Nintendo 3DS breaks one-day sale number

A man tries out a Nintendo 3DS in Paris.
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The Nintendo 3DS, the 3D successor to the hyper-popular Nintendo DS console, is selling like gangbusters, company reps said today in a statement. According to Nintendo, "US day-one sales numbers for Nintendo 3DS were the highest of any Nintendo hand-held system in our history." The company promised more detailed numbers in coming days.


The Nintendo 3DS has won mixed marks from reviewers, who have fretted about the underwhelming battery life, but praised the glasses-free 3D effects.

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"Eighteen months from now, Nintendo will release the inevitable 3DS Lite and take us for another $250," one reviewer wrote. "Until that day arrives, I’m pretty comfortable saying that the Nintendo 3DS is the best gaming platform the company has ever created: The user experience is quite polished in a variety of ways, and its forward-thinking core feature really does make gaming better."

But the Nintendo 3DS launch has been far from smooth. As Adam Rosenberg over at DigitalTrends notes today, not long after the 3DS was released, users began reporting a total system shutdown affectionately known as the "black screen of death." Nintendo says affected users should download the latest system update; barring that, they should phone up the Nintendo customer service hotline.

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HTC DESIRE S REVIEWED BY CHRIS DAVIES

Our man in England, mister Chris Davies, has let loose his review of the HTC Desire S over on SlashGear. What he’s found is that this 3.7-inch display having, Android 2.3.3 wielding, 5-megapixel camera toting handset isn’t the best of the bunch, but it’s certainly not the worst device he’s ever held. This phone is the sequel to the original HTC Desire, which was undeniably HTC’s answer for the Nexus One – will it hold up to the pressure of the barrage of phones that have been released in only these past few months?

Hardware

This is a phone that’s a mere 115 x 59.8 x 11.63 mm, and only 130g. The display again is a 3.7-inch Super LCD with WVGA resolution, this making it the same number of pixels as the original Desire, but with Super LCD instead of AMOLED. The original Desire had an optical trackpad where this one has none, moving toward a touchscreen-only model that many manufacturer are trending at nowadays, perhaps due to the oncoming Honeycomb / Ice Cream world of Android where no physical buttons are necessary. 

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Volume and USB are along the left, top has a power/lock button and headphone jack. On the back is one of two cameras (the other on the front) as well as a speaker near the top and a removable panel near the bottom with access to your SIM, microSD, and htc battery. This reminds us of the HTC Inspire 4G which has each of these accessible in two panels instead of just one.

The whole body of the handset is what Chris notes as “a very successful design,” speaking on the matte finnish, discreet chrome bits here and there, and the “HTC chin” which makes it easy to take from and replace this handset in your pocket. Also specifically Chris notes that it feels solid and, with a less-plastic design than the original Desire, it’s “hard not to imagine that this could have been the design for the second Nexus, had Google stuck with HTC as a hardware partner.” A pretty nice compliment!

Inside you’ll find a Qualcomm’s single-core 1GHz MSM8255 processor, 768MB of RAM, and 1.1GB of internal storage. Connectivity includes dualband HSPA/WCDMA, quadband GSM/EDGE, WiFi b/g/n, and of course Bluetooth 2.1. There’s also GPS, a g-sensor, digital compass, proximity sensor and ambient light sensor.

source: http://androidcommunity.com/htc-desire-s-reviewed-by-chris-davies-20110328/

NanoPerspective Introduces Vendum Batteries to UK Market

El Segundo, California-based Vendum Batteries, a company that develops battery technology, has declared its intention to advertise in the resource guide in nanotechnology and nanomaterials, NanoPerspective.

The UK-centric guide provides key listings for companies within the world of nanotechnology supply network, featuring divisions including research, product creation, production and supply.

The NanoPerspective was unveiled early this year and is published by NanoCentral, a supporter of nantechnology in the UK. It is available online as well as in print format. It is distributed to more than 4000 organizations and key players in the nanotechnology sector. It is also displayed at the annual conference of NanoCentral.

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Vendum Batteries Inc. (OTCBB: VNDB.OB) is developing an innovative new cellulose-based power source that in the next few years could help revolutionize the powering of the automotive and aeronautical industries.

This revolutionary battery is entirely biodegradable, as it is primarily composed of cellulose and uses none of the toxic elements used in traditional batteries, such as mercury, lead, chromium, or cadmium.

Using the cutting edge Carbon Nanotube Technology, this non toxic power source, will in the future be capable of providing higher power output, for longer periods of time, and because the batteries can be so small and light weight, it will be possible to revolutionize human implant technology such as pacemakers or cochlear implants.

When further developed, Vendum Batteries aims to power mobile phones, PDA's, iPods, music players, games consoles, laptops, etc and in the home appliances like power tools, all kinds of toys, watches, cameras and electric razors could all one day be powered by the Vendum batteries.

TrackNet’s Asset Locating Devices with Extended Battery Life Extend Usage Time

TrackNet is known for its excellent GPS fleet tracking services and technology, but it has taken its services a step further by offering asset locating devices that companies can use to track more than just their trucks and drivers. The extended battery life on TrackNet’s two asset locating units allows businesses to use them continually and globally for years on end without replacing the battery.

