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.
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.
They've also got other slightly more innocuous devices like that snazzy 4GB DS-Xtreme which gives you homebrew action on the DS without any hacking.
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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.
Please see below for full specification of the DS-421D headset.
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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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Its new DS-A5 docking station brings Apple's WiFi media streaming to many home stereos, including those of rivals, as long as there's a wired or 802.11g-capable wireless router to feed the connection.
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Perfect for the busy professional in the different environments of everyday life, the stylish Digital Silence DS-421D headset is designed specifically for mobile users and is expected to be available to purchase by Spring 2012.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
The company says that makes the DS the best-selling videogame system in the country of all time.
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Nintendo's 3DS sold 250K, while the aged DS moved 275K -- not too shabby for an eight-plus-year-old console!
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The launch of Nintendogs is responsible for making Nintendo DS the best-selling system in Japan, outselling the PSP by three times.
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Their jobs are often described as the 3-Ds (dirty, difficult and dangerous).
Nintendo, in addition to delivering classic games electronically with its next-generation Revolution, will distribute DS content through its free Wi-Fi access initiative.
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The bigger picture is that Nintendo has sold more than 125 million units worldwide of the current-generation DS systems (including DSi and DSi XL models).
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.
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Users will be able to purchase 3-D movies to watch on the device's 3.5-inch screen -- larger than most previous DS systems and about the size of the iPhone's -- or stream video from Netflix.
When Nintendo released its now-popular handheld DS portable gaming system in 2004, lots of early reviews predicted it would fail.
Mr. GEOFFREY YORK (Reporter, Globe and Mail): When you look at the strategy that they're supposed to follow, I mean, they're supposed to be doing the so-called three Ds: development, diplomacy, and defense.
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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He also said that the company plans to try putting e-books on the DS again, a concept it experimented with earlier on.
Iwata also demonstrated several of the DS's new software titles featuring the innovative features of the DS: voice recognition, touch-screen control and, of course, WiFi.
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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.
Both the Nintendo DS and the Wii have finally become highly-appraised platforms.
Hopefully with more bot-mods to come, the DS is really blossoming from what we know and love into the task droid we've always wanted.
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