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As TV manufacturers and broadcasters gear up to deliver 4K video to people’s living rooms, there still aren’t many options for regular folk who want to shoot super high resolution footage of their own. Sony wants to lead that charge with a new camcorder that will make 4K simple, manageable, and most of all (relatively)…
Exactly a year ago, Sony dove into the GoPro-like adventure camera market only to leave us wanting a little more from its tiny Action Cam. The new AS30V comes with a few new features, including GPS connectivity and higher-resolution 12-megapixel stills. Is that enough to finally make Sony’s Action Cam a real competitor? GPS is…
Sony’s Music Video Recorder sounds like some horribly out-of-touch YouTube generation nonsense, but the goofy gimmick is actually a slick little package that pairs high-quality audio powers with video. We’re intrigued. In part, what we’re looking at with the HDR-MV1 is a high-quality audio recorder of the type that has been on the market for…
Sony has been doing wonderful things with imaging in recent years, but despite redefining what we can expect from a compact point-and-shoot camera, the company has yet to make a definitive statement in the mobile imaging you do with your smartphone. The QX100 appears to be that statement—and boy is it weird looking. So here’s…
Sony has been a leader in personal audio since the very beginning. They basically invented it. Remember the Walkman? The new MDR-10-line headphones are a new mainstream offering that might reclaim your heart by focusing on the basics—no matter what kind of headphones you’re looking for. The MDR-10 closed-back headphones come in standard (MDR-10R), Bluetooth…
We heard rumors about a mysterious “Xperia i1” a while back, but now it showed up for real. Sony’s new Xperia z1 is the biggest Xperia yet at 5 inches, but more importantly, it’s got a killer 20.7 MP camera on it too. The Z1 packs its blazing 2.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 brain, 1080p display…
Amazon sure is on one hell of a roll. First it ruined its own Paperwhite surprise, and now its on to blowing up Sony’s. You know those smartphone lens camera things that have been leaking around? They’re on Amazon right now. Expected to be announced today at Sony’s IFA press conference, the QX10 and QX100…
Tonight, at midnight Eastern Standard Time, Yahoo! will unveil its new logo. If you’re confused—yes, Yahoo! has been “unveiling a new logo” (read: comic sans rendering of Yahoo!) at midnight for the past 29 days. It’s all part of an unusual plan to evade the virulent public backlash that has haunted many recent corporate rebrands.…
Google’s updated Authenticator app for iPhone rolled out last night, bringing new retina graphics for iPhone 5 users. Unfortunately, it also brought a nasty little glitch that wiped out user account info, leading Google to pull it from the App Store. Apparently, users who installed the new update found all the services they’d connected to…
Xbox Social Marketing Manager Graeme Boydjust tweeted out the official Xbox One launch date: November 22nd—just seven days before Black Friday. Hoo boy.
For all the gazillions of wireless speakers out there, Jawbone’s Jambox is almost certainly the best-known. Last year the company introduced a Big Jambox, so it shouldn’t really be any surprise that they’d come along with a smaller one as well: Mini Jambox. In terms of functionality, it’s what you’ve come to expect from a…
This super-cute little PC measures just two inches along each edge, runs Linux and Android Jelly Bean—and only costs $45. Yes, you did just read that right. Developed by SolidRun,the CuBox-i comes in a variety of specifications, but the base model—which costs $45—packs a single-core 1GHz processor, ethernet, and 512MB of RAM. You can, of…
Kim Dotcom has resigned as Director of Mega to focus on other projects, including a forthcoming music service—and, umm, his ongoing legal battles.
This font, called Phone Streak, might not be the most practical typeface in the world, but it was probably the most fun to create—because it was put together by capturing long exposures of an iPhone being swept through the air. Created by Marcus Byrne—a motion graphics designer—the font was created using a technique known as…
Sony has announced that the PS4 will only support four controllers at once—unlike the Xbox One, which will allow eight players to game at the same time.
Apple is apparently holding a separate iPhone event in China on September 11th, immediately after the US announcement on the 1oth. Those who enjoy reading in to such news might suggest that it’s further evidence that the long-fabled “budget iPhone” is indeed on its way. Either that, or there’s a dawning realisation that China is…
There have been rumors floating around for a while suggesting thatthe new iPad will be more like the current iPad mini—and now a video claiming to show off a 5th-generation iPad seems to reinforce those claims. The video,uploaded by Unbox Therapy, shows off a new, empty iPad casing and compares it to the current iPad.…
Spotify is being sued by the electronic and dance music brand Ministry of Sound—because the streaming music company refuses to delete playlists which mirror its compilation albums. Pursuing Spotify through the UK High Court, the Ministry of Sound wants an injunction which would see the playlists—which feature the same songs in the same order as…
Neil Young has announced that his new Pono music ecosystem—which promises to “present songs as they first sound during studio recording sessions”—will launch early 2014.
What’s going on in this picture? Did the photographer add some special lens? Is this some kooky Instagram filter? Is the camera defective? Was it photoshopped? Maybe folded over and over? Nope. The stripes inside the photograph are actually painted like that in real life. It’s a wonderful illusion created by photographer Benedict Morgan. In…
