Nov 29 2007
Posted by: Sierra Monica B. in Gadgets

This is not a concept, this brush is real and you can watch how it’s working in the video.
It has the look of a classic old brush but it is not as simple as it seems.
Inside it integrates touch sensors, LEDs and a camera.
How is it working? We can’t be sure but basically it lifts up and captures photons allowing you to draw with a movie-color.
Yes that’s right! It draws with movie-colors.
When you draw a curve or a line it leaves behind the images of the thing it touched before.
For example, after it touches a multi-color blanket then it draws exactly that part it touched, with the same color arrangement. If it touches a moving object it can draw a line of that moving object multiplying it.
Check the video and tell us how do you think it’s working?
"Magic" Digital Video Brush - More amazing videos are a click away

Nov 29 2007
Posted by: Sierra Monica B. in News
Nov 29 2007
Posted by: Sierra Monica B. in Gadgets

Large-panel displays designers have now access to the two new 16-channel LED drivers, TLC5942 and TLC5945 provided by Texas Instruments, one of the top companies specialized in designing and manufacturing of analog and digital signal processing and DLP chip technologies.
The two constant-current sink LED drivers offer dot correction and grayscale on one integrated circuit to result in high-quality video, providing this way best system reliability plus dynamic brightness control, enhancing resolution in large-panel LED displays, including mono, multi and full-color LED-based screens for LED signboards and display backlighting.
With advanced capabilities like analog and digital dimming, TLC5942 driver offers 128 step dot correction and compensates for LED luminous mismatch, permitting both grayscale control and dot correction to be accessed through separate and dedicated serial interface ports.

As the maximum current value of the 15 channels can be set via a single external resistor, higher currents are provided by paralleling channels and the TLC5945 driver is perfect for fast action video displays having a refreshing rate of 30 MHz without delays.
The LED drivers integrate error detection circuits for LED open detection and a thermal error flag, the first one identifying a broken or disconnected LED during displaying time, while the TEF is indicating over-temperature conditions, so all output drivers are turned off when the TEF is set.
Texas Instruments started to ship the drivers that will be available in a 32-pin QFN or 28-pin HTSSOP package, at a retail price of $1.75 in 1,000 quantities.
Nov 28 2007
Posted by: Sierra Monica B. in News


The National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) stock exchange has just launched the NASDAQ Internet Index.
As its name suggests, it is a new Internet indexing system built to track the Internet companies’ performances from all online activity sectors.
The Internet companies include e-commerce, ISPs, search engines, web hosting and design can have access to fast information about their stocks ranking.
NASDAQ Senior Vice President Steven Bloom declared for the press that "The NASDAQ Internet Index contains some of the most exciting Internet companies traded on NASDAQ and other U.S. exchanges.â€
This means that the companies included will be Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Microsoft and many others.
"The NASDAQ Internet Index contains some of the most exciting internet companies traded on NASDAQ and other U.S. exchanges," declared NASDAQ Senior Vice President Steven Bloom. "Given the strength of NASDAQ's brand association with innovation and its market share of internet company listings, it is logical for NASDAQ to extend investment opportunities through a new benchmark for this dynamic, evolving sector."
Nov 28 2007
Posted by: Sierra Monica B. in mobile phones