Nerd Love

Sony 56” 4k LED-backlit LCD @ CEATEC - Dammit, I knew I should have left to Japan a few weeks earlier. Sony demoed this actual production model TV that does 4x standard 1080P (3840x2160). It will be available November 1st in Japan. Price, as expected, will be thru the roof at $7,700. -TweakTown

Grizzly Bear Bean Bag - I want it! It’s a bit pricey at $135, but totally worth it if you ask me. -Etsy via NewLaunches

Sktech2Photo - This fantastic little API lets you sketch and label a scene, and in turn it renders it into a real-life image by searching Google images for what you asked for and seamlessly stitching them together. If you still don’t get me (understandable) just watch the video.

10/GUI - Watch this video to see R. Clayton Miller’s multi-touch GUI interface that utilizes full multi-touch without a touch screen and instead uses a special touch pad and gestures to move between active applications and to open programs and files. -IgnoretheCore

Microsoft reveals “Mouse 2.0” Concepts - Microsoft takes desktop mice to a future level with these concepts that integrate multi-touch and completely new sensing technologies as well as form factors. These are not full-on concepts, simply more like rough working mock-ups, but they do give us a hint to the future. -TomsHardware

Wally WHY 58x38 Yacht - Talk about the epitome of a luxury Yacht. The Wally WHY 58x38 has one of the most unique dimensions of any yacht ever made. It’s also extremely green and designed by the masters of fashion and design at Hermes.

Rare Parrot humps Film Maker - The Kakapo is an uber-rare flightless parrot from New Zealand. Just seeing one on video makes me happy, but seeing one hump a photographer’s head because it’s on a hormone-induced mating frenzy just makes my day. -TodaysBigThing

Wrong Hole Song - So to end this Thriday, I leave you with a funny video. -TodaysBigThing

Taser Shockwave R.E.D.S. - Take a look at Taser International’s new Remote Area Denial System. Basically it’s a shitload of Taser’s attached to a 20-degree Arc so that it can take out a whole flood of people via remote control. -Engadget

Feds Seize Illegal Skyline’s in California - Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers are going on a confiscation spree in California, seizing R32, R33, and R34 Nissan Skyline’s from their owners. Cars brought into the US in pieces and then reassembled and registered as SB 100 Kit cars are being seized and destroyed as I type this. Soooo sad! -GTR USA Blog via Jalopnik

Nvidia’s New “Fermi” GPU architecture - Today at Nvidia’s inagural GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, CA; details finally emerged regarding the new Nvidia architecture that’s slated to be inside the latest gen GT300 GPUs. Over 3B transistors, GDDR5, and 512 shader cores!!! Holy shit!! Great breakdown of the new architecture at PC Perspective. -Gizmodo

• Transistor count of over 3 billion
• Built on the 40 nm TSMC process
• 512 shader processors (which NVIDIA may refer to as “CUDA cores”)
• 32 cores per core cluster
• 384-bit GDDR5 memory interface
• 1 MB L1 cache memory, 768 KB L2 unified cache memory
• Up to 6 GB of total memory, 1.5 GB can be expected for the consumer graphics variant
• Half Speed IEEE 754 Double Precision floating point
• Native support for execution of C (CUDA), C++, Fortran, support for DirectCompute 11, DirectX 11, OpenGL 3.1, and OpenCL

2009 Honda EV-N Concept - As soon as I saw this little concept car I fell in love with it’s retro exterior and awesome design! It’s all-electric, has swappable seat fabrics, a solar roof, and the best part: inside the door is a Honda UX-3 unicycle!! -Autoblog

Blood Energy Potion - Looks like blood, consistency of blood, but taste of fruit punch! The bag has 4 hours of energy along with iron, protein, and electrolytes and will be available for freaking people out in early 2010. -UrbanCollector

Livestream Livepack HD - Take a PC with a firewire for capture of HD footage, throw it in a backpack form factor with a sick set of batteries and six 3G modems and you get a Livestream Livepack. It’s got the ability to stream over the air in HD live to the web or to be recorded on a Livestream Server. Rent it for a month for $2500, not really that bad at all if you think about it. -DVICE

Ardipithecus ramidus - Meet the newly discovered ancestor of all humans on earth, lovingly referred to as “Ardi”. The scientific community is in a whirl-wind over the discovery of this 4.4 Million year old fossil which predates “Lucy” (the fossil thought to represent the earliest human ancestor. This is really really really BIG! It changes everything we thought about early humans and how we evolved. -Wired