Samsung is demonstrating a prototype of an OLED Monitor. The specs:
This is the first OLED Monitor ever, Samsung claims, and supports both DVI and HDMI inputs. No word on resolution or price, but I think it’s safe to say that it’ll be a luxury item when it’s finally released sometime in 2010.
SPARKLE has just released a new GTX260 card that doubles the amount of memory onboard to 1792MB.
Compared with ordinary GeForce GTX 260 graphics cards on market, SPARKLE GeForce GTX 260 1792MB Graphics Card doubled the video memory capacity from 896MB to incredible large 1792MB, an unbelievable 100% video memory capacity improvement when compared to any other reference designed board.
Memory alone isn’t the sole key to performance, but more memory is always welcome.
“We Are Royale” worked with Comedy Central and Rick Austin to create a unique CG-heavy opening to the upcoming Larry the Cable Guy Roast. Using footage shot with RED cameras they were able to use high-quality imagery with unique animated tattoo overlays to get both the style and information they needed.
See the opening at their site, and the complete press release after the break.
Apple has just hired Bob Drebin, Graphics Product of AMD and previously an Engineering Director at ATI, as a Senior Director. This seems to indicate, along with previous hires, and Apple is looking to improve their standing in high-graphics, possibly within the iPhone.
Drebin joins a growing host of silicon talent at Apple. The company hired Mark Papermaster, a top IBM engineering manager who took charge of Apple’s iPod and iPhone engineering groups in January. The hire sparked a legal dispute with IBM which designed
The RadeonHD4770, AMD’s first 40nm graphics card, has been out for about a week now and reviews are in abundance. Engadget has a quick roundup of some of the biggest ones.
A great new video on Youtube references the recent announcement by President Obama that he will reduce the budget by $100M, and gives ua a concrete physical example of how little money that really is. It’s an interesting visualization of the psychological problems the human mind experiences when dealing with huge numbers and the ratios between them.
As previously predicted, graphics chip sales have finally begun to rise as PC makers have finally liquidated their backlog inventory. It’s not a complete win however:
But year over year, the comparison is still ugly. Shipments were 74.9 million chips in the first quarter, down 21 percent from a year ago. The market research firm predicts that sales won’t get back to normal seasonal levels until the third quarter of 2009. Sales aren’t likely to hit 2008 levels until 2010.
via Graphics chips make a comeback in first quarter sales » VentureBeat.
The winners have been named in the 4th NVArt competition. Judges included Shelly Page of Dreamworks, Lorne Lanning of Oddworld, judges from NVArt 2 and 3, and staff of NVidia and CGSociety.
In this, the fourth NVArt competition, artists were invited to recreate their most imaginative fantasies in the style of master surrealist, Jacek Yerka. They did so in good measure, with 400 entries sent in from 65 countries. In an age where virtuality meets reality the surreal has become real.
NVidia has released several press releases today showing new deployments of the PhysX technology.
Looks like NVidia’s PhysX is going to replace Havok as the physics simulation system of choice.
At the recent WWW2009 Conference, a group from Cornell University presented a paper that investigated roughly 35million geotagged photos available on Flickr and showed an analysis based on text tags, image data, and geospacial data to reveal geographic and visual information about the world.
For instance, their findings show that the Fifth Avenue Apple Store, which opened in May 2006, is more popular than many other well-known tourist sites such as St Paul’s Cathedral in London, the Reichstag in Berlin and the Washington Monument in the US capital.
The paper is available as a PDF for your viewing pleasure.
Mapping the World’s Photos: Extensive Flickr Photo Analysis – information aesthetics.
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