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Lenovo launches IdeaCentre D400 home server, 'world's thinnest' Q100 and Q110 nettops

Lenovo today announced three new PC devices that deliver power, performance and style to the digital home experience. Lenovo's first home theatre PC – the IdeaCentre Q700 – provides high definition 1080p playback and digital surround sound for a variety of multimedia formats displayed right on a user's HDTV. Lenovo's first home server - the IdeaCentre D400 - makes managing content across several PCs simple.

Guglielmo Marconi, designed and constructed the first wireless telegraph.

Guglielmo Marconi Guglielmo Marconi born April 25, 1874 in Bologna son of wealthy Italian father and Irish mother.
Known to be very clever, Marconi was educated in Bologna in the lab of Augusto Righi, in Florence at the Istituto Cavallero, and, later, in Livorno.
Marconi had an interest in science and electricity. One of the scientific developments during this era came from Heinrich Hertz, who, beginning in 1888, demonstrated that one could produce and detect electromagnetic radiation—now generally known as "radio waves", at the time more commonly called "Hertzian waves" or "aetheric waves".

Epson PowerLite Presenter Projector now available for sale.

Epson PowerLite Presenter

Epson the world's leading projector manufacturers on 6th/10/2009 introduced a All-in-One Multimedia Projector in retail outlets for entrepreneurs and businesses looking for a multimedia, widescreen presentation solution with integrated projector, DVD player and speakers. Featuring WXGA resolution (16:10 aspect ratio) for widescreen presentations and 2,500 lumens color and white light output for vivid images.

The PowerLite Presenter is an easy-to-use, portable solution for businesses integrating more audio and video into presentations.

Checkout the new Epson V600 Photo Scanner

Epson Delivers High-Performance, High-Quality Scanner. Epson America unveiled the Epson Perfection® V600 Photo scanner, a new mid-range scanning solution offering advanced performance for photos, film, slides, and everyday documents. Delivering outstanding resolution and extensive versatility, the Perfection V600 scanner features 6400 x 9600 dpi resolution1 and 3.4 Dmax for creating beautiful high-quality enlargements up to 17” x 22”. It also includes powerful photo restoration tools for both film and prints to bring faded and damaged photos back to life, as well as productivity enhancing Epson ReadyScan™ LED technology.

3D Technology to be used in 2010 World cup Game.

World cup 2010
For the first time in world cup history 3D technology will be used to film atleast 25 of the world cup games.
FIFA confirmed that they will have 3D Cameras used to capture the games. Although it has no definite plans to broadcast the matches live in 3D, Fifa said it was a possibility and would be decided in "the coming months". Initially, it said, footage will also be shown at public events in seven cities around the world. The footage will also be packaged into a film.