glasses

Police shame 999 timewasters on YouTube

News Losing your glasses or forgetting the answer to a quiz question could hardly be classed as a matter of life or death. Another caller says: "I've lost my glasses, the one's that are for my near sight. The operator says: "You're through to the police...

Tags: services, youtube, lives, police

30 July 2008, 9:07

News.blog: Nvidia to give PC games a 3D option

News Beginning this summer, any PC with an Nvidia graphics processor will have the ability to run a game in normal mode, or in 3D, with the aid of 3D glasses. The challenge for Nvidia is making the glasses widely available at retail, as well as turning...

Tags: driver, part, eye, developers

30 April 2008, 9:16

Photos: Technology of 3D movies

News A Korean company called Masterimage uses a high-speed spinning wheel to polarise light so that, in combination with appropriate glasses, separate views are sent from the projector to the audience's left and right eyes.

Tags: lens, eye, views, frame

6 November 2007, 9:02

NY's 'Halo 3' launch nearly starts riot

News A team of Mountain Dew minions were walking around with trays of plastic shot glasses containing a seemingly endless supply of samples of its Halo 3-branded energy drink, 'Game Fuel'.There was a guy in a Master Chief outfit, of course.

25 September 2007, 8:14

News.blog: Sony flexes its TV screen

News Wrap-around TV glasses, anyone? Like many other TV makers, Sony has been working on screens made with organic light-emitting diodes for some time, to produce paper-thin displays as well as save energy.

25 May 2007, 10:06

Huge queues for a Wii at UK launch

News At Game, glasses of champagne were given out to the first customers through the doors as well as baseball caps, scarves, blankets and pizza while people were queueing. The Nintendo Wii went on sale in the UK at the stroke of midnight last night...

8 December 2006, 10:40

News.blog: YouTube catches criminal

News In this case, it was stealing a pair of glasses off a charity worker in the street. As an 18-year-old from Wales soon learned, posting YouTube prank videos that contain criminal activity can get you arrested.

30 October 2006, 9:54

Photos: Cameras aplenty at Photokina

News The feature can detect up to 10 faces in one frame regardless of whether or not they are positioned in the centre of the photo, or if they are wearing glasses, according to Fujifilm. Photokina, the biennial German imaging trade show, is taking...

26 September 2006, 10:07

'Sim City DS' being built for Japan

News There's a uniformed high school girl with baggy socks and a dark tan, a backpack-sporting Akihabara geek -- complete with tote-bag, ponytail and glasses -- and a stereotypical middle-aged Japanese man sporting a stomach warmer wrapped around his...

5 September 2006, 9:34

YouTube directors set for postproduction

News As the self-described video blogger speaks to the camera about splitting with her ex, she simultaneously changes her on-screen appearance using computer graphics so that she looks like she's wearing Clark Kent glasses, or has strapped on a gas...

31 August 2006, 9:37

David Brent's top tech tips

News I say: "Yeah of course you can, your glasses look nice, I like your hair. In 2003, Microsoft UK's director of people and culture, Steve Harvey, achieved the coup of getting Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant to produced two training videos for the...

24 August 2006, 9:48

Image navigation with a sci-fi touch

News Unlike in that film, people using TouchLight don't have to use special gloves or glasses or a headset. Taking a page out of a science-fiction novel, Microsoft's research labs have come up with a way for people to navigate computer images using...

19 July 2006, 9:34

Photos: Displays of the future

News Glasses aren't needed to see images in 3D, but the display works best when tilted up at a 30-degree angle. At the Society for Information Display conference taking place in San Francisco this week, researchers from Philips, Liquavista, Samsung and...

8 June 2006, 11:02

News.blog: Bird? Plane? Nope, it's a Superman PC

News Think green Kryptonite and Clark Kent's glasses. In this age of Hollywood-branded gadgets, it's no surprise that Alienware has released a series of limited-edition Superman PCs to coincide with the caped crusader's big-screen return.

8 June 2006, 9:58

New screen tech fuses oil with water

News Philips, for instance, hopes by 2008 to release 3D TVs that can be used without glasses. Oil and water don't mix, but they can make bright colours, says a start-up spun out of Philips. Liquavista, a new company created by Philips Research and New...

20 April 2006, 9:14