Archive for August, 2010

Nintendo to Drop Prices of Nintendo DSi and Nintendo DSi XL Systems on Sept. 12

Latest Versions of Best-Selling Portable Video Game System in History to Be Priced at $149.99 and $169.99 Nintendo is dropping the suggested retail price of its Nintendo DSi and Nintendo DSi XL video game systems. Effective Sept. 12, the new suggested retail price of the Nintendo DSi system will be $149.99, while the new suggested [...]

OmniVision Launches 1/6.5-Inch HD Video Camera for Home Entertainment and Portable Media Markets

OV9740 The First 720p HD SOC Camera Chip That Meets High Quality Video Criteria for MS Office Communicator and Skype OmniVision Technologies introduced the OV9740, a 1/6.5-inch system-on-a-chip (SOC) CMOS image sensor designed for highly demanding video applications in portable media players (PMP), home entertainment devices and notebooks. Because all image quality tuning and processing [...]

NASA, Internet Archive and Flickr Launch Historic Image Collection

Three compilations of images from more than half a century of NASA history are available for comment on a section of the photo-sharing site Flickr known as The Commons. Visitors to NASA on The Commons can help tell the photos’ story by adding tags, or keywords, to the images to identify objects and people. In [...]

Philips Introduces Newly Enhanced Cardiac Ultrasound System

iE33 xMATRIX system offers expanded clinical applications in cardiac ultrasound imaging Royal Philips Electronics announced the enhanced iE33 xMATRIX cardiac ultrasound system featuring a new ergonomic solution for more efficient adult echocardiograms, the X5-1 transducer. With this enhanced technology, Philips continues its tradition of simplified, patient-focused healthcare solutions by providing a more complete imaging solution. [...]

NASA Announces High School Competition for Future Engineers

Teams to Design Software for Small Satellites on the International Space Station NASA is challenging high school teams to design software to program small satellites aboard the International Space Station. The competition centers on the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites, or SPHERES. SPHERES are bowling ball-sized spherical satellites used to test maneuvers for [...]