Samsung’s HMX-T10 HD camcorder features a new perspective
Samsung's oddly angled camcorders have gotten plenty of love around these parts for their design and specs, and the new HMX-T10 series is no different. Separating itself from last year's HMX-R10 with a revised design and lens angled 20-degrees (instead of 25), these camcorders can still capture video at up to 1920x1080/60i and stills at up to 4.7 megapixels, while you frame the action on the 2.7-inch touchscreen LCD. Add in optical image stabilization, 10x zoom and the aforementioned full HD capture with a $299 pricetag and you have a healthy competitor to the alternative of the shakycam footage your cellphone probably spits out when these reach the shelves in September. Check the specs in the press release after the break, and shots from every angle of models in black and white paintjobs in the gallery.
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Orange HD Voice service and handsets go live in the UK, we go ears-on (video)
Good news for UK mobile addicts: Orange's long-anticipated HD Voice service has officially made it to the Land of Hope and Glory. Starting today, British customers can pick up a HD Voice-enabled handset -- including the Nokia 5230, X6, E5 and Samsung Omnia Pro at launch -- from Orange, and start buttering their ears with "crystal clear" phone calls while within the carrier's 3G coverage. Prior to the launch, we were fortunate enough to try out the new service on a couple of Nokia E5 prototypes, and boy, that was some pretty impressive stuff there -- the wider speech bandwidth really added a lot of clarity to the caller's voice, and additionally, the noisy traffic from the caller's end was well suppressed at where it'd otherwise crackle over a normal call. Perhaps the easiest way to put it is that this is much like jumping from a bad FM radio broadcast to some sweet CD audio, thus making conversations a lot easier to interpret even if the recipient is in a noisy environment. As always, hearing is believing, so do check out our sample audio clips after the break.
While Orange remains a dominant driving force behind this mobile revolution, the carrier assured us that it expects other companies to pick up this open standard. That said, it's rather disappointing that current owners of the aforementioned handsets won't be getitng a software patch for the HD upgrade (we were told that no extra hardware is involved), but we can understand -- the manufacturers do need to sell new phones to stay alive in this rapidly changing market. Anyhow, here's hoping that the forthcoming flagship Android and Windows Phone 7 devices will also get a taste of this crystal clear call quality.
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Canon LV-7590 Multimedia Projector announced
Canon's latest multimedia projector, the LV-7590, is definitely worth looking into if you want some versatility attached to the device. After all, it will feature five other optional lenses to choose from, allowing you to customize it to fit a range of front or rear projection applications. Apart from that, the LV-7590 will feature 7,000 lumens of brightness and a contrast ratio of 1,800:1, making it more than ideal to see action in various large venues including houses of worship, school auditoriums, showrooms, large conference rooms, art galleries, museums and small theaters. Expect the LV-7590 multimedia projector to be equipped with Color Control Device - this piece of advanced technology is touted to deliver exceptional image clarity and precise color.
As for the aforementioned optional lenses, they comprise of an Ultra Wide-Angle Lens (LV-IL01); Wide-Angle Zoom Lens (LV-IL02); Long-Focus Zoom Lens (LV-IL03); Ultra Long-Focus Zoom Lens (LV-IL04); and a 1.3x Zoom Lens (LV-IL05). Connectivity options are provided in the form of a 5BNC terminal and a high-speed DVI-D interface, supporting video signals such as 1080p, 1080i, 720p and 480i among others. Being HDCP compliant also helps increase its compatibility factor with a variety of other source devices. It won't come cheap though, as the LV-7590 sports a $8,999 sticker price as it hits the market at the end of the month. [Press Release]
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Iomega pushes ahead with USB 3.0 transition, promises to keep drives at USB 2.0 prices
Iomega's already begun its transition to SuperSpeed USB 3.0 hard drives, but it's making a bit more news on that front today -- it's announced that it plans to keep all its USB 3.0 hard drives at USB 2.0 prices. As expected, that transition begins with its eGo line of portable hard drives, which are officially set to be available this October in 500GB and 1TB capacities, each of which will include Iomega's Drop Guard Xtreme to guard against drops of up to seven feet. Those will be followed by Iomega's Prestige line of portable hard drives, which will begin their transition to USB 3.0 sometime in the first quarter of 2011. We should note, however, that plenty of retailers are already selling USB 3.0 eGo drives now, but it seems that it'll take until early October for the full line to make the jump and receive the aforementioned price-match. Head on past the break for the complete press release.
