| Today's Top Stories | | #1 | "Cascaded Displays": LCD hacking trick could make virtual reality more real | | | By Tom Simonite, MIT Technology Review | | | Researchers at Nvidia have built a prototype to demonstrate a technique that can quadruple the pixel density of an LCD panel. They call their new design—made by modifying two off-the-shelf LCD panels—a "cascaded display." More»
Why This Matters: This development from Nvidia is a combination of hardware and software initially directed at VR. Worth a look. –Cynthia Wisehart |
| | #2 | Digital signage player released for Raspberry Pi | | | Via InAVate | | | andersDX and its subsidiary TinyGreenPC have introduced a low-cost digital signage media player hosted on a Raspberry Pi computer. More»
Why This Matters: This is a basic announcement about one of the newest very, very inexpensive digital signage players based on Raspberry Pi. If you're interested in Pi-based digital signage in general, here's a roundup of Pi players from last December, including Screenly, Rise Vision, Aperture, Concerto, Raspberry Digital Signage, 1080 Dots, InfoBeamr, TargetR, PiCube, PiWall, Tellystream, Pi Presents, Solix DS, and Linutop. –Cynthia Wisehart |
| | #3 | Review: Teenage Engineering OD-11 | | | By Josh Valcarcel, Wired | | | Teenage Engineering's OD-11 speaker has been stuck in "coming soon" limbo for a couple years now. After appearing at the past two Consumer Electronic Shows, blowing a Summer 2013 launch date, and going on pre-order last fall, this white block of almost-vaporware finally materialized at the MoMa Design Store in New York last week. And while you won't need to be a Scandinavian audiophile to enjoy this Swedish speaker, you will need a sufficiently padded bank account. More»
Why This Matters: This is a brief and interesting development story about a classic '70s speaker re-invented for cloud streaming an eye-watering price. –Cynthia Wisehart |
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