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We had a sit down with the Lexar folks at PMA to catch up on their latest offerings, and picked up a few interesting tidbits you may not have known:
Their new 300x gear is FAST. 45MB/s fast. And Lexar was keen to point out they don’t play with “up to” rubbish either. They rate their cards based on minimum sustained speed ratings. Their pro cards come with Image Rescue 3, so you can recover lost/deleted images (and audio and video files) from memory cards of any brand using any reader. Nice. They also come bundled with Corel Paintshop Pro 10. Their thumb drives are all chromed and sexy. And the Mercury has an e-Ink usage meter that shows how much capacity is left.
A few more bits on their UDMA compatible readers after the jump.
Of all the digital frames I saw in my rounds of the small vendors, the folks at Digiframe had the ones I’d most care to have sitting on my desk.
Their ‘Sovereign Series’ and ‘Designer Series’ frames were the real winners. 10.4-inch LCDs at 640×480, what stood out is that they actually look like nice frames! So many of these digital frames are wrapped in fugly, cheap, nasty borders. The Designer line has interchangeable borders, so you can pick the frame to suit the decor, and it also has some extra features like a built-in calendar, clock and alarm, as well as 256MB built-in memory. Both ranges take MMC, SD, MS, XD, and MD cards.
They play DivX too! So you can set one up as a sneaky video screen on your desk and claim it’s just a fancy frame for looking at some family photos.
By end of the month, the Sovereign Series will be $399, and the Designer Series $449.
More pics after the jump.
The new Everio GZ-HD7 is just hitting stores here in Oz this week, and I got a chance to have a good look at it on the JVC stand. Best of all, they had some footage shot on the GZ-HD7 on a Full HD TV on their stand, and this stuff looked fucking unbelievable. Seriously, I don’t care what camera you are comparing that footage to, this camera is shoots your family like you’re on a soundstage… add some good lights and this knocks everything else in its class out of the park. I even gave the JVC rep a good, cold stare and asked if this REALLY was footage shot on the HD7. He didn’t flinch.
And this is an STFU to Sony, who told us at a launch earlier in the year that they went the AVCHD path partly because HDV wasn’t compatible with hard drive recording. It didn’t make sense at the time, and makes zero sense now others have done it. Because not only does the HD7 shoot full 1920 x 1080 (in an adjusted MPEG-2 mode), it can also shoot an HDV compatible stream at 1440 x 1080.
More info, and pictures, after the jump.
The Casio EX-V7 is the world’s slimmest 7x optical zoom camera. Plus, it’s the first slimline camera to include CCD-shift anti-shake technology. We were excited when it was announced back at CES, even if Casio isn’t known as the best imaging company in the world (exactly who is…I’ll leave for the fanboys commenters to hash out).
DPreview got their hands on a unit and put it through their extensive testing procedure. The verdict?
If you were out pretending you have a life over the weekend—and you’re only fooling yourself—then here is a quick recap of some of the stories you missed.
An outhouse doing over 100km/h, curry flames in its wake. A spare jet engine, and idle hands, can be a dangerous thing.
Acer’s new notebooks with Dolby certification. Surround in a notebook? What? If nothing else, we’re talking much better sound than most.
Night vision webcam: naturalists and pervs rejoice. Not sure how the naturalists will get this working in remote outdoor locations, but the pervs have it easy.
Awesome monolithic tower of solar worship power. I thought wind farms looked cool! I want one of these in my town!
Fashion meets nanotech, clothes fight smog and the flu. It fights stains too, but that’s not nearly as high-tech as smog and virus killing.
Intel Moorestown chipset could give UMPCs 24-hour battery life. Battery life soon ready to last longer than you do.
YouTube ready to pay select vid producers. If you have some video making talent, time to get your game on.
Do you live life in the fast lane? Do you go to bed fast, wake up fast, eat cereal fast, drive to work fast, buy a new Calvin pissing on Ford sticker fast, come home fast, let out the dog fast, eat dinner (fast food) fast and do it all over the next day as rapidly as possible?
The Car Wheel Alarm Clock is made for speed demons such as yourself. Instead of a buzzer waking you up in the morning, the tire spins, burnout in your bedroom style. A female voice says “the exorcism wool [ning] !” as you quickly wonder if there was a problem with Google translate.
Despite our sarcasm, this clock is bound to be a great gift for someone…but they probably won’t be over the age of 12. Though who am I to judge? Hit the jump for a bonus picture.
We usually don’t post coding contests, but this one was too tasty to resist. Programmers, start your engine…err…USB lava lamps. DCEmu is throwing a coding contest for the Nintendo Wii and Gamecube platforms. As to exactly what you design, that much is fairly open-ended.
Entries can be Emulators, Homebrew Games, Demos or Applications that work directly on the Gamecube/Nintendo Wii.
Winners receive up to $300 in gift certificates to be used at the Gp2x (Linux embedded handheld console) store, as well as props from their geeky gaming brethren. Given a disappointing lineup of Wii titles (after the novelty of Wii Sports wears off), I really hope we see some participation and ingenuity in the contest.
Homebrewers getting organized…what is the world coming to? Next thing you know, they’ll want us to pay for their work. – Mark Wilson
Coding Contest [wiinews]
Aperio Technologies has made “the world’s first terapixel image”. However, it actually consists of one picture copied 225 times—that of cancerous breast tissue. As a digital pathology imaging company, one could interpret the image as Aperio flexing their digital muscle while raising awareness for an (obviously) important issue.
The picture is a 144GB .tif (using JPEG compression). And you can zoom online using the link below. Without one big image to play with, the scale of one trillion pixels is still tough to grasp. Let’s just call it a lot of pixel and call it a day. – Mark Wilson
Photo Page [via therawfeed]
The $64 Hidden Camera Spy Clock is not just another yuppie wooden radio from Hammacher Schlemmer Holiday 1995, but (as you may have deduced from the title) functions as a hidden spy camera as well.
Full color, 380-line, 510×492 video streams over the 2.4ghz spectrum for neighborhood viewing—so keep that in mind before you get all perverted with it and some poor mother sees your hairy buttocks on her baby monitor…or worse yet…her husband’s.
Microcameras freak me out. Which is exactly why I can’t change at your house anymore, dad. – Mark Wilson
Product Page [via technabob]
At first glance, we thought the Portable GameCube Advance was the product of console miniaturizer Benjamin Heckendorn, who has shrunk some of our favorites into nearly portable packages.
But the Portable GameCube Advance is really the work of a random email tipster…surely not just a Photoshop rendition…but an entirely ready-to-go product complete with external OLED display and MP3 playback that will be in stores any day now.
Hit the jump for a picture of the music functions in action.
