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7:00AM Sean Fallon | If you have a small deck, porch or patio, the Plek 66 offers charcoal grilling in a compact wall-mounted unit. More »
Wall-Mounted Grill Saves Space, Won’t Burn House Down
7:00AM Sean Fallon | If you have a small deck, porch or patio, the Plek 66 offers charcoal grilling in a compact wall-mounted unit. More » 
Gadgets
Nippon Signal Mini Projector Could Fit Into Your Shirt Pocket
4:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Nippon Signal has revealed its new entrant into the colour projector size war, showing off a SVGA 800 x 600 resolution colour projector that’s roughly the size of a cigarette case at a recent micromachines exhibition. The prototype, which measures a tiny 90 x 55 x 20mm, uses a MEMS scanner to project images, rather than the more traditional LED. More »
Cameras
Sigma DP1 First Grope
11:00AM Haroon Malik | The guys at Pop Photo have managed to get their hands all over the much-hyped Sigma DP1. Apparently, the DP1 has a build quality comparable to the solid Canon PowerShot G9, and the mega sensor monster does away with any fuss with regards to shooting options; you’ll find Manual, Auto, Aperture-priority, Program, and Shutter-priority modes for image capture, as well as QVGA video mode (320 x 240 @ 30fps) and an audio capture mode, but beyond that, there are absolutely no ludicrous scene selections to choose from. The chaps at Pop Photo found this a refreshing turn to minimalism, and we would have to agree. All in all, the hype is looking to be well founded. Checkout the full tear down by hitting the link. [Pop Photo] More »
Cameras
Nikon’s Newest CoolPix Style Series Cameras Are Plum Purty
3:00PM Wilson Rothman | Point and shoot cameras tend to blur together, so instead of listing them all separately, like their own God’s gift to amateur photographers, here are the four S (for “style”) series CoolPix cameras Nikon is introducing tonight, and their raisons d’être, plus a gallery of them striking various poses a bit lower down. More »
Vehicles
MIT Designs Electro-Scooter That Folds Up into Tiny, Wheeled Package
3:10AM Charlie White | Those eggheads at the Smart Cities group at MIT are a clever bunch, coming up with a design concept for an electric scooter that folds up into a package scarcely larger than a wheeled carry-on suitcase. In the Utopian vision for such bikes, you’d ride one to work, then fold it up and roll it right into the office, where it will take up very little space. But wait. This idea gets even more appealing: More »
Entertainment
Magus Compact Speakers from Teresonic Are Curvaceous, Woody
9:35PM Addy Dugdale | Teresonic has brought out the Magus, a pair of compact, mid-range speakers, whose curved sides are a nod to classical instruments. “Have you ever wondered why there are no square violins, trumpets, or acoustic guitars?” says the president of Teresonic, Mike Zivkovic. “So why do they make square speakers?” More »
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Pentax Optio V10 Slim Camera
10:35AM Brian Lam | The other pentax launched today is this 8mp slim that is about 2cm thick. Not bad, but a quick google shows that Sony’s had thinner Cybershots, even if at lower MP ratings. (Not sure if that’s counting the big lens cover slides that most T series cams have.) The back has a 3-inch LCD. More »
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10:25AM Seamus Byrne | We got plenty of news here on the latest Nikon Coolpix line up, and now we’ve got the full list of local prices and release dates to share. The first two are free, but the rest will cost you a jump.
Coolpix P series
Coolpix P5100: Now – $649
Coolpix P50: October – $429 More »
Nikon Coolpix: full AU price list for latest range
10:25AM Seamus Byrne | We got plenty of news here on the latest Nikon Coolpix line up, and now we’ve got the full list of local prices and release dates to share. The first two are free, but the rest will cost you a jump.
Coolpix P series
Coolpix P5100: Now – $649
Coolpix P50: October – $429 More »
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Ricoh Rolls out its Seventh Generation Caplio R
1:26AM Addy Dugdale | Ricoh has boosted the stats of its latest Ricoh Caplio. The R7 is the seventh incarnation of the point-and-shoot and it’s gone one better on the Megapixel front. Stats below. More »
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