So you’re lying in bed reading and slowly you start to drift off, but before you do, you place your book on your nightstand. The next morning you discover that you ended up losing your page. The Bedside Booklight will make sure that travesty never happens again. This light is shaped like a house so that you can lay it down open on the roof. You’ll never lose your place in the novel again! The Bedside Booklight retails for $64 at Firebox.
One of the most overlooked announcements by Sony at CES 2010 was the new iPhone/iPod Touch application called “BD Remote” that will be compatible with all 2010 Sony Networked Blu-ray Players. Sony mixed things up by making their Blu-ray remotes Bluetooth, and Sony will also offer an additional Wi-Fi Blu-ray remote control application for iPhone and iPod Touch devices on the App Store. It should be available very soon – Sony wants the app to be available before the Blu-ray players so people who stumble upon it will be enticed to learn more. We’re very excited that Sony is going in this direction by offering consumers multiple choices for controlling their Blu-ray players. However, it seems that most of their 2010 Blu-ray players will not have a IR sensor for older multifunction remotes, which could be a big bummer for some home theater enthusiasts.
I inquired about the application receiving updates, and they said if the feedback was good enough that they would follow that path.
Let’s take a look at the interface:
Upon opening the application you’ll see Simple Remote, a new simplistic remote interface concept by Sony that allows you to quickly and easily move around in the menus and select options accordingly. Response was perfect. As you can see there are also dedicated options to Return, access the Options, or go Home. We were really impressed with this section of the application.
The Full Remote interface is just as advanced and feature-rich as the dedicated remotes that come with their 2010 Blu-ray players. As you can see in this one section, we have all of the normal video control options in one easy to use interface.
Another section of the Full Remote interface is multi-colored buttons, Eject, Subtitle, Favorites, and Audio options.
In this part of Full Remote, we can also see a more simple layout that is essentially the same as the Simple Remote tab – back, forward, up, down, select, Top Menu, Pop/Up Menu, Return, Home and Options.
Another great feature within the BD Remote application is the ability to see Disc Info, where it will pull up a great deal of information about the content you are watching, all figured out by Gracenote. The amount of information within somewhat reminds me of IMDB. Here’s what you’ll see first (If you were watching Surf’s Up Blu-ray, for example):
It also has a listing of the cast in the movie you are watching, and you can also learn more about each additional actor:
The settings are fairly basic, but we did notice that you can control multiple devices with this application:
There is also the whole registration process, which is extremely easy:
The Westminster Chiming Grandfather clock is an obelisk of discarded toys. At 2.2 meters tall, it’s also a monstrous, functioning timepiece that now resides in, where else, Dubai.
But how was it created? Well, just a little Buzz Lightyear here, Hulk action figure there, and then a coat of high gloss polyurethane white paint to seal everyone in.
There are more out there, says designer Ryan Mc Elhinney, with the toys used symbolizing the client’s childhood memories. This leads me to believe some clocks are far scarier than others. [Dezeen]
January 10, 2010, 10:50 AM EST
By Sungwoo Park
Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) — Posco, Asia’s most profitable steelmaker, is set to report the highest net income in six quarters as prices recover. Further growth depends on $30 billion in overseas expansion.
Chief Executive Officer Chung Joon Yang last week added plans for a $7 billion plant in India’s Karnataka state to a $12 billion project in Orissa in the south Asian nation and a $6 billion Indonesian plant. Together with an investment in Vietnam, the South Korea-based company may leap from fifth-place to regain its spot as Asia’s largest steelmaker.
Chung, 61, who took the helm in February, wants to regain ground lost to China’s Baosteel Group Corp. Three years of delay at the Orissa project and slowing domestic growth weighed on the stock, with Posco lagging behind ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest mill.
“Posco has to show that it is a growing company,” said Kim Do Joon, a Seoul-based fund manager who helps manage $1.5 billion of assets including Posco shares at Hanwha Investment Trust Management Co. “They cannot expect a growth momentum from the local market.”