With TrackNet’s asset locating devices, companies can place a small transponder on the asset to track it should it be stolen. These can be used on all types of high-dollar moveable assets, including bulldozers, generators, trailers, forklifts, and other high dollar moveable pieces of equipment. The footprint of coverage is worldwide.

The units offered by TrackNet are specially designed with long battery lives. This allows the user to stick the unit on the asset and walk away, When asked about them, a company spokesperson said, “Our customers can choose between two units. The SMARTONE unit has a battery life of at least one year using AA lithium batteries. The AX Tracker MMT has a battery life of up to 4 years using a field replaceable battery pack. Both provide long-term service without the need to replace or charge batteries repeatedly. They are designed this way so that our customers can simply place them where they need to go and continue with their daily business without a second thought.”

These units use technology like GPS positioning, Satellite Communications, and Intrinsically Safe standards to clearly separate them from other low end products. This allows for reliable reporting of location when a loss has occurred. Allowing owners to get help from the authorities quickly. For many businesses, this ability translates into thousands of dollars in recovered assets. Once they know the location of the machine or other asset, police can often intercept and recover it before damage has occurred, which means no real loss to the business.

Of course, while the batteries last for years, they will eventually need to be replaced. “Replacing is easy,” confirmed a company spokesperson. “All the user has to do is head out to the unit, remove the battery pack, and then place the new one on. There is no loss of service, and no need to track and care for rechargeable batteries.”

New Battery Structure to Revolutionize Charging

As the electric vehicles are becoming a reality, the race to create a better, more capable and faster charging hp battery is intensifying. More and more universities across the world, acknowledging the fact that the automotive industry needs their help, are beginning to publish more and more projects and research on the subject.

The latest such work comes from Paul Braun, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The secret the professor and his crew are revealing in the work published over the weekend in the online edition of the Nature Nanotechnology journal is not a new material, but a new way to structure the existing one.

By changing the structure of the ACER AS07B41 battery cathodes, the professor says that he has eliminated the disadvantages of fast charging and discharging and now both can be achieved without sacrificing storage capacity (the findings of the group can be easily applied to all battery-powered objects).

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"If you had the ability to charge rapidly, instead of taking hours to charge the vehicle you could potentially have vehicles that would charge in similar times as needed to refuel a car with gasoline," Braun said according to Science Daily.

"If you had five-minute charge capability, you would think of this the same way you do an internal combustion engine. You would just pull up to a charging station and fill up."

CNET tests tablet Web speed, battery life

Each tablet has its own idiosyncrasies and when testing them, those oh so charming little quirks come to the service. In my experience thus far, The Xoom, iPad, and Galaxy Tab provided the least amount o frustrating, hair-pulling moments.

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Editor’s note: The video battery results for the Motorola Xoom were corrected from the original post. The original post contained results not line with our final testing methodology. I apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

During the deluge of iPad 2 coverage last week, you may have missed CNET’s handy tablets table. In it we gave an overview of the major non-Windows
tablets already released and those soon-to-be released.

For the few tablets we actually have in the CNET Labs, we’re able to go a bit more in depth with what each has to offer. For the last few weeks, we’ve tested the Web site speed and video apple battery life of a whole mess of different tablets. We’ve also tested their default and maximum respective luminosities and each tablet’s contrast ratio.

Here’s what we have so far, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. We’ll be adding more tablets and additional tests over the coming days, weeks, and months.


How we test tablets

In the CNET Labs, we currently run three different tests to evaluate the performance of non-Windows tablets.

Battery life
We evaluate laptop battery life by continually running a movie file on the tablet until its battery dies.

We set each tablet to Airplane mode and adjust its respective brightnesses to 150 candelas per square meter (cd/M2) or as close to that number as possible.

For the
iPad, we run the iPad version of “Toy Story 3.” For Android tablets, a 720p version of “Toy Story 3″ is run. The reason we chose 720p for Android was that not every tablet can run 1080p video just yet, and we wanted to make sure we tested Android tablets under the same methodology.

On iPad, we ran the movie through its
iPod app; for Android we used the movie player, mVideoPlayer, as it provides a much needed repeat video function that not all native Android movie players include.

Site-loading speed
We used GiantBomb.com as our Web site of choice, as it doesn’t use Flash or have many dynamic elements. Each tablet was connected to the same closed network with no other devices on it, with the router about 5 feet away. The test began the moment we pressed Enter, with the end of the test signified by the disappearance of the browser’s blue progress bar.

We used the latest version of iOS for the iPad, and the Xoom is, of course, using Honeycomb, with all other Android tablets using Android OS 2.2.

Contrast ratio and brightness
We also tested the maximum brightness, default brightness, and contrast ratio for each tablet. We conducted these tests using the Minolta CA-210 display color analyzer. We used a completely white screen to test the brightness and a completely black screen to test the black level. We then divided the maximum brightness by the maximum black level to get the contrast ratio.

Read more about laptop battery life.