy on the eyes.
(Credit: Eric Franklin/CBS Interactive)
Yes, Full …
Originally posted at CES 2009
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