Shares of Posco, which counts Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. as a stakeholder, gained 63 percent in Seoul trading last year. ArcelorMittal jumped 89 percent. China’s Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. and local rival Hyundai Steel Co. doubled.
Profit at the Pohang-based company may almost double to 1.37 trillion won ($1.2 billion) in the three months ended Dec. 31, according to the median estimate of 23 analysts compiled by Bloomberg. It may be the largest quarterly gain in three years. Chung will announce results at 4 p.m. Seoul time on Jan. 14.
Fresher Look
“I’ll try to boost the future competitiveness of the company through investments and M&As,” Chung, a 35-year Posco veteran, said in February when he took over the job. He declined to be interviewed for this story on his first full-year earnings result as CEO.
In the past year, Chung has acquired Asia Stainless Corp. in Vietnam, TaihanST Corp. in Korea, and is in talks to buy Thailand’s Thainox Stainless Pcl. He’s approved U.S. and Chinese expansion and is studying a bid for Daewoo International Corp., which has a Myanmar gas project worth at least $4 billion.
“Scale is pivotal for competitiveness,” Choi Doo Jin, a Posco spokesman, said in an interview. “We’re going into India and Indonesia with a main focus on resources and into Vietnam on markets.”
Three-Prong Expansions
Those expansions will add 28 million metric tons of capacity, or 85 percent of Posco’s 33.1 million tons crude steel output in 2008. The Orissa and Indonesian projects alone may add 60,000 won to Posco’s stock price, said Kim Gyung Jung, an analyst with Samsung Securities Co.
Chung, who studied at the nation’s top Seoul National University, was head of Posco Engineering & Construction Co. when he was picked to be CEO. The metal engineer, who snowboards and plays the saxophone, has spent most of his career in production after joining Posco in 1975.
Like Buffett, Chung is seeking to take advantage of the crisis to expand. Posco is the only steelmaker among the 10 biggest that didn’t report a loss in any quarter in the 12 months ended Sept. 30, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
“You have to invest when others don’t,” Samsung’s Kim said. “You can avoid competition and pre-occupy markets, leaving little room for latecomers.”
‘Aggressive Investments’
Steel demand may grow 9.2 percent this year as the global economy rebounds from the recession, the World Steel Association forecast in October.
Posco will be able to maintain its risk profile during the course of “aggressive investments,” Standard & Poor’s said Dec. 14. It has 8 trillion won ($7 billion) in cash, near-cash items, short-term investments and receivables as of Sept. 30.
Posco is pressing ahead in Orissa after winning government approval to acquire 88 percent of the land needed, spokeswoman Choi Youn Joung said Jan. 4. The project has been delayed since 2007 when construction was to start. It still needs approval from remaining villagers and a permit to mine iron ore, required to feed its steel plant. The delays won’t affect plans for the 6-million-ton plant in Karnataka that were revealed last week.
Chung also has to progress Posco’s $5 billion investment in Vietnam, where the government in 2008 told the company to seek a new location for its plant.
Right Thing
“Targeting India, Vietnam and Indonesia is the right thing to do to prepare for the future as demand outlook for the emerging markets is quite good,” said Im Jeong Jae, a Seoul- based fund manager at Shinhan BNP Paribas Asset Management Co., which manages about $26 billion in assets including Posco shares.
Southeast Asia is the world’s biggest net importing steel market with demand expected to grow 9.2 percent a year, according to Posco’s Research Institute.
Posco dropped to sixth in global steelmaking in 2008, overtaken by Baosteel and Hebei Iron & Steel Group. China plans to create one or two producers the size of ArcelorMittal. The world’s largest steelmaker had 101.6 million tons of output in 2008, three times Posco’s production.
“Bigger Chinese rivals may eventually threaten Posco’s edge in high-end products such as automotive steel,” said Chung Ji Yun, an analyst with HI Investment & Securities Co. in Seoul.
–With assistance from Cesilia Han and Shinhye Kang in Seoul. Editors: Tan Hwee Ann, Andrew Hobbs
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Cadbury believes that Kraft will struggle to make a “materially” better offer for the British confectionery firm following Warren Buffet’s attack on the amount of stock the American giant was planning to issue as part of the bid.
