LG EM9600 is not just a 3D TV, it is an OLED TV meaning that LG has finally got rid of the shortcomings of both plasma and LCD TV. Though OLED technology is not new as it was already being used in the displays of smartphones and monitors and small screen TVs it has only recently been incorporated in large screen TVs. The LG EM9600 will be available for sale in the second half of 2012.

What is OLED?

OLED or Organic Light Emitting Diode as the name implies comprises of organic (carbon) compounds and give off light when electricity is passed through them. OLED has an edge over the LCDs as unlike LCD display; they do not need LED backlights and offer great off axis viewing angles. Similarly the OLED is more power efficient making it better than the plasma display. A perfect picture is not the only advantage of the flat panel OLED TV, its other benefits include fast response rate, infinite contrast (the contrast ratio is 1 billion to 1), wider viewing angle, immersing blacks and vibrant lively colors. Another advantage of the OLED is that the displays can be made extra thin; a fact evident from the 4 mm depth size and the super thin bezel of the LG EM9600 TV.

Vivid Colors

The exceptional colors and the wide range of hues of the EM9600 would put an artist’s palette to shame and are due to the 4 color pixel and the color refiner. The four color pixel includes the fourth color white along with the traditional blue, red and green. The result is a more colorful and wider palette visible to the human eye. The color refiner has been added for improving and refining the shades and tones. Color refiner also ensures color consistency when the screen is viewed off axis. The 1080 p resolution performs the rest of the magic in recreating brilliant true to life colors on the screen.

Passive 3D

LG has retained its passive 3D technology in the new EM9600. This type of 3D requires the use of polarized glasses when watching 3D content. However the glasses are relatively inexpensive and lighter and do not require batteries or synchronization or charging as compared to their active shutter counter parts.

The LG EM9600 is a complete package as it includes Smart TV connectivity, a built in mic and the Magic Motion remote which operates in four modes.

Drawbacks of OLED TV

It is quite costly to manufacture OLED panels and so price is the biggest drawback of the OLED TV. The price of LG EM9600 is stated to be US $8,000 but the manufacturers are hinting that the price is most likely to slash down to half ($ 4,000) by the end of 2013.

Conclusion

Referring to it as the technology of the future, LG unveild its 55 inch OLED TV the LG EM9600 on 6^th January 2012 in Las Vegas. Winning the best product of the CES 2012 title the LG EM9600 is all set to revolutionize home TV viewing. This super thin TV can be adjusted in narrow places and is stunning enough to compliment any décor. The best feature of the EM 9600 is its true to life image quality together with an array of amazing colors and a wide viewing angle. This super thin and super cool state of the art TV comes with a super expensive price tag and will be available in the market by September 2012. However LG promises to cut down the price by fifty percent by the end of 2013.

This LG 55 inch OLED TV review was written by: Akila Madusanka. He is the owner of Best LCD TV Reviews web site. You can read about different models of LG  LCD TVs at his website if you are interested in buying an LG TV.

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If you want to lose weight in a healthy way, these Android apps will help you a lot:

1. Calorie Counter by FatSecret

If you want to get rid of extra weight, counting calories is the healthiest way to do it, since different diets can really harm your metabolism, while eating less will only make it faster. Many people find it really annoying to check with different lists of the calories this or that meal contains. If you’re one of those people, the Calorie Counter by FatSecret app is just what you need.

This app will help you easily count calories and learn about Nutrition Facts of what you eat – you just have to write down (or find in the quick list) your current meal, and the app will tell you how many calories and what vitamins and minerals it contains. So it’s quick and easy. I used this app on my Samsung Galaxy Ace when I wanted to lose weight, and it really helped me a lot. Perhaps the only shortcoming is that it can’t work offline.

This app can be found on Android Market for free, so don’t waste your time any longer, go and get it!

2. AllSport GPS FREE

AllSport GPS FREE is the next good app for Android phones designed for those who want to lose weight in a healthy way. It will track all your workouts (runs, walk, rides and others) on a map and tell you how many calories you managed to burn during them. The best thing is – this app uses your phone’s GPS to track you and your progress, so no cell or data signals are needed.

You can also plan future workouts (including finding good places to train) and store them at allsportgps.com, and you can share all your progress with your friends on Facebook and Twitter.

Just as the title suggests, the app is free on Android Market.

3. Workout Coach

So if you’re counting the calories you consume with the help of Calorie Counter by FatSecret and if you’re spending some hours a week to run and track your workout via AllSport GPS FREE, there is only one more thing you’ll need to lose weight without harming your health – go to gym or do some exercises at home. For this you’ll need a coach, but there is a good app that can replace a real one – Workout Coach will help you find good exercises, explain what body areas they’re targeted at and monitor your workouts.

