CES 2008 – the Consumer Electronics Show 2008 has long replaced Demo, COMDEX (sigh ….RIP)and other IT shows. CES is the place to be just after Christmas to see what will be the popular electronic gadgets for Christmas 2008. The market does need the lead time even in the frenetic electronics gadget market place. If […]
Want to get photo enthusiasts worked up into lather – try mentioning the Australian printing technology called Memjet. This technology, which uses page wide 70,400 nozzle printheads using picoliter (one trillionth of a liter – you can’t see it with the naked eye) that promises three things: 1)Unbelievably fast printing of color images – true
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The race is on. The race for GUI and therefore desktop PC supremacy is back on between Apple and Microsoft officially. Again. Microsoft made it so this past week with the intro of its response to Apple’s widely praised and wildly popular iPhone. Surface is the name of the Big Box, and Microsoft thinks so
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There are a new crop of digital SLRs and David Pogue at the New York Times has reviewed these 10MPixel (slightly overweight for most uses) machines. The key new features are: 1)lower price – well below $800 for body only while keeping a full set of SLR features and performance; 2)adding dust clearing agitator for
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Gizmodo tracks the latest geek gizmos, so it should be no surprise that they have picked up the first sightings of the prototype digital camera which will largely replace digital SLRs – the dual capable video cameras. These 3 cameras all offer the capability of not only taking HDTV video images – and directly onto
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Color laser printers are coming on like gabngbusters. To wit, one can go to sites like PC Magazine or PC World and find color laser printers selling for less than $500Us but with duty cylces of 60,000 pages per month and costs per full color page in the 12-25cents range depending on color coverage. And
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Adobe PR had a lot of fanfare over what would appear to be a small item: Adobe Premier Pro, the top of the line video editor tool from Adobe, would be available on the Mac. What ? I thought all Adobe software ran on the Mac. One of the attractions of the Macromedia buyout by
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Sony announced this week a new video image sensor that does the following: 1)takes images at 60 frames per second 2)and at 2921Horizontal pixels by 2184Vertical pixels = 6.4Mpixels 3)and can seamlessly take still images at this full resolution 4)and performs at high speed plus alternate resolution versus speed settings. Go to the Sony site
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