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Flying Yacht design offers a new ride for the rich
Are you filthy rich that there is just nowhere else to spend your money frivolously without other equally rich folks having one? The Flying Yacht might be just the thing then, thanks to French designer Yelken Ocuri. This idea that was swirling around in the head of a cabin designer for Airbus, has merged with the aforementioned knowledge of aircraft design alongside love for the seas, resulting in this outlandish concept yacht. This superyacht with wings is not a "feasible project" in Ocuri's own words, but it is definitely a sight to behold. If only it was as practical as it looks, then the rich could truly travel around in style. Makes us wonder whether you will need to employ a skeleton crew all year round just in case you want to get somewhere. The 46-meter mobile masts are the signatures of this yacht, where each of them can touch a height of 40-meters, and lowered to become horizontal wings when the need arises.
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Intel’s Core i7-970 gets reviewed: great for overclocking, still expensive
It may be a cheaper way to join the high-end Core i7 family, but that doesn't mean it's "cheap." Intel's Core i7-970 ($899), which just started shipping to consumers around a month ago, has just undergone a thorough looking-over at Hot Hardware, where the six-core chip was tested alongside its more potent (and in turn, more costly) siblings. If you've no interest in dropping over a grand for a Core i7-980X, and you aren't about to lower yourself by purchasing a quad-core Core i7-975, this here chip might just do you proud. In testing, critics found the 970 to be quick, but hardly mind-blowing, when handling more mundane tasks; stir in a few heavily threaded applications, though, and it managed to "sail past" the quad-core contemporaries and "keep pace" with the aforementioned 980X. All told, the silicon managed to perform around 5 percent worse than the 980X, yet it rings up for around 12 percent less. If you've got the workflow to truly take advantage of all six cores, and you can stomach not having the absolute best, it seems as if the 970 strikes a fine balance -- and hey, if you're down with overclocking, you can probably get that 5 percent back with just a mild uptick in your energy bill.
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Motorola Sage spotted in the wild, Mr. Blurrycam claims there’s QWERTY on board
Sure, we'd heard tell of a Motorola Sage and briefly posited that the 850 / 1900MHz Android device could be AT&T's followup to the Backflip, but bless our bluetooth and count our digital compasses if this isn't it. Ubergizmo obtained this shot of a Motorola device that's a dead ringer for the aforementioned horizontal clamshell, complete with the huge trackpad (mounted on the front this time) and 3.1-inch screen. Mr. Blurrycam reportedly says it will sport Android 2.1 and a hardware keyboard as well, though from this angle there's no telling where Motorola might have stuck the QWERTY in, on or around the silver-trimmed shell. Portrait slider, anyone? [Thanks, Calob]
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Toshiba offers 3D upgrade kit for its Blu-ray recorders
Toshiba seems to be banking pretty heavily on the world of stereoscopic 3D, with a 3D upgrade kit being made available to its range of Blu-ray recorders, following in the footsteps of its Regza line of 3D HDTVs. All the new Blu-ray recorders will be armed with a hard drive within, where the flagship RD-X10 will feature 2TB of storage space while letting you play 3D movies out of the box. Arriving in Japan this September, it will retail for $2,500 after conversion. Apart from that, there will be also three more models which will take advantage of the aforementioned 3D upgrade kit, although there is still no word on pricing as at press time.
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Apple Launches Magic Trackpad, Updates Displays and Desktops
Apple went a little retail happy this morning, updating its iMac, Mac Pro and Cinema Display lines, all while introducing the new Magic Trackpad (for those who want to experience all the frustration of using a laptop while sitting at their desktop). While there was no hyped-up event this morning to announce the news, none of it came as a particularly big surprise; the aforementioned products were long overdue for an upgrade, and the Magic Trackpad poked its head out from under Apple's brushed aluminum curtain all the way back in February. Click after the break for details.
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Netgear’s ReadyNAS Ultra 4 and Ultra 6 stream to TiVo, mobile, and DLNA-certified devices
The "Death of Local Media Storage," eh Netgear? The company is certainly proud of its latest unveiling, the ReadyNAS Ultra series, as the aforementioned press release headline exemplifies. In addition to the usual network storage capabilities, the gang can stream media to any TiVo device, DLNA-certified machine (via Skifta), and mobile devices using Orb technologies. All machines feature 1.66GHz Intel Atom CPUs, 1GB RAM, and RAID 0, 1, 5, and 6 data protection. Need a hefty do-it-all box for storage? The Ultra 4 (2 x 2TB, single-core processor) and Ultra 6 (3 x 2TB, dual-core) will start shipping in mid-July, with pre-orders available in the very near future, for a penny under $900 and $1350, respectively. And if you want the capabilities in a lighter form factor, keep an eye out for an Ultra 2 in October.
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