Olympus, purveyor of fine photography goods, has put it on the record that they are out of the crowded entry-level DSLR game. I don’t blame them; with a great Micro Four Thirds series like the Pen, and with Canon and Nikon duking it out at the sub-$1000 level, they’ve got no reason to spend precious R&D cash on an also-ran product.
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Olympus Goes All In With M4/3, Says Sayonara To Entry-Level DSLRs
So as I mentioned the other day , Sega was in town showing off the goods. Sonic 4 was probably the game with the most, shall we say, mass-market appeal, but I also spent some quality time with Shogun 2: Total War
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Shogun 2: Total War: The Closest You’ll Get To Actually Being A Samurai
I’ve never really taken to the “natural” or “ergonomic” keyboards out there, perhaps because I’m always reviewing really excellent traditional ones, or maybe because I work from my laptop and can’t get used to the other layout. Or maybe it’s because they’re all doing it wrong. That’s what TrulyErgonomic seems to think, and they’ve designed a keyboard they’re calling, unsurprisingly, the first truly ergonomic keyboard out there
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The TrulyErgonomic Keyboard Claims To Be World’s Natural-Est
To be honest, I didn’t even know there was going to be a Nintendo Wii version of Call of Duty: Black Ops , but lo and behold: a licensed headset! Yup, this is the official headset of the game on the Wii, and it’s the handiwork of PDP , one of the bigger Wii accessory designers. The headset, the Headbanger Headset, which carries both the Nintendo and Activision licenses, should be in stores this month, ahead of the November 9 launch of the game. (It’ll also work with the Wii version of Sega’ The Conduit 2 , which comes out next year.) What does is do
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PDP’s Headbanger Headset: Now Wii Call Of Duty: Black Ops Players Can Yell At Each Other Online
Microsoft may be late to the game with a consumer-savvy phone OS, but Windows Phone 7 is aiming to do right a lot of what Google is doing wrong. Based on what I saw during a visit to Microsoft’s headquarters two weeks ago, the Windows Phone 7 team may be on the right track to pose a serious threat to Google
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Why Windows Phone 7 Will Make Android Look Chaotic
If you want to hop on the Windows Phone 7 bandwagon, you won’t lack for handset choices, promises Microsoft. As part of its launch of the Windows Phone 7 operating system, Microsoft has partnered with most of the major telecom carriers and handset makers to create new phones for the OS. So far, nine phones running Windows Phone 7 OS have been announced
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A Quick Guide to Windows Phone 7 Handsets
The latest knock-off from China is the iPhonc – a curved back mobile phone that looks good up to a point. Details are non-existent, but you probably don’t want to buy this thing anyway. Like many things, the iPhonc looks good from the back, but the face leaves much to be desired.
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The iPhonc Looks Good, Until You See The Front
There’s nothing worse then having a bicycle accident when you’re riding balls-out. Not only do you take a nasty spill, there’s also the risk of permanent trauma to your junk. Not to mention the temporary embarrassment of crawling on the ground clutching your sack.
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The Stemie – You’d Be Nuts To Ride Without One
The Hyundai Equus, pronounced Eh-cuus, is Hyundai’s flagship luxury sedan in South Korea—so popular among the upper-class, that the South Korean President has one. Continuing off the car maker’s recent successes in the states, Hyundai is bringing the Equus here to enjoy sales from the already-brimming full-size luxury segment. This is the first Korean car to compete directly with the flagship sedans from Japan, Germany, and India/Britain (depending on where you call Jaguar home.) The Equus has been on the market for some time in South Korea, in fact, this is the second generation since its debut in 1999
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A Week In The High-Tech Hyundai Equus Super Sedan
NEW YORK — Microsoft on Monday unveiled details on the first phones running its brand new Windows Phone 7 operating system, the software giant’s answer to Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS mobile platforms. The phone will be available on AT&T (who co-hosted the event) and T-Mobile networks stateside beginning Nov.
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Microsoft Announces First Windows Phone 7 Handsets
Oh, Microsoft. Only you would throw the official launch event for your new mobile operating system on a national holiday and wait to tell the invited folks about it until just 5 days before
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Live from Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 launch event (Update: We’re Live!)
