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Samsung wants to sell 10 million 3D TVs this year, LG plans on 5 million
Here’s one way to solve a chicken-and-egg dilemma: crank out 15 million chickens. That’s seem to be the plan for Samsung and LG, anyway — Samsung plans to sell 10 million 3D TVs this year, up five times from the two million it sold last year, while LG plans to sell some 5 million. Now, it’s unclear whether this increase in sales will come as a result of consumer demand for 3D or simply because almost all new TVs will be 3D-capable, but we’re hoping that pesky 3D content problem will get a lot better once more people can actually view it — assuming anyone actually wants to wear the glasses, that is.
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What little gadget have you bought lately that you are glad to have?
Question by saturdays child: What little gadget have you bought lately that you are glad to have?
I finally remembered to pick up a magnifying glass for my desk today and it’s already come in handy because I can hardly read those darn #”s under the bottle caps to get my Coke Points! What little thing are you glad you bought?
Best answer:
Answer by Lilly
the Ped-Egg!! It’s awesome
What do you think? Answer below!
USB 3.0 adoption could be slowed because of lack of demand
Willing to spend $300+ on a fancy motherboard just so you can get USB 3.0 support? Yeah, that might not be such a good idea, if only because Intel is in no hurry to integrate the spec into its chipsets. That means companies have to go out of their way to offer USB 3.0 on their systems. The odds of seeing USB 3.0 on a cheap-o netbook, then, are pretty much non-existent.
You can probably guess why this is happening: how many applications or devices really need the 5Gb/s speed offered by USB 3.0? Your printer and scanner don’t, and neither does your Flip. How much bandwidth does the typical USB mouse need? I’m going to guess not anywhere near 5Gb/s.
So if there’s no “mainstream” demand for it, then why would Intel et al. goes out of its way to offer it? USB 2.0 is “good enough” for most people, and if Apple has taught us anything in the past 10 years it’s that people are fine with “good enough” products.
This isn’t to say that USB 3.0 doesn’t have its uses. What if you spend all weekend shooting HD video for your student project, and don’t want to sit there all day while you offload the files onto your hard drive? You could save a few minutes there with USB 3.0 I suspect. (Are there even USB 3.0 video cameras yet? I have no idea.)
I imagine that as more and more people have USB 3.0 support, more and more companies will be all, “Cool, let’s release Product With USB 3.0 now!”
Chicken and egg, I suppose.
iDuck Wireless Speaker
By Andrew Liszewski
Forget just squeaking. While the iDuck might not be as squeezable as its traditional rubber counterparts, it lets you listen to music from your iPod, iPhone, or any other audio device with a headphone jack while you’re in the tub. It’s powered by a hefty 7 x AAA batteries, 4 for the duck and 4 for the egg-shaped FM transmitter, and while you’ll still want to keep your media player as far from the tub as possible, the iDuck is completely waterproof. ~$43 from BB Trade Sales.
[ iDuck Wireless Speaker ] VIA [ The Red Ferret Journal ]