For many photographers, in-camera WiFi may be an attractive feature before you leave the store, but confusing setup and limited functionality reduce its appeal once you actually go and try to use it. Panasonic sets out to better take advantage of wireless connectivity with its Lumix FX90, adding Android and iPhone app support for transferring pictures and video directly to a mobile device, then uploading them to Lumix Club — a cloud-based photo-sharing service — and on to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.
You can also share photos directly from the camera — a dedicated WiFi button launches a menu prompting you to select a sharing service — but app support brings the added benefit of your phone’s data connection. Beyond those new wireless features, the FX90 includes a 12 megapixel CCD sensor, 5x, 24-120mm optical zoom lens, 3-inch touchscreen, and 1080i AVCHD video capture. The FX90 will ship this fall with pricing yet to be announced, but jump past the break for the full rundown from Panasonic in the meantime.
Source: Engadget
Still fuming over that 3DS price drop despite the Big N’s conciliatory make-goods? If you happen to be a resident gamer in the UK, tack some 5,000 free WiFi hotspots onto the company’s apology. According to a report from International Business Times, the service, backed by BSkyB-controlled The Cloud, goes live today, bringing users access to all the console’s usual online features and should come in handy when in-game DLC becomes available later this year.
No doubt the move from Nintendo’s British outfit is intended to add a little purchase incentive to the DS’ underwhelming successor, as well as boosting the gaming giant’s own declining earnings. No matter, with twenty free games and gratis WiFi — it’s looking good to be an early adopter.
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I love my iPod, and I especially love my music collection, what I don’t love is trying to listen to my iPod in the car. I hate driving with earbuds and my stupid little portable speaker just doesn’t cut it. But since the introduction of Airplay, Apple’s new streaming technology that allows audio (photos and video) to be streamed from any iOS device to another iOS device, I knew good things were about to happen.
Enter PhotoFast, the newest way to listen to your tunes, the way you want to, in your car. After what appears to be a somewhat labor intensive, although pretty straightforward installation, this cool little black WIFI box will automatically turn on when you start your car and will connect with your WIFI enabled device, streaming your music library through your stereo system. Very nice.
You will have the ability to pause, fast forward and rewind using your iPod. The PhotoFast is designed to transmit high quality sound. Works with iPad, iPod and iPhone.
Surely some car manufacturers will be jumping on the Airplay bandwagon, but until then, PhotoFast is now available in Japan, and look for it sometime soon, in a store near you for around $299.00
Early this year, Cisco has overtaken Pure Digital—the makers of the Flip camera. And now, a spokesman from Cisco has confirmed the arrival of the new Flip in the first trimester of 2010. What more, it will have a built-in WiFi.
The new Flip, however, will not have a touchscreen but it can move, sliding back to “reveal the record and menu buttons underneath.” This means that the Flip will have a bigger screen—probably more than the current two-inch screen of the top-end Flip Ultra HD. And like the iPhone, I’m sure that there will be some editing abilities so you can upload clipped videos directly to YouTube.
No price or exact release date has been announced for the Cisco Flip, but expect more information to arrive in the following days.
Recently LG has demonstrated a follower of the popular
smartphone with Viewty touchscreen – new KC910. This is a cameraphone with 8-megapixel camera and full touch interface, but because of its thickness 13.95 mm, it can be considered the thinnest 8-megapixel cameraphone.
This new flagship of LG has a 3-inch WQVGA (400×240 pixels) touchscreen display that promises to provide users with high-quality multimedia as viewing photo and video. As for video, KC910 can record clips at frequency of 5 to 120 frames per second.
This means that it can create a video that will be slower or faster than usual.
But all this, of course, is not particularly important, without its built-in camera with lenses of Schneider-Kreuznach, which has ISO 1600 and is equipped with a xenon flash.
Among other features of KC910 are worth noting module A-GPS navigation and support for 3G HSDPA, enables download data with speed up to 7.2Mbps. It also has WiFi.
LG promises to launch some more models in the foreseeable future, and KC910 will be available in October.
Why do so many gadget makers try to make their developments in the form of a pen? However, we can’t give an answer to this question. We will just tell you about another gadget in the form of a pen. This time we consider a Wi-Fi pen.