By Kamal Ahmed and Amy Wilson
Published: 10:28PM GMT 09 Jan 2010
Roger Carr, the chairman of Cadbury, told The Sunday Telegraph that Mr Buffett’s interjection last week was “embarrassing” for Irene Rosenfeld, the chief executive of Kraft and had weakened its position.
Mr Buffett, whose company Berkshire Hathaway is Kraft’s largest shareholder, last week announced that Kraft shareholders should not write a “blank cheque” by agreeing to issue 370m new Kraft shares to finance the bid.
“More than anything it must have been very embarrassing for the Kraft management e_SEnD they were clearly given a dressing down in public by their major shareholder,” Mr Carr said.
“I think it demonstrates what authority Warren Buffett has over the business and the significance of his view in the way that Kraft is run. I think what he did was to impose some pretty heavy restraints on the management. He knows that the rating agencies are applying the same pressure on the debt model.
“The constraint of both of these pressure points would appear to limit the ability of Kraft to make a material change in their offer.”
Mr Carr’s comments come ahead of a crucial week in the battle between Kraft and Cadbury. The American conglomerate’s £10.2bn bid for the British confectionery firm has been dismissed as “derisory” by Cadbury.
This week Cadbury will produce both its defence document against the bid and its end-of-year trading statement which is predicted to show strong sales and growth throughout 2009.
It will then be left to Kraft to make a final offer to be considered by the Cadbury board and shareholders before January 19. Indications are that Kraft will have to increase its bid to at least 800p a share to have a chance of being successful. At present the offer is valued at about 760p a share.
Mr Carr dismissed some analysts’ suggestions that Cadbury was in danger of over-egging its future projections to maintain its position against Kraft.
“The management is clear that whatever performance commitments they have given to the market, it is these numbers on which they will be judged and on which their reputations will stand or fall,” he said.
Mr Carr added that Kraft’s sale of its North American pizza business last week had also weakened its position even though its share price had risen.
“The Kraft share price movement isn’t a reflection of it being a better business overnight e_SEnD in fact, you could argue that the sale of the pizza business makes it a little worse,” he said. “The position of the Kraft price and the Cadbury share price today is not the relevant comparison. The only relevant number is their final offer relative to the real worth of Cadbury.”
The markets are sending contradictory messages about the deal. According to Data Explorers, about 1.6pc of Cadbury’s stock was out on loan to short sellers last week, down from 3.7pc in late November, suggesting the number of people betting a deal will happen has increased.
Some hedge funds were not willing to take the risk – US fund Mason Capital exited its entire stake in Cadbury, reportedly at a loss. JGD Management also reduced its stake. But Franklin Resources, which bought into Cadbury because it saw the company as a takeover candidate before Kraft’s approach, raised its stake by more than 2m shares.
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Article Tags: Headline Story, Met Office, Piers Corbyn, UK Winter Forecast 2009/10, Updated
Never mind the failed putsch against Gordon Brown and England’s Test match heroics, the matter of the moment is the white stuff. We haven’t had snow all over the country like this for decades. What’s changed and why?
The first part — what’s changed — is relatively straightforward: a freezing draught has started coming in through the UK’s door from the North Pole and Siberia.
As Robin Thwaites of the Met Office describes it: “We have a large area of high pressure sitting over Greenland and Iceland and that is a block of cold air. Cold air is very dense and doesn’t like to budge very quickly, so that is acting as a barrier to the normal westerly flow of [milder] weather that we get off the Atlantic.”
The block has forced our typical weather south: our rain has instead been falling in Spain, which is having an unusually wet winter. “They’ve had the rain and instead we’ve had winds either from the Arctic or from Siberia via Scandinavia,” said Thwaites.
Updated below with comments by Piers Corbyn
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These are the most common reasons for needing braces:
1. Improving the patient’s appearance by straightening the teeth and meeting the standards for appearance of our American culture. Dental care for children, teens and adults are available.
