Although in any serious photographer’s book, taking photos with a mobile device (generally, a mobile phone) is a deadly sin, the truth is that a lot of people make use of these devices in order to take snapshots of something interesting even going on in front of them. However, despite the fact that camera modules…
Monthly Archives: December 2008
GPS Angel Speed Cameras
Speed cameras are without a doubt any driver’s worst enemy, since they can easily pick your speed up exactly when you least expect it (and when you’ve just hit the gas pedal really hard). Of course, there are quite a few solutions available out there that can help you avoid being picked up by these…
Netbooks: Tomorrow’s Laptops or Just a Phase?
Slate Magazine has an article on the netbooks trend — a move towards smaller, cheaper and less powerful laptops. A netbook is usually a minimalist laptop, free of the bloatware and resource-heavy OS that my laptop came with (did yours?), with the minimum requirements and maximum portability.I know I can’t stand typing on a less-than-standard…
Audioengine W2 Wireless Adapter For iPods
Wish your iPod could transfer audio to a stereo system wirelessly? That pie-in-the-sky dream is now a reality with Audioengine’s W2 wireless adapter for Apple’s popular iPod. Audioengine is going so far as to claim that the all-digital PCM signal will maintain audio quality, although it remains to be proven in benchmark tests. The sending…
iStation T3 Portable Media Player
The iStation T3 portable media player looks pretty sweet, as though it is an iPod touch clad in some sort of rubbery skin. Specifications and features include :- * 4.3″ touchscreen display at 480 x 272 resolution * SDHC memory card slot * Supports WMA, MP3, Ogg, FLAC, APE, AC3 and WAV audio files *…
Blu-Ray disc sales shoots to more than 150%
The Blu-ray Video Association is celebrating what they are seeing as a “breakthrough year” for Blu-ray, with November’s disc sales up 165 per cent from October. Accounting for 21 per cent of all these sales was The Dark Knight – marking the movie out as what The Matrix did for DVD sales way back in…
Apple to launch 3D OS ?
A patent has been leaked, which may well reveal the secrets behind Apple’s next operating system. Dubbed a ‘multidimensional application environment’, the patent, uncovered by Mac Rumours, essentially shows a 3D desktop unlike anything that has been seen on a computer before. Unlike Windows Vista and OS X, which dabble in 3D purely from a…