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From Teleglass comes the T4-N Limited Edition Video Glasses. The glasses create a simulated 45 inch screen (as if sitting from six feet away), with a resolution of 640 x 480. Coolness abound, you can focus and adjust each monitor to reduce eye strain. As you can see by the picture above the audio comes from frame-mounted earbuds.

Just connect any NTSC viseo player and enjoy. They look stylish, unlike the competition, and it’s hidden components reside in the frame and nose-piece. Word on the street is that they cost $1150 per pair, but you’ll have to hurry, because there’s only 500 available.

Pink Tentacle via Teleglass

And now for something completely different… Athusa and Backyard Birding

The “mythical” Traveling Terabyte Gear

In reference to an entry published on Sept. 23 (“Hacker Sends War-Tough Marines a Befitting PVR�?), I have received a generous update about the Traveling Terabyte Project. Go to www.travelingterabyte.org for all the official information.

This is an important project that connects us to our beloved Devil Dogs (Marines). It provides them a care-package that we can all share in to show support. Hopefully it gives the soldiers a bit of home when they’re abroad, and keeps them grounded when they’re in hell (Ooo-Rah!).

They are not yet taking donations (as this is a grassroots movement stemming from the generosity of one person, Deviant Ollam), though there should be something set up soon.

And, as a big fan of this project, I will also be posting updates and hopefully finding more supporters, at Athusa.net. Let make it work.

Very, very special thanks, and American gratitude to: AST Cell. As well as to all the people involved with this project.

“Deviant Ollam” is a New Jersey hacker/network engineer who saw fit to create the Traveling Terabyte Project (TTB). A program in which he sends hard drives, filled with popular movies, television shows and music, in Pelican cases, to Marines in the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan.

Deviant said this about his revelation, “I’ve got this extra storage and thought ‘what could I do with it?’. It didn’t really make sense to put the disks into my already hugely ridiculous raid array.�? So, why not send them to a few Leathernecks? Everyone needs a little inspiration (even tough-guys). But, shipping the drives to a war-torn country could’ve been an obstacle, “You can’t really put the drives in bubble wrap and throw them in the mail,�? So he instead packed the equipment into the olive-drab cases with international power adapters and USB cables.

Once Marines receive the cases they often add their own files customizing and personalizing their gifts (becoming a snapshot of our modern heroes lives). And, like any grassroots movement, these drives have become a small overseas urban-legend. Eventually being delivered to the American embassy in Dushanbe Tajikistan, just to prove they exist.

Hopefully the Traveling Terabyte Project will get legs. I’m still searching for a donation website. If anyone knows of one, please comment. Anything we can do to remedy some of the stress of being in a war zone, is something we should do. They’re heroes.

From one American cyber-geek to another, thank you, ‘Deviant Ollam’.

More thanks to TG Daily for getting the word out on this project.

Need an external hard drive for movie storage? Look no further, Western Digital has come to the rescue. Introducing “My Book Essential Edition 2.0″, a hard drive the size of a paperback book. Contained within it’s cover is 1 TB of disk space, and a 2.0 USB port. It’s a plug-n-store device for all your PVR needs, and it costs $349.

The Diamani DUO line of LCD’s from Viewsonic has been launched. It’s a unique hybrid of TV and computer monitor. There’s a 19″ version for $349 and a 22″ version $399. Both sporting slim, sexy HDMI inputs, as well as HD tuners. They’re also equipped with VGA inputs. And to address your analog desires, there’s component, RCA, and S-video inputs. It’s the “be all to end all” of TV’s… I mean monitors… I mean… where was I? Oh yeah, It’s fine time someone tried to invent something useful for the practical man.

Electronista

At HGTV Marketplace, they’re offering a 4 seat spa with a motorized 61″ LCD HDTV. It’s a custom order through Catalina Spas, so there is no price listed. But, I’m sure if you have a vivid imagination you could conjure up a price close enough to what they’re asking. Who says the US economy is bad?

From Replay TV comes the “Personal HD”, a USB-based system that allows you to watch and record HDTV on your PC or notebook. Everything you need to get started is included; an HD tuner, antenna, remote control, software, and a 1 year subscription (after that it’s $19.95 a year, to keep the subscription). All available in November.

Other benefits are: Pause live TV, advanced searches to find and record your favorite shows, and transfers video to your iPods, iPhone, and AppleTV.

Replay TV

ReplayTV announced a deal for its ReplayTV PC Edition, its newly released DVR software (sorry Macs, PC only). Originally $99.99, ReplayTV is offering the software for 20% by February 27th. Simply use the coupon code RTVJAN0720 at checkout.

The bad news? You must pay an annual fee of $19.95 for the electronic program guide service (the first year is included in the price). Doesn’t that seem kind of lame? Especially when you can get rival software, like BeyondTV without the annual fee.

It also comes with a 30-day free trial, if you’d just like to sample it before buying.

And if you need a tuner card, there’s also a rebate for $20 from Hauppauge–the WinTV-PVR 150 or WinTV-PVR USB2. Just buy either model by January 31st and get a $20 rebate direct from Hauppauge.

According to an interview by MacObserver with Nick Chakalos, Motorola’s Senior Director of the Software Product Management Group, Motorola licensed technology from ReplayTV not Tivo. Chakalos says that multi-room viewing is OK with Hollywood, but Slingbox is a different story.

The article also states that Motorola is looking to use Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices to add more capacity.

Motorola is perhaps best known for building a PVR for Comast. Time Warner and other cable providers.

From: PVR Wire.

ReplayTV was once a pioneer of stand-alone PVRs but now the company has dropped that product line and instead is only available on a PC. It’s quite a switch, and ReplayTV has finally come out with its first PC software. PCWorld just published a review of the ReplayTV PC Edition which retails for about $100.

PCWorld said that ReplayTV PC Edition has some small “interface quirks�?, especially when searching for actors’ last names. They were also frustrated by not being able to convert ReplayTV’s MPEG-2 DVR-MS files to another format.

Overall, PCWorld said that the software worked well and scored a 79 out of 100 (Good). But according to the reviewer, ReplayTV PC Edition works best as a complement to an existing PVR rather than replacing it it.

Head over to ReplayTV for a free 30-day demo of the software.