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TDC’s new OV6920 CameraChip is the world’s smallest CMOS chip at just 1/18-inch (1.4mm). This means that the attached camera setup is just 3.2mm in total size—or in layman’s terms—never change outside of your own bedroom again. Shooting at a low resolution of 328 x 250, the chip is configurable for NTSC output and can…
While the iPod is a nice MP3 player, it lacks that quality we can’t quite put our finger on. Oh, right. Sex. The Dimple Music Player concept may not…take care of business…but it will add a level of human touch. Designed to be a feast for the fingers, Yanko says the music player offers the…
Microsoft ships 60 million copies of Windows Vista. [newlaunches]
Japanese automakers collaborate on new OS for cars, prototype due in 2009 [Raw Feed]
The guys at iPhoneology didn’t have anything better to do this weekend, so they were poking around in the iPhone’s firmware, and look what they found: four applications they hadn’t seen before, including one for mobile radio that’s not even supported in the iPhone’s hardware. They also found a few widgets that aren’t on the…
Send in the iPhone clones, and this one is the most blatant ripoff we’ve seen yet, even more so than the Meizu MiniOne. Seen on a Chinese auction site, this one touts itself as being “more formidable than the iPhone,” calling itself the “Love Feng Mobile Phone.” It’s just the kind of cheap knockoff we…
After being down for maintenance, the Apple Store is back up and running, and saying that it can now ship your iPhone within a day. So sing Hallelujah, as the JesusPhone can now be in your grubby little paws just that little bit sooner. [Apple Store]
Click to viewWe’ve noticed small red cameras up on the top of those Chevy Cobalt camera cars gathering pictures from coast to coast for Google Streetview, and now an astute tipster has shown us which cameras those are: the Ladybug2 by Point Grey Research. It’s a spherical digital camera, and a tantalizing tidbit of information…
Click to viewMicrosoft’s Windows Live Local armada is striking back against Google’s Streetview fleet with all the technological terror they can find. Check this Chevy Tahoe’s intimidating top: six huge cameras, two GPS antennas and what could be a laser rangefinder on top, all connected with giant cables. Google’s gear may not be as impressive…
Let’s have a round of applaws (oh dear) and some stroky-stroky for Mr Lee, the world’s foremost cat photographer. His owner, South Carolina resident Jurgen Perthold, was curious as to what Mr Lee got up to during the day. So he rigged up a shock-, scratch-, water- and theft-resistant camera, slung it round Mr Lee’s…
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 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…
The childish at heart will love Brando’s latest four-way USB hub. Bend it into any shape you want, it comes in two different shapes and will brighten up your desk with its acid colors. Gallery, price and specs all after the jump. 4-port hub Colourful design USB 2.0 Plug and play, hot swapping Low power…
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…
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]
Panasonic is claiming today the light-weight world title for the smallest 3CCD 1080i camera with their HDC-SD5. Looking at its 2.6 x 2.6 x 5.3-inch 0.75-pound package, it seems they may be right. In any case, coupled with its 1,920 x 1,080 60 fields-per-second recording on SD or SDHC cards, revamped image stabilization system and…
The new Panasonic HDC-SX5 may be less sexy than the tiny-wee HDC-SD5, but in addition to the same optical image stabilizer, Leica Dicomar lenses and 30 fps Full HD 1,920 x 1,080 in SD and SDHC cards recording, it can also capture to double-layer DVD-R discs. Price and specs after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/panasonic-hdc-sd5-is-worlds-smallest-3ccd-1080i-camcord-283717 The HDC-SX5…
The 1966 book Automobiles of the Future by Irwin Stambler contains some pretty awesome projections of what we were supposed to be driving by now. The image above is the cover of the book. Stay tuned as we check out the cars of the (paleo) future as featured in this classic book.
Click to viewThis flight image sequence was allegedly taken during the filming of a Eurofighter Typhoon from a Hercules 130 cargo bay. Apparently, the director asked the pilot over the radio to come closer and closer and closer, until the pilot got fed up and whizzed right up to the entrance of the Hercules saying:…
Dell’s new promotion of their Latitude XT tablet PC gets personal—claiming frustration with bad tablets, they sawed Toshiba’s competing M400 Portege 3500 in half. We’re not sure how, if at all, Toshiba plans to retaliate. But we humbly suggest the use of eggs, toilet paper and a half-broken bottle of Jack when proceeding. Thanks Matt!