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Comic-Con Stays In San Diego
September 30th, 2010 | 
Author: The Union-Tribune is reporting that Comic-Con International, the popular arts convention that takes place in San Diego every July, will remain here for another five years.
Other cities (Los Angeles and Anaheim) have been vying to host the convention after 2012, when the contract with the San Diego convention center expires. David Glanzer, spokesman for Comic-Con, told These Days back in April that it was a tough decision and would require time and deliberation.
One of the biggest concerns was the size of the San Diego convention center and whether it could continue to accommodate what has become San Diego’s largest convention with more than 130,000 attendees each year.
David Glanzer told the U-T: “We’ve always had a desire to stay in San Diego, and we had three amazing proposals. It was obviously a very difficult decision, one born out by the amount of time it’s taken to make that decision. But in the end San Diego was able to address a lot of our concerns. It’s never been a secret we’d hoped to stay here, but the real challenge was that those who want to attend the event can afford to attend, in terms of size and space and cost.”
The U-T says the final decision came after contracts were made with the 64 convention-block hotels locking in certain rates for Comic-Con attendees through 2015.
What do you think? Are you happy Comic-Con will remain in San Diego?
Were you frustrated by the long lines and crowds at Comic-Con over the last couple of years? A larger space would presumably help alleviate those frustrations. Are the lines worth it to keep Comic-Con in San Diego?
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/sep/30/comic-con-stays-san-diego/
Sony unveils ultrathin rollable OLED
Sony on Wednesday unveiled a flexible OLED (organic light-emitting diode) display so thin it can wrap around a 4mm cylinder–roughly the diameter of the average pen or pencil.
The 80 micrometers-thick OLED display (about the width of a human hair) can continuously display moving images even while being rolled up, as Sony demonstrated in a video below.
The working flexibility is possible because engineers have managed to lose the rigid driver IC chips usually used in the substrate of a screen in exchange for a gate-driver circuit with OTFTs (organic thin-film transistors), according to Sony.
The 4.1-inch display, which has a resolution of 432×240 pixels (121 pixels per inch), is not for sale. It’s simply a research prototype Sony said it hopes to one day incorporate into products such as screens in mobile devices. Full demonstrations of the screen will be given this week at the SID (Society for Information Display) 2010 International Symposium in Seattle.
The consumer electronics giant has been at the forefront of this technology, showing one of the world’s first flexible OLEDs in existence at CES 2009, as CNET has reported. That screen was .2 millimeters thick.
Of course, Sony is not the only one experimenting with thin and flexible screens.
In April 2009, Dai Nippon garnered much attention with its flexible and seemingly animated posters for the Rakuten Eagles, a Japanese baseball team. The screens incorporated both energy-saving OLEDs and LEDs.
GE has also been working on ultrathin OLEDs, but in an effort to apply the technology to its lighting products. In March 2008, GE unveiled thin and flexible lighting OLEDs that can be manufactured in rolls akin to newspapers on a printing press.
Source : http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20006000-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Olivia Munn Covers Complex’s April/May 2010 Issue!
Complex’s April/May 2010 Issue Officially Hits Stands On April 6.
Two years ago, we introduced the world to our secret crush Olivia Munn by putting the G4 hostess on our February/March 2008 cover. Since then, she’s become everyone’s favorite funny chick, looking sexy on a slew of other magazine covers, popping up on TV shows and getting cast in a couple of upcoming blockbusters like Date Night and Ironman 2. To celebrate her newfound success, and our 8th Anniversary, we had to get down with our longtime home girl for her second Complex cover. For her sexy spread in the April/May 2010 Issue, we brought in Marvel Comics illustrators Mike Choi and Sonia Oback to help bring the environment to life with some curious woodland creatures. Hit the links for more and check back tomorrow to see our second cover…
• CLICK HERE TO READ OLIVIA’S FULL COVER STORY
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http://www.complex.com/blogs/2010/03/22/olivia-munn-covers-complexs-aprilmay-2010-issue/
http://www.oliviamunn.com/april-2010-complex-cover/
Intel to debut 6-core gaming chip
Intel is expected to introduce a 6-core processor designed to crunch through the most 3D-intensive games in the coming weeks.
The first glimpses of the chip running 3D-intensive games such as Napoleon: Total War could happen at the 2010 Game Developer’s Conference next week, according to industry sources. The official roll-out of Intel’s 6-core “Westmere” processors, however, is expected later this month.
The Core i7-980X is distinguished primarily by being Intel’s first 6-core “Extreme Edition” processor based on the chipmaker’s cutting-edge 32-nanometer process technology. Generally, the smaller the manufacturing process, the more circuitry can be packed onto the chip, increasing performance. Most Intel processors still use “fatter” 45-nanometer technology.
Like other Core i series processors, it features Hyper-Threading, which can double the number of tasks–or threads–a processor can execute. So, a 6-core processor can handle 12 threads. This technology is not offered on prior-generation Core 2 chips.
Resellers–which have posted preliminary pricing–list the processor at just over $1,000 and show it running at 3.33GHz and packing 12MB of built-in cache memory. With an expected price of around $1,000, game boxes using the chip will not be cheap.
PC makers that typically offer high-end gaming boxes include Falcon Northwest, Velocity Micro, and Dell’s Alienware unit.
Source :
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10463931-64.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Posted in Entertainment, Gaming, Intel, Tech | 
Tags: 3.33GHz, 6-core gaming chip, Intel, Westmere | 
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TiVo Introduces New Internet-Connected DVRs
TiVo has updated its offerings, introing two new set-top boxes, the TiVo Premiere and the TiVo Premiere XL, which will finally bring high-definition to the DVR range.
In a nutshell, the web-connected TiVo Premiere boxes offer cable TV, movies on demand (from Netflix, Amazon and Blockbuster) and web videos from YouTube (
). In the coming months, they will also offer music from Pandora (), along with existing services from the likes of Rhapsody () (which will also be available to Series 2 and 3 box owners).
In addition, TiVo is not letting the demand for apps pass it by; the boxes will offer access to more than 1,000 apps from FrameChannel with widgets for news, weather, sports, social networking sites and more.
As far as the difference between the two boxes goes, the Premiere has a 320GB harddrive — said to be good for 45 hours of HD storage or 400 standard, while the Premiere XL has 1TB of storage space and boasts 150 hours for HD and more than 1,000 for SD, as well as some THX tech for all kinds of optimal audio and video reproduction claims.
The boxes cost $300 and $500, respectively, and will be on sale in April. Also due soon from TiVo is a Wireless-N Wi-Fi adapter, and an unusual, slide-out QWERTY TiVo remote that will be offered as optional extras.
The idea of bringing the Internet into the living room is becoming more common as of late. Hardware products such as the soon-to-be-released Popbox and Boxee Box are all about getting Internet content on your television, and Yahoo’s Connected TV offering for web-enabled televisions will bring web widgets to the living room. Heck, Samsung has even introduced an app store for televisions.
These products and innovations, along with TiVo’s newest venture, just serve to demonstrate how attached we are to the Internet (Case in point: 13% of viewers were surfing the web during the Olympics’ opening ceremonies).
http://mashable.com/2010/03/03/tivo-apps-premiere-dvrs/
Posted in DVR, Entertainment, Internet, Tech, TiVo, TV |
Tags: DVR, Internet-Connected, TiVo |
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