Orange Will Release LG GD910 Watch Phone August 09

Orange has officially confirmed that they will release LG GD910 watch phone sometime in August this year. The phone will be available for a limited time only. However, the carrier hasn’t yet pinned a price on the touchscreen GD910 watch phone.

Word has it that this wearable handset will be priced at a hefty £1,000 or equal to $1,618 on a pay-as-you-go plan or SIM-only. Too bad, it’s not cheap!

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Akuma Apache Helmet - Safety In A Very Cool Style

If you’re an avid biker and love zipping down the roads especially at night, do yourself a favor by increasing your visibility greatly with the Akuma Apache Helmet. This $349 headgear will come equipped with a couple of rear LED lamps that help increase your visibility.

You will be able to switch between two modes - steady and flashing. In addition, should you get lost on your travels and need to consult a road map or even change a burst tyre along a deserted road with no street lamps in sight, there is the handy front facing reading light.

Check out the specifications and features below before you decide to part with three and a half Benjamins.

• Integrated rechargeable power system
• Ultra bright LED
• Hypoallergenic, removable, & washable interior
• Chin-Curtain
• DOT & ECE 22-05 Certified
• Composite Fiberglass/Kevlar construction
• Superior airflow through 6 vents
• Wind tunnel designed aerodynamic shape
• UV resistant clear-coat

Each purchase comes with a wall charger.

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Valve Won’t Develop For PS3 Because It’s “Too hard”

Homer Simpson once said, “You tried your best and failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.” Valve must take that second part—“never try”—pretty seriously, since it told some dude at E3 that it has no interest in developing for the PS3. Reason being? It’s too hard. Fair enough.

The full quote, straight from a Valve dev on the E3 show floor:

The PC and the 360 are just more straightforward. We can focus on what we want to do, which is make game experiences, instead of sweating bullets over obscure architectural decisions they make with their platform. [...] I didn’t come into this business in the 90s because of some technical fetish. I came in because I wanted to give people experiences that made them have fun.

Sounds reasonable to me. If Valve can sustain itself developing only for the PC and Xbox 360, why should it knock itself out trying to figure out how to develop for the PS3? It quite literally is not worth the effort.

It’s not my business to tell Valve what to do with its resources, said with an eye toward the ongoing “controversy” regarding Left 4 Dead 2.

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Samsung Bendable OLED Prototype

We are all looking forward to the days when our computer screens will be as thin as a piece of paper, and it would appear that Samsung’s new ultra-thin flexible AMOLED screen is about ready to herald in that era.

Sure, this 6.5 inch flexible OLED that you see here is just a prototype, but you can at least see how flexible it is. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if you could spindle it. That is, roll it up like a kid who plays “telescope” with an ordinary piece of paper.

I can think of one application for this technology that I saw in a movie. In Red Mars, Val Kilmer has a mobile computer that must have a very flexible AMOLED screen. This screen took up a minimal amount of space, as he was able to retract it into its tiny case like a window blind.

I realize that many of you might not remember that 2000 movie, which was set in the year 2050. As I recall, the AMOLED was able to recognize Martian landmarks just by holding the screen up to them. I’m not certain if Samsung is working on that, but they will probably have it perfected by the mid-century. That isn’t a quote from the company, but it is a personal prediction.

In the meantime, let us all sit back and dream of classrooms of the future, where the teacher hands out a test on very flexible AMOLED paper. I would imagine that after the students were finished, he or she could stack them in a pile, put them in a machine, and they would have their grades in seconds.

Think of other uses for AMOLED displays while you are at it, and put them in the comments section.

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