2. Correcting the patient’s bite so that he or she can chew food properly and avoid the headaches that sometimes result when the upper and lower teeth do not meet together normally.
3. Avoiding the gum disease that can result when the teeth are difficult to brush and floss and food begins to collect on the surface.
You should also be aware that some new variations in orthodontics are available today on the traditional wire-and-bracket brace. One popular type is the Invisalign® invisible brace, which is a system of transparent, computer-generated tooth aligners that are completely invisible from a conversational distance. The aligner is changed every two weeks, gradually moving the teeth until they are completely straight, and many adults have gotten good results from using this system.
Another option, known as the “invisible” or “lingual” brace, is place behind the teeth, which is hard for the orthodontist to do, and it may also be broken off because of the natural biting force of the lower front teeth against the upper front teeth, In addition, this type of brace may irritate the tongue, but for patients whose dental needs require a conventional brace and who are concerned about their appearance, the lingual brace can prove to be a viable alternative, along with the use of porcelain veneers. Talk to an orthodontist in Ohio.
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Bear in mind that the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) for carbs (adult on 2,000 calories a day) is 300 grams.. and the plate here has around 100 grams of carbohydrates… there is broccoli and spinach under the peas, apples and carrots…
As we know, even the peas, carrots and apples may cause BG issues for many of us here… so just imagine trying to eat 300 grams of healthy unrefined carbohydrates (as per the RDA) every day.
The Taser folks always show up at the Consumer Electronics Show with an interesting experiment. They ask for volunteers to experience the feeling of what it’s like to get tased, or electroshocked with a law enforcement restraining weapon.
The company was there to introduce its Protector family safety product that allows parents to monitor the whereabouts of children at all times. But the crowd gathered today to watch people like Garrett Fridline, a cadet in the Army Academy, voluntarily get tased. Judging from the crowd reaction, it’s a pretty effective way to get noticed among the 2,500 exhibitors at the Las Vegas trade show. This fellow can clearly take the pain. I’m glad that he has answered the call of duty. As for me, I hightailed it out of there before they could volunteer me.
Please tase me, bro from Dean Takahashi on Vimeo.
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Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg has opened up to our buddies over at Joystiq about the future direction of Projection Natal, and the big takeaway from their chat is that Redmond intends to use the new hardware primarily for “brand new experiences” designed specifically for it. Essentially, this means the majority of Natal-enabled games will be Wii-like in their focus and promotion of motion as the control scheme, but before you dive into a vortex of panic, there were also reassurances that “developers will have that out there at their fingertips if they want to enable those features.” We now know that 10 to 15 percent of the Xbox 360’s processing power will be sucked down by Natal, which may or may not be a reason for this shift away from what was expected — layering Natal on top of games as an alternative control scheme — to this shpiel about “unique” experiences. Either way, so long as we get to play Burnout on this thing, we could care less what others do with it.
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Unfortunately, the most telling element of this Blu-ray news is that it didn’t merit a mention during Sony’s CES keynote, but a new BD-Live feature will be included on This is It. movieIQ Sync updates the original by allowing users to pull up additional movie info on a PC or iPhone synchronized with the movie — we’re guessing the recently released FBI files won’t be included — without it popping up on the television. The other new feature is the ability to create & share customized playlists of the songs featured in the flick. We’ve been waiting for an event that would change both the reality and perception of internet connected features on Blu-ray — and there’s still some hope — but this probably isn’t it.
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The Microvision pico-projector video game gun controller we profiled last month might actually see the light of day—and soon. Who’s ready for some murky, awkward angle FPS fun?
I mean, I kid Microvision about the fact that you’d need a cylindrical room with nothing on the walls and no light to use this controller properly, really, but nevertheless—my angst aside—there seems to be enough demand in place that their CEO is going to market this thing sooner rather than later.
CEO Alexander Tokman said manufacturer samples are slated to be sent out later this year, with cellphone, video game and other markets creating real, live products sometime in 2011. Because random, screaming kids playing Gears of War 2 on the side of the subway during the morning rush would be totally cool with me… [Projector Info]