When the concertinaing Aviiq notbook-stand was announced way back in November of last year, my headline read “Origami-Like Folding Laptop Stand Is Perfect for In-Bed Movies.” Finally, almost a year later, the review unit arrived, and it proved that I was almost Nostradamus-like in this prophetic declaration.
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Hands-On with Aviiq’s Beautiful, Expensive Folding Notebook Stand
The Stealth Boom Chair proves that you can make gaming seats that actually look reasonably decent. The thing also offers a few novelties alongside the usual massive sub-woofer, dual speakers and vibration rumble pack. For one thing it swivels
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Stealth Boom Chair – sleek sound box proves you can cram design into loud
Forget all those Marty-come-lately imitations and knock-offs: If you want McFly’s actual real sneakers, as worn during the filming of Back to the Future 2 , then you will soon be able to bid for them at auction. You’ll probably need to engage in some Biff Tannen-style back-in-time betting to afford them, but these are the real deal, people, and they look tacky as hell
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Marty McFly’s Actual Movie Sneakers for Sale: $15,000
The design of this 8-drive RAID tower is pretty clearly derived from the Mac Pro (and it would look great next to one), but I actually like this thing better. It’s the SansDigital TowerRAID TR8XP , and it’s got room for up to 8 SATA or SAS drives in there, for a (current) max capacity of 16TB and potential data read/writes at up to 700MB/s, depending on your RAID mode. It’ll set you back $745 without drives, so it’s not exactly an impulse buy, but that’s really not a bad deal.
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Sexy RAID Tower From SansDigital
The German magazine that leaked the D3100 info also spilled on two of the new Coolpix models . The Coolpix S1100pj apparently will have a projector, touchscreen, remote control, and “several other improvements”. The European market will pay about €350
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Nikon Coolpix Projector-Camera Also Leaked
Car seat technology has progressed quickly over the years. It’s a product that children need (the hospital won’t even let you take that new baby home without a car seat), and Britax just launched their latest product line of high tech seats.
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New Britax Car Seats Use Technology To Protect Junior
Not one to be left out of a market, Asus has been working on its latest entry to the tablet market for some time now, teasing both the Eee Tablet and Eee Pad over the last few months but never really setting a date or price. No longer! The Eee Pad will cost $400 and run Android, but that’s about as much information as we get… except that it’s launching in March .
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Eee Tablet Becomes Eee Note, Gets Priced And Dated Along With Eee Pad
There is a small, but vocal, contingent of readers who pop up in the comments on e-reader stories and say they love their Sony Reader or such and such model. And while a lot of our attention is on the higher-profile items like the Kindle and iPad, we mustn’t rule out Sony… although they aren’t exactly a hotbed of innovation these days. In any case, the rumor is that we’ll be seeing a couple new Reader devices soon : a 5″ and 6″ version, 10mm thin, with touchscreens, 3G, and the new, improved Pearl e-ink displays
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New Sony Readers Incoming: Thin And Full Of 3G
For a quick download on the top tech stories of the week, check out the latest Gadget Lab podcast — just 12 minutes long this week, yet packed with everything you need to know. In this week’s podcast, we give you a hands-on look at the BlackBerry Torch that was introduced last week. We finally got our hands on one, posted our review of the Torch , and show you how it looks in the podcast video
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Gadget Lab Podcast: Droid 2, Voice Search and Carrier-Humping Surrender Monkeys
This set of comparison pics showing the Kindle and iPad displays at high magnification is really more the result of curiosity than an attempt at making a point. It really is interesting to see the differences between the Kindle’s e-ink display, the traditional (but high-quality) LCD of the iPad, and a printed page.
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Kindle And iPad Displays Go Under The Microscope
If you remember, Apple bought LiquidMetal’s patents last week , allowing the company to create “fluid” metal surfaces in its devices. While there has been plenty of talk about Terminator-like iPhones that flow under and around doors and windows to kill John Connor, but if you’ve seen an Omega watch recently, you’ve already seen liquid metal. Hodinkee has a video of the Omega Liquidmetal bezel and they note that Omega will not be forced to stop using the technology after Apple’s patent buy
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What Did Apple Buy When It Bought LiquidMetal? If You Like Watches, You’ve Already Seen It