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If you’ll recall, it was April of last year when we reported on pictures from Apple.pro , which claimed to show a seventh-generation iPod Nano chassis with room for a camera. Not long after, the site posted a second leak of the device, hinting at the omission of the Nano’s famous clip in favor of optics
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Supposed next-gen iPod Nano with camera leaks again, clip back in tow
Let’s just get this out of the way, shall we? If the LG Spectrum looks familiar, you’re not imagining things. It may have been a highlight at the company’s CES press event last month, but the handset bears more than a passing resemblance to its older, more excitingly-named sibling, the LG Nitro HD — and, by extension, the globe-trotting Optimus LTE
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LG Spectrum review
We’ve kept a pretty stern eye on the development of GRASP Lab’s quadrocopters, and with good reason it seems, now that the four-bladed aerial ninjas have even more alarming abilities at their disposal.
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Acrobatic quadrocopters hunt in packs, seduce you into submission (video)
When ZionEyez launched its Kickstarter campaign this summer, the company promised a “Winter 2011″ ship timeframe for its Eyez video recording glasses. And when that deadline came and went, many backers were understandably frustrated, requesting refunds and even emailing us for a status update after attempts to contact the design team were unsuccessful. We’ve been in touch with the company on a consistent basis since we first covered its Eyez project, and we even had an opportunity to test out a prototype in December.
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ZionEyez becomes Zeyez, wants you to know it’s still watching
You may have heard that Nikon’s revealed a few — well, a lot of — new cameras this week. Fortunately it wasn’t long until we were able to get to grips with some of the more interesting models
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Nikon Coolpix P510 arrives in London, we go hands-on (video)
LG has revealed its earnings statements for the fourth quarter of 2011 and the full year, and it managed to notch an operating profit of 23 billion won ($20.5 million), boosted by a 10 billion won operating profit in its handset division. That was despite lower sales compared to the previous quarter (17.7 million compared to 21.1 million), with higher sales of its new Optimus LTE and lower sales of less profitable dumbphones
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LG finally shows a profit from cellphones, record high flat-panel shipments in Q4 earnings
The choose-your-own-price Humble Bundle has proven to be a runaway success on desktop platforms — helping fund indie developers and causes like Child’s Play and the EFF alike — and it’s now finally taken the plunge onto mobile devices. That move was kicked off today with the Humble Bundle for Android, which includes the games Anomaly: Warzone Earth , Osmos , and EDGE. Those three are available for any price you choose, but you’ll also get World of Goo thrown in if you pay more than the average price (just over $5 as of this writing).
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Humble Bundle expands to Android with World of Goo, Anomaly and more
Dutch researchers are looking to catapult crime scene investigation into the 21st century through the use of augmented reality (AR). The prototype system, designed by the Delft University of Technology, employs a pair of AR goggles, two head-mounted cameras and a portable laptop rig to allow investigators to build virtual crime scenes by tagging evidence and placing objects they are viewing. After mapping an area, additional law enforcement personnel can review the investigator’s work and request additional information — asking the CSI to define or place additional objects
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AR goggles take crime scene technology to CSI: Miami level
While we’re still a few weeks away from annual phone festival, MWC, it’s these weeks in the run-up that often draw out blurrycam appetizers of what we’ll see over in Barcelona. This time, it’s no other than the HTC Edge Ville, that rumored divergent mix of quad-core processing bulk and slimline form-factor: something we don’t typically see the unibody-armored HTC family
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HTC Ville gets hands-on en Francais, is presumably practicing its Spanish for MWC (video)
If you tend to exercise a bit more caution when using your mobile machine, we imagine you’ll welcome McAfee ‘s Mobile Security 2.0 with open arms. The Intel-owned security connoisseur has just introduced its refreshed apps, designed to protect Android handsets and slates, along with BlackBerry and Symbian smartphones
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McAfee updates Mobile Security to 2.0, keeps you protected on the go (video)
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.
