A recent press release issued by AMIMON Inc. informs that the aforementioned company together with Hitachi Ltd., Motorola Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sharp Corporation and Sony Corporation will form a special interest group to develop a comprehensive new industry standard for multi-room audio, video and control connectivity utilizing Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI™) technology. The WHDI standard is to be finalized by the end of 2008.

In order for the WHDI technology to work properly, the group intends to introduce a revolutionary video-modem that operates in the 5GHz unlicensed band to enable robust wireless delivery of uncompressed HD video (including 1080p and Super Hi-Vision standards). WHDI provides secure, encrypted HD video delivery through multiple rooms and other potential signal obstructions, such as people, furniture and walls, while maintaining a 3Gbps data flux with less than one-millisecond latency.

The newly-founded group will ensure the wireless uncompressed HD video and audio transmission between CE devices such as LCD and plasma HDTVs, multimedia projectors, A/V receivers, DVD and BD players, set-top boxes (STBs), game consoles, and PCs. The new interoperable standard also aims to facilitate flawless connections between CE devices manufactured by different vendors.

While all the above-mentioned companies will contribute to the development of the WHDI standard, WHDI still remains a trademark of AMIMON, Ltd.

The Japanese are preparing to make the jump for 22.2 surround sound systems? Forget about that. Goldmund, makers of the world’s most extravagant and technologically advanced systems for audio-video enthusiasts, is proud to bring you a new sound processor, the Goldmund U-32, which is capable of extending to an infinite number of discrete channels. All you have to do now is get enough money to buy more speakers to fill an entire room.

The Goldmund U-32 was created to meet the demands of Goldmund clients looking to build larger media rooms that can seat up to 50 guests. The new Goldmund U-32 Processor includes a set of high-power digital signal processors (DSP) capable of more than 50 times the power output of current solutions. When paired with the recently announced U-Telos family of amplifiers form Goldmund, which is capable of achieving an ideal crossover for the associated speaker with full time delay correction and a signal measurement feature to control the protection of each driver it operates, the Goldmund U-32 can reach an infinite number of discreet channels, which is necessary to properly reproduce extreme surround-sound accuracy in a very large Goldmund Media Room.

The new Goldmund Media Rooms provide unparalleled surround sound by enveloping each individual user with a higher than usual number of speakers, each being smaller and less expensive, each non-audible separately, but together capable of providing each user with sound levels up to 130dB at all frequencies. Hey, that’s more than a plane jet engine can produce!

Similar to the exotic sports cars and luxurious ones in the automotive world, there are some cool laptops in the PC world. The sports cars are represented by the Asus Lamborghini or the Acer Ferrari, but these have been on the market for some time now. How about the luxurious sector? Here, we have the new Bentley laptop coming from Ego.

According to T3, each of these laptops is hand built, with authentic Bentley cross-over hand-stitching. The color schemes are said to really match those of the famous luxury cars. When you open up the laptop, you can see the shiny metal reflects the paint job on the outside, while the outer leather is taken straight from Bentley’s seats.

The metal carry handle is shaped just like the car's door handle. OK, what about specs? The Bentley laptop comes with preinstalled Microsoft Vista Ultimate and is powered by a 64 bit processor of your choice. It also comes with a 160GB hard drive and there are 12 direct access keys for quickly getting to the point. Presumably it comes with many more goodies like 4GB DDR3 and a SLI configuration and a 20” LCD maybe. I mean, how else would they justify the £10,000 price tag? No big deal if you already have a Bentley, anyway.

Remember Jurassic Park? The first film featured some cool Animatronics dinosaurs that were about 15” tall and were neatly combined with CG to recreate the fierce reptiles of the past. The next two films featured only CG dinosaurs, but this is not the point of the current article. What I want to show you now is some advanced Animatronics dinosaur, but I’m not referring to a toy-sized dinosaur, I’m actually referring to a T-Rex twice the size of an average man. The robotic dinosaur can be found at the LA Museum of Natural History. Check it out in this video:


Extinct, my ASS! from The Original Joe Fisher on Vimeo

Gizmodo says there are absolutely no computer generated effects in this video. The dinosaur you see is an Animatronics-like mechanical robot, but with more refined movements than those Jurassic park monsters. It looks pretty real, and it might even eat up your kids if you let them alone with the famished robot. Well, not really, but it sure can scare the living daylights out of a bunch of meddling kids that are ready to lay waste on your backyard. Or it could help you with those pesky trick-or-treaters that come around Halloween. Eheh, they would be in for a nasty trick… raaaaahr!

You think you need drugs to experience some out of this world hallucination? Sure, if you are in the Netherlands, you might want to use a bit of mescaline, which should be legal, but what about us people from the other countries? Isn’t there something similar that can open the doors of perception to a whole new Universe? You bet! Check out this video:


NOTCOT at GLOW: Usman Haque's Primal Source from Jean Aw on Vimeo

This clip was filmed in Santa Monica, CA, at Glow ‘08. Glow is an annual art and music festival with a bunch of cool events and attractions, and this year’s coolest event has been the "Primal Source," a gigantic fountain with projections on it built by Usman Haque. It looks like a gigantic drug-induced hallucination. Projecting laser stuff on walls would have been outdated, but projecting hallucinatory light patterns on veils of water is something you don’t see every day. The agglomeration of psychedelic lights really confuses and adds to the impression you’re being stoned.

Apparently, there was some pot and acid available for the people on the beach, but the light show on its own was enough to drive most of the people crazy. You can hear some of them reacting pretty weird to the psychedelic lights.