Benq is showing the pint sized LED projector with power to burn … but this is just one example of the explosion of projector products that have been coming down the pike due to the miniturization of LEDs linked with ever smaller and more capable DSP chips coming primarily from TI. The result is a […]
Yahoo/Flickr had a great idea for the the Toronto Santa Claus Parade. They would have two gals, Yahoo employees, ride bicycles with specially mounted cameras on the front steering wheel of the bikes. Then automatically, once a minute a picture would be snapped of the parade as “observed” by the bike riders/picture takers and automatically
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Nuit Blanche in Toronto gave me the opportunity to indulge a somewhat forgotten fancy – collecting live theater and show posters. I have a substantial collection of about 400-500 posters from the 1960’s through mid 1990’s – but I just have not been going to shows as often. So collecting has slowed to a trickle.
I wondered why was Adobe emphasizing so much the availability of speed boosts for Photoshop CS4 available through a 64bit version and special video drivers associated with various graphics chips ; particularly for the PC version of Photoshop. So I decided to do some quick benchmarks on my Vista and Windows XP laptops using CS3
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The price of Digital Cameras, Videos, and other Photo Equipment has dropped dramatically in the past few days. I just got a flier from Henry’s, one of Toronto’s larger dealers – and the prices are marked down by 15-25% on average. Sort of echoing what has happened to many people’s savings in the past few
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One can tell that Photokina, the CES of camera shows, is upcoming in Cologne Germany in mid-September. There is a proliferation of new camera announcements – particularly in the ultra competitive digital SLR business. Early this Spring, this site featured a story on the new digital SLRs. Yet already there are new cameras coming out
For the past few years I have been arguing that still and videos cameras are converging. Casio’s EX-F1 is currently the best example of that convergence. The Casio EX-F1 delivers 5 modes of still picture taking including auto-bracketing in four modes, multiple exposures from 2 to 60 frames per second, motion sensor triggered shots, plus
Lenovo has launched the latest and most power packed graphics notebook this August – go to DPReview.com for all the details. What is notable is that this machine acknowledges that graphics processing is now driving PC development. Look at all the graphics goodies – 17″ Hi-resolution, high gamut WUXA screen, NVidia 3700 with 1GB of
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