Merely months after cranking out the , Nikon apparently felt the need to up the ante rather hastily with the . Unfortunately, it seems that this unit is yet another shining example of why stuffing a 12-megapixel sensor into a compact camera isn’t exactly the greatest of ideas. Granted, the image quality here was noticeably better than that produced by the , but performance was sorely lacking when using any ISO greater than 400. (Read content ‘Nikon Coolpix P5100 gets reviewed’…)
Meet LG’s latest DAP, the UP3. That name gives a hint as to the device’s objective to double-up as both a USB drive and MP3 player. Of course, the vast majority of all MP3 players already do this — something apparently lost on LG’s marketing department. The all metal UP3 shares the stylings of their touch-screen player and comes packing 1GB, 2GB, 4GB of storage; an FM radio; MP3, WMA, and OGG audio and ASF video support; and an itty bitty OLED display of unspecified dimensions supporting 65,000 colors. (Read content ‘LG’s UP3: the USB MP3 player for you, Captain Obvious’…)
Google getting cozy with Verizon and Sprint for the Gphone?
Posted Oct 31st 2007 12:46PM by
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The rumors have been lately, and things seems like they’re about to come to a boil.
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There are , and then there’s Yahee’s YHM-MPE02. For whatever reason, the design crew (to put it kindly) behind the janky YHM-MPE02 felt the need to stuff a two-inch QVGA display, 4GB of internal memory and an FM tuner into the PMP, but providing a simple USB port or some sort of flip-out connector was apparently not in the cards. (Read content ‘Yahee PMP delivers the one-dongle salute’…)
Just weeks after Western Digital its Passport line of external hard drives, the firm is at it once more with a metallic pink iteration. This particular unit, however, promotes something a bit more important than your obsession with nightly backups, as WD has pledged to donate an undisclosed amount of cash to the National Breast Cancer Foundation for each one purchased from now until February 29, 2008. (Read content ‘Western Digital’s Passport drive goes pink for breast cancer research’…)
Panasonic’s new DMP-BD30 Blu-ray player serves up those HD discs extra fancy, being the first player to meet the requirements for . That means a secondary video decoder for picture in picture (such as director’s commentary), and an extra audio decoder for working in sound from that second source or from interactive features. (Read content ‘Panasonic unveils DMP-BD30 “next-gen” Blu-ray player’…)
Panasonic gets official with US-bound Strada CN-GP50U navigator
Posted Oct 30th 2007 8:26PM by
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Just when you thought that no company in its right mind would bother entering the (way) over-saturated portable navigation market in the US now, along comes Panasonic to prove you wrong.
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NASA sure , and the agency is mighty proud of its latest effort, the Chariot lunar truck. Designed from start to finish in just a year, the Chariot features 12 wheels driven by two electric motors through a two-speed transmission, allowing it to perform in a “bulldozer” mode with up to 4000 pounds or force or cruise at up to fifteen miles an hour. (Read content ‘NASA unveils the Chariot “lunar truck”‘…)
Pistol camera captures gunslinging action, seeks role in next Faces of Death
Posted Oct 30th 2007 6:31PM by
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Barrel-mounted cameras aren’t exactly , but it’s not everyday that you see the boys in blue sporting one on their sidearm.
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You can’t run around launching fancy new music players these days without a secondary offensive of cases and car chargers following close behind, and Microsoft’s new have a veritable cavalry behind them. In addition to the official accessories we’ve already about from J Allard and crew, the company’s lined up a number of third-party manufacturers to crank out 60 different Zune-friendly products, including Polk, Belkin, DLO, Monster, Altec Lansing, Targus, iHome, Memorex and Griffin. (Read content ‘Microsoft talks third-party Zune accessories’…)