A few weeks back, we find an image of their upcoming Wrap 920AV virtual reality sunglasses, and today they followed up with the details.

So what is “see-thru” quantum optics anyway?

The stylish Wrap 920AV functions with any media playing device with a video output and projects a virtual 60-inch screen, as viewed from 9-feet. The state-of-the-art lens technology also allows users for the first time to view 3D video content while seeing and interacting with the real world. This incredible blend of reality and computer generated content will transform the world of portable video while opening up the consumer to previously impossible ?location aware?applications. An optional 6-Degree of Freedom tracking sensor and/or Stereo Camera Pair will enable users to upgrade their Wrap 920AV to experience virtual, augmented and mixed reality environments.

If the glasses work as advertised, interacting with 3D digital content within a real world landscape might be a big step towards decent, workable virtual reality. Plus, the battery life has been bumped up to around six hours (not to mention a significant reduction in the Geordi factor of the design). The glasses are slated for release in Spring of 2009 at an undisclosed price.

Update: Resolution and aspect ratio are consistent with previous Vuzix versions at 640X480 and 4:3.

Vuzix Announces World?s First Fashionable Sunglass-Style Video Eyewear with Revolutionary ?See-Thru?Quantum Optics

Provides a 60-inch private video display complete with Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality capabilities and built-in noise-isolating earphones all in less than 3 ounces

Rochester, NY ?January 5th, 2009 ?Vuzix Corporation is thrilled to announce a ground-breaking addition to the video eyewear market: the Wrap 920AV. As the demand for mobile access to digital entertainment and information skyrockets, Vuzix has once again pushed the envelope. This portable big screen solution with Vuzix?proprietary Quantum optics technology allows for a ?see-thru?video experience in the form of a functional pair of sunglasses and is upgradeable with optional accessories.

The stylish Wrap 920AV functions with any media playing device with a video output and projects a virtual 60-inch screen, as viewed from 9-feet. The state-of-the-art lens technology also allows users for the first time to view 3D video content while seeing and interacting with the real world. This incredible blend of reality and computer generated content will transform the world of portable video while opening up the consumer to previously impossible ?location aware?applications. An optional 6-Degree of Freedom tracking sensor and/or Stereo Camera Pair will enable users to upgrade their Wrap 920AV to experience virtual, augmented and mixed reality environments.

?The Wrap 920AV will not just change the portable video industry, but how consumers view and interact with information,?said Vuzix CEO Paul Travers. ?From watching a Civil War video reproduction battle reenactment on the actual battleground to walking through the streets of New York City with an animated virtual tour guide, the possibilities are endless,?added Travers.

?As listed in 2008 at the Gartner Emerging Trends and Technologies Roadshow, Augmented Reality promises a paradigm shift in how consumers interact with news, entertainment and information,?said Vuzix Consumer Division Product Manager Ron Haidenger. ?The Wrap 920AV is the first product at a consumer price point to deliver this game changing technology to the masses,?added Haidenger.

Additionally, Vuzix will be offering low cost optional prescription lens inserts to provide the perfect solution for consumers wearing prescription eyeglasses. A patent pending electronic Inter-Pupillary Distance system enables eye separation adjustment, ensuring that all users will have an optimal viewing experience. Amazingly, the entire system weighs less than 3 ounces.

The Wrap 920AV?s features include:

?Virtual 60-inch screen viewed from 9-feet
?2D and 3D video formats
?Quantum Optics Technology
?Twin high-resolution AMLCD displays
?Ultra low power electronics
?High-quality noise-isolating and removable comfort fit earphones
?Up to 6 hours of battery life on two AA batteries
?On screen display settings control
?For use with or without eyeglasses
?Optional prescription lens inserts
?Optional Bluetooth 6-Degree of Freedom head tracking system
?Optional USB-powered Stereo Camera Pair

Compatible devices include:

?All iPod/iPhone models with video output
?Portable media players
?Video cameras
?Cellular phones with video output
?Console video game systems
?Digital cameras
?DVD players
?PCs & laptops with S-Video

The Wrap 920AV will be available on Spring 2009.

