Practically all summer, the buzz surrounding TomTom’s forthcoming iPhone GPS app was near deafening. But said noise apparently didn’t penetrate the labs at Navigon , as that very outfit has produced what’s easily the most full-featured option on the market today. Just a week after updating the already-great app with text-to-speech, iPod controls and location sharing, the company is now proclaiming that live traffic will splash down in October (at least in North America).

Epson’s just announced two new additions to its home theatre lineup which should make your bi-weekly showing of House Party even more of a success than usual. First up, the PowerLite Home Cinema 705HD boasts a 720p resolution, a brightness of up to 2,500 lumens, and 1.2x optical zoom. The 705HD is an entry-level HD projector , so its pricing — $750 — is a bit less than some other models. The other model the company’s outing is the MovieMate 60, a combo affair housing a 16:9 native resolution-having projector, plus a built-in dvd player and two 10 watt speakers.

Epson’s just announced two new additions to its home theatre lineup which should make your bi-weekly showing of House Party even more of a success than usual. First up, the PowerLite Home Cinema 705HD boasts a 720p resolution, a brightness of up to 2,500 lumens, and 1.2x optical zoom. The 705HD is an entry-level HD projector , so its pricing — $750 — is a bit less than some other models. The other model the company’s outing is the MovieMate 60, a combo affair housing a 16:9 native resolution-having projector, plus a built-in dvd player and two 10 watt speakers.

Oh, global economic crisis, when will you stop claiming our favorite companies? Oh, wait, it’s just i-mate folding this time? So, the company that already laid off its US staff is totally going away? We can live with that. It seems i-mate’s remaining employees in Dubai Internet City were told yesterday that they had to take an unpaid two-month leave. That, apparently, was a typo, as the people were actually supposed to take an indefinite unpaid leave. Oops.

Filed under: Software , Apple Practically all summer, the buzz surrounding TomTom’s forthcoming iPhone GPS app was near deafening. But said noise apparently didn’t penetrate the labs at Navigon , as that very outfit has produced what’s easily the most full-featured option on the market today. Just a week after updating the already-great app with text-to-speech, iPod controls and location sharing, the company is now proclaiming that live traffic will splash down in October (at least in North America).

Filed under: Handsets , Samsung , Sprint , EV-DO , CDMA The long-rumored Instinct HD ranks extraordinarily high on our “man, we really wish this thing ran Android” list, but at this point, we just sorta want to get it out of the way so we can move on to the InstinctQ . How do we do that? Well, getting it released is a good start — and PhoneDog has it on good authority that we can expect to see it on the 27th of the month for somewhere between $99 and $149, presumably on contract after rebate.

Look, we’ve seen an awful lot of HDTVs in our day — one lap around the average CEDIA show floor makes your local Best Buy look awfully small — and to this day we’ve yet to put our peepers on a more stunning set than Mitsubishi’s LaserVue HDTV . Sure, it’s fat, ugly and expensive, but the image is otherworldly. Before Mitsu can even take the logical next step , a California startup has arisen to introduce what it calls the world’s first laser-based 3D HDTV.

Practically all summer, the buzz surrounding TomTom’s forthcoming iPhone GPS app was near deafening. But said noise apparently didn’t penetrate the labs at Navigon , as that very outfit has produced what’s easily the most full-featured option on the market today. Just a week after updating the already-great app with text-to-speech, iPod controls and location sharing, the company is now proclaiming that live traffic will splash down in October (at least in North America).

A video of the HTC Leo has been captured which shows off the multitouch capacitive display. On the first part of the video you can see someone zooming in and out of still images. The response looks great and it doesn’t seem to suffer from much slowness at all. As well as zooming in and out of images with multitouch, the user also scrolls through a few images which is also quick. The second demonstration shows a video being zoomed in and out of while playing. Again, this looks smooth also.

Thursday, September 17th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentLook, we’ve seen an awful lot of HDTVs in our day — one lap around the average CEDIA show floor makes your local Best Buy look awfully small — and to this day we’ve yet to put our peepers on a more stunning set than Mitsubishi’s LaserVue HDTV. Sure, it’s fat, ugly and expensive, but the image is otherworldly. Before Mitsu can even take the logical next step, a California startup has arisen to introduce what it calls the world’s first laser-based 3D HDTV.