Usually when I see a short throw projector, you still need a good six feet or so to get a reasonably large image size on your screen or wall. That’s fine and good in some instances, but if you have a really small room you might want even shorter throw.

Vivitek has a new projector that makes those other short throw units look bad. The projector is called the D795WT and the little beastie can toss a 95-inch image on the screen from only 1.3-feet away. In addition to the short throw, the projector is also 3D ready.

Sanyo has introduced two new short-throw, 3D-ready projectors. The PDG-DWL2500 and PDG-DXL2000. With a new mirror projection optical unit, they are capable of throwing up large images in about half the space of a typical projector.

In fact, the DWL2500 is the shortest-throw projector available on the market, as it can create an 80-inch image just 12.6 inches from the screen. The DWL2500 sports a native 1280×800 resolution for a 16:10 aspect ratio and a brightness of 2,500 lumens. While the DXL2000 has lower specs, at 1024×768, 4:3 and 2,000.

Toshiba has a bunch of different notebooks. The company is big in the electronics market and was the major firm behind the defunct HD DVD format. Toshiba has gone in the Blu-ray market now and has announced the industry’s first PC that supports Blu-ray 3D.

The new notebook is called the Dynabook TX/98MBL and has a 15.6-inch 120Hz LED backlit screen ready for 3D. The 3D effects use the NVIDIA 3D Vision system and support 3D games and future 3D Blu-ray titles.

If you have plenty of disposable income, why not spend eighty grand on a top-of-the-line 3D projector? The new C3X Lumis 3D projector by Sim2 is priced at $80,000 and would likely be the most expensive thing in your home theater.

The Sim2 C3X LUMIS 3D projector has a bunch of features including 3X Dark Chip 4, Hyper-Color, and dual-projector 3D capabilities. If you have the spare cash, why not check it out?

Toshiba has an LCD panel which is capable of converting a 2D image partially to a 3D image, where it can then be viewed with the naked eye without the need for an extra pair of special glasses. This LCD panel is compatible with the “integral imaging method” developed by Toshiba and boasts nine viewpoints within a 12″ display at 1,400 x 1,050 resolution for 2D images in full screen and 466 x 350 for 3D images in full screen.

The 3D images are made possible thanks to the “GRIN (gradient index) lens” that changes the distribution of refraction indexes by controlling the gradient of liquid crystal molecules. Turning on the second panel allows You to show 2D images and 3D images simultaneously.

Qualcomm has been the company behind MediaFlow, which is the company behind the streaming TV services here in the US since the launch on Verizon and AT&T. Qualcomm’s chairman has been talking up the future of MediaFLO on other devices and the firm has its sights set on the iPad.

Qualcomm has said that MediaFLO programming will be coming to the iPad via a hardware and software combination. The combo will be an app for viewing programming on the iPad with a hardware device for shooting that programming out over WiFi.

3D is still the focus in 2010 and so Asus has introduced its 3D gaming notebook, the RoG G53. There’s no release date or price mentioned yet, but since we’re talking a gaming notebook that supports 3D, you’ll be paying a premium.

Some specs include: Core i3, i5 and i7 processor options, Up to 16GB of DDR3 memory on the quad-core machines (up to 8GB for dual-core options), 15.6-inch LED backlit HD display, NVIDIA graphics, Dual hard drive/SSD support, Optional Blu-ray drive, USB 3.0 ports and an HDMI 1.4 port.

Hitachi is claiming the world’s first 320GB hard disk drive to spin at 7,200 RPM in a 7-mm thick package. The 2.5-inch Serial ATA 3Gbps Travelstar Z7K320 boasts a 1,334Mbps maximum transfer rate with a 16MB cache. This HDD draws 1.8 watts during read/write and 0.8 watts while idle, at 23dB when idle or 24dB when seeking.

Thanks to the slim form factor, it’s ready to boldly go some places that standard 9.5-mm thick drives can’t. Expect these to hit production lines in August and appear in next generation ultra-thin netbooks.

When I was a kid, you could play with toy guns anywhere you wanted that looked just like the real things. My friends and I spent many a day playing cops and robbers around the neighborhood without even thinking the toy guns were dangerous. Today toy guns can get you shot by police with a real gun if you aren’t careful.

A designer at Thingiverse going by juniortran has offered up the files and plans needed to build yourself a iPhone case that looks like a Ruger LCR Revolver. To make your own you will need access to a 3D printer though, which most of us don’t have lying around the house.

Acer’s Stream will be running Android 2.1 when it goes on sale and it will include a “brand new” UI. Something they call a “stunningly fluid 3D” skin. This one will compete with the Nexus-One.

Some specs include a 1GHz Snapdragon processor with 512MB RAM, 2GB internal storage (8GB microSD card bundled with it), 3.7-inch WVGA screen, GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and the 5MP camera can shoot videos in 720p. It also has a mini-HDMI port to connect it to your HDTV. This one measures just 11.2mm thick.

Gesture based technology just got a whole lot more colorful thanks to this MIT student’s ultra colorful Lycra gloves. Robert Wang and his faculty adviser Jovan Popovićt are the designers of this colorful project. The color sections on the gloves allow for a full range of hand gestures to be recognized by the computer system.

It also helps the system better recognize your hands as 3D shapes. A Webcam is used to capture the gloves, while software recognizes and translates the color patterns and compares the patterns to a database of hand gestures. After finding a match, it generates a virtual 3-D model.

Popbox is the first entry-level media streamer and set top box to offer RealD 3D support, allowing you to enjoy 3D from the comfort of your living room. Broadcasting a 3D signal is as simple as sending the signal through a standard HDMI cable, but RealD will do it side-by-side, using circular-polarized light.

You might want to check to make sure your TV is capable of this kind of performance. No matter what Popbox model you own, it should be able to stream RealD content though.

In the market for a new LED TV? Westinghouse just introduced several affordable LED HDTVs, priced for those on a budget. They measure just 1-inch at the edges. There is a downside though.

It doesn’t support HDMI 1.4a, which means no 3D support for you. Models up to the 42-inch model are Energy Star 5.0 compliant, while certain models also support being hung up using a wall hanger, instead of a specialized mount.

3D is nothing compared to holograms. R2-D2 knew it way back in 1977 when he broadcast Leia’s message to Obi-Wan and the rest of us are just catching on. Now Japan wants to broadcast 3D holograms to stadiums all over the world for the 2022 World Cup.

They claim they will able to capture the action with 200 3D HD cameras at each game while microphones under the field would record the sound. They also assume the technology would be available for projecting 3D holograms onto the field itself, making it seem like you were watching the game in person.

Stereoscopic 3D technology has been around for a long time and it has come a long way. Toshiba has introduced a new OCB (Optically Compensated Bend) LCD panel that works in time-based type 3D glasses.

In those glasses it will facilitate high-speed shutter opening and closing, which minimizes eye fatigue caused by “3D crosstalk”, a phenomena that happens when the right image is sensed by the left eye and vice versa, causing double vision. It also means better image quality and a wide viewing angle.