Sony’s new 13-inch VAIO Z ultramobile uses Thunderbolt to bring the power

Sony has unveiled its new 13-inch VAIO Z laptop, an ultramobile along the lines of the Macbook Air — but this one’s got a twist. In a clever use case for the blazing data transfer speeds Thunderbolt supports, the laptop gets around the general lack of graphics and processing power in the ultramobile field by providing a Power Media Dock featuring an AMD Radeon 6650M GPU with 1GB RAM. That means that this laptop, when tethered to its dock via Thunderbolt, is a more capable gaming machine than many of Apple’s desktops....

2 min · 249 words · Trevor Jones

Sony’s new 3D head-mounted visor to bring a 750-inch screen to your living room

Sony on Wednesdayannounced the impending launch of the HMZ-T1, a 3D head-mounted display that puts a 750-inch screen at a virtual distance of about 20 metres from your eye. The product goes on sale in Japan on November 11. The simultaneously funky and oddly futuristic-looking device boasts of some impressive specs, equipped as it will be with individual 0.7-inch hi-def OLED panels (with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels) for each eye, with a viewing angle of 45 degrees and a 5....

2 min · 273 words · Keith Burns

Sony’s new 3D head-mounted visor to bring a 750-inch screen to your living room

Sony on Wednesdayannounced the impending launch of the HMZ-T1, a 3D head-mounted display that puts a 750-inch screen at a virtual distance of about 20 metres from your eye. The product goes on sale in Japan on November 11. The simultaneously funky and oddly futuristic-looking device boasts of some impressive specs, equipped as it will be with individual 0.7-inch hi-def OLED panels (with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels) for each eye, with a viewing angle of 45 degrees and a 5....

2 min · 273 words · Kathy Baxter

Sony’s S2 Tablet to launch as an AT&T exclusive

Even though there isn’t much known aboutSony’s S2 tablet, AT&T has todayannouncedit will be the exclusive launch carrier for the 4G, dual-screened tablet device, despite the fact doesn’t have an official name, release date or price. The US carrier released a statement noting it would be the “exclusive U.S. mobile broadband provider for the “Sony Tablet” S2 (codename), a dual screen, multi-functional tablet ideal for mobile communication and entertainment, that Sony Corporation plans to launch later this year....

2 min · 237 words · Tina Wong

Sony’s tablet teaser video grabs your attention, gives you nothing

Sony’s S1 and S2 tabletshave been given the teaser treatment, appearing in a moody but impressive video that does its best to build anticipation for the device. Unfortunately, there is little in the way detail, giving us nothing solid in terms of what we can expect. Concentrating on an ‘I Love You” meme, the video moves shows two white figurines using a complex array of contraptions to send that all-important message from one to the other using Sony’s tablet devices....

1 min · 195 words · Christopher Downs
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