Sharp's e-reader ready to 'rival the iPad' by year's end, may have a 3D future

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/25/sharps-e-reader-ready-to-rival-the-ipad-by-years-end-may-ha/

Sharp is going to launch its brand new e-reader in Japan this fall with US retail availability to follow by the end of the year. Riveting stuff, isn't it? Well, the company's President Mikio Katayama does his best to spice things up by proposing this device will aim "to rival the iPad," and it may well sport a color LCD if earlier indications still hold true, but what's really got us hot under the collar is the potential for 3D down the line. Katayama claims to have witnessed great enthusiasm for 3D -- particularly when it comes to games -- and posits it as a likely future direction for this new ebook reader. Multifunctional devices are what people want, he says, and since Sharp already has a 3D smartphone in the pipeline and a glasses-free 3D tablet display in the lab, we can't see many technical hurdles to the realization of his vision. Let's just hope his depth perception is accurate when it comes to measuring the interest in three-dee.

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New study sheds light on painkilling system in brain

Source: http://www.physorg.com/news201882502.html

Repeatedly boosting brain levels of one natural painkiller soon shuts down the brain cell receptors that respond to it, so that the painkilling effect is lost, according to a surprising new study led by Scripps Research Institute and Virginia Commonwealth University scientists. The study has important implications for drug development.

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ImageGrab Is a Powerful Video Screenshot Tool [Downloads]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5620616/imagegrab-is-a-powerful-video-screenshot-tool

Windows: Grabbing stills from a video using a traditional screenshot tool is a tedious hit-or-miss affair. ImageGrab is feature-packed tool for grabbing single stills, a series at set intervals, or scripting your own parameters for custom grabs.

ImageGrab makes it easy to precisely snap a frame directly from the source video itself. You can automate the process by setting ImageGrab to grab frames at a user-specified interval and stamp the grabs with information like the name of the file and where in the original video the grab is from.

If the default settings and toggles aren't versatile enough for you, ImageGrab supports user scripting. We tested both the portable and stable release ImageGrab 4.2 as well as the non-portable and beta of ImageGrab 5.0. Although we were disappointed the beta wasn't portable it was significantly more stable on our Windows 7 test machine than the older 4.2 version.

ImageGrab is freeware, Windows only. Have a favorite tool for snagging stills from a video? Let's hear about it in the comments.

ImageGrab [via Ghacks]

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Firefox's Awesome Tab Candy Renamed Panorama, to Be Included with Sync in Firefox 4 [Updates]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5620806/firefoxs-awesome-tab-candy-renamed-panorama-to-be-included-in-firefox-4

/:16 Mozilla's creative lead Aza Raskin announced today that Tab Candy, the excellent tab management idea, will officially ship with Firefox 4. It's also been renamed to Firefox Panorama. Worth noting is that Firefox Sync (which handles bookmarks, history, Awesome Bar, passwords, form-fill data, and open tabs) is also shipping in Firefox 4. Sounds like good news for the next release of Firefox. It's all currently available in the latest beta. [Aza on Design]

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IBM's New Processors Go Comatose [Ibm]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5620509/ibms-new-processors-go-comatose

IBM's adding a new lower-low-power option to future Power processors that's one step beyond its current nap, sleep and heavy sleep options—the ability to put the processor into "deep sleep". It'll feel very refreshed in the morning.

Cutting power to the processor by a bigger margin than before, the planned new option will allow future chips to draw "almost no power" when not being heavily used, although putting your processor into this new persistent vegetative state has its drawbacks—there'll be a 10-20 millisecond wake up time to bring it around again. [PC World]

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