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Today (November 20, 2007) NVIDIA launched the GeForce 8800M GTX and GeForce 8800M GTS, two GPUs that do quite a bit to close the next-gen GPU gap between desktops and notebooks by bringing the architecture behind the just-released, top-of-the-benchmark-heap G92 GPU to the portable space. NVIDIA claims that these new GPUs will let you play Crysis and Unreal Tournament 3 on your laptops, and the company's press release features a quote from Epic's Mark Rein, who claims that "these next-gen machines run Unreal Tournament 3 fantastically even at HD resolutions of 1920x1200." But at what quality settings, one wonders?

The answer, at least in the case of UT3, is likely to be, "high quality," given the amount of hardware that NVIDIA was able to pack into the mobile GPU using the same 65nm process on which the GeForce 8800GT is made, but just don't expect the game to run at the kinds of 100+ frames-per-second that gamers love to see in benchmark roundups.

Source: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071120-nvidia-launches-mobile-version-of-next-gen-g92-gpu.html

Eyetop is a full size monitor providing the user with a 16-bit color screen. Eyetop is plug and play with any NTSC/PAL source (320x240 at 60 Hz). Applications include: digital cameras and video cameras, test and instrument equipment and many computer based applications.


Eyetop Classic has a miniaturized screen integrated in one of the sidepieces. This high resolution color screen is visible in large format on the side, without obstructing the field of view. It is lightweight and fits easily in a pocket. You can bring it with you everywhere and wear it like a pair of regular glasses.

Source: http://www.tekgear.com/index.cfm?pageID=90&prodid=0247&section=83

ROME - The theme may be familiar but the technique is new: A standard cell phone camera to shoot an entire feature-length documentary on love and sex.

Italian filmmakers used a Nokia N90, a higher-end cell phone sold around the world, to produce the 93-minute "New Love Meetings," which they say is the first feature film to be entirely shot with such a tool.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13325356/

More than half the weight and size of today's batteries comes from supporting materials that contribute nothing to storing energy. Now researchers have demonstrated that genetically engineered viruses can assemble active battery materials into a compact, regular structure, to make an ultra-thin, transparent battery electrode that stores nearly three times as much energy as those in today's lithium-ion batteries. It is the first step toward high-capacity, self-assembling batteries.

Source: http://www.technologyreview.com/BizTech/wtr_16673,296,p1.html

MARS (Mobile Augmented Reality Systems) began in 1996, and is aimed at exploring the synergy of two promising fields of user interface research:

Augmented reality (AR), in which 3D displays are used to overlay a synthesized world on top of the real world, and mobile computing, in which increasingly small and inexpensive computing devices, linked by wireless networks, allow us to to use computing facilities while roaming the real world.

Source: http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/graphics/projects/mars/