Sanyo just announced six new video projectors mainly for office use. Two models will be available with WiFi b/g, the LP-XU355 (3500lm) and this PL-XU305 (3000lm) are both XGA. The LP-XU350 (3500lm), LP-UX330, and LP-XU301 (3000lm) with an XGA resolution and the LP-WXU330 (2500lm) with a WXGA resolution but doesn’t include WiFi.

SANYO Announces Six New “Simple and Easy” Ultra Portable Projectors
Including the Industry’s First Automatic Wireless LAN Connection Capability. Tokyo, March 10, 2009 – SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (SANYO) is pleased to announce six new simple and easy ultra portable projectors for office and educational use. The line-up includes the industry’s first “Simple Wireless Setting” automatic wireless LAN connection via USB memory, “Easy Setup Function” for novice users to have powerful presentations, and a built-in, loud speaker for multimedia presentations. The new line-up of six (6) projectors includes new Wireless LAN models (LP-XU355, LP-XU305) and basic models (LP-XU350, LP-XU300, LP-XU301, and LP-WXU300).
Based on the concepts of “Simple and Easy”, the line-up includes six ultra portable projectors. Usable for a number of applications including office- and educational-use, the series offers a variety of models to meet a number of needs. The first projectors in the series will be available in Japan starting with the LP-XU355, LP-XU305, LP-XU350 and the LP-XU300 from May 2009, with the other two projectors to follow in June (LP-XU301) and in July (LP-WXU300).

If you’ve ever wanted a large whiteboard for your home but found the professional-quality ones too expensive, there is a relatively cheap alternative.A bit of googling turns up home-built glass, melamine bathroom siding, plastic, and plexiglass as some potential materials.

These are simply amazing, cheap, small, easy to install, and hardly noticable on a wall after removal. These work great on drywall and just need to get nailed in at a angle. I also use some hooks to hold my wine rack in the kitchen.

These are simply amazing, cheap, small, easy to install, and hardly noticable on a wall after removal. These work great on drywall and just need to get nailed in at a angle. I also use some hooks to hold my wine rack in the kitchen.

Look for a product called melamine. It is a fiberboard sheet that has a hard plastic-like coating on one side. Sometimes they are textured to look like tile, which could help if you need to layout squares, but this usually gets in the way. Choose a smooth finish since they erase easier and look better when written on.

Look for a product called melamine. It is a fiberboard sheet that has a hard plastic-like coating on one side. Sometimes they are textured to look like tile, which could help if you need to layout squares, but this usually gets in the way. Choose a smooth finish since they erase easier and look better when written on.

Pick up the glue/screws/hangers/etc. you plan to hang it with. You may also want to dress it up with some trim, or a ledge to hold your markers.

If you want to divide your board, purchase some automotive pin striping from an auto repair store. Black pinstripe comes in two sizes, 1/4″ and 1/8″, which work well for a bold yet regular effect. You can get pinstripe in lots of colors, sizes, and even some patterns.

In the past, we learned  foreign language from teacher mouth to mouth. Later on,  we use the personal stereo or repeater to study what we learned. For these years, more and more learing tools were invented for helping children to learing easily and conveniently.

Language learning pen is one of the learing tools. The language learing pen can pronounce when you point some words or phrase.

The intelligent pen contains 1217 common words and phrases, and you can use it to scan Mandarin text and then it will pronounce the words correctly.

The Mandarin phonetic system is extremely complex, so this could be an invaluable study aid, as it will allow you to make sure you get the correct pronunciation. It has a built in speaker, and you can also plug in headphones through the 3.5mm jack. The pen comes with an illustrated dictionary, which works as a study aid, and used in conjunction with the pen, should give you a clear idea of many common Mandarin words.

It’s powered by 3 AAA batteries, and can also double as an MP3 player for when you get tired of learning, as it has a 2GB capacity.

When I was a child, I use the handle crank pencil sharpener to ground up pencils. You would simple turn the dial (if it had one) on the sharpener to fit the pencil and then manually turn the handle to sharpen your pencil.Sometimes the lead from the tip of the pencil would break off inside the sharpener and jam it up, but for the most part they took lots of punishment and kept sharpening. We also had the smaller sharpeners that barely fit in our fingers that you put the pencil into and twisted the pencil until it was sharp.

Mechanical Sharpener:
The classic look sharpeners that mount on the wall or desk are still great buys. The Boston KS Pencil Sharpener ($14) is very versatile with 8 sizes of pencils accepted into the sharpener. The 30 cutting edges will sharpen all pencils quickly and efficiently. Features a black stand and a nickel plated barrel. There are screws included to help you mount the sharpener to the wall or on your desk. You will find this model at Dickblick.com.

Basci Manual Pencil Sharpener:
Not everyone needs a fancy pencil sharpener and the manual types are lightweight and function just fine. They are not meant for more than a few sharpenings here and there, but at less than $5 what do you expect. Office Depot carries the Staedtler 2 Hole metal pencil sharpener for $4 and the Foray single hole sharpener for around $1. They are cheap and fit nicely into your little ones backpack for school purposes.

We found many teachers recommending the Boston brand on several websites, but the Panasonic electric pencil sharpeners win out as the “best electric sharpeners” on the market.

