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TV blogreader. TV blogreader: There's a short description here at eHomeUpgrade about a new TiVo experiment, which adds content from your Bloglines subscription to your main television screen. The UI may not yet be evolved as for a desktop machine, and few... [JD on MX] 9:52:55 AM

NTT DoCoMo's Object-Recognition Binoculars NTT DoCoMo is showing off a set of binoculars equipped with object-recognition capability. The binocs identify certain objects and uses image acquisition to display pertinent details about whatever you're staring at. The examples they offer include looking at a passing plane and seeing the flight number and destination displayed in the eyepiece, or looking at a flower and having its name shown to you. This sort of technology could make its way into camera phones and the like, perhaps affording us an automatic photo-tagging system somewhere down the road. Of course, we're happy to aimlessly pontificate about this technology since we have no idea how they actually work. Object-Recognition Binoculars [TimesOnlineUK via PicturePhoning] - cardinal (editor@gizmodo.com) [Gizmodo] 9:37:47 AM

3D Mouse From NTT Cyberspace Labs A researcher from NTT Cyberspace Laboratories has developed technology that could be used for a "3D mouse." The setup consists of ping pong balls with circles drawn on them and a normal web camera. Movement or rotation of the balls will be recognized by the web camera, somehow translating into six degrees of freedom. "3D Mouse" combines ping pong ball, web camera [BroadBand Watch] - Liam (tips@gizmodo.com) [Gizmodo] 9:37:12 AM

Teac Portable DVD Recorder DV-R05 Teac will be releasing a portable DVD recorder on April 20th in Japan, with a thickness of 26.7mm (about an inch). Pretty slim if you ask me ¡X according to Teac, it is "in the smallest class of consumer DVD recorders." It also has a DV port for connecting directly to digital video cameras. Sadly, it does not support anything fancy like dual layered discs. Product Information [Teac via AV Watch] - Liam (tips@gizmodo.com) [Gizmodo] 9:36:01 AM

VNC By Phone, Hitachi's micro-VNC KDDI and Hitachi Systems and Services have teamed up to offer a new software/service called "micro-VNC" for KDDI's au phones. VNC is synonymous with remote desktop control for many, and micro-VNC brings the concept to mobile phones in a way I haven't seen before. Compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux, micro-VNC is currently compatible with more modern au mobile phones. I can't really say what sort of framerates you'll be getting from Half-Life 2 trying to play it on your phone, but one thing is certain ¡X Hitachi "apologize[s] for your inconvenience from the bottom of [their] heart" that "an English page is unavailable." I'm touched, Hitachi. English Homepage [micro-VNC] - Liam (tips@gizmodo.com) [Gizmodo] 9:35:14 AM