You can determine WiFi signals in many ways. But it takes some time. You can use iPhone or any other device that supports WiFi. You can even search and buy a T-shirt with a WiFi indicator. But the easiest way is to look at the WiFi Signal Finder Pen.
Gadget works extremely simple: you click on the button and see the reaction of LEDs. The pen can determine the presence of a signal within a radius of 50 meters.
Buy this gadget for $19.90.
Netbook VAIO P did not become a famous gadget. An unusual shape, unusual resolution and a high price made it not the best offer on the netbooks’ market. Now Sony announces VAIO W – “Online Book” based on the processor N270 with a frequency of 1.6 GHz.
The diagonal of the netbook’s screen is 10.1 inch, but it will work with unusual resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels. The netbook will also be equipped with 1 GB of RAM and 160 GB of hard disk drive and a built-in graphics based on the GMA950. It will support WiFi and Bluetooth.
The size of the device will be 267,8 × 179,6 × 27,5 mm. The cost of the netbook will be about $630.
Pandigital Australian Company has a new gadget for romantic connoisseurs of technological innovations, having developed the thinnest photo frame gadget in the world called Pan Touch Clear.
Do not hurry to look for the most beautiful photo paper and try to insert it into this Australian wonder. It turns out that the frame Pan Touch Clear is designed for video images that you can enjoy together or alone, under the sounds of your favorite tunes reproducing by a frame on your request. And if you quietly fall asleep under the charming music lull, photo frame will turn off itself after a certain period of time which you have set beforehand.
Now about the main things. The screen is 10.4 inch; the memory is 2 GB, built-in WiFi and USB plug – is all you need for your favorite gadget. The thickness of the frame is only 8.3 mm, which allows not only having it on your table in the office, but also hanging it in the kitchen as a pleasant interior decoration in the hall, attracting the attention of curious visitors, or even in the bedroom, adding a little romance to the atmosphere.
Perhaps some of our readers still remember the interesting computer Fit-PC. We would like to inform them: a new version with a predictable name Fit-PC2 has been released. At this time it is based on Intel Atom.
Fit-PC2 is a miniature computer, that has 10,2 X11, 4×2, 7 cm size. You can keep it in your pocket. But despite such a modest size, it is a full computer with a processor Intel Atom 1,1 GHz or 1,6, gigabytes of RAM and a SATA 2.5-inch disk format.
The new model has an integrated 802.11g Wifi, Ethernet and HDMI output. By default, the model work with Ubuntu Linux, or with Windows XP (to your choice).
Prices for this kind of system units start from $ 245 for the base model without a hard drive. But at a price of $ 299 for the version of Linux, and 160 gigabytes of hard disk space, it is unlikely that you will want to take the base model. The same version of Windows XP will cost more – $ 396.
Recently Lenovo company has announced its plans for the near future. But it is not about the statistics and expectations of profit, but a new gadget, which is expected soon on the market.
PCs «All in one» C300 technical characteristics are closer to notebooks’, but the appearance is quite like a tabletop system. Anyway, I have not ever heard about 20-inch screen notebooks. Inside the new item there is Intel Atom processor and 230 chipset Intel 945GC (plus the amount of RAM is 1 to 2 gigabytes), the integrated video from Intel displays the image on the 20-inch screen with a 16:9 ratio, and hard disk with a size of 160 to 640 gigabytes keeps historical data.
Naturally, the novelty can be connected to the network. It is a pity that by default there is a set of 100-megabit Ethernet, but the WiFi 802.11 abg comes as an option.
The computer will also have 1.3-megapixel camera, the 1394/firewire port, 6 USB ports, card reader 6-in-1, two small columns of 3 watts and the power supply at 120 watts. The mouse and keyboard connect via USB and PS / 2, respectively.
Originally it is planned to provide options for a system with XP Home, Vista Home Basic or Vista Home Premium onboard. But it is obvious that such parameters would be preferable for the first option. And with the Windows 7 we will think about OS upgrade.
The new device will be released in July. Approximate cost is $ 450.
