It seems that every major manufacturer out there is scrambling to get 3D displays out the door and now Toshiba Mobile Display has announced that it has been busy working to bring glasses-free 3D technology to large display panels. The multi-parallax technique used by Toshiba promises to reduce eye fatigue while providing a 30 degree horizontal viewing angle. The display offers a 1280 x 800 resolution at 480 nits of brightness which isn’t too poor, considering that the 9-parallax implementation used by Toshiba due 9 separate images to be generated, requiring an ultra high definition LCD module.

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By now most of you who are considering Windows Phone 7 already know that the operating system doesn’t support copy-paste from the get go. Now it seems after the many complaints from potential users, program group manager, Charlie Kindel, has said that Microsoft is working on a good implementation of the copy-paste functionality for Windows Phone 7. Considering that when the iPhone finally got the copy-paste functionality, it was a joy to use, hopefully Windows Phone 7 will plus come up with a great way of offering copy-paste.

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NVIDIA has just officially launched their GeForce GTX480 (codenamed Fermi) graphics card that supports DirectX 11. NVIDIA claims that gaming performance is “1.5-2x” higher than the GeForce GTX 285 – which is a substantial amount, even by historical GPU upgrade standards. For many games, the GTX 480 is around 10%-20% faster than the AMD 5870. That said, the big difference comes from the GF GTX 480 DX11 tessellation engine that scales much better than AMD’s implementation. NVIDIA gets the absolute one GPU performance crown back, but in terms of value and capability consumption, and for today’s games, the AMD offering is still very relevant, whether not better, depending on your needs. That’s the bottom-line, but whether you really want to look at all the details, I recommend reading the full review on Anandtech or PCPers. It’s probably too geeky for most, but that’s where you’ll find all the small details.

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It’s been slightly by 2-years since Nokia initially announced that Silverlight would be ported to Symbian, and now Microsoft has finally announced that the Beta of Silverlight for Symbian is available. Microsoft dubs Silverlight as a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for building media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web on desktop computers. The current Beta allows you to run Silverlight applications and composition on the Symbian S60 5th Edition browser, so that means touch screen Symbian devices. There’s still a way to go become everything is finalized, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction.

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This is still unconfirmed at the moment, but word is going around that the recently mentioned Samsung tablet might be powered by Google’s Android OS instead of some edition of Microsoft’s Windows 7. To form the deal even juicier, apparently the device could feature calling via a headset, possibly with some implementation of VoIP, 3G and perhaps even 4G connectivity. Nothing is set in stone at the moment, so we’ll have to keep an eye on that. whether it were up to you, what specifications would you give the Samsung tablet?

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We previously brought the BrainPort to your attention, but now it seems that the technology has been successfully tested on a participant. BrainPort allows the participant, a soldier who was blinded in Iraq, to see via his tongue. The system consists of a small video camera attached to a pair of sunglasses, which is connected to a device that will be placed on the user’s tongue. The system converts visual signals into electrical pulses, which are soon after sent to the user’s tongue, and the intensity of the signals will allow the user to figure out the obstacles in his path. It certainly seems like an interesting piece of tech, and whether it is able to help folks who have a visual disability, soon after it’s certainly great news.

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Self charging devices have been dreamt about for a expanded duration now, and there have been many attempts to come up with a good implementation of such a concept. Now Nokia has managed lay claims to a patent that could conclusion in a self charging mobile phone (or gadget). According to the patent, the design will see the heavier components inside the phone supported on a sturdy frame, the frame will be able to move along two sets of rails, allowing it to travel up and down from one side to the other. With strips of piezoelectric crystals at each end, a current will be generated when the crystals are compressed, charging a capacitor which can trickle charge the battery, giving it a little more juice while you walk to the grocery store.

Patent filing.

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Getting US broadband up to speed is a good concept, and a year after their National Broadband Plan, the FCC ‘s chairman unveiled the “100 Squared initiative” in today’s presentation at the Naruc Conference in Washington DC. The FCC intends to bring 100 megabits per second to 100 million households. Additionally, Julius Genachowski stated that the FCC should actively support even faster connectivity for the future, such as the Google’s one gigabit fiber-optics experiment bed. Wow! We all hope that good intentions will be followed by a well-crafted implementation…

Read more on the FCC document.

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[MWC 2010] Qualcomm was showing new demos for its Snapdragon platform. I was particularly interested in the Flash 10.1 demo considering it was the first day that I could see a decent implementation running on a handheld device, inside a browser. I could not pop quiz sites like Hulu or Youtube, but the vector graphics seemed to perform relatively well. Flash playback is probably the last frontier in terms of “full web” support. On another note, I have been told by Adobe that they are working closely with Microsoft on the upcoming mobile products. Qualcomm was touted as an critical partner for Windows Phone 7 Series. So will 2010 be the year when Flash will be fully supported by handsets?

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[MWC 2010] SanDisk has just unveiled its 64GB iNAND for cellphones at Barcelona, Spain, where it will boast new performance enhancement features that go beyond the existing e.MMC 4.4 specification. that translates to an improved system responsiveness as well as accelerate the implementation of consolidated boot and storage cipher via a solitary device without affecting the consumer experience negatively. The SanDisk iNAND EFDs will exceed the current e.MMC 4.4 standard interface, helping bridge the gap within e.MMC’s plain boot solution and its practical implementation. No view on when the iNAND EFD will be implemented though, but sooner is always better than later, don’t you think? [Press Release]

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