HarperCollins is hoping their new site BookPerk will add another dimension to the big screen effect.
Each flexible, paper-like page would in effect be a screen.
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The Magic Stand further enhances the effect, enabling the screen to appear as if floating.
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You can further tweak things by adjusting the screen swipe effect, the scrolling wallpaper, the animations and the theme.
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The bottom picture illustrates the "screen door" effect of a high-def set.
The idea of the SmartGlass second screen as, in effect, a directed browsing enhancement.
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The catch is that you have to sit exactly in front of the screen to witness the effect.
Writing at CrunchGear, Devin Coldewey says that the 3-D effect sinks back into the Nintendo 3DS screen, rather than popping out of it.
And that screen decision has a second-order effect with regard to battery life.
Additional new touch-screen controls include on-screen sliders for adjusting brightness and Scene Effect Adjustment, which offers controls specific to the scene mode in use.
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On top of that, there are occasional moments where the developers pull a few surprises and push the images out of the screen, introducing a cinema-like effect that is very impressive.
When you turn on the TV in Sudan, you're bombarded with adverts for weight-loss products, with images of svelte Lebanese and Egyptian women flashing across the screen, and this undoubtedly has an effect, says Bedri.
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.
The effect is akin to hitting hidden, individual buttons all over the screen.
Effects can be viewed on the camera screen, allowing users to see the result of a chosen effect instantly rather than during the post-shooting experience.
It's also unclear why RIM bothered using fancy piezoelectric switches rather than simple mechanical ones, because they're not doing anything with the technology other than letting you click -- when you turn off the phone, the switches "harden" and prevent you from pressing the screen, but there's no option to keep that effect going when the device is on.
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"Cutting through the smoke screen of objections, the overriding issue is that of the possible effect on house prices, " he said.
Now, this is obviously done to conserve space and retain the "stream" effect of Twitter, allowing you to see a pile of tweets on the screen at once.
What we're about to show you is decidedly low-tech -- it's essentially a projection screen with a sharp curve at the bottom -- but the resulting effect conveys a more realistic 3D image, for certain applications, at least.
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"The 3-D effect doesn't feel to me to be one of things popping out of the screen, but of depth behind the screen, " he writes.
"Quad-core processors offer much faster performance for graphics-intensive activities such as high-definition video playback and high-end gaming as well as enabling the phone to handle multitasking with less effect on the user experience, " said Daniel Gleeson, a research analyst for IHS Screen Digest.
But Akira Imai, a 3-D researcher at Sharp, says the effect goes away with time and can be reduced by avoiding images that pop too far off the screen.
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