Guest article written by: Amelia is a journalist and a blogger who loves reading and writing about everything that happens in the world of mobile phones. She’s a big fan of Android phones and right now she owns two phones from Samsung’s Galaxy line – a Galaxy S2 and a Galaxy Ace. Both phones help her find and review new apps designed for Android.

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New eBook Available!

Making the Print: Printing Techniques for the Digital Photographer by Martin Bailey is the second eBook in our Masterclass series and it’s the perfect primer regarding all things related to fine-art printing. No stone is left unturned as Martin explains in-detail everything you need to know about making beautiful, frustration-free prints.

This 65 wide-page eBook covers it all from choosing a printer and papers, to profiling and sharpening, and then he moves on to calibration, fine-tuning, adding borders, basically everything you need to get competent, which is what most of us are looking to accomplish. But he doesn’t stop there… Martin also dives head-first into creating your own canvas gallery wraps and printing for an exhibition.

A talented educator, Martin unpacks the workflow and provides the detailed explanations, step-by-step instructions, and screenshots you need to make your next printing project exciting and successful.

Martin Bailey is a Tokyo based art and assignment photographer who is passionate about creating photography that invokes emotions, and helping others to do the same.

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For the next five days only, use the promotional code PRINT4 when you checkout so you can have the PDF version of Making the Print for only $4 OR use the code PRINT20 to get 20% off when you buy 5+ PDF eBooks from the Craft & Vision collection. These codes expire at 11:59pm PST January 21, 2012.

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Craft & Vision also offers you a totally free ebook: 11 Ways to Improve Your Photography, which is a book written by several professional photographers on the things “they wish they had learned faster”. Lots of useful information in this book which can help you improve your craft (photography!) so you don’t have to make the same mistakes as these photographers did.

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iMap My Ride is an app geared at cyclists. The app allows you to track your distance, time and, as a social feature, let’s you see the courses your friends like to ride. The app is also a sort of Facebook for cyclists as you can update your status and arrange rides or post-ride meet-ups with friends. The app is free, but fair warning—cycling might become your new favorite hobby.

Lose It is another free app that keeps track of your food consumption and exercise throughout the day. If you are a diligent about inputting your daily amounts of food and exercise into the app (no cheating!) this can be a very effective weight loss tool. Just set your daily calorie budget and choose the food you’re eating from Lose It’s vast database of brand name foods. The app will tell you how many calories you’re consuming and with the weight loss goals you can set, how much exercise you need to do to meet your goals.

The FitnessBuilder app is fully loaded with all the features that are important to the New Year’s Resolution crowd and the hardcore workout junkies. The $9.99 price tag might seem a bit expensive for the FitnessBuilder but it will be money well spent. There are a huge variety of exercise routines and progress trackers, which has the ability to input your location (gym, bedroom, etc) and have a routine created that fits into whatever location and situation in which you find yourself. Are you on the road and staying in a hotel room, away from your dumbbells? No problem. Just enter “hotel room” into the location bar and get started on a stripped down workout free of equipment.

These apps are the perfect addition to any fitness freak or casual exerciser’s smartphone. Now, if they could only make an app that makes broccoli taste like chocolate cake.

Guest article written by: Margot is a guest blogger and enjoys learning and writing about technology, smartphones and great ways to use Dell coupons for deals on computers. She also enjoys contributing to the Blog Content Guild. 

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Craft & Vision recently launched this FREE ebook titled 11 Ways to Improve your Photography.

The ebook consists of several authors within the Craft & Vision community, including world-renowned David duChemin, explaining in detail about some of the things they wish they had learned earlier in their career, which would have improved their photography.

Well, what am I going on about, the ebook is free, you ain’t got nothing to loose, right? As with all the other great $5 photography ebooks from Craft & Vision, I highly recommend this one as well, and they’re giving it away for free, so you might as well get your copy now, while the offer still stands.

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So, with this “review” I’d like to address some of the questions I’ve received recently, regarding this Sony PS3 wireless headset. It’s still quite new so it’s not easy to get it in all countries yet, although Amazon USA seems to have them in stock for $99 – so I’m sure it will make a great Christmas present for the gamer in your family – husband/son, most likely

Sony PS3 Wireless Surround Headset pictured together with Sony PS3 Wireless Controller

Sony PlayStation 3 Wireless Headset FAQ

How’s the comfort and build quality of the headset?

The comfort is great, I’d almost say fantastic. The build quality is decent, it feels a bit plastic, but it also feels solid enough. The only thing I would worry about is the microphone, it’s built in a way so you have to pull it in/out. Don’t let your kids drag the headset around by pulling the microphone, that’ll probably break it off. I’m not sure it’s even necessary to pull out the microphone in order to use it, I suppose it depends on what you demand in terms of audio quality when speaking. I imagine your voice would be picked up better if you pull out the microphone.

What about the sound/surround quality?

