Sunday Girl

This week it’s a reappearance for Korean model Hwang Mi Hee, who made an appearance at the World IT Show 2010 which took place in South Korea last week.

LG’s super hi-res 84 inch 3D TV

Continuing the trend for really big, high definition, 3D televisions, LG have unveiled their latest 3D TV – an 84 inch, 3,840 x 2,160 pixel 3D TV! That’s a lot of inches and four times the pixels of a standard 1080p HD display (double the vertical resolution and double the horizontal resolution). The accompanying Korean women look quite tiny in comparison (which we hear are given away as free accessories with the TV, possibly).

Unfortunately, you do still have to wear those stupid glasses. So it could all be a little bit pointless, as we suspect better tech that doesn’t require glasses will be the real goal.

Sunday Girl

Well, this week’s Sunday Girl takes the form of a random Chinese girl appearing in an iPad advert. Obviously not official Apple marketing by the looks of things.

Jobs wants freedom from porn

Above you can see part of a conversation between Gawker’s Ryan Tate and Apple’s Steve Jobs. If you don’t already know, Gawker are now fairly infamous in the tech world, when the Gawker tech blog Gizmodo got the scoop on the stolen iPhone 4G (and it goes back a bit beyond that too).

Whilst not exactly a news story in itself, it’s rather rare for Steve Jobs to publicly reply to emails, and his conversation with Gawker’s Ryan Tate is fairly candid. It seems Mr Jobs thinks it’s his duty to rid the world of ‘corrupting’ pornography. Let’s just chalk it up on the long list of things Apple want to control.

World’s first Robot Vicar

It’s not quite a vicar, but the i-Fairy is the first robot to host a wedding ceremony. A robot-loving couple in Japan recently tied the knot, with the 4″ tall i-Fairy robot performing the ceremony.

Presumably the next step will be robots getting married themselves.

Sunday Girl

It’s that time again. This week the honours go to Korean hottie Lee Mi Hyeon. Annyong!

Sharp’s mobile 3D High Definition camera

It’s not Earth shattering, but it is quite nifty – Sharp’s new 3D High Definition camera for mobile phones. Not only does it record 3D video in 720p HD, which is rather amazing in its own right, but it’s tiny enough to use with a mobile phone. Plus it looks a bit like Johnny 5.

There’s not really much else to say. No price has been confirmed yet, though it will probably only feature on rather expensive smartphones to begin with. It will start production this year.

Sony’s super compact DSLR NEX cameras

Want a DSLR camera that will actually fit in your pocket? Well, Sony have something for you then, the Sony NEX3 and NEX5 “ultra compact” DSLR cameras (assuming your pocket also has space for the separate lens). They’re not unlike the recent Micro Four Thirds cameras, in that they’re tiny little cameras with interchangeable lenses, that are supposed to be as capable as full-sized DSLR cameras.

The NEX3 and NEX5 cameras look lovely indeed. With a 14.2 megapixel sensor and HD video recording (720p for the NEX3, 1080i for the NEX5), the camera bodies sell for €250 and €350 ($320 to $450) for the NEX3 and NEX5 respectively, whilst lenses are a similar amount (at least). It looks like it might be a worthy competitor to Panasonic’s Lumix GF1.

UK and EU iPad dates and prices announced

Apple have just announced the UK and European pricing and release dates for the iPad, in addition to updating the iPad’s worldwide launch schedule.

The date is May 28th for people in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland (Australia, Canada and Japan will also get the iPad on the same day). Other EU countries such as Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands will get it some time in July.

For the UK, the 16GB Wi-Fi only base model will cost £429 – which works out at $635, which is about $135 more than the US version. That does include VAT though, so perhaps it’s not a complete rip-off. The 32GB and 64GB Wi-Fi versions will retail for £499 and £599 respectively, whilst the 3G models are an extra £100 (£529 for the 16GB 3G, £599 for the 32GB 3G and £699 for the 64GB 3G). That puts the most expensive iPad at $1,035, not including the monthly data plan (which typically costs from £10-20 per month). The prices in the rest of Europe are pretty much the same, although converted to Euros and varying slightly from country to country due to tax.

The inflated price isn’t terribly unexpected – the Pound and Euro are quite weak at the moment against the dollar – although it is clearly more expensive than the US version.

Sunday Girl

It was a quiet week for tech last week. So let’s start cheering for some more excitement over the coming weeks, with this week’s Sunday Girl, Han Ji Eun!

Sunday Girl

Does summer start in May or June? Well, whatever. Things are certainly looking brighter now though, thanks in part to this week’s Sunday Girl, Kim Ha-Yul. Oh cheery lady!