DoubleSightFor the past few days we've been playing with the DoubleSight DS-1500, a dual-screen monitor with two 15-inch LCD screens mounted side-by-side.
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Visitors are handed a customized Nintendo DS mobile-game unit and led to a screen in the floor made up of 70 large display panels showing a detailed, animated map of Kyoto.
Things like that, (unintelligible) outfits and then, particularly, my four-and-a-half year-old is looking for a Nintendo DS Lite.
And so when people talk about how we're doing vis-a-vis the Nintendo DS, again, it's not the whole story.
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Having all that extra real-estate (the DS-1500 gives you a full 2048x768 pixels of screen space to work with) definitely makes it easier to get get things done.
The bottom screen is 3 inches and is a touchscreen, like that of the Nintendo DS. A 3-D depth slider on the right side of the top screen lets you control how much 3-D effect is shown, from completely off to fairly deep 3-D.
He also said that the company plans to try putting e-books on the DS again, a concept it experimented with earlier on.
The Death Star, officially called the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, is a piece of fiction (so far) which appeared in the Star Wars movies.
The Digital Silence DS-421D headset is also fitted with a Wolfson WM7130 MEMS microphone in each ear bud to pick up the ambient noise around the user prior to cancellation.
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You might be thinking the second screen makes the Wii U a Wii-plus-DS, and it clearly shares second-screen DNA with Nintendo's dual-screen handheld.
With lessons learned from the standout success of its portable Nintendo DS--the company garnered 82% of portable software sales and sold 13 million DS units last year--the company has never had a clearer opportunity to differentiate itself to American audiences.
The new generation is finding games on them so intuitive that they will have a hard time getting back to gaming on the computer or on the DS. They will only accept a minimal amount of button-pushing.
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But for outsiders probably the most important result is that, unless the SNS forms a government without the DS, Serbia's pro-European Union stance is unlikely to change.
Since none of the five PCs we own has two VGA-out video ports (and we couldn't be bothered to track down a DVI adapter), we ended up hooking the DS-1500 up to both of our Media Center PCs.
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