These are technically a stereo headset, not surround. But, it has virtual surround, and I think it’s really good. The sound quality itself has not let me down, although I’m not an audiophile. But I’ll say, for $99, you get a good headset, and wireless, don’t forget that. I haven’t heard myself speak yet, so I can’t comment on how the microphone is, but I heard from someone else that my voice sounds good enough, and a lot cleaner than al those distorted voices you hear when playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer.

How many hours of use do you get (battery)?

I haven’t measured it, but if I play a few hours in the evenings, I usually have to recharge it after a few evenings, so I’d say 8-10 hours perhaps.

How does it connect to PlayStation 3?

The headset comes with a small USB adapter, bluetooth I suppose, which you just connect to the USB port on your PlayStation 3. Then turn on your headset – and that’s it, it’s now connected. It should work with computers too, although the virtual surround-part probably doesn’t.

What kind of buttons/features does the headset have?

The probably number one feature for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 players right now, is to control the sound/voice ratio, so if you only want to hear game sounds, you adjust the slider all the way down to “sound”. If you only want the annoying voices from teenagers making weird sounds while they play, you adjust the slider all the way up to “voice”. If you want both, you leave it in the middle.

There’s a slider for volume as well.

To turn the headset on/off, you push the side of the headset for a few seconds. A quick push on the headset (same place as on/off) will toggle the microphone (mute on/off).

Finally, it has a USB port for charging, like the PlayStation 3 controllers.

Rating & Conclusion

As mentioned, I’m not an audiophile, I just like to game a little bit of PlayStation 3 from time to time and I’ve not once regretted buying this headset, I really like the sound. I only wish that it could have had a little bigger battery, but I just attach it to the computer every now and then, so it’s always ready to give me a full evening worth of game play when I need it.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
(which is actually also the rating this product has received from 233 reviewers on Amazon USA as of December 4th 2011). 

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David duChemin’s Craft & Vision are having some kind of Black Friday / Xmas sale, where they’ve bundled a bunch of their great photography PDF ebooks and selling them at a 50% discount – but only today, and the offer expires at November 25th at 11:59pm PST. Get yours while you still can, or how about a $40 gift coupon for someone else, for only $20?

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If you are a business owner, with the use of a business card, you would largely be able to reflect your entity. It can also give an idea about the nature of the service offered by the company. Thus, in short, the main aim of the business cards is to let the customers know about the business owner and the company. Being a business owner, you might have often used these cards. There was a time, when these cards were mainly available in the printed form. The business owner had to carry these cards with them, so that it could give the impression of the details of the business. I personally can say from my experience that carrying your business cards along with you all the time is pretty troublesome; once, I had to carry the business cards for my blog giving away vista print discount coupons and psprint.com coupons all the time with me and ask me it was pretty irritating.

Development of Technology

With the tremendous progress in technology, things have largely undergone a change. Now the business cards are not carried by the business owner in the printed form. Instead, they are loaded in many different apps. With the introduction of iPhone apps, there is absolutely no need of business cards separately. These can easily be loaded into the iPhone to serve the necessary purposes. In fact, it has been found that majority of business owners; especially big companies have already replaced the business cards with the iPhone apps today. More and more companies are eager to replace these with the new tech savvy solutions available these days:

Jumpscan 

This app is designed in such a manner, so that all your contact information can be placed together into a single QR code image. Therefore, before you load this app, you would have to ensure that there is app of QR code scanning on your phone. Thus, you would easily be able to take a photo of the code and take it directly to the contact information.

SnapDat

This particular app is available currently only for iOS, and it can easily pass on the contact details to another user with the same app. It presents 40 different business card designs, and is lot better than other business cards.

Bump

This app is definitely one of the highest profile replacements and it is available for both Android and iOS. It works like it sounds; it lets users to exchange their details via “bumping” into each other. Not only the regular contact information, but, through Bump, users can share pictures or events; they can even connect to each other via different social networking sites. The app works cross platform, meaning that you can bump into another user, despite of the fact, that you use iPhone and the other person uses Android.

These are few of the latest apps that are available in the iPhones for business card replacement. Apart from these, apps like My Name Is E and Google Goggles are fast finding their footholds as well.

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New eBook Available:
BEYOND THIRDS is a captivating and inspiring 38-page eBook about taking composition past the so-called rules. It’s a thoughtful, practical book about the way we build our photographs within the constraint of the frame.

Andrew S. Gibson moves past the traditional discussion of thirds by showing how a more holistic approach can turn a conventional rule into a powerful tool. The ebook explores important subjects like the creative use of balance and focal points, insights into how to shape a subject, and using aspect ratio to establish an ideal foundation for making photographs, and so much more!

The diagrams and creative exercises will provide you with the ideas and insights you need to compose more engaging photographs.

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Beyond Thirds is now available for PDF download for $5, or pay just $4 if you use coupon code BT4. You can also download 5 or more PDF eBooks at 20% off when you use the discount code BT20. These codes expire Saturday, November 19 at 11:59pm (PST).

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