Basci Manual Pencil Sharpener
Not everyone needs a fancy pencil sharpener and the manual types are lightweight and function just fine. They are not meant for more than a few sharpenings here and there, but at less than $5 what do you expect. Office Depot carries the Staedtler 2 Hole metal pencil sharpener for $4 and the Foray single hole sharpener for around $1. They are cheap and fit nicely into your little ones backpack for school purposes.

Electric Pencil Sharpener:
We found many teachers recommending the Boston brand on several websites, but the Panasonic electric pencil sharpeners win out as the “best electric sharpeners” on the market.

For office and work environments where the sharpener will get used often, consider going with a more durable, heavy duty electric sharpener like the X-Acto Heavy-Duty 41 Pencil Sharpener which is sold on Dickblick.com.

You may usually see pencial box, pencil bag, but this pencil roll you may not seen.

This cute pencil roll is great for holding any sized pens or pencils. It contains 10 pencil slots, 2 big slots for markers or bigger pencils and also two strips of pink ribbon to tie everything together.

It makes your handbag/bag neat and tidy without all those pens/pencils lying around. Also easy to roll up and store away making everything cleaner!

The inside is made up of pink circles fabric for the pencil slots and cupcake fabric for backing.

Measurements (approx):
length – 10″
Width – 7 3/4″
length of straps: 13″

“It’s tough presenting to a conference when you, as the presenter, lack visual cues. Sure, you can see the people seated around tables, you can see the layout of the room, but if it’s a larger group, you miss the important communication signals of eye contact, raised eyebrows…or people falling asleep. Video conferencing with smaller groups does allow for transition of greater detail (a smile, confused look), but it doesn’t allow for eye contact. Contact is with the camera. Tracking eye movement is important for feeling connected with others.”

George points to this video about ‘HeadSPIN: A One-to-Many 3D Video Teleconferencing System’. According to the blurb, “This installation presents a 3D teleconferencing system that enables true eye contact between a three-dimensionally transmitted subject and multiple participants in an audience. The system is able to reproduce the effects of gaze, attention, and eye contact not available in traditional teleconferencing systems.”

“We can capture motions of the human body in real time and bring them together on a big screen,” says Ahsan Arefin, a doctoral student currently involved with the project.

The project called ‘Tele-immersive Environment for Everybody’ or TEEVE hooks up two off-the-shelf 3D cameras to a PC with a Firewire port. A gateway server at each site sends and receives the different video streams using standard compression techniques. A renderer is used to project the virtual interactions on a big screen monitor, creating a real-time virtual 3D effect. It’s like web conferencing, but with a virtual reality twist.

The system was on display Thursday at an Intel Labs “research day” in Mountain View, California. At the event Intel showcased technologies the company is working on.

In their demonstration of the TEEVE idea, Arefin and his colleague stood in two opposite corners of a room with light sabers in hand. They had 3D stereo vision cameras called BumbleBee 2 pointed at them. As the duo dueled, they could see their 3D images captured and reflected on screen.

The idea has applications beyond gaming. It can be used in business, sports and medicine, says Arefin. An experiment by the University had two dancers from different locations dancing together on a large screen.

The system is part of the quest towards more visual computing, says Jack Gold, principal analyst with consulting firm J. Gold Associates.

“Moving to a visual environment, from the text heavy one we are in right now, is one of the most important issues that we have to deal with in computing,” he says. “As they say, sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.”

The biggest challenge in the application for the researchers comes from the demand on computational and network resources that the system imposes. TEEVE uses real-time 3D reconstruction algorithms that are necessary to convert 2D frame images to 3D frame that also includes the depth information. To optimize it, researchers have used multi-threaded computation and Arefin says TEEVE can work on PCs with high-end Intel processors.

“Our goal is to make the system portable and easily deployable because of its use of off-the-shelf components,” he says.

Lovely little book necklace made from thick brown leather. On the front is a pale cream button with a slight hue of mint. It has a design and says “herferdshire & buckinhamshire”. It is kept wrapped closed with a black leather strip that wraps over the button.

I like to think of tiny books as lockets for your thoughts. Hide a secret in there, a little note, special daily reminders, or little doodles.

This could hold the tiniest love letters or drawings, or inspirational quotes.

Comes with an 18″ antique copper chain with an “S” hook clasp.

The paper is a cream colored parchment paper.
There are 80 pages (or 160 counting both sides).

Measures 1.25 x 1.75 inches.

“Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”

What a lovely gift to give someone you love, a teacher, a co-worker or anyone for that fact. It’s such a unique gift that anyone can appreciate. Included in the bouquet are two dozen natural wood pencils, placed in a recycled mason jar with pencil shavings at the bottom. Around the jar you will see a pine cone rose, painted and placed on a twirly twig. To finish it off, there are some purple silk flowers and a big white flower.

When I go around on the internet, I find a very interesting stamp which is made by Nathalie from Imprintables.She is such a clever cookie. The stamps she made contain many styles, shapes and color.They are so wonderful!

Not only do she custom-design the most beautiful announcement card for people when baby is born. But when I you see her new stamps for children, you must think this will be the perfect thing to create your own customised stationery so that you can write a letter to him each year, like what Esther wrote about a little while back.

I have to share what a great job she did for us on that project soon, but for now, I thought you might like to see the ones she has created for children.