You’ve heard of plasma TV, LCD TV, LED and even OLED TV, but now we’re throwing a new term to mix into the salad bowl: laser TV. LG has one in Australia now, and it’s freaking enormous and just as impressive.

The product’s full name is the LG Laser DLP Display. Essentially, it uses technology called ultra-short throw which grabs the image and projects it onto the screen within 55cm, rather than from a projector at the back of a room.

The image is projected through 10 spherical lenses before passing it through an aspherical concave mirror to be thrown onto the display screen itself. It’s a 100-inch full-HD 1080p image, chucked from a projector which sits at the base of the black, anti-contrast, anti-glare screen.

First of all, holy crap: it’s a giant 100-inch screen with a throw distance of 55cm. Take a second to realise how impressive that is.

Previously, if you wanted a giant projector on your giant screen, it was an effort to get the projector mounted the correct distance away from your silver screen, and then the obnoxious job of cable-concealment would begin. When you’re done it might look good, but the job of expanding your system becomes considerably more difficult when working with that particular set-up. The LG Laser Display eliminates these issues by putting the rather fetching looking projector right in front of your display while still cleverly concealing the cables and keeping them in reach if you need them.

The lamp is also considerably impressive: with other projectors, you’d need to replace it every couple of years. LG promises that the lamp in the DLP Laser Display will go for 25,000 hours. That’s five hours per day for 13 years. Not bad at all.

The screen that the projector throws the image onto is actually made from anti-glare material, which means that you won’t need to dim the lights entirely to have a high-contrast viewing experience. The screen is also black rather than silver to help dissipate light reflection when viewing. The screen also has a tiny bezel that disappears into the background when the images play.

The Laser Display is also compatible with DLNA and Intel WiDi so you can throw your content at it easily without having to fumble around.

Probably the most convincing aspect of the laser display is the price. It comes in at $8999 with free installation and a bundled twin-tuner recorder for watching and recording free-to-air programming. Compare that to the price of a larger plasma display which will run you easily over $10,000, and you’re onto something.

The LG Laser Display goes on sale from early July.

Fact or fiction (a la Dick Tracy, for you older ones).

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Is this a mosquito?

No. It's an insect spy drone for urban areas, already in production, funded by the US Government.

It can be remotely controlled and is equipped with a camera and a microphone.

It can land on you, and it may have the potential to take a DNA sample or leave RFID tracking nanotechnology on your skin.

It can fly through an open window, or it can attach to your clothing until you take it in your home.

Given their propensity to request macro-sized drones for surveillance, one is left with little doubt that police and military may look into these gadgets next.

Fascinating as this article is, it's not true 🙁

http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/insectdrone.asp

I've been playing with entry level video surveillance systems for a while now, and recently decided to splash out on a new piece of hardware..

It manages up to 32 cameras (16 Analog, 16 Digital), and 32TB of Hard Drive..

This thing is absolutely amazing 🙂

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Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's blouses have the buttons on the left.

This is more than just a way to tell whether a shirt is for men or women.

There is a historical reason for it.

During the Victorian period, buttons were quite expensive, and were mostly worn by rich people.

Since proper, well-to-do ladies were dressed by their servants, and most people are right-handed, their buttons were placed on the servant's right, which is the wearer's left side.

However, most gentlemen dressed themselves, so their buttons were placed on the wearer's right side.

Those who could not afford servants copied the style of the wealthy, and women's buttons thereafter remained on the left.

I can't believe this isn't built into every car! What happened?

After the dogs keeping me awake half the night, I wandered outside to find the following :

I think he must have been run over in the night, and dragged himself onto the lawn, poor little bloke 🙁

I called the RSPCA, who came and picked him  up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gZxsSsudPNM

The Law only applies to some, evidently.

Greens say minority government agreement with Labor is effectively over | The Australian.

So, the love affair is over  🙂

Hopefully, this is yet another nail in Jooliar's coffin.

AN EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW OF THE MCLAREN P1 - Speedhunters.

Top Gear Korea Season 1 Episode 3 English subtitle [Part 4 of 6].avi - YouTube.

Interesting in that the star in a reasonably priced car is an ex Mazda FD Driver!