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Digital Photography Review on Canon’s new 6.3 megapixel digital SLR camera, the EOS-10D. And from the looks of it, they like it: “The EOS-10D is the absolute best in class, with the best image quality, lowest high sensitivity noise, superb build quality and excellent price (not to mention the huge choice of lenses).” Read Amazon…
Zupera’s come out with a pair of USB digital optical binoculars that connect to a PC so you can view the magnified image on a computer screen. They say it’s aimed at “bird or wildlife observers, landscape survey, marine and aviation survey, electronic-loving enthusiasts, and casual consumers who enjoy capturing an occasional image from afar,”…
CNET on the crisis facing flash memory cards – it’s just getting harder and harder to fit more and more into less and less space – and some of the technologies that might solve the problem. They include ovonics, in which data is stored onto the same material used in DVDs; ferroelectric RAM, or FeRAM,…
Word on the street is that Apple is working on a tablet computer of its own: The unnamed tablet system — featuring an 8.4″ backlit TFT-display and built-in Airport Extreme — will be marketed as a ‘Home Portable’ and will be targeted towards a specific demographic of users who want the portability of laptop but…
Inquirer review of the T221, a new widescreen 22.2″ LCD monitor from IBM. which with a resolution of 3840×2400 pixels may be just about the best monitor you can buy: While not known about widely (another example of top technology not marketed well before), this fantastic piece of technology can be seen in establishment involved…
Three new cameraphones from Samsung: the SGH-P400 (pictured at right), with a rotating color screen; the SGH-P410, which has two color screens, an 65,000-color internal LCD and a 256-color external OLED; and the SGH-V200, which has a a 65,000 color screen and a camera that rotates 180 degrees. Read
The OQO Ultra-Personal computer, which crams a full-fledged PC running Windows XP into something slightly larger than a Pocket PC, was supposed to be out late last year, but became one the big no-shows of 2002. The release date was pushed back to April, but now it looks like the OQO won’t see the light…
The US military is banning journalists travelling with army and marine units from using certain kinds of satellite phones, claiming that they’re a security risk: “Officers have ordered me to hand my phone in and I am giving it to one of the officers,” correspondent Matthew Green said. Other journalists travelling with the 1st Marine…
New multimedia PC from MSI that looks more like a bookshelf stereo than a PC. The MEGA, as its called, has audio out ports for 5.2-channel digital surround sound, video out ports for watching DVDs, a display built right into the front for displaying which MP3 you’re listening to, and optional accessories like a remote…
Christian Bailey returns to blogging with a post about new OPTIO S from Pentax – a 3.2 megapixel digital camera with a 3x optical zoom lens that’s smaller than a credit card and just over three-quarters of an inch thick. Read
Tom’s Hardware Guide report on Bluetooth, with more than you probably would ever want to know about the wireless networking standard. Read
Another new device from Samsung, this one a combination 29″ flatscreen TV/VCR/DVD player. Read
The New York Times on the appliances that will populate the kitchens of the future: Internet-ready refrigerators; smart ovens that use a combination of thermal, convection, and microwave energies to cook food; and refrigerated ranges that can programmed to keep food cold for up to a day and then automatically heat it up so it’ll…
An MP3/CD player for the visually impaired from VisuAide. Besides being able to play music, the Victor Reader VIBE can also play audio books in digital format. Read
TechTV has a few ideas on how to reduce the amount of cable clutter on your desk. Too bad most of them are completely obvious. Read
In case you missed them, here’s a roundup of all the war-related posts from the past week: The Phraselator Watching in the dark Patriotic cellphone standards? PDAs go to war How tech is changing war reporting Get your own satellite phone Arabic in, English out
Over at the Independent, a list of the 50 best pocket-sized gadgets, like Tanita’s Alcohol Sensor, the Soundbug, Sharp’s Gx-10 cellphone, and Panasonic’s tiny SV-P10 portable printer. Read
Did Apple drop the ball by not coming out with its own tablet computer? Sales of Tablet PCs are turning out to be a lot better than expected, and it’s assumed that a tablet Mac would prove pretty popular. Steve Jobs would probably balk at naming it the iTablet, it’s too obvious, and anyway, he’d…
Bluetooth Memory Stick for Sony Clie handhelds coming this summer from Hagiwara Sys-Com. What’d be great would be if you could use one of these cards to add Bluetooth to a Sony digital camera. But you can’t. Read
USB 2.0 vs. FireWire isn’t really shaping up to be the kind of family-dividing, friendship-ending conflict that it could have been – lots of new PCs come with ports for both now, pretty much solving the problem of having to make sure that all your peripherals are one or the other. And going even further…