Vuzix Glasses Bring Augmented Reality to Your Games, Face. Augmented reality that's fashionable and not clunky? Vuzix preps its latest headgear for a summer release. Though it's not quite as realistic as the military's Land Warrior program – a flip-down eyepiece that gives infantry soldiers instant access to maps, information and, most importantly, the view from a tiny video feed mounted to their guns –Vuzix is at least blending some kind of military application into its own SMART glasses. Military, that is, in the "Ghost Recon: Future Soldier" sense. That's the latest over-the-shoulder Tom Clancy shooter scheduled for debut in March of this year, and debuting alongside it – or possibly as late as summer of this year – is Vuzix's first monocle heads-up display in its Smart Glasses line of headgear technology.
What are smart glasses? Think "science fiction headset. " What you'll see when staring through the screen is simple: Augmented reality. There's no word on how much a SMART shade might cost – be it a single lens or a full pair of glasses. NEC Adds New MultiSync Monitor. NEC is expanding its MultiSync line with a new 24-inch widescreen, complete with ergonomic features and a wide array of connectivity options. NEC has pulled back the curtain on the second member of its MultiSync EA Series of desktop displays, the 24-inch MultiSync EA243WM.
The new monitor features a slim new look, and offers a wide array of connectivity options, ergonomic features, and tools to track and manage power usage. The 24-inch, 16:10 panel offers 1920-by-1200 resolution (better than 1080p) and 25,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio. Connectivity options abound with DisplayPort, HDMI, DVI-D and VGA ports on the back of the unit, and a 4-port USB hub integrated onto the side of the display.
The display twists and turns to meet all your ergonomic needs, pivoting between landscape and portrait modes, tilting forward and back, and up to 5.11 inches height adjustment. The NEC MultiSync EA243WM will be available this month, with an estimated MSRP of $399. Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich For Motorola DROID RAZR Booted On Video. Advertisements A developer from the Android modding community has managed to boot the latest version of Android – 4.0.x Ice Cream Sandwich – on Motorola’s recently released DROID RAZR, Redmond Pie has learned. The news comes from AndroidSPIN – a blog dedicated to covering all things Android – in the form of a news post in which they discuss the port.
The port itself comes from Android hacker and developer DroidTh3ory. While the developer hasn’t provided any details other than the fact that it is Ice Cream Sandwich and it has been booted on the Motorola DROID RAZR, we do know that this will, in all probability, release before Motorola’s official update*. From DroidRZR: We have a successful boot of Ice Cream Sandwich on the DROID RAZR!! The ROM hasn’t been publicly released yet, and for good reason: this is just the first boot of Ice Cream Sandwich on the DROID RAZR and there are plenty of things that aren’t working smoothly.
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