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Last month, Samsung demonstrated its commitment to the mirrorless camera market with no less than three new models : the Samsung NX20 being its new flagship, the Samsung NX210 sitting mid-range, and the Samsung NX1000 marking the entry point for the trio.
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Samsung confirms NX1000 pricing, availability
We first saw Lenovo’s Android 4.0 tellymabob back at CES, now the firm is getting ready to unleash the full K-series of Smart TVs on China. Four models are on offer, the 55-inch K91 and K81 models, along with a 42-inch version of the latter and another at this size — the K71 . You may remember that Ice Cream Sandwich is running on a dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon CPU and Lenovo claims the interface is a mix of touch, air mouse, gravity sensor, smart keyboard and conventional remote — lots more to lose down the back of the couch, then.
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Lenovo launches four Android-powered K-series Smart TVs in China this month
If you like the idea of German electric vehicles like the BMW i3 and i8 , but you’re worried they may be more than you really need when they arrive next year, you’ll be glad to know that a more to-the-point EV auf Deutsch is on the way. Along with Munich’s Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), BMW , Daimler and 14 others are jointly developing the Visio.M urban runabout.
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BMW, Daimler partner on ultra-light Visio.M city EV
Your smart phone can do everything these days so why not use it to help trigger your camera?
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The Camera Bag: TriggerHappy Remote Lets You Trigger Your DSLR from Your Smart Phone
Rinspeed is a Swiss speed shop that is perhaps best known for making rather outlandish concept cars, from glorified golf carts to Bond-inspired amphibious autos .
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Rinspeed gives Smart Fortwo ED two extra wheels, more junk in the trunk
We’ve seen scientists explore a number of ways to make paint “smarter” over the years, and now a team of researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow have devised a method that they say could do nothing short of “revolutionize structural safety.” The key to that is some novel nanotechnology that effectively turns the paint into a sensor network that’s able to detect minor structural faults before they become a severe problem. More specifically, the paint consists of a mix of highly aligned carbon nanotubes and a recycled waste material known as fly ash — when the nanotubes bend, the conductivity changes, indicating that there could be a structural problem developing.
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Nanotech-enhanced ‘smart paint’ promises to detect structural damage
There were no shortage of Smart TV concepts and final executions this year at CES 2012, and Toshiba came packing one of the most awesome selections to the Pepcom event in the L7200 Cinema Series LED Smart 3D TV, one massive customer. This television includes passive 3D, on-board cable program guide, and all the bells and whistles you’d hope any modern Smart TV would hold. And with such a tiny bezel around this display that’ll be offered in two sizes this spring, 47-55 inches never looked so gigantic – or if it did, it looks bigger than ever now!
The Toshiba L7200 series will blow your eyeballs out of their sockets with Edge-lit LED brightness on an X-Gen panel, it, again, bringing you an unhindered picture with its ultra-narrow bezel. This television has a 240Hz refresh rate, and on-board Wi-fi to keep you connected to your favorite streaming services. Along the back you’ll find a generous 4 HDMI input ports, and SmartCentral will be your user interface guide. You’ll control the TV with a full QWERTY wi-fi enabled keyboard that’s included in the box – this keyboard was not available at the time of the hands-on, but I assure you, it exists.
Inside this beast you’ll find a dual-core processor for hefty handling of the programs you want to interact with, it assisting in accelerating your CQ Video Engine for superior graphics when you’re streaming from the web. Then for those of you that love the third dimension, this TV includes what Toshiba is calling “trivector” 2D to 3D conversion on the fly. Also, again, you’ll need no glasses to see this 3D effect, it showing up to your human eyes with no additional assistance.
We’re entering a really strange age for television, that’s for sure, and Toshiba isn’t going to be left behind – not by a long shot.
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Samsung has taken the wraps off of its latest multimedia-sharing device, the Samsung Optical SMART Hub, an external DVD burner that can share files via WiFi, USB and ethernet connection to your tablet, smartphone, smart TV or computer. Resembling a slightly oversized external drive,at 150 x 198 x 25 mm and 430g, the Optical SMART Hub works alongside a new Android app (with iPhone, Kindle and smart TV apps in the pipeline) for remote access. Plug into your home or hotel broadband connection and the Optical SMART Hub works as a wireless router
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Samsung Optical SMART Hub packs DVD burner with media sharing
When it comes to Smart TV here at CES 2012, we were expecting a bit more of a gigantic Google TV showing and a bit less of an Android-based representation of the environment – that’s why seeing the Lenovo K91 in the flesh was a rather nice surprise. To say that this television runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is a bit of a buzz-word grab as the actual interface is so drastically changed from what you likely recognize as Android that you’d never know if it was Gingerbread, Froyo, or some future formation of the mobile operating system. This device runs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8060 dual-core processor, runs Android apps left and right – from the Android Market and Lenovo’s own app store.
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Lenovo K91 Smart TV hands-on impressions
Virgin Mobile’s feature phone arm just added a third tier, delivering unlimited talk and texting, along with 50 megs of web access for $40 per month. This offering joins Sprint’s other payLo budget offerings, including an entry-level option that includes 400 minutes of talk time for $20 per month, and a $30 monthly plan that delivers 1,500 minutes, 1,500 texts and 30MB of data
(Credit: Blizzard Entertainment) One week after its release, Diablo III remains the only PC game anyone is talking about .
Nuance, of Dragon TV fame announced today that it was licensing Rovi’s (formerly known as Macrovision ) metadata for its talky-TV platform .
If you’re tired of bananaphones that just make calls, the crew at Gadget Gangster now has a homebrew project to use them for musical escapades. A custom-coded (and appropriately named) Adafruit Propeller board turns a bunch of bananas into the Bananaphone TouchSynth, a synthesizer using the same capacitive touch principles that let a MaKey MaKey turn anything into a controller
Bicom, makers of the Corian -hewn playGo USB will unveil a new AP1 AirPlay device, but only you if help fund it.
Matilda Ceesay, a Cornell fiber science and apparel design major from Gambia, adjusts the anti-malarial garment on model Sandy Mattei. Who knew mosquito nets could be so fashionable?
Plants , like pets, need to be constantly cared for, but not everyone’s blessed with the requisite green thumb. So, for those of you imbued with what we’ll call the bad, brown touch, Swiss outfit Koubachi’s got a cloud-based solution to sidestep those negligent ways and keep your window garden thriving. Dubbed the WiFi Plant Sensor, this wireless peripheral nestles into the soil of any potted flora or fauna, sending relevant vitality data off to the company’s servers where it’s then analyzed and beamed back to your handset (via iPhone app) or online account with care instructions in tow
The HTC 4G LTE will finally land in Sprint customers’ hands this week.
Pentax didn’t wait long after a rather conspicuous leak to make the details official: welcome the K-30, the company’s spiritual successor to the long-serving K-r . The camera makes its biggest numerical jump in sensor size, from 12.4 megapixels to 16, but you’re primarily shelling out for a much tougher body that’s both resistant to rain as well as to dust and temperature extremes; one of the cheapest cameras to do so, if you go by Pentax’s word. We’re slightly down on the light sensitivity being unchanged from three years ago at ISO 100 to 25,600, though you can now shoot video at a much higher 1080p at 30 frames per second — and that French catalog was wrong about a drop in burst speeds, which still top out at a healthy 6 fps.
