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Samsung i85 Camera and Personal Media Player Uses Touchscreen

Samsung today announced its new i85 camera too, which includes a personal media player to really make use of its big 3″ touchscreen LCD. The camera itself is an 8 megapixel with a 5x optical zoom lens and face recognition technology which automatically focuses on any faces that are in shot. The i85 will retail…

Samsung Unveil 3 New Smart Touch NV Cameras

Samsung has unveiled three new models in their NV range today; the NV8 8-megapixel, the NV15 10-megapixel and the NV20 12-megapixel. They all feature the company’s Smart Touch system, which wouldn’t be out of place in a fighter plane. Or judging by its sleek looks, in a TIE Interceptor. More details after the jump. Buttons…

Tell Your Car What to Play, Read With Ford Sync

Ford Sync is a new system developed by Ford and Microsoft that aims to fully integrate your MP3 player, cell phone and car computer with a speech recognition system. You will be able to climb into your SUV and say, ‘Play artist Cliff Richards’, and the annoying old timer will start blaring out of your…

Possessed Book Trick Scares People, Ghosts

This toy is shaped like a row of books, and includes a sensor that triggers spooky noises and pushes out one of the books when someone walks past. It might fool someone, although I think that old-style binding may scream in-between all those O’Reilly books on programming. [UberGizmo]

SketchPet Mini Notebook

The SketchPet is an interesting notebook design from MaginWulf that is small enough to put on a keyring or keep in a pocket. If you like to leave the digital behind every now and then to record ideas and notes on paper, then maybe this is for you. They can include up to 150 pages,…

22 Pop Email Typewriter for Luddites

22 Pop is a modified typewriter that allows you to send emails. You type out the recipient, subject and message on a special template sheet and the message is sent when you pull the finished page out. The website claims that the device can also receive messages, but I can’t see how it could print…

Oki Japan Bring Iris Scanning to Existing Cellphones

Oki Japan has developed software that brings iris recognition security to existing cellphones. Before now, biometric security has meant either hugely expensive military systems or cheap, novelty peripherals. This new development is part of a growing number of practical and affordable solutions. The software can be used to add another layer of security on any…

This holiday season Target will start selling the Sony BDP-S300 Blu-ray player for $499 along with movies from Sony and Disney in their stores, but no HD DVD players, which Target only offers HD DVD in its online store. [Forbes]