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Fujifilm announces five new FinePix cameras, including first waterproof model

Though it's still about two weeks away, the leadup to PMA 2009 has officially begun. Today saw a flurry of new camera announcements: Four from Samsung, five from Sony, and five from Fujifilm. Of all the announcements, Fujifilm's intrigued me the most as it included the FinePix Z33WP, the...

Tags: Camera, Optical Zoom, Fujifilm, J250, Optical Zoom Len, Scene Recognition, Fujifilm FinePix J20, Janice Chen

Blog posts 2009-02-17

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Windows 7 will shine in medicine

not convinced by touchI have a touch phone & a tablet.Frankly, never use the tablet, use keyboarded machines instead, and hanker for a phone with buttons again and not a slide phone.If you want to try to look cool, I can understand having one, but really, they are pretty awkward...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Startrek, Microsoft Windows 7, tablet, wireless

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX1

Good low-light shooting without help from a flash is a rarely attained goal in the world of compact cameras. The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX1 does it with three of the company's own components: a new sensor design, a high-end lens, and a fast image processor. The combination pays off for low-light...

Tags: power button, Sony Corp., camera, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX1, sensor, Sony Cyber-Shot

Product reviews 2009-09-30

Fujifilm FinePix S1500

Occasionally, a camera that is good becomes better when a low price is part of the overall package. That is sadly not the case with the 10-megapixel Fujifilm FinePix S1500, which is merely a good megazoom, but stays that way despite a street price of less than $200. It does...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Fujifilm FinePix S1500, FujiFilm FinePix, LCD, Fujifilm, battery

Product reviews 2009-08-19

Pentax X70

As first efforts go, the Pentax X70 megazoom camera is strong, though it succumbs to problems seen throughout the category--namely slow performance and a noticeable decline in photo quality above ISO 200. The camera's 26mm-equivalent wide-angle lens with 24x optical zoom is certainly very flexible and fun, and the X70...

Tags: Pentax X70, Pentax, camera, lithium-ion

Product reviews 2009-08-14

Stars are aligning to ban U.S. drivers from text messaging

Stars are aligning to ban U.S. drivers from text messagingStars should keep their mouths shut.They're a bad example to all of us anyway. What do they show really? That marriage means nothing? That it's ok to be idolized for not having achieved zip? fff.I'm burned out on stars giving me...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, Sarkozy, text messaging, car

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

Nikon CoolPix L100

A majority of megazoom cameras--at least those styled like digital SLRs--have advanced features such as shutter speed and aperture-priority modes, bracketed shooting, and electronic color filters. They also usually carry price tags upward of $300. Nikon took its budget-friendly megazoom--the Coolpix L100--the other direction by limiting shooting options and setting...

Tags: handgrip, menu system, Coolpix L100, camera, Nikon Corp.

Product reviews 2009-06-02

Canon PowerShot SD970 IS (silver and gold)

A 5x zoom lens and a 12-megapixel resolution isn't much to get excited about these days. Jam them into a somewhat unattractive compact body and they become even less of a reason to drop nearly $400 on a point-and-shoot camera. That's what's wrong with the Canon PowerShot SD970 IS. It...

Tags: Canon Inc., Canon PowerShot SD970 IS, SD970 IS, Canon PowerShot, camera

Product reviews 2009-05-14

Canon PowerShot A2000 IS

Canon's PowerShot A-series lineup epitomizes inexpensive point-and-shoot simplicity without sacrificing photo quality. They're not the most feature filled, they aren't the most stylish (they're not unattractive either), and speedy performance isn't their forte. The PowerShot A2000 IS, for example, is compact if a little thick, heavy, and somewhat drab looking...

Tags: Canon Inc., A2000 IS, Canon PowerShot

Product reviews 2009-04-23

CES 2009: The world's first web-browsing camera [day 3]

Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer mentioned it in his keynote, but I thought this deserved its own post. The Sony Cybershot DSC-G3 is the world's first Wi-Fi-enabled digital camera that can upload photos and videos via a built-in Web browser. ...

