Friday, March 4, 2011

Gadget Lab Notes: The Guts Of The Nintendo 3DS

Gadget Lab Notes is an heterogeneous roundup of device headlines briefs and appealing products that grasp the eye.

The Nintendo 3DS Gets Dissected By iFixit
The guys at iFixit voiced that the 3DS is "the many camera-laden device we've ever taken apart," with two cameras used for 3D recording and a for displaying 3D images. The motherboard features a Nintendo 1048 0H ARM CPU and a Fujitsu MB82M8080-07L, amid other chips, and two LCD layers are used to emanate the parallax manifestation that results in 3D footage when noticed from the correct distance. The 3DS got a repairability measure of 5/10, that means it's not as well impossibly tough to rip apart.

Nintendo 3DS Teardown [iFixit around the Giz ]

Thanko's EARINALM Earphones Have a Built-In Alarm
If you're receiving a sleep on the train or the train, you might pick descending defunct to your tunes rsther than than to the pointless discord going on around you. But then how do you know when to arise up? Thanko's EARINALM earphones compromise that complaint with a built-in warning timepiece on the remote control. When the warning sounds, its toll will reinstate your music. It's existing for 2980 Yen, about $36.

EARINALM Earphones [Thanko around Akihabara News ]

Japenese Human-Shaped Mobile Phone Is Designed to Relay Voice and "Human Presence"
Japanese researchers have combined a mobile phone drudge called Elfoid. Shaped similar to a palm-sized pseudo-human and covered in a "skin-like" externa; layer, it's written to broadcast both voice and "human presence," that is completed by mimicking the speakers head and top body movements. They hope that by creation the phone feel similar to the person you're vocalization with, you'll feel closer to them (as against to being creeped out that you're dialing your friends and desired ones on a spell doll-like skin phone that's wiggling in your ear).

Mobile Phone With Human Touch and Elfoid, A Pocket-Sized Android

Zero Xu Is The First Street Motorcycle With a Swappable Battery Pack
Zero's Xu electric motorcycle is the initial model to obtain extract from a removable, equivalent power pack. The integrated horse powers up the fill up in 2 hours, but an elective standalone horse can quick-charge it in about half that time. The Xu, that starts at $7,995, is unquestionably written more for short-distance travelling than cranky nation treks: it usually has a 30-mile range.

Xu [Zero around Designboom ]

OLED Display and Camera Are Combined in Bi-Directional OLED Prototype
The Fraunhofer Institute's antecedent bi-directional row intersperses CMOS photoreceptors between AMOLED pixels so that the manifestation can manifestation and watch objects at the same time. Such technology could be used in wearable displays, or give your smartphone or inscription shade extra functionality as a scanner.

Bi-Directional OLED Microdisplay [OLED Info around Slashgear ]

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