Wired: Gadget Lab
- Ren Ng Shares His Photographic Vision: Shoot Now, Focus Later After buying his first digital camera, Ren Ng tried to snap a shot of his vivacious 5-year-old daughter. Like many young, active children, it was incredibly difficult to focus the image properly and capture her fleeting smile in just the right way. And then it came to him -- what if you could take a picture, and then adjust the focus later?
- Leaked: Nokia’s First Windows Phone Looks Just Like N9 Coming from Hungarian blog Technet via BlurryCam™ are these leaked shots of Nokia’s first Windows Phone 7 phone. If it looks like the just-announced MeeGo-based N9, that’s because it pretty much is. It has the same slim, iPod Nano like body, the same Gorilla Glass screen and the same 8MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens. [...]
- How Bad Could It Be? The $100 Arnova 7 Tablet You know how the only non-iPod MP3 players that people buy are those $10 pieces of junk in dime stores, or by the checkout in cheap supermarkets? I have a feeling that the tablet market is going the same way.
With all the major players struggling to match the iPad’s aggressively low price, it may be [...]
- iPhone Gun Accessory for Augmented Reality Shooting Slot your iPhone into this toy gun and you can blast away at aliens that only you can see, overlaid on top of the scene ahead of you thanks to the magic of augmented reality.
The AppBlaster is a £20 ($32) plastic gun with an iPhone case. Load up the (free) companion game, called Apptoyz Alien [...]
- Leica Readying Mirrorless Camera for 2012 Leica is working on its own mirrorless compact camera range, and it will be launched at Photokina in 2012. The news comes from Leica CEO Alfred Schopf, who spoke to UK magazine Amateur Photographer during an interview yesterday.
Schopf was circumspect, but told AP that the cameras would have sensors at APS-C sized or bigger, and [...]
- Pentax Q. Mirrorless, Interchangeable Lenses, Tiny Sensor Pentax has gotten into the mirrorless camera game with the Q system. It seems most of the work has gone into designing the new lens mount, as the rest of the specs are competent but fairly ordinary. That said, it looks like Pentax has come up with a solid (literally) entry into the hot mirrorless [...]
- How to Make a Clock Run for 10,000 Years
High on a rocky ridge in the desert, nestled among the brush, is the topmost part of a clock that has been ticking for thousands of years.
It looks out over the ruins of a spaceport, built by a rich man whose name was forgotten long ago.
Most of the clock is deep inside the mountain, below [...]
- Bike Takeout Basket Carries Beer, Burritos If you live in Portland, you do everything on your bike. You take the kids to school. You do the weekly shop. You even bike down to the gas station to fill up a gas can and bring it home to juice your car. And of course you go to the liquor store to pick [...]
- New Android Phone Works Even After Bathing in Your Sweat Sony Ericsson's new smartphone was made for two kinds of people: sporty jogger types and those who sweat profusely.
- Rumor: Amazon Gunning for a Tablet Release This Fall It looks like we could be getting an Amazon-branded tablet sooner rather than later, based on the latest reports on the retail giant’s plans.
According to DigiTimes, Amazon will launch its tablet PC models by August or September of this year. The company hopes to push four million units by the end of the 2011 holiday [...]
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Wired: Gadget Lab
- Ren Ng Shares His Photographic Vision: Shoot Now, Focus Later After buying his first digital camera, Ren Ng tried to snap a shot of his vivacious 5-year-old daughter. Like many young, active children, it was incredibly difficult to focus the image properly and capture her fleeting smile in just the right way. And then it came to him -- what if you could take a picture, and then adjust the focus later?
- Leaked: Nokia’s First Windows Phone Looks Just Like N9 Coming from Hungarian blog Technet via BlurryCam™ are these leaked shots of Nokia’s first Windows Phone 7 phone. If it looks like the just-announced MeeGo-based N9, that’s because it pretty much is. It has the same slim, iPod Nano like body, the same Gorilla Glass screen and the same 8MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens. [...]
- How Bad Could It Be? The $100 Arnova 7 Tablet You know how the only non-iPod MP3 players that people buy are those $10 pieces of junk in dime stores, or by the checkout in cheap supermarkets? I have a feeling that the tablet market is going the same way.
With all the major players struggling to match the iPad’s aggressively low price, it may be [...]
- iPhone Gun Accessory for Augmented Reality Shooting Slot your iPhone into this toy gun and you can blast away at aliens that only you can see, overlaid on top of the scene ahead of you thanks to the magic of augmented reality.
The AppBlaster is a £20 ($32) plastic gun with an iPhone case. Load up the (free) companion game, called Apptoyz Alien [...]
- Leica Readying Mirrorless Camera for 2012 Leica is working on its own mirrorless compact camera range, and it will be launched at Photokina in 2012. The news comes from Leica CEO Alfred Schopf, who spoke to UK magazine Amateur Photographer during an interview yesterday.
Schopf was circumspect, but told AP that the cameras would have sensors at APS-C sized or bigger, and [...]
- Pentax Q. Mirrorless, Interchangeable Lenses, Tiny Sensor Pentax has gotten into the mirrorless camera game with the Q system. It seems most of the work has gone into designing the new lens mount, as the rest of the specs are competent but fairly ordinary. That said, it looks like Pentax has come up with a solid (literally) entry into the hot mirrorless [...]
- How to Make a Clock Run for 10,000 Years
High on a rocky ridge in the desert, nestled among the brush, is the topmost part of a clock that has been ticking for thousands of years.
It looks out over the ruins of a spaceport, built by a rich man whose name was forgotten long ago.
Most of the clock is deep inside the mountain, below [...]
- Bike Takeout Basket Carries Beer, Burritos If you live in Portland, you do everything on your bike. You take the kids to school. You do the weekly shop. You even bike down to the gas station to fill up a gas can and bring it home to juice your car. And of course you go to the liquor store to pick [...]
- New Android Phone Works Even After Bathing in Your Sweat Sony Ericsson's new smartphone was made for two kinds of people: sporty jogger types and those who sweat profusely.
- Rumor: Amazon Gunning for a Tablet Release This Fall It looks like we could be getting an Amazon-branded tablet sooner rather than later, based on the latest reports on the retail giant’s plans.
According to DigiTimes, Amazon will launch its tablet PC models by August or September of this year. The company hopes to push four million units by the end of the 2011 holiday [...]
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