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If you like the NES Controller coffee table that we posted last year, then check out this PS3 coffee table that is designed by Stephane Perruchon. Available in black and white, the PS3 Coffee Table features two huge PS3 controllers for legs and a glass top. These gigantic PS3 controllers are made from a durable ABS plastic. Sadly, it is only a concept. [DVICE]
Tai Chiem has creatively designed a futuristic concept of the Sony PlayStation 4. The next generation console will support a touch screen glass panel and an embedded OLED screen. The PS4 controller looks different with all the touch screen glass panel. However, if you happen to drop the controller during one of the violent gaming sessions, you should have to buy a new one. Sadly, it is only a concept, so there is no information about when it would be manufactured or if it would be available ever in the market. Read more
The upcoming Sony PlayStation 4 will feature a faster Cell chip (up to 3.2GHz) and a small size Chip (from a 90 nanometer process down to 45 nanometers) with a higher cores from 8 to 12. The new console will use a low-power DDR3 instead of the very fast but expensive Rambus XDR memory in the PS3. Stay tuned for more updates. [Impress]
Imagine yourself, walking down a street in Paris in the evening, while enjoying some street music. You snap your finger, and a thin semi-transparent holographic menu pops out from nowhere and hovers in the middle of the air – you now get to choose to save scenery to your hard drive, or bookmark your current location. NAU is currently developing virtual-reality pod. Step inside and you’ll be enveloped by a 360° display screen and full surround sound. Imagine some scene from Minority Report – where you could grab and pull virtual objects with your bare hands. Videogame players will immediately recognize the Cocoon’s gaming potential. The motion-tracking cameras and wrap-around visuals could make for an incredibly realistic gaming experience, where you use your whole body to fight off enemies who approach from all directions. NAU hopes to complete its prototype Cocoon by October 2009, with models commercially available by 2014. [CNN]
A new prototype screen being introduced at the Leipzig Games Convention. It lets you experience first person shooter gamers play FPS games like you never before. The device is called jDome, it provides peripheral vision outside the very center of gamers gaze that gives the illusion of 3D. jDome achieves this illusion by using a spherical-shaped screen to display the games with “additional details” on the outer ring of the sphere, so instead of looking through a rectangle on normal LCD / Monitor, the gamers will see through a sphere with “hazed” extra vision, just like human visions normally would. Most testers were amused by the depth of immersion jDome provided. No details on price and availability so far, but we will keep you posted. Video after the break. [jDome] Read more
PSPZ is a personally initiated combined hardware and software project. It aims to provide PSP with few features that were left out when it was first launched, like full-touch screen capability, and increased battery life. The engineer even posted videos documenting progress on the project. [Slashgear]
