xperia z1 case: 十二月 2013

2013年12月13日星期五

Next Angry Birds Seasons iteration coming later this month

Next Angry Birds Seasons iteration coming later this month, Chinese New Year-themed?

We all know what Angry Birds is, right? Well if you don’t, chances are you’ve never owned a smartphone in your life or something. Anyway, the next Angry Birds seasons update is on its way to mobile OS platforms and is scheduled for this January.

The theme of the next Seasons chapter is Chinese in origin, which isn’t exactly the first we’ve seen. We’re guessing it will be connected somehow with the fact that Chinese New Year is celebrated on January 23 this year.

Here’s the promo video which is not without subtle clues as to what we’re about to see. You’ll notice two dragon transitions in the video that have an apparent mighty eagle feel to them. We’re maybe in for a mighty dragon this time, as China is entering the year of the dragon.

Hopefully those who’ve paid for the mighty eagle add-on won’t be forced to pay for the dragon one too – if it actually makes it to the game.

If it turns out that the new edition is indeed dedicated to the Chinese New Year, it won’t be the first edition centered around Chinese holidays. Anyway, I bet it’s going to be fun.

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New XPERIA Play ads get creepier and creepier

New XPERIA Play ads get creepier and creepier, even iPhone isn’t safe anymore

Sony Ericsson is hard at work with the XPERIA Play media campaign. You can really tell it’s very important for Sony Ericsson to sell the life out of this device.

The latest slew of ads feature this lunatic woman (in real life american actress Kristen Schaal, who’s actually not insane or possessed ), which absolutely looses it in front of the camera, delivering satanic messages and plain old craziness.

In one of them even the iPhone 4 gets “Pwned” and its owner stabbed in all sorts of places by the XPERIA Play-yielding player. The iPhone 4 proves absolutely useless against the advanced gaming controls of the XPERIA Play.

While we’re not so sure this is the real deal, we’ll just have to wait for it to arrive in our office so that we can give it a spin. Heck, we’ll even let the XPERIA Play loose on the iPhone 4 and check out the results.

Anyway here are the rest of the videos for you to… um, enjoy, we guess!

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2013年12月6日星期五

A desktop AMD FX CPU wins the Guiness overclocking world record

A desktop AMD FX CPU wins the Guiness overclocking world record, hits a staggering 8.429GHz [VIDEO]

We as a race have always had a fascination with speed, making faster cars with better aerodynamics, pushing the global network faster and faster with fiber optic broadband and for power users, a PC needs a lightning fast brain to deal with those heavy duty tasks.

holy cow!

But what about trying to squeeze the greatest clock speed you can out of a stock CPU, just for the sake of it. That’s exactly what AMD set out to do to show off their latest Bulldozer-based FX chips and so they brought in the best they knew from the overclocking community to attempt a world record. Using a desktop PC with a new 8-core AMD FX chip, the team managed to push the clock speed to 8.429GHz, with a little help from some liquid nitrogen and helium cooling of course, but this smashed the previous record of 8.30GHz and propelled AMD to the top spot, winning the Guiness World Record title.

So Intel, are you scared yet?

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2013年12月3日星期二

Hitachi shows off bright 4

Hitachi shows off bright 4.5-inch LCD IPS display that does glasses-free 3D and has 720p resolution

Hitachi announced a new mobile IPS LCD display that also does glasses-free 3D. It’s quite a beast at 4.5″ and 720p resolution (1280 x 720 pixels) and it uses lenticular technology to create the stereoscopic effect, which allows it to be brighter when displaying 3D images.

Hitachi say that typical glasses-free 3D displays (that use a parallax barrier) have their brightness cut in half when showing 3D content. Not so with their new display – it’s actually brighter in 3D mode.

The display uses IPS technology, which means we can expect good viewing anglesy from it. It’s rated at 400 nits in 2D mode and the number jumps to 470 nits in 3D mode. Those are very good numbers, especially considering one of the major banes of 3D right now is just how dim it is (there was a lot of talk of how cinemas display very dim 3D movies, Michael Bay even wrote a letter to projectionists).

One more thing – a quick calculation shows that 720p resolution at 4.5″ means exactly 326 ppi, the exact number of the iPhone 4′s Retina display pixel density. I’m sure it’s not a coincidence but it’s strange that Hitachi didn��t brag about it.

Source (in Japanese)