When you think indoor golf you usually think mini-golf: leaving the bag at home and tackling odd shaped obstacles with your putter. All good fun, but hardly a serious training session for your all-round game. This impression is set to change if the Indoor Golf Arena concept takes off. Aiming for a 2010 opening, the planned "worlds largest Indoor Golf Center" in The Netherlands will incorporate 20 ProTee golf simulators, a roof top driving range with 34 bays and 150,00 square feet (14,000m2) of golf practice facilities with chipping greens, bunkers and water hazards catering for every aspect of your short game along with a huge golf shop, kids training facilities, a wellness center with sauna and spa and a 4-star hotel...  read more »

March 17, 2008 High flying, deal-making business and the leisurely sport of golf have gone hand in hand for decades, the high-class country club being an exclusive refuge for the wealthy and powerful. With so much money behind it, golf is one of the few sports that can support blue-sky, no-expense-spared technology like the Full Swing Golf simulator. Built into a wall in your home, office or place of business, this immensely popular boys' toy allows you to play over 50 of the world's most famous courses, from the Old Course at St. Andrew's to Pebble Beach, using your own clubs and never losing a ball. A new online mode allows you to play over the Web against your buddies... Provided they have the US$50,000 to $80,000 you need to set yourself up with a system!..  read more »

Video glasses are not new but most of them tend to be ugly as sin, making you look like Star Treks No. 1 convention fan at 100 paces. Myvu has been working hard to shrink them and style them so that consumers can buy what look like a funky pair of sunglasses but with the added bonus of being able to watch movies on the inside. These are the Crystal 701 iPod Edition glasses for use with iPods, obviously, but also capable of being used readily with any other non-iPod portable video or DVD player. They offers 640 x 480 resolution playback and provide you with the impression that youre watching an average sized TV from around 8-feet away.  read more »

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Have you ever ate at a Chinese Food Restaurant and forgot to bring your pair of personal chopsticks? Sure, you could ask the waiter or waitress for a pair, but what if he or she doesnt speak English? Okay, that probably wont really happen, but I think you see my point: it would be nice to have some chopsticks to carry around with you, but how could you do that?  read more »

3D, the entertainment almost-ran, is hardly a mass-market consumer technology for movies and games but nVidia thinks it has a solution. The company is working on a software driver for its graphics cards that will allow any PC game to be played in 3D without games developers having to do a thing. Can it really be that simple?  read more »

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Samsung has proudly introduced the world’s first Plasma HDTV with a stunning 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. The 50 inch PAVV Cannes 450 Plasma HDTV is also 3D ready with a little help from special glasses and PC software. The screen adopts the Samsung Digital Natural Image engine + (DNIe+), which handles external noise, contrast ratio, color in the image display. The company has unveiled this 3D ready Plasma TVs for the first time at the CES 2008. It will be available in the United States later this year. [i4u]  read more »

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