Mark Viken from Sharp gives a live preview and demo of this massive television set to the WSJ in this video here. This is the 90-inch Aquos LED TV in all it’s glory!

The model of this TV is LC-90LE745U and it is available for purchase for $10,999 (suggested retail price) and an expected street price of just below 10K, $9,999 to be precise.

via WSJ on YouTube and OMGGhana.com ]

A team of Engineers at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), led by Bahram Jalali and Dino Di Carlo, developed this camera that is about 100 times faster than existing optical microscopes. The hope is that this device can be used to drastically improve a doctor’s ability to diagnose early-stage and pre-metastatic cancer by photographing the single cells in the blood stream.

Check out this video for more!

The official name for this camera is “automated flow-through single-particle optical microscope”. Due to it’s massive shooting speed (36.7 million fps, 27 picoseconds shutter speed) traditional CCD and CMOS sensors simply don’t measure up. They take far too long to read the data out of each pixel, and the image turns blurry because there isn’t enough light to produce a sharp image anyways. So instead, this new device uses STEAM imaging — serial time-encoded amplified microscopy — which was also developed by the same UCLA team back in 2009. The STEAM technology fires quick laser pulses which are reflected off cells that flow through a microfluidic device. The image is captured is then amplified and picked up by a very high-speed single-pixel photodetector, and ultimately gets processed by an FPGA.

Our hearty congratulations to the UCLA Jalali Lab engineers for this breakthrough technology that is sure to help millions of cancer patients in the not too distant future.

[ via UCLA, extremetech.com and the research paper 10.1073/pnas.1204718109 at PNAS

Here is the discount code to get the EPIC Pro GigaPan robotic panohead for DSLR cameras with a whooping 100 dollar discount.

PMA@CES

To get the discount, visit the EPIC Pro shopping page, add it to cart, sign in (or sign up as a user) and enter the code shown above at checkout.

[photo via wired.com]

oObly TV‘s Amarai gets the lown down on the Sony Tablet S from Sony Electronics’ Sukhjit Ghag at the gdgt live event here in San Francisco. Check it out!

Sony Tablet S – Top 12 Features

1. Has a USB host and a full size SD card slot! (try finding this on the iPad!)
2. Integrated Movies, Playstation gaming, ebooks, AV universal remote and music services into this tablet
3. Wedge shaped design modeled after a folded magazine. that sets this tablet apart from the rest of the flat slates.
4. Relatively light, weighing in at at 1.33 pounds (same weight as the iPad 2)
5. TruBlack Display. The same display technology found in Sony’s Bravia TVs are in used in this tablet. So the videos and games have the same quaility as that of an expensive HD TV.
6. Memory: The Sony tablet S has 1 gig of RAM and 16 gigs or 32 gigs of internal storage (hard drive) that is distributed between space for installed apps and data files (photos, videos, documents etc).
7. Full size SD card slot thats compatible with SDHC high capacity cards, and USB host.
8. File transfer application included with tablet, making it easy to transfer files between flash drives, SD cards and the tablet’s internal storage disk.
9. The Sony Tablet S has single band WiFi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 and a GPS.
10. Mobile OS: Customized version of Google Android Honeycomb OS.
11. Playstation Certified: This is the first Playstation certified tablet meaning it you can play Playstation games (PS1 not PS3) on it via Sony’s own game emulator.
12. Camera: The Sony Tablet S has a front facing VGA camera (for use with Google Talk video chat) and a higher 5.1 megapixel resolution back camera with autofocus lens (no flash). Videos are shot at 720p / 30fps.

Peter and Ryan gave us the low down on their Christmas presents (Gadgets of course!) and also told us what some of the most popular gadgets are for this holiday season / christmas 2011.

Check it out!

Top 10 Gadget Gifts This Holiday Season

1. Samsung Galaxy Nexus – gdgt.com­/samsung­/galaxy­/nexus/
2. Nokia Lumia 800 – gdgt.com­/nokia­/lumia­/800/
3. Apple iPhone 4S – gdgt.com­/apple­/iphone­/4s/
4. Amazon Kindle Fire – gdgt.com­/amazon­/kindle­/fire/
5. ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime – gdgt.com­/asus­/eee­/pad­/transformer­-prime/
6. Lytro Lytro – gdgt.com­/lytro­/lytro/
7. Apple iPad 2 – gdgt.com­/apple­/ipad­/2/
8. Aliph Jawbone Up – gdgt.com­/aliph­/jawbone­/up/
9. Apple MacBook Air 13-inch (mid 2011) – gdgt.com­/apple­/macbook­/air­/13­-inch­-mid­-2011/
10. Amazon Kindle Touch – gdgt.com­/amazon­/kindle­/touch/

gdgtsf will be host to a lot of new consumer electronics and gadgets. The event will be a great place to check out what is popular for gifts this holiday season, so you keep everyone close to you happy! Not only that, you get to touch and feel the gadgets, take it out for a “test drive” and even directly interact with the manufacturers and company representative.

