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@bazald: that's probably a bit of engadget editorialising, not at all what Eneco is claiming.

As for the actual principle...why is everyone so sceptical? We convert chemical energy to kinetic, electric to kinetic, kinetic to electrical, kinetic to chemical, heat to kinetic and kinetic to heat (and sound/vibration) all the time. Energy conversion from one kind to another is not new or revolutionary. These guys say they have a mechanism to convert heat (atom movement) to electrical (electron energy) at a reasonable efficiency. IANAP(yet, give it year or so), but there's not too much outragious about the claim in and of itself.

As far as I can tell, this thing can do true 3d...you see this when the universal logo comes up for the first time; there's an obvious difference between video input and 3d input (although I do definitely agree they should show two fly-arounds, one for video, one for CG).
Video input is just a plane within the pyramid (and how could it be more than that without the extra information, as noted above?), but 3d input (like the phone, the shoe and the rotating pyramids) is projected in 3d, spatially inside the pyramid.

Cool thing, but I wonder how much the display medium (the pyramid in which everything is projected) costs, what material it actually is and how it is manufactured.

Old tech used in a new way; I used to work for a company which sold a sensor like this, but basically it was one of these things set on an 2.5D milling unit (kinda); the sensor (which looked like a large pin with the pinhead pointed downwards and doing the touching) would then be brought down and follow the contours of the object underneath it, scanning it quite accurately.

But it sounds like these whiskers are one step better, maybe using the changing resistance of stressed wire to measurebening, and mapping that.

I wonder what the scanning speed of these things are, and what data is actually being used.

What's with the whining? How in hells name can people be 'dissapointed' with the price? It's been known for a long while that the Revolution would cost 250.

As for arguments that extra controllers will add to the cost...erm...name me one console (this gen, last gen or the gen before that) where that isn't the case?

And launching 'too late'? Too late for what? For you to get one? That doesn't make sense. Too late for christmas? No... . Too late for...wtf? Where does timing come into a console launch except before christmas?

It's out in two months time, for a price you knew and which is much lower than ps3 (which is still pretty much vapourware, really) and the xbox360 (and any add-on price arguments are moot, because they apply equally to any other console), with an innovative controller and cool games. WTF is the problem?

I did my workiing study at a company which used/sold those printers. That was a few years ago, but they were single colour. I can get into multicolour (just use a different coloured resin for the next layer), but the process doesn't really lend itself to 'full colour', I'd think....but tech /could/ have gotten much better in the meantime.

There's also the wetbaths: basically a bath of resin with a platform which goes down layer by layer with a laser which hardens the layer before the platform goes dopwn yet again, allowing more liquid resin to cover the top, forming the new layer when lasered.

Somehow I think this model is made with the latter machine, as the former leaves a very layered model (kinda like a stepped pyramid), which needs to be sanded down quite a bit (expensive and fidly).

Yeah, this sounds great...a device made especially to leak out evaporated nanoparticles.

I wonder how my lungs are going to like that? Maybe this is gonna be the first HD to need FDA approval?

Bloody brilliant, Sergio. I laughed my teddy bears arse off :)

I am so making one of these for myself now :)

Let's get this straight: those who say there are no differences in speed between an FPS on a console and on a PC are wrong. Consoles need to adjust certain settings to get players to be able to hit targets, be it auto-aiming, player speed adjustments or NPC speed adjustments, cursorspeed adjustments (looking around/aiming), acuracy adjustments (PC FPS' have more spread in the bullet pattern from a burst), enemy accuracy adjustments etc etc etc or any combination of levels of the above. Ask any programmer who's worked on UI/gameplay for a console and a pc FPS.

To the guy talking about battlefront2; play the games next to each other; there are many differences yoo'll see, and many which are too subtle to notice if you don't know what you're looking for.

An interesting place to start is with ports of games which are on PC/console. Sometimes careless porting leaves interesting info about the xbox controll settings in the .ini's you can open on the pc.

I would love to replace my IIIc/d500 combo; being a pay-my-own-way student, I'll have to win this or forego getting a new set until the treo 10.510c comes out :P

Well...I just have to give this a shot :) What a way to get the post counts up, guys :)