Portable cinematic experience
From Open Air Cinema comes a new product — a 16 ft by 9 ft Open Air Home Screen. This giant, inflatable movie screen is the largest screen available for home use and can convert a backyard into a movie theater. With the included blower fan, it takes just a few seconds to inflate the screen. The screen is easily transportable, transforming virtually any venue into a big outdoor theater. Users can enjoy their favorite movies by the pool, as a backdrop for a sporting event or at a BBQ on the beach.
The Open Air Home Screen has a 220-inch diagonal projection surface. The matte white, wrinkle-resistant ripstop nylon projection surface is black-backed to block lights from behind and improve contrast ratio. The screen weighs less than 20 pounds when deflated and the total package, including securing stakes and ropes, fits inside a PVC carrying bag.
The screen is available by itself for $999 or as part of the CineBox Home Backyard Theater package. The CineBox Theater package is a complete solution which includes projection, sound, and all cables needed to operate a backyard theater.
Straight from Tokyo’s streets
Gizmine.com is a new Japanese gadget and lifestyle shop. The website of 500 plus gadgets from Japan brings the unique Tokyo shopping experience alive online. Japan is a great resource for new gadgets because their consumers love design and technology and they are constantly releasing new products onto the market. The site includes popular products such as iPod accessories, watches, cameras, phones, USB drives/toys, video games, speakers, robots and more, all with an interesting design or quirky twist on the original.
The site is visually driven with many products on one page, but minimal-to-no text, and instant mouseover descriptions and pricing. Gizmine.com ships direct from Japan around the globe. Gizmine will be continuously adding to its product menu, with a plan to double to 1000 different items in the coming year.
3G module supports Windows 7
Huawei Technologies (Huawei) unveiled its portfolio of mobile broadband solutions that are compatible with the yet to be released Microsoft (MS) operating system, Windows 7 — the successor to MS Vista. The centerpiece among this new suite of solutions is the world’s first high-speed notebook-embedded 3G module that supports MS Windows 7 — Huawei’s EM770. The EM770 3G module delivers uplink speeds of 5.76Mbps and it has already been integrated into notebooks manufactured by ASUSTek Computer and Elitegroup Computer Systems. In cooperation with Microsoft, Huawei has also upgraded its USB modems to support the mobile broadband architecture in Windows 7.
Middle East digital entertainment
GETMO Arabia offers the Middle East its first multi-platform all-in-one digital entertainment service. Subscribers to the service can download to their mobile phone or computer full track songs, music videos, ringtones, video tones, wallpapers, movie trailers, games and animations. There’s also access to content archives including those of Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music, Mazzika, Melody Music and Hungama, among other content labels. All the content on the site is copyrighted and gives millions of people across the Arab World access to legal music and film downloads. The joint venture has been established by Bertelsmann’s Arvato Middle East Sales FZ-LLC (AMES) and Abu Dhabi Media Company (ADMC). Check it out at www.getmoarabia.com.