Today the Motorola Hint QA30 is official announced. It is the Motorola’s new Motorola QWERTY slider
design cellphone, it features includes 2.5″ 320 x 240 screen, stereo Bluetooth 2.0, microSD support up to 8GB. Its slider design reveals a full QWERTY keypad when open, Cool! Motorola Hint QA30 will be available in Q4 2008. It will support CDMA calling and EVDO data. [ link ]
“A DSMC is a camera that shoots stills and motion. Configure that camera any way you want. Select a brain. Configure your body.” Red may have just changed the digital imaging game with the new Scarlet and EPIC cameras, which include options for full-frame 35mm size sensors. The Scarlet is available in 4.9MP, 13.8MP and 24MP. The EPIC is available in 13.8MP, 24MP, 65MP and 261MP. Here’s the big one though - they are available in Nikon and Canon mounts. And even you can select the other add-on includes a 1080p monitoring, flash storage, frames, mounts and more. [ link ]
You may have see many rumors of the USB 3.0 pictures before, today the USB 3.0 Specification is officially announced. It is rate of 4.8 Gbit/s (600 MB/s), it’ll dump a 25GB HD file in about 70 seconds. The bad news, you old USB cables won’t deliver SuperSpeeds, you have to buy the new USB 3.0 gear because the cables have extra pins. It seems different from USB 2.0 at the below pic. You may can see the gadgets with USB 3.0 sometime in 2010…[ link ]
Hey, Men! Tired of wearing the same torn, dirty underwear day after day? Now you don’t have to, thanks to the Men’s Underwear Repair Kit! This handy, inexpensive kit provides everything you need to get your unsightly undershorts back into presentable shape.
You also get an fully-illustrated 32-page Instruction Manual, containing everything you need to know about Underwear Repair and Maintenance.
If you’re looking for the ultimate in cellular luxury, check out the new Motorola Aura ($2,000). Built more like a fine automobile than a swivel phone, the Aura features a 16-million color circular display, a Grade 1 62-carat sapphire crystal lens, a stainless steel housing that takes nearly two weeks to sculpt, etch and polish, a custom-engineered rotating mechanism with 130 precision ball bearings, CrystalTalk technology for terrific voice clarity, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and A2DP, Quad-band GSM, and more.
If you want to type in anywhere? The Pomera Digital Memo DM10(JPY 27,300; $270) is a portable typing device, which packed a full sized folding keyboard. I like its folding keyboard, portable, long battery life design, perfect for the writer or them whose just want to wirte something. As you see it features 2-second startup, 20-hour battery life, microSD expansion, and 4-inch VGA display. And it just 1.18″ thick. You can also conncet it to your computer via USB or its SD card. It will be available in Japan on November 10th.
If by chance you have not yet moved on to an Apple iPhone 3G or a Blackberry Bold, then Motorola is still out there, happy to pickup your business. Its newest offering, the Moto Q 11 ($TBA) features quad-band GPRS/EDGE, meaning it’ll be relegated to either AT&T or T-Mobile. It does, however, house WiFi, an ARM 7 LTE processor and GPS. Not a bad option for anyone who isn’t into Apples and those of you who aren’t feeling Bold.
Today, Steve Jobs unveiled a whole new generation of Apple products (MacBook Pro, MacBook, Cinema Display) all equipped with those new glossy screens that will appeal to us, graphic and motion design professionals.
Hey guys/gals, 1GB or 2GB no longer enough for us, especially when we get high quality movies and stuff. That’s why today Kingston has release its DataTraveler 150 Flash Drive in 32GB of storage capacity. It is going for $139.
[via TechFresh]
It is time to buy a new BlackBerry! The BlackBerry’s first touchscreen phone - BlackBerry Storm. It will come to Verizon and Vodafone in next month. It includes a 3.26-inch(480 x 360) touchsreen and a 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera. Other features includes touchscreen keyboard, a full HTML finger-navigable browser, Word, Excel editing capabilities, Bluetooth 2.0, 1 GB of on board memory storage and 8 GB microSD memory card, 3.5mm headphone jack. The battery is 5.5 hours of talk time and 15 days of standby time. In the U.S., the BlackBerry Storm gives Verizon Wireless customers EV-DO Rev. A/CDMA ?C technology ?C and (2100Mhz) HSPA/UMTS as well as quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM for global use.
