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We spent a short time with the new Canon Powershot N and found that even though the square body makes it a little awkward to use, it’s pretty fun at the same time. As a full-time camera, the cute gimmicky form factor is limiting. But as a little secondary camera? A blast. https://gizmodo.com/canon-powershot-n-the-future-of-tiny-cameras-is-eco-fr-5973688 The camera…
Pentax is a classic imaging company. So you’ve got to let them have their own crack at an old-school style camera, right? In theory, sure—but the new Pentax MX-1 feel just a little late to the party. Now we’ve got nothing against the brass-body design, and this $500 point-and-shoot has some undeniably slick features. We…
Prepare for your heart to drop out of your butt because this is quite literally the best thing I’ve seen at CES so far—it’s called the Steady Snake. And it’s an iPad tripod with a prehensile tail that you wear around your neck for hands-free TV watching, photo-taking, and all around iPad using. I’m going…
Along with a mirrorless Android camera that seems too good to be true, Polaroid has announced two other mirrorless cameras that have sensors built inside the lenses. Intended for amateurs, the cameras’ sensor placement prevents a novice photographer from accidentally ruining the interchangeable lenses. https://gizmodo.com/polaroid-im1836-this-interchangeable-lens-android-came-5973676 The Polaroid iM1030 has an interchangeable lens along with a…
Jabra has announced a new line of headphones that make a solid case for leaving your phone in your pocket. The bluetooth Jabra Revo Wireless headphones let you control your music with just a tap to the ear. Compact and solid, the Jabra Revos are, of course, headphones, and good ones at that, but that’s…
In case you haven’t picked up on it by now: Anything goes at CES. But at least this collaboration between Technics and custom bike builder Roland Sands is easy on the eyes and ears. Inspired by the Technics DH1-1200 and SL-1200MK2 turntables, Sands reworked a Harley Davidson Iron 883 and I’d say he nailed it.…
We’ve known about the Asus Transformer AIO since back at Computex, but the mutant hybrid wasn’t in working order until now. The verdict? …Kind of cool, actually. Here’s the Transformer’s story: It’s an 18.5-inch IPS-display all-in-one computer that runs both Windows 8 (with a Core i3 to i7 processor), as well as Android, with a…
Fitbit says it will release an updated Android app later this month or early next month to work with Bluetooth 4.0.
When we first heard about the Qube, we were hoping it would be the Google TV box that finally succeeded in making the serve simple and easy to use. Well, we still haven’t seen it in actual action—Asus’s demo model isn’t functional—but the remote is enough to give us a second of pause. The Qube’s…
We just got a few minutes with Fitbit’s new Flex activity tracker. From the look of it, they’ve basically just reengineered the One, made it smaller, taken out the altimeter and shoved it into a wristband. Double tap the band and a stream of five tiny LEDs notify you of how many goals you’ve reached…
Cobra’s iRadar has been one of the cooler things you can do with an iPhone for a while. It detects radar gun use from up to several miles away, and syncs the data with the data from other users. Now it’s tinier and twice as effective. The Atom is $200, compared to the $129 of…
Sony has two new Ultra HD TVs with the same technology as its monster 84-inch 4K LED model. At 65 and 55 inches, Sony CEO’s Kaz Hirai said these are going to be the company’s “affordable” 4K TVs. How much “affordable” is affordable, we don’t know yet. No price has been announced. The only thing…
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 Pro processor has been blowing us away with its speed in phones like the Nexus 4 and HTC’s Droid DNA, and that’s why we can’t wait to meet its big brothers. The Snapdragon 800 boasts a quad-core Krait 400 CPU, that can go up to 2.3GHz per core. https://gizmodo.com/google-nexus-4-review-yes-you-want-this-phone-5956305 To put that…
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Home theater aficionados with both an excess of wall space and disposable income, rejoice! Westinghouse has just unveiled a super-premium, outsized 4K television. 110 Inches. $300,000. Great googly moogly. That’s right, a flat panel television with a display that rivals most HT projectors in size, capable of up-scaling standard HD signal into a gorgeous full…
The New Nikon 1 J3 and Nikon 1 S1 are steps one and three of the newly established price ladder for Nikon’s series of mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras. At $500 with a slim 11-27.5mm kit zoom lens, the 10.1 megapixel Nikon 1 S1 is a particularly well-priced option that might entice the photographers who should actually…
After bouncing around overseas for a couple of months, Nikon’s update to the D5100 DSLR is finally coming to the United States. As with its predecessor, the D5200 is a step-up from Nikon’s ultra-beginner model, which these days is the pretty lackluster D3200. Basically, the D5200 has a number of features that the D3200 is…
Sony is showing off an organic light-emitting wet dream in 8 million pixels. Why can’t a 4K OLED TV exist today? Now that I’ve seen the future as a 56-inch prototype, I’m sad I have to wait until tomorrow to see it again. All televisions should be this incredible. The display in Sony’s CES booth…
Last year Sony kept finding itself behind the curve with Android phones. The new Xperia Z and ZL are the company’s attempt to break that trend. These two phones basically check off every box a spec-hungry geek could want and then some. It’s hard to say which of these phones is the flagship since their…
You know how you can set a point-and-shoot camera to Auto Mode and it’ll do a lot of the tweaking for you to get the best shot possible? Wouldn’t it be cool if you could do that for audio? Well, the new Nessie is Blue’s first shot at a mic with Auto Mode. Nessie, which…
