The experience of cinema is just going to get bigger with the launch of Philips Cinema 21:9. Movies are displayed in the 21:9 aspect ratio — exactly as the director intended — on its 56-inch Full-HD screen. Cinema 21:9 is the world’s first TV to deliver a true cinematic viewing experience in the comfort of the home, informs Mahesh krishnan, vice president, consumer lifestyle, Philips, to Tech Gadgets. Traditional LCD televisions compromise on the cinematic viewing experience either by changing the aspect ratio to fill the screen – losing the full scope of the original shot – or by inserting…

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Reader [Nikolaus] decided that instead of using an existing image based bar code decoder, he would write his own. Using the Processing language he created a scanner that parsed the black and white pattern when a bar code was centered on the image. His code then parsed that data and compared it with the initializing character to provide a reference. Currently his scanner supports three character sets of the Code 128 encoding, and provided his complete code so that others could add as they see fit. He admits that the code is a bit messy due to the lengthy character tables,…

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Academics at the University of Warwick believe they are the first to use the processors as a cheap way to conduct “parallel processing”. Parallel computing is where a number of processors are run in tandem, allowing a system to rapidly crunch data. Researchers traditionally have to book time on a dedicated “cluster” system or splash out setting up a network of PCs. Instead, the Warwick team harnessed a single Xbox 360 Graphical Processing Unit (GPU). The chip was able to perform parallel processing functions at a fraction of the cost a traditional systems. Dr Simon Scarle, a researcher on the…

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GADIMOGA, India (Reuters) – Reliance Industries’ new 580,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery in Gujarat is operating at close to full capacity, Executive Director P.M.S. Prasad said. The new plant, next to its old 660,000 bpd refinery, has turned Jamnagar into the world’s largest refining complex, processing 1.24 million bpd. “We have commissioned all the units and it is operating at almost full capacity,” Prasad, who heads Reliance’s upstream and refinery business, told Reuters on Saturday. Last month Reliance started an 85,000 bpd alkylation unit, the only unit remaining to be started up at the new plant, with the aim of…

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MUMBAI: Bank of Rajasthan has announced a strategic tie-up with Hero Honda Motors Ltd. The company has entered into this tie up with the aim to offer retail financing facilities to two-wheeler customers at lower interest rates. This tie up will enable the customer to avail the loan on an interest rate, which has been reduced by 150 basis points coupled with a concession of 50% on the processing fees. The two major players have tied up to simplify the purchase of two-wheeler for both the urban as well as the rural customers with the network of 463 branches…

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Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster safer and easier Google Chrome also uses a brand new javascript engine V8 which is much faster than existing javascript interpreters This means you can create more complex and more intensive AJAX applications with fewer speed and processing constraints Finally Google Chrome is built on top of WebKit so Google Chrome users will benefit from the CSS3 features being added to WebKit as those features are released

A simple panning motion can add impact to the already-dramatic effect of time lapse photography. To accomplish this, frugal cinematographers sometimes build [Rube Goldberg] contraptions from clock motors, VCR parts or telescope tracking mounts. Hack a Day reader [Stephan Martin] has assembled a clever bargain-basement system using an Arduino-driven stepper motor and a reduction gear system built up from LEGO Technic parts, along with some Processing code on a host PC to direct the show.
While the photography is a bit crude (using just a webcam), [Stephan’s] underlying motion control setup might interest budding filmmakers with [Ron Fricke] aspirations but Top Ramen budgets. What’s more, unlike…

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