Features

• A special phone for children?s safety
• This is a safe mobile phone??
• This is easy to using mobile phone??
• This is one lets the guardian and teacher relived mobile phone??
• This is long-distance control mobile phone??
• Smart, cartoon outlook, colorful, simple, especially product which designs for the child
• Child can relate anytime and anywhere to the most important person: Daddy, mother, teacher?/span>
• When children meet the emergency case, they can press the intelligence key contact their relatives until pass through, this mobile phone will send the message to temporarily no answer people
• Children can far away, no worth, deceive, no good phone and message, just contact the ?legal person?assigned by family
• Family can set the forbidden time when the children in class, no worry the phone or message can affect the class or distract for children or submit mobile phone to the teacher, meanwhile, the phone or message cannot omit from the ?legal person?/span>
• Limited the conversation time except 1-4 number, in order to prevent the long answer, get rid of the high charge for family
• Children Location Track, nine families can set the daily activity zone, so the family can master the trace for their children
• You can master the children place, absolutely, you can monitor the children and see if they are watching TV, play game etc.
• Speaker function, the alarm light will inform you when the radiation is very high, and reduce the radiation to the lowest
• Family can choice and control the game time, when the game time is long, you can force pause, in order to protect them eyes
• Pre-loaded software tools include: Alarm, World Clock, Calculator, and Unit Converter

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Well hello color. How ya been, and who at Aerial7 did you have to get high in order to get yourself arranged in such a, um, loud way on these new Graffiti headphones?

Seriously. Short of the DJ/rave scene these cans might have trouble finding a home. The price isn’t too bad at $80 for the Tank model, $50 for the Matador, but I go blind just thinking about them. The Tank includes an extra cable with a microphone for answering calls, so there’s that to consider on your way to that abandoned meat packing warehouse on the city limits.

The looks you’ll get because you’re wearing these for attention are priceless

The next-gen touchscreen Sonos controller is here, and as strange as it seems to say, it’s actually better than the Sonos app for iPhone/iPod Touch for controlling their multi-room music solution wirelessly. But it is expensive.

The CR200 is available by itself for $350 and as part of the Sonos 250 Bundle for $1000. You save a little bit on the bundle since the ZonePlayer 120 and ZonePlayer 90 are $500 and $350, respectively. If you’re not familiar with Sonos, it’s basically a very fancy (and expandable) Airport Express-like unit to get music throughout your house. Our previous review of the last gen ZP80 was good, but the ZP90 and ZP120?this gen?are much better. They’re both capable of streaming music either over your network, or wirelessly through a $100 ZoneBridge unit.
The main competitor to the Sonos controller isn’t actually the last-generation Sonos controller, it’s the free iPhone/iPod Touch app. With an iPod Touch coming in at $230 ($120 less than the CR200), using that to manage your music or internet radio and piping that through different rooms in your house seems like the natural (and cheaper) choice, seeing as the thing also doubles as an iPod Touch when not controlling your rig. Why would someone want to use the CR200? Because it’s good.

Somehow Sonos managed to get the multitouch as responsive and as usable as the iPhone. Scrolling, flicking and even typing are taken directly from Apple’s user interface designs, and thus, should be instantly familiar to just about everyone now. The screen is bright, and the blue theme throughout the controller is classy?unlike the blue iPhone app, which is just slightly tacky looking.

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Feature

• E-book reader
  
• Support incoming call Vibration
  
• Telephone directoreis: 300 groups of contacts of carte de visit, support incoming call with big head sticker, grouping ring
  
• Messages &Multimedia messaging: support 200SMS, 100MMS
  
• Schedule power on/off:?support auto start/close, can set user-defined photo of starting/closing
  
• Alarm clock: support auto start/close, can set user-defined photo of start/close
  
• Alarm clock: 5 groups; can set from Monday to Sunday at random
  
• More information: MP3, Hands free, Voice recorder, WAP, Bluetooth, GPRS download, E-book, IP dial, equalizer, voice recorder, self-establish ringtone, photo editor, calendar, memo, alarm clock, world time, calculator, currency converter