gdgtsf – When, Where, Who, How

• When: Thursday, December 1st from 7 – 10pm
• Where: The Metreon City View (top floor), 101 Fourth Street, San Francisco
• Who: Some of the hottest brands in consumer electronics!
• How: It’s all-ages and open to the public so invite your friends! RSVP here!

gdgtsf – What’s The Event Like?

I have attended both the gdgtsf events in the past. The very first one was last November, when I spoke to gdgt co-founder Peter Rojas about the site. The 2nd gdgtsf was in May of this year, where I produced over a dozen videos for my own blog’s video offerings – oObly TV. Unlike the stock markets, where past performance is not a guarantee of future performance, the 2 gdgtsf  events in the past have been a whole lot of fun, and I can safely “guarantee” that this event on Thursday should should be no different. With over 1300 RSVPs and $5000 in prizes and giveaways, this one’s gonna be rad!

Here are some of the video highlights from the last gdgtsf event. Use the twitter hashtag #gdgtsf when tweeting before, during and after the event.

gdgt Co-founder Peter Rojas

Olympus Stylus Tough Cameras – Drowning, Dropping Stress Test

First Look: Hitachi G-Technology Hard Drives

3M Shoot And Share Pocket Camcorder + Projector

San Francisco Geeks Are HIP! Barry Meyers

Last, but not least, our favorite gdgt dude, Barry Meyers on why gdgtsf is so awesome.

• Speakerphone is always ON, so you can always share in public.
• Privacy Grip housing registers your fingerprints with Facebook Fingerprints Server.
• Swab system to unlock. Saliva analysis system upload your DNA and compares it to the Facebook DNA database
• Farmville water crop buttons.
• Winklevoss proximity alarm.

Take a look yourself.


I doubt anyone  -except Mark Zuckerberg – will have any use for the Winklevoss proximity alarm.

The folks at JOT have timed this fake illustration poking fun at Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg  to come out the same day that CEO Zuckerberg has issued yet another insincere apology for the FTC privacy smackdown that Facebook received.

[via The Joy Of Tech]

He had three things that he wanted to reinvent: the television, textbooks and photography. He really wanted to take these on. — One on One: Walter Isaacson, Biographer of Steve Jobs (NYTimes)

It is this 3rd industry – the art and business of photography – that Italian designer Antonio DeRosa has taken on. In what he calls the “iCam“, DeRosa has come up with a series of illustrations that visually describe what an Apple Camera might look like, if they ever ended up inventing one for the iPhone.

Here is how DeRosa has imagined the iPhone Camera would look like.

The iCam Camera as a photo Projector.


Taking photographs with the iCam Camera

The iPhone Socket in the iCam Camera.

Will The iCam Design Work?

While I love DeRosa‘s design concepts and his wild imagination, I think there is a fundamental flaw in this iPhone Camera design. The iPhone camera lenses – all the way upto the latest iPhone 4S – are located in the top left on the back. This concept camera casing shows a camera lens right in the middle.

How will the camera actually take pictures? Where is the connection between the center iCam lens and the iPhone’s built-in lens? It would be hard to expect Apple or iPhone to drastically change it’s phone design to move the iPhone’s lens from the top left – which is located there for a very good reason – to the middle of the phone just so it can fit into a prototype like this.

Nevertheless this iCam design concept is turning a lot of heads in the Internets. It is only a matter of time before some manufacturer somewhere in the world gets in touch with DeRosa to make this concept into reality.

Meanwhile, check out all 44 High-Res iCam concept illustrations on DeRosa’s Studio website here.

[iCam concept photos via Antonio DeRosa]

You read it right. It is 1 FREE iPad2, EVERY Hour all day long. That makes it 23 iPad2 units (if you exclude the following midnight  / break of dawn Saturday).

How to Enter? Simply visit the Zagg iPad2 Giveaway page here, enter your name and email address and click Submit Entry.

The giveaway starts at midnight i.e. 12 AM on Friday November 25th 2011. You can enter once per hour on the site, so you effectively have 23 chances to win a free iPad2.

Good luck. Remember, you have to be “in it” to “win it“.