Hands-on with Sigma's DP1
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/227236635/
Filed under: Digital Cameras
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Friday, February 01, 2008
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Delkin's ImageRouters daisy chain to read twelve UDMA CF cards at once
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/226759744/
Filed under: Storage
[Via SlashGear]
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GE unveils the geotagging 10 megapixel E1050, eight other new cams
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/226856260/
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Continue reading GE unveils the geotagging 10 megapixel E1050, eight other new cams
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Sony unleashes a holographic monster on Tokyo Bay
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/227012345/
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
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Intel and Micron develop "world's fastest" NAND -- kiss SSD random write lag goodbye
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/227097393/
Filed under: Storage
How do 200MBps reads and 100MBps writes in a storage device sound to you? Pretty sweet if you ask us. That's the upper spec for Micron's new highspeed 8Gb (Gigabit not Gigabyte, kids) SLC NAND co-developed with Intel on a 50-nm processes node. Once slapped together in an SSD, you can expect performance to easily outshine any existing SSD or mechanical drive on the market while easily kicking the SSD bugbear -- random read/writes -- to the curb. The rub, of course, is that SLC NAND is more expensive than MLC so you can expect to pay dearly for that performance. Watch for the speedy Micron flash to pop in cellphones, camcorders, SSDs (and pretty much every portable consumer electronics device out there) sometime in the second half of 2008 -- sampling now to manufacturers.
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Hands On Panasonic Lumix TZ5 10X Zoomer and HD Camcorder [Pma 2008]
Friday, January 25, 2008
P-Per Design Concept is Sweet, Shames My iPhone
We recently informed you of the oh-so-awesome E-Paper Slap Bracelet, but now we also feel obligated to show you the P-Per. Don’t get me wrong, I like my iPhone, plenty, but the P-Per video (below) offers promises of pure awesome. This is a concept mobile device by the people over at Chocolate Design Agency. It employs the same multi-function E-Paper technology used in their bracelet; what’s more, it is also eco-friendly. Its design is efficient - it uses their energy-saving e-paper (which won them the red dot design award), only four layers of sustainable materials, and an Organic Radical battery. So, if you’re green, then you should probably see a doctor, but if you love the environment and mobile devices, then this cell phone looks to be your next communication device of choice.
Thanks, Karole, for the tip.
HDD Stage Rack grows an eSATA port
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/222924627/
Filed under: Storage
[Thanks, Tyson W.]
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Toshiba and Panasonic double OLED lifespan -- exceeds LCDs
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/222896428/
Filed under: Displays
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
Make a Mobile Friendly Version of your Blog with Google Reader
Source: http://www.labnol.org/internet/design/how-to-create-mobile-phone-optimized-blog/2132/
They are not interested in the sidebars, navigation areas and other design elements - all they want to see is a simple listing of your blog posts in reverse chronological order. If they like to read a post, they can click the title and a mobile friendly version of that page should open on the screen of their cell phone.
You may not be a geek or may have the time to create a mobile edition of your blog so here are two simple hacks to help you out - your blog content won’t just look extremely readable on a mobile phone screen, it will also load very fast.
1. Google Reader - The Ten Second Solution
Google Reader can generate an excellent mobile view of your RSS feed without any effort. Just append your feed address to the following URL and your mobile blog is ready.
http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/[feed_address]
And here’s a live example - use your mobile phone to see the awesome page rendering
http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://feeds.labnol.org/labnol
Call this link "Mobile Site" and place it somewhere at the top of your blog design so mobile phone users will notice it instantly and switch to the mobile view.
2. The next solution is to create a free account at mofuse.com and they’ll give a personal mobile website with a .mobi address - something like http://labnol.mofuse.mobi/.
If you have self-hosted blog like on WordPress or Blogger Custom domains, you can easily setup the mobile edition of your site on a subdomain (e.g. m.labnol.org) - it is short and your users can easily guess the URL since almost all popular sites now follow the m. convention.
WordPress users are lucky as there’s a plugin that will automatically detect if the client is a mobile phone browser and it then renders a mobile friendly version of the blog to the visitor.
Related: Create Printer Friendly Blog with PDF Support
Make a Mobile Friendly Version of your Blog with Google Reader - Digital Inspiration
Create MP3 Files From Text in Emails and Web Pages
Source: http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/convert-email-text-to-mp3-files/2140/
You just have to copy the text from a web page or an email and paste it inside the Vozme text box.
While there are tons of solutions that convert text to spoken words, what I liked about Vozme is the clutter free interface and the fact that it runs inside the browser without requiring any downloads.
Bloggers can easily integrate the Vozme feature in the site so visitors can either listen to your full blog posts or they can select a portion of text and have Vozme narrate it like a speech.
Vozme.com - Accepts Spanish, English and Italian languages. Thanks Jane.
Related: Listen to Email, Word Documents on iPod
Create MP3 Files From Text in Emails and Web Pages - Digital Inspiration
Africa: small-scale generator powered by sugar and yeast (video)
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/221909009/africa-smallscale-ge.html
Afrigadget recently blogged about an inexpensive power source for Africa created by Dr. Cedrick Ngalande in Malawi. Today, the blog points to videos of the invention in action:Link to post with video.The rotor moves slowly most of the times but does pick up at certain intervals. This process continues for many hours. Since the rotor is quite heavy (and hence more inertia) a small geared DC motor can be connected to the rotor to generate power for cell phones, $100 laptops, and other things in Africa. People can leave this thing to charge their phones/$100 laptops overnight.
Basically we have two chambers on either end of the rotating (pivoted) rod. The arrangement of the chambers is such that on either side of the rod, one chamber sits on top of the other (this is important). At the beginning of this operation, I fill the bottom chamber on each side with a yeast sugar solution. Each bottom chamber is always locked under pressure by special valves. Due to pressure the solution starts moving from a bottom chamber into its respective top chamber. Note that by moving upwards, the fluid's center of gravity shifts, resulting in a mass imbalance which causes the wobbling.
Sleeveface pool on Flickr
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/222441038/sleeveface-pool-on-f.html
Sleeveface is my new favorite Flickr pool. There are more than 700 examples and they're a total laff riot. Seen here are contributions from John Rostron (left) and Godesinge (right). Link (Thanks, Jess Hemerly!)
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