Tags: Sony Corp., Web, Video, Photograph, Camera, Sony Cybershot DSC-G3, Cybershot G3 Camera, Corporate Communications, Wireless, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-08

I think voice is going to be a big deal

I think voice is going to be a big dealTrain to understandNowadays, computer education is too much focused on learning how to use a particular user interface of a particular application. Unwise, because those interfaces can change and applications themselves can change.Instead, children should be educated to understand how to...

Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, PRODUCTIVITY, big deal, voice, tool

Discussion threads 2008-11-12

Microsoft mashes up multiple natural-user-interface inputs

Publicly and privately, Microsoft officials have been making much of the company's myriad multi-touch input projects (especially with Windows 7 and Windows Mobile 7). But Microsoft's view of what the user interface of the future will look like is more complex than that. Instead of allowing users...

Tags: Receptionist, User Interface, Microsoft Corp., Robots, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Emerging Technologies, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Google's new foray into image search

In an interview with Beet.tv's Andy Plesser, Google's director of product management for consumer search properties, R.J. Pittman, discusses the search giant's development of software for facial recognition and scene analysis.

Tags: Image Search, Google Inc., News, google, RJ Pittman, facial recognition

Videos 2008-07-07

Automated recognition of online images

An international team of computer scientists has developed a new image-recognition software. They found that 256 to 1,024 bits of data were enough to identify the subject of an image. The researchers said this 'could lead to great advances in the automated identification of online images and, ultimately, provide a...

Tags: Image, Reconstruction, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-24

Survivor Buddy, a friendly robot rescuer

The St. Petersburg Times, Florida, reports that a well-known robot designer, Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida USF, 'plans to add a heart to robot rescuers.' As says USF, the goal is to develop 'a robot that will be a companion...

Tags: Details, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-17

Creeping totalitarianism: The NSA, personal data and you

Creeping totalitarianism: The NSA, personal data and youThe question iswhy shouldn't the NSA have the same access to information Google has? The gathering of information is vital to National Defense. It must be controlled with checks and balances to prevent abuse.The United against a common enemy States of...

Tags: Databases, SECURITY, NSA, totalitarianism, personal data

Discussion threads 2008-03-10

Sony announces two new line-topping cameras: Cyber-shot DSC W300 and DSC-H50

Apparently announcing 10 cameras at PMA wasn't enough for Sony. Today the electronics company announced two more cameras to top off its Cyber-shot W and H series: the Cyber-shot DSC-W300, a 13.6 megapixel compact point-and-shoot and the Cyber-shot H50, a 9.1 megapixel megazoom model.Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W300 Showing no signs...

Tags: Sony Corp., Camera, Noise Reduction, Janice Chen

Blog posts 2008-02-25

Has iPhone met its match with Nuviphone?

Has iPhone met its match with Nuviphone?The Nuviphone is obviously the better phone, but......it doesn't do "multi-touch" and it doesn't come from Apple.Garmin need to hire some turtle-necked demi-gods in a hurry if they want to compete in the Alice-in-Wonderland sector of the techworld.iPhone 'could' be DEADexpect for fools that...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Apple iPhone, Nuviphone, Apple Inc., Garmin Ltd., phone

Discussion threads 2008-01-31

Turning 2-D photos into 3-D models

When you take a picture, you know that the person or the landscape in front of you has three dimensions. But when you watch the result, it's definitively a flat picture. Extracting 3-D information from photos is still in its infancy. Now, Stanford University computer scientists have developed the Make3d...

Tags: Algorithm, 3D, 2D, Photograph, Image, Engineering, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-27

Face it, Windows Ultimate Extras are history

Face it, Windows Ultimate Extras are historyIt's OK, the rebate will be on it's way soon. NTTripleIIYou are not seeing the big picture...My rep once again confirmed for me the "Ultimate Advantage" is more of a concept than a product. The media needs to understand this. You bought the Ultimate...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Media Center PC, Microsloth, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate, FACE IT, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-01-09