Cameras

Creative’s Third Gen Vado HD Pocket Cam Improves… But Drops GB

The third generation of Creative’s Vado HD pocket camcorder improves on the last generation’s features with better low-light video recording, manual exposure adjustment and motion detection modes, but for some odd reason only a 4GB model will be available.


November 10, 2009

ZiiLABS’ ZMS-08 System-On-A-Chip To Bring 1080p To Netbooks

ZiiLABS latest system-on-a-chip is crammed full of features: 1080p playback, 24fps encoding, HD video conferencing, OpenGL ES 2.0 support, an integrated HDMI controller, X-Fi audio and Flash acceleration. All combined with a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8. Of course, there’s a catch.


November 2, 2009
Gadgets

Creative Zii MediaBook Could Combine eBook And PMP Features

Details are sparse at the moment, but we do know this afternoon that Creative is hard at work on developing a “MediaBook” device that will combine video, pictures and text with what’s being described as an eBook form factor.


September 16, 2009

The PMP Is Dead, Long Live The…PMP

The portents have hung in the air for a while, but it’s clear now that the traditional dumb PMP is dead, like a dull and rusted Swiss army knife. In their stead we’ll have…smart PMPs.


September 3, 2009

Creative Zen X-Fi 2 Trades Buttons For Touchscreen

It’s a new model name, sure, and the distinctive button panel has been booted in favour of a touchscreen, but the most important part of the X-Fi update has nothing to do with hardware, and everything to do with dollars.


September 2, 2009
Cameras

New Creative Vado HD Pocketcams Feature Direct Transfer To iMovie

Creative today announced their second-generation line of Vado HD pocket camcorders. The most interesting tidbit is the new Mac-friendlier Vado Central software, which allows for easy direct transfer to iMovie. Even better, that software will also work for older Vados.


August 20, 2009
Gaming

Creative Teases Luminous WoW Headset

It’s not an official announcement but an announcement for an announcement to come. Later this week at Blizzcon, Creative will unveil their wireless World of Warcraft headset. And it glows.


July 31, 2009

Creative Zii Egg Android PMP Makes Its Hands-On Debut

Creative’s Zii, which is either an extremely exciting platform for Android PMPs or a boring developers’ tool (nobody knows!) has turned up in CNET Asia’s offices. As you can imagine, it didn’t take long before they got a little handsy.


July 29, 2009

Creative Zii Egg Plaszma: Android-Wielding iPod Touch

Spotted in a recent FCC filing, the now-revealed Creative Zii Egg Plaszma boasts some of the world’s first “flexible StemCell architecture” that uses 24 floating-point processors. But you may care more because it’s basically an open source iPod Touch.


July 17, 2009

Creative SoundBlaster Wireless For iTunes And GigaWorks Wireless Speaker Lightning Review

The Gadgets: Creative’s new SoundBlaster Wireless for iTunes dongle, that shares music to little receivers around the house, and also to the GigaWorks T20W wireless-receiver speakers.