When fredmiranda.com forum user sbv20 found himself with a broken Canon 17-85 mm zoom lens after the aperture became stuck he decided to have a little bit of fun: he took it apart!
And thankfully, he documented his disassembly of the zoom lens for all of us to see: Link
Now you can use your iPhone monitor your heart rate. This iPhone Heart Monitor app by John Ballinger. It uses the inbuilt microphone on your iPhone 3G or headphone microphone to listen to and detect your heart beats. You can use the iPhone 3G directly over your heart or directly on the pulse in your neck or wrist, the app will be able to detect the stats(Check out see the video). Available on iTunes for $5. [ link ]
Please Note: works best with iPhone 3G, works well with iPhone 1G/2G but you must use the headphone cable microphone, the inbuilt microphone does not detect heart beats.
The Leica M8.2 ($6,213) is a small, but significant overhaul of the company’s successful M8 rig. It features an ultra scratch-resistance sapphire crystal LCD display, redefined bright frames in the viewfinder, an easy
to use snapshot mode for those who don’t want to bother with all the manual settings and metal blade focal plane shutter that makes it sound more like a film camera. If a camera could get you chicks, this would
be it, too bad you’ll have to sell an organ and/or your first born to afford one.
With a touch screen interface, 8GB of internal storage, and a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (€279, ~$386; Q4 2008) has a lot of the same features as the iPhone — but one big one Apple’s handset is missing. The 5800 is among Nokia’s first handsets to support Comes With Music, a service that will provide one full year of all-you-can-eat downloads from the Nokia Music Store. Other features include a 3.2 megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens, video recording, Flash support, built-in stereo speakers, and more.
The new G-series Canon camera, the PowerShot G10 Camera($500; October 2008) including a long-anticipated 28 mm wide-angle lens with 5x optical zoom, 14.7 megapixels and 3.0-inch LCD screen. The more high pixel from 12.1MP to 14.7MP, and with the features, the DIGIC 4 image processor - Servo AF, which is a form of continuous focus tracking for moving subjects. By pressing the shutter button half-way, the camera can track subject movement up to the instant of exposure, resulting in sharper photographs. [ link ]
Bass hits the desktop in Altec Lansing’s new Expressionist Bass Speakers ($150; October 2008). These cone-shaped PC speakers pack a 4-inch long-throw subwoofer into the base of each, with 1.5-inch drivers handling the mids and highs, removing the need for large, typically floor-bound sub enclosures. Finally, a reason to upgrade our aging Creatures.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 coming soon, this November 2008. It is the world’s first camera to use the Micro Four Thirds standard and it is also the world’s smallest and lightest digital interchangeable lens camera, weighing in at approximately 385 grams (0.85 lbs).
“Based on the new Micro Four Thirds System standard, the LUMIX G1 eliminates the internal mirror structure that defines digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras, thus reducing the size and weight by nearly half. With the mirror-less system, the G1’s flange back, which is the distance between the mount and the image sensor, has been reduced from 40 mm — as specified in the Four Thirds System — to approximately 20 mm.”
G1 features a 3-inch flip-out LCD, contrast Autofocus, a 12-megapixel Live MOS sensor, and a full complement of manual, semimanual, automatic, and semiautomatic shooting capabilities.
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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 9, 2008 — Sony is introducing its full-frame ? (alpha) DSLR-A900 camera, aimed at serious photo enthusiasts looking for traditional SLR performance with the added benefits of digital photography.
It is designed to deliver ultra-fine picture quality with the world’s highest resolution, 24.6-megapixel, 35 mm full-frame CMOS sensor and fast image processing with a new dual BIONZ® processing engines. The camera is also the first to have a body-integrated image stabilization system for a full-frame sensor with Sony’s SteadyShot® Inside anti-shake system.
One look at the camera’s distinctive pentaprism and nostalgic body design will evoke its full-frame optical performance. It features a bright, clear optical viewfinder with 100% field of view coverage that would impress even film photography loyalists.
