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these glasses may be big and attached to a pack which must be carried with you, but it is pretty cool. these glasses may not look like much, but when you where them and turn them on, it displays a projection screen about 1 meter away from your eyes. like what you always see in spy movies or something. the little packs can attach to your belt, and displays it like a screen, it is meant for workers so that they can view the manual when working on something without climbing down to get it. NEC will start shipping these out on Dec 26(the day after Christmas) and I think that it will prove to be very useful in every day situations. it is priced at 400,000 yen or $5,200, but the software is at 1.9 million yen or $25,000

Adobe has made a new set of CSS tools, like CSS shaders, or CSS regions. this is so that CSS can now have better quality with what they are doing, apparently, it can make things on the screen be 3D, which is so awesome, it adds a cinematic feel to it. although we are not going to go anywhere near this in class, it is still cool, there's a video that shows what it looks like. DOMO ARIGATO MR.ROBOTO

Bose came out with some new headphones called the OE2, it is apparently just as comfortable and has just as good quality, as Dr.Dre, the difference is the price, instead of paying over $200 you pay about $150, are they trying to beat Dr.Dre.

rumor after rumor has circulated about Apple's latest iteration of their immensely popular iPhone line. I don't need to tell you that the iPhone 4 has been tremendously successful, and Apple has been selling them just as quickly as they can roll off of production lines. With such a successful phone, it was initially guessed/suggested/prophesied that the next iPhone would receive only minor changes, essentially rendering it an 'S' model (think iPhone 3GS). Now, I'm going to tell you that the iPhone 4S moniker would be a misnomer.

Nokia just announced two of the first "true" Windows Phones. key qualities that this phone has is that it is fast, with 1.4 GHz single core Snapdragon processor, 512 MB RAM, and 16 GB of storage. They are hoping to be sold for close to 150$. this is relevent because it is adding more competition to the smart phone industry, but will it be able to keep up with the new iphone 4s

Kobo is about to launch their new Vox ereader/tablet and it is scheduald to be in the running for other big name tablets. they have joined forces with android to bring the best of a tablet and an electronic book put together. What's unique about this brand of tablets is thati it is a Canadian company, 2.5 million users in the US and over 5 million total in the world.

Although new web browsers are running much faster than they did a few years ago, web evangelist, John Allsopp, suggests people slow down their technology for a little while. He says there is still a large group of people who do not have advanced technology at home to keep up with these new ways. What he is basacally saying is that the advanced world should take a break and wait for everyone -- even those who have trouble affording it -- to survive.