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Mvix Wireless HD Media Center

If you ever wanted the coolness of a media center without actually have to buy or build a computer this may be for you. MVix is finally shipping their AV HDD enclosure media center that we first told you about back in May. This $300 enclosure syncs up with your network wirelessly with that big honker of an antenna via 802.11b/g/n. It will then connect to your entertainment center via composite, s-video, component or DVI. It supports the full spectrum of codecs including popular hits like DivX, XviD and AAC. It can also upsample to 1080i if your heart desires. And by supporting some early flavors of 802.11n it shouldn’t have a problem streaming HD content, hopefully. No hard drive included, unfortunately, but it still sounds pretty snazzy for $300.

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Elder

Title: Elder
Name: rick baker
Country: USA
Software: ZBrush

This started out as a personal project to get displacement maps from ZBrush to work better for me in Modo.This is a Modo render Using ZBrush displacement maps and Photo shop for compositing and clean up. The hair was first modeled as basic 3D forms with displacement applied then painted over in PS

Philips PET830 and PET1030 media players

Philips has some new unannounced media players to take on the go: the PET830 and PET1030. The PET830 (above) is a tablet-style DVD player with an 8.5-inch display and a Zero Bright Dot warrantee (i.e. no dead pixels), as well as having the ability to play MPEG-4 and DivX video, and MP3 and WMA audio files from its CD. So far as we can tell the PET1030 (pictured after the break) is about the same, but with a 10.2-inch swiveling display, and USB 2.0 as well as a memory card slot. Watch out for these real soon.

Epson Power Lite Pro Leaps to 1080p

Five grand may seem like a lot to spend on a projector, but the PowerLite Pro Cinema 1080 is Epson’s first front projector to hit the 1080p mark (the previous Cinema 810 was only capable of 720p). The new projector has a higher 12,000:1 contrast ratio and a brightness of 1,200 ANSI lumens. It uses three individual LCD chips (one for red, blue, and green) to project smoother artifact-free images, which Epson claims makes for a better picture. Input-wise it has component…

composite, S-Video, and of course HDMI. It’s still pricey at $5,000 (you could score a decent-sized 1080p flat-panel for that price), but for you projector fans out there, the 1080 is slated for an early 2007 release.

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Samsung CX305T 30 Inch LCD Monitor

30 inch is the new high-end size for PC monitors. Samsung has now also introduced such a monster display with the CX305T. Dell already introduced early this year a 30 inch display with the 3007WFP and of course Apple offers cool 30 inch monitors.

Cyber Monday

Today is Cyber Monday. A term that still lives on apparently, despite its shaky origin.
First off, today is not the busiest online shopping day of the holiday season (busiest day will be between 5th and 15th of December). It is just a Monday, where people are back from a long holiday weekend. The term Cyber Monday, which was created by Shop.org (part of the National Retail Federation) just made it into the retailer marketing strategies in November of 2005.

Last year there wer not really a lot of specific deals or marketing by online retailers for the Cyber Monday. This year it seems there is more drum rolling and deals for Cyber Monday. Cyber Monday might just become a self fulfilling prophecy in the future.

Motorola ROKR E6

Looks like Motorola went and sprung their smokin’, linux-based ROKR E6 upon China today. Better yet, we now know that this 14.5-mm thinster delivers the much appreciated GSM 900/1800 bands in addition to the 1900 band we saw tested and approved in the FCC filing. That makes it of limited use (but use nonetheless) here in the US as long as you stay within the T-Mobile network. The phone delivers a 2.4-inch, 260k color QVGA touch-screen with stylus, a 2 megapixel camera and push-to-talk capabilities in addition to handwriting recognition, a QR code (barcode) scanner, business card reader, and document viewer for PDF and the most common MS Office apps. And unlike the first gen ROKR, this pup drops iTunes in favor of RealPlayer which means support for MP3, MPEG4, AAC+, WAV, and RealAudio formats — fine and all, but most importantly, no artificial song cap — so load up that 2GB SD card to your heart’s content kid. Rounding things out on the audio front is the native 3.5-mm headphone jack and support for Bluetooth stereo audio (A2DP), integrated FM radio, dedicated music controls along the side, and a USB 2.0 jack up underneath for quick data transfer. When not lapping up the media you can talk for up to 7 hours or just sit and stare at the E6′s clean lines for about 235 hours on standby. Yours for 4,280 chinese yuan or $545 retail if you can track ‘er down.

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