Posted by hina on April 30, 2009 under Accessories, Digital Camera | 
What is shown in the picture, worn by the guy is the ContourHD, claimed to be the world’s first wearable HD camcorder. It’s super lightweight, which can snap on the helmet, as shown.
Cyclists could make use of the ContourHD camcorder to capture every beautiful scenery on the road. This anodized aluminum camcorder weighs only 4 ounces and it can snap on your equipment. It’s capable of shooting HD video with 1280×720 resolution at 30fps or SD at 60fps.
The recorded video is stored onto microSD cards up to 16GB, which is equivalent to 8 hours of HD video and 16 hours of SD to be captured on a single microSD card. The device also features a 135-degree lens with rotation and laser alignment. Expected to be priced at $300 and hit the store in May.
Posted by hina on under Accessories, Digital Camera |
Nikon has announced their latest entry DSLR, D5000, which comes packed with lots of features and priced under $1,000. The Nikon D5000 DSLR has a 12.3 megapixel sensor, a 2.7-inch swivel screen, capable of 720p video at 24fps (viewable over HDMI output) and stills at 4fps.
It’s powered by the EXPEED image processor and 3D Color Matrix Metering II, with built-in dust control systems and lots of scene modes and automatic settings. The swivel LCD screen may be useful for either providing settings or a new live view mode to compose shots from off-angle.
The D5000 has a number of improvements over the previous models of entry DSLRs from Nikon. Such as the light sensitivity which is now able to reach up to ISO 3,200 in normal shooting and up to ISO 6,400 in an extended mode. The number of auto-focusing points has also been improved from just 3 to 11. And it’s been added with 3D tracking that allows to track moving subject and allows blacketing.
Nikon expects to start shipping the D5000 in May and will price it at about $850 bundled with an 18-55mm VR lens kit. For the body alone, it will be priced at about $730.
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Photojojo 90-degree spy lens for DSLR camera allows the user to shoot desired pictures without needing to point the DSLR camera straight to the subject. It’s best used for making candid shots. The spy-lens costs only $50 for a start and it contains a 90-degree mirror inside.
The lens blends well with the camera nicely, which makes the actual lens of a DSLR camera to look longer than it actually is. The lens is best used for those who’re fond of secretly shooting photos of others in the streets, capturing candid shots without getting noticed by others.
With this spy lens on your DSLR, you can just point your camera away from the subject but still be able to get the desired picture. The lens swivels 360 degrees, so you can shoot left, right, up, or down while you’re actually targeting a subject that is straight ahead.
The Photojojo spy lens still has a few shorts, such as lack of support for fish-eye and wide-angle lenses, and apparent vignetting (a reduction of an image’s brightness or saturation at the periphery compared to the image center). This spy lens can be purchased on the Photojojo store, but unfortunately, it’s out of stock now. A new batch is likely to come in mid of April.
Posted by hina on under Accessories, Digital Camera |
Olympus Mju 9000 digital camera should be the best camera for those who’re not so photogenic. For example, your eyes may be little too small that don’t make you stand out in a photo. But with the Olympus mju 9000, it can even make your eyes look bigger and lively, so you’ll be made to look most beautiful in the picture.
The Mju 9000 comes equipped with “beauty mode” which will make your eyes to look bigger or enhance other parts of your face which don’t look so nice in a photo.
Basically, the beauty mode of this camera is packed with several face-enhancing post-capture edits, such as red-eye removal, and the option to enlarge one person’s eyes and make them to look brighter. The two “eye-enhancing” features are “Shiny Eye” and “Dramatic Eye”. The former is obvious which makes the person’s eyes to look more lively, but the latter sounds little weird, as it bumps a person’s eyes by 10%.
Basically these are all what the little weird taste of the Japanese, which allows the shooter to get the girl in the picture to look like the cutest anime girls loved by Japanese.
Posted by hina on under Accessories, Computer Hardware |
Samsung have announced a new rugged hard drive, the SpinPoint M7, which is designed for use in notebook. This rugged hard drive is able to stand shocks and knocks, and keeps your data well-protected, while you’re moving around with your laptop.
The Samsung SpinPoint M7 2.5-inch hard drive comes in a couple of capacities including 250GB, 320GB, 400GB and 500GB, and it’s capable of withstand shock up to 400G/2ms while operating. Some more it’s protected by a hard shell to prevent skipping and damage.
This hard drive is also equipped with a new controller that consumes up to 25 percent less power than conventional 2.5-inch drives while it’s in seek mode. Other specs include a spin rate of 5,400 RPM, 8MB buffer, native command queuing and a 3.0Gbps SATA interface. It should be available by the end of this month but the price has not been announced yet.
Posted by hina on under Accessories, Computer Hardware |
Here comes the Gold Bullion wireless mouse, which is designed like a gold brick that everyone wants during bad time. Unfortunately, it’s just a wireless mouse for your computer. How you wish that it could turn into a real gold bar, which you could exchange for big meal during bad time.
Gold is what most rich people invest when the time is bad. But if you can’t afford for the real gold brick, perhaps getting one of these Gold brick mouse is sufficient to make yourself satisfied. At least, you’ve got a gold brick that sits right in front of your computer. Price is 35$
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Japan’s CFD has announced new line of solid state drives, the Interceptor SSDs. This new line comes with various choices of storage capacity including 32, 64, 128 and 256GB. And each of them measures 2.5 inch and boasts a multi-level-cell (MLC) NAND flash memory.
All these Interceptor SSDs come with SATA 3.0 Gbps interface and they have a 32MB cache memory. The price has not been announced yet. But the higher-capacity ones could be very expensive, compared to hard disk drives. They offer impressive read/write speeds. For the 32 and 64GB, you’ll get 200 / 95 MB/s for read/write. Whereas the 128 and 256GB models have 240 /150 MB/s for read/write. Each SSD is backed up 1 year warranty.
SSDs are definitely the ones to opt for, when the price has become affordable. They offer much higher read and write speeds, furthermore they have no moving parts which should be more tolerable to drops, best for careless users.
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Here comes a useful SATA HDD dock that is equipped with a one-touch backup button. This hard drive dock lets you plug in 2.5-inch or 3.5 inch hard drives. And it’s hooked up to your computer via USB or eSATA.
The handiness is this SATA HDD dock comes with a one-touch button, once touched will automatically copy files from your computer to the external hard drive for backup. This useful HDD dock can be purchased from Brando for only $49
The detailed specs are as follows:
- Supports both SATA 2.5-inch HDD and 3.5-inch HDD
- PC connection: USB 2.0 / eSATA
- Standable, convenient and trendy design
- One Touch Backup (OTB) function with Windows software
- LED indicators for status, activity, backup OTB
- Support Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS 10 or above
- Dimension: 80 x 160 x 110mm (approx.)
- Weight: 271g