Sony’s announced a glut of new cameras today at CES, but instead of going through all 20-odd of them, I’m only going to show you the best. You deserve the best. Here’s two of them, the DSC-W370 and DSC-W350.
In a move that’s like product convergence from the other direction, Ematic’s taken a normal low-end MP3 player and…um…bolted in a digital camera. It’s got a 2-megapixel sensor, 2.4-inch colour screen and can even record video. There’s 4GB of internal memory, which you can share with MP3s, video files and your own recordings, and it’s got a microSD slot for expansion. And if all that seems bizarrely much for a small gadget like that, you’ll love it’s price: $US60. [ShinyShiny]
W.L. Gore, the same company that brought us Gore Tex, is now setting its sights on helping hunters kill deer more effectively using their new Optifade digital camouflage. Apparently, someone had the bright idea to find out exactly how a deer sees a hunter, then use that information to design a better brand of camo. After a tireless investigation into ungulate vision and the distribution countless food pellets to test deer, researchers came up with an “abstract” design that consists of a micropattern of tiny squares and large geometric shapes that should, theoretically, prevent the deer from connecting the dots and registering the shape as a human.
