Casio’s Big-zoomin’ slim fittin’ digicam
Slim cams with internally-zooming, nonprotruding lenses are nothing new. But Casio kicks it up a notch by squeezing a 7X (38mm – 266mm) zoomer into the one-inch thick Exilim Hi-Zoom EX-V7. Lots of other goodies are inside, too. In addition to the anti-shake chip that it’s been using to (somewhat successfully) process blur out of…
Seagate’s High-Fashion External Hard Drives
Ever-growing Seagate has become the emperor of the hard drive world, and now its external drives sport some fancy new clothes. The company that got rich building unglamorous SCSI drives for server farms has gone high-fashion with Its FreeAgent line of drives sporting “cocoa-black” casings and “molten-amber” lights. The series packs some serious capacity and…
The Coolest Camera You Can’t Get Here
Available in Asia, the 7-megapixel i70 is an update to the sexy NV3 that houses a portable media player inside a sleek stainless-steel shell. The N7’s killer app, though, is the ability to get onto HSDPA cellular networks for superfast photo uploads from just about anywhere, sans PC. But figuring out the backward cellular networks…
Samsung New Camera Lineup
Samsung introduced five new models today. (All will be available in “spring of 2007,” says Sammy.) In addition to the way-cool looking L73, it brought out the 8-megapixel S850 ($250) and10.1-megapixel S1050 ($350). These cams lack the face detection of the L73, but they do sport handy 5X zoom lenses (vs. 3X on the L73).…
Samsung L73 Digicam Can Spot Faces
Unlike most of those coy camera vendors who are saving their new goods for February’s PMA show, Samsung is putting out right here in Vegas with five new models. Coolest is the 7-megapixel L73 ($300). With it, Samsung joins the anti-aphasia campaigns of Canon, Fujifilm, and Nikon by adding face detection. Its Intelligent Face Recognition…
Samsung’s A-VSB Digital Broadcasting Tech is Confusing Yet Awesome
OK, the video above is from the Samsung press conference where they lay out all the details on their new A-VSB digital broadcasting technology, and to be honest, they do a much better job explaining exactly what it is than I ever could. So go ahead and watch it, as Blakeley went through all the…
Samsung Puts 3 DLP’s On a Diet And Throws In LED While They’re At It
With one fell swoop Samsung improved on just about everything that we hated about DLP’s with their Slim LED DLPˇ line. First off, is the new LED backlight. Not only is it a lot brighter then traditional DLP’s lights, but it turns on in less then 10 seconds. And all this is accomplished while being…
Samsung Q1P UMPC: 32GB of Solid State Flash Memory
Yeah, we already knew about this, but now it’s official. Samsung released the Q1P in the US today, filled with 32GB of SSD flash memory goodness. Maybe this will finally be the one that convinces me that all UMPC’s aren’t complete crap.