Technical Specifications

• GSM Compatibility: Tri Band 900/1800/1900MHz
  
• Screen: 1.3 inch touch-screen 160k color; 128 * 160px
  
• Support Bluetooth
  
• Ringtone: 64 chord; Ringtone format: mp3, midi
  
• Music: Music: support equalizer; four loudspeakers with stereo output, larger volume and good sound quality
  
• Video: 3GP,MP4,support to play in full screen, speed and pause
  
• Date Transfer: data wire/U disc/ Bluetooth (voice, stereo)
  
• Standby Photo: jpg
  
• CAMERA is 1.3M Pixels
  
• Standby Time:?about 120-180 hours
  
• Talking Time:?about 2-3 hours
  
• Dimension: 60 * 46 * 18 mm(L * W * H)
  
• Language: English/French/Spanish/Portuguese/Italian/German/Arabic

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Development of China’s third-generation (3G) mobile telecommunications network service will enter a “golden time” despite the gloomy industrial situation worldwide, China Unicom Chairman Chang Xiaobing said in a published article.

“Although the world economy is undergoing a tough time amid the widespread financial crisis, and the telecommunications industry faces great uncertainty, China’s telecom carriers still expect vast opportunities,” Chang said in an article in Caijing magazine’s latest yearbook.

Diversified customer demand would lead expansion of such services, including faster data downloads, allowing cell phone users to make video calls and watch TV programs, he noted.

More opportunities and competition will emerge after telecom operators receive 3G licenses from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), according to Chang.

The top three telecom companies are expected to receive 3G licenses soon. China Mobile will use TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access), while China Unicom and China Telecom will use Europe’s WCDMA and North America’s CDMA 2000, respectively.

MIIT head Li Yizhong confirmed that the government would give “strong support” to promote the domestic TD-SCDMA standard. Relevant departments were asked to enhance industrialization of core chips, terminals and test equipment as well as to expand network coverage.

China will invest 280 billion yuan (41 billion U.S. dollars) to develop the 3G mobile telecommunications network over the next two years.

China has the biggest telecom network worldwide, with 977 million phone users as of September, including 624 million cell phone users and 353 million fixed phone customers. There were 253 million people online at the same time.

Samsung has unveiled a new version of the existing device, designed for girls or for everyone who digs pink color (actually that?s ?Sakura pink? for their handset. It?s called Samsung Anycall Ultra S S7350H Elegant Edition and it comes together with a pink leather pouch and a makeup mirror ?ok, it?s for girls, only!

There?s also a special mobile content pre-installed on the S7350H, including ?romantic mobile theme?and ?smart seasonal wallpapers,?which change automatically according to the upcoming calendar event. For instance, there are special wallpapers for such days as Valentine?s Day, Christmas, New Year?s Eve, and so on.

Specs wise, there?s a 2.6-inch WQVGA screen, 3G, GPS, 5 megapixel camera, and microSD memory card slot. Pricing is unknown at this stage, but we think it will be just a little more expensive than the original S7350?

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Main Specifications

Bluetooth Version: 1.2,range: 0-10m
Frequency Range: 2.4GHz – 2.48GHz
Bluetooth Profile Supported: Headset and Handsfree Profile
Voice dialing, last call redialing, and call waiting function
Built-in high intelligent microphone and powerful speaker
Car Charger Input Voltage: DC 12V-24V
Battery: 1600 mAh (rechargeable)
Operating temperature: 0-50 Degree Celsuis
Store temperature: -10-60 Degree Celsuis
Diameter: 9.4cm, Height: 15cm

Other Features

Complete blue tooth wireless installation
Light weight, easy carrying to anywhere for using, using in car, office and at home
DSP technology, full duplex, noise and echo cancellation
High-capacity lithium battery to provide typical standby time of 240 hours and talking time of 15 hours

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Ready to battle the whoever is reigning supreme or threatening to take over the touch screen netbook/nettop market in the U.S. is Gigabyte with the availability of the Gigabyte Booktop M1022 ?and Touch Note T1028 ?netbooks.

Both Gigabyte touch screen machines are now selling at Amazon, with the Booktop M1022 having a price tag of $449, while the Touch Note T1028 ?is selling for $599.

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