All the stories categorized with: Photo-Video
PC Multimedia Entertainment DVD Player
05/31/2005, Click to enlarge Co-published with gadgetryblog If you just can’t be bothered to wait for your PC to boot, or your missus keeps accusing you of working instead of playing (maybe that sounded better in my head!), this DVD drive [...]
Trendy DVD player by Muji
05/24/2005, Click to enlarge Co-Published with Ployer Muji, Japan, known for simplicity has announced a new stylish, sleek DVD player. The player supports DVD (DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM) and music CD VIDEO CD, (CD-R/CD-RW) formats. Price: £99 at Wallpaper.com.
Kodak V-Series Cameras
05/23/2005, Click to enlarge Co-Published with BIOS Kodak is targeting women with its latest range of digital cameras. The V-series, comprising the V550 ($399) and V530 ($349) are smaller than a deck of playing cards, and are very similar aside from [...]
Sony HDR-HC1 small HD Video Camera
05/18/2005, Click to enlarge Sony HDR-HC1 homepage You wanted it, Sony made it: the HDR-HC1 is a small video camera that’s capable of recording in HD up to 1080i resolution (1920×1080 interlaced). The camcorder is much smaller than any HD video [...]
Nikon Coolpix 7900 Review [Bottom-line: good camera with an excellent display]
05/17/2005, Click to enlarge Co-Published with Laptop Magazine: Solutions for Business and Life. LCD The Nikon 7900′s two-inch “amorphous silicon” 115,000-pixel display might not have the best resolution, but it definitely has something that sets it apart: a great live feed. [...]
Nikon S1 camera [bottom-line: it´s nice outside and inside]
05/17/2005, Click to enlarge The Canon S1 is a very desirable digital ultra-compact camera that has a big 2.5-inch display. It shoots nice 5.1 Megapixel photos and is easy to use. That’s about all a point and shoots camera needs. Make [...]
Lego-based VR-object turntable
05/16/2005, Click to enlarge philohome via make:blog Hey that’s exactly what I want to do with the gadgets that I receive: mount them on a turntable and snap enough photos to do a little Quicktime animation. This setup does exactly that, and [...]
Contax U4R Review at PHOTOgraphic Magazine
05/12/2005, Click to enlarge via Photographyblog. Photographic Magazine has a review of the Contax U4R the slim digital camera that’s equipped with a Carl Zeiss lens: “It should come as no surprise to those familiar with Contax cameras that the U4R [...]
Sony VPL-PX41 video projector
05/10/2005, Click to enlarge Via akihabaranews There are two main reasons why I prefer a retro-projection TV to a video projector. First, projectors are usually not very good in daylight conditions because they are not bright enough. Secondly, projectors are noisy [...]
The Plus Vision V-332 Review
05/10/2005, Click to enlarge Co-published with Laptop Magazine: Solutions for Business and Life. The Plus Vision V-332 shows off some incredible ingenuity on the part of the company’s designers. Perhaps the most important of these feats is the projector’s Unplug and [...]
Digital SLR cameras sold in the streets of Tokyo
05/09/2005, Click to enlarge Via akihabaranews I was looking for a Canon EF lens for my DSLR, but I might wait until the trip to Japan to get it. Apparently, it’s possible to find some really cheap ones in the streets [...]
Canon Digital IXUS 50 Review [Bottom-line: a very good point and shot camera]
05/09/2005, Click to enlarge Canon Powershot SD400 home Letsgodigital has an in-depth review of the Canon IXUS 50. Note that in the USA this model is called Canon SD400. This model is a 5.3 Megapixel camera coupled with a 3x Optical [...]
PalmOne LifeDrive Mobile Manager shows up on Amazon.com
05/06/2005, Click to enlarge As usual, Amazon proves to be a good indicator of what’s coming. The PalmOne LifeDrive Mobile Manager recently showed up on the online retailer’s site and confirms what we already knew: • Quickly drag and drop files [...]
