Posted by on under toshiba dynabook, shutter glasses, geforce gts, ray 3d, industry firsts, dc drive, stereo speakers, coattails, video ram, kard, harman, grabs, yen, impress, nvidia, bd, nbsp, laptops, laptop, lt | 
Ah industry firsts, a chance to grab the spotlight before the world grabs hold of your coattails. Toshiba's Dynabook TX/98MBL claims to be the industry's first laptop to play back
3D content in Blu-ray format when it ships at the end of July in Japan. The 15.6-inch laptop with LED backlit 120Hz panel (60Hz to each eye when viewed through active shutter glasses) pushing 1,366 x 768 pixels utilizes WinDVD BD to playback the Blu-ray 3D format with some help from
NVIDIA's 3D Vision software and
GeForce GTS 350M hardware with 1GB of dedicate video RAM. Inside you'll find a Core
i7-740QM processor, 640GB of hard disk, up to 4GB of memory, a Blu-ray disc drive of course, and harman/kardon stereo speakers with Dolby Advanced Audio to help make the most out of 3D gaming. Price is not listed but it's expected to list for about ¥250,000 (about $2,700). What, you do want 3D on your 15-inch laptops don't you?
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Back in August, we got word that a startup called PlaceBook was
being bullied by Facebook into changing their name. Obviously,
a lot of companies are trying to ride on the coattails of Facebook now given the social network's massive success, but in the case of PlaceBook, their name really just perfectly describes their service — more on that in a second. Still, Facebook lawyered up and PlaceBook founder
Michael Rubin had to make a decision: fight or survive. He chose the latter. PlaceBook is now known as
TripTrace. Still in private beta, it's a service that allows you to note places around the world you've been to. And places you'd like to go to in the future. All of this is done in two books (dare I call them "Place Books"?): your Atlas (places you've been), and your Travel (places you want to go). There's a heavy emphasis on maps in these books, and all of your places are marked by pins (red for where you've been, blue for where you're going).
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