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) Tiny projectors inflate cell phone, iPod images
Recognizing that it's not much fun to watch movies on a tiny cell phone, a number of companies are racing to develop gadgets that project what's playing on the small screen onto walls, table cloths and other handy surfaces."Pico projectors" that are small enough to carry around in a shirt pocket are expected on the market later this year. Eventually, the technology will be tiny enough to be built into phones and portable media players, the companies say.
Microvision Inc., a small Redmond, Wash., company, was at the CTIA Wireless industry show this week to demonstrate a prototype of its projector. It's about the size of two full-size iPods, but by the time it goes on sale later this year, it should be about 30 percent smaller, said Russell Hannigan, the company's director of projector product management. More>>
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) SANYO Canada Launches Affordable Pocket-Sized 9.1-Megapixel Digital Movie CameraCorder(TM)
SANYO Canada debuts the SANYO Xacti CG9, an easy-to-use and affordable digital movie cameracorder with 9.1 megapixel still image capability for under $330.The CG9 features an advanced CMOS image sensor for capturing video and high resolution stills, and employs the latest, high-performance MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video codec. Movies can be recorded and played back at a smooth rate of 60 frames per second with DVD-like resolution in stereo sound, on a standard SD or SDHC memory card (sold separately). The unit can record one hour of MPEG-4 video per gigabyte of memory at a lower resolution. There is also 40 megabytes (MB) of internal memory.
High resolution product images are available at www.marketwire.com/sanyo.
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) Could the Olympics spoil Back to School sales?
Supply chain blogs recently warned that the Chinese government may close down a number of manufacturing industries during the Olympic games this summer and other posters warn that shipping and production slowdowns could be felt around China. The site says games could disrupt the flow of technology hard-goods in the fall. Or not.Apple has its own Olympic plans: its first mainland store.
According to a post in Richard Brubaker's All Roads Lead to China blog, the Chinese government has a plan to shut down manufacturing efforts in Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai, before, during and after the Olympic games.
Brubaker said his "gut" told him that:
The industries most likely to get the knock on the door are those that are dirty, belching black smoke, sucking up a lot of water, and require a lot of energy to accomplish all that. More>>