Did you know that your Lensbaby Composer has a removable optic inside? Using the right tool you can extract this glassy core and swap in one of Lensbaby’s new Fisheye or Soft Focus optics. The Lensbaby Composer itself is a twist’n’shoot lens which bends to place the point of focus anywhere in the frame.
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Lensbaby Gets Fisheye and Soft Core Optics
“Stop playing with your ring!” This is something you have probably all heard at one time, as you twiddle away with your fingers and annoy the hell out of the people around.
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Gear Ring Is Like Mechanical Catnip to Nerds
The pre-PMA announcements are hotting up, and Nikon has just released the details of its 2010 Coolpix lineup. Like most of the manufacturers compact camera ranges, this one offers a veritable confusion of models, so we’ll just hit the highlights here. Don’t worry: there are some genuine goodies here
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New Nikon Coolpix Range Has Something for Everyone
Olympus has taken the lovely, popular and slightly flawed Pen EP-1 camera, tweaked it to to be more like Panasonic’s equally nice GF1, and in the process created a Frankenstein’s camera, a bloated monster that bears the same relationship to the EP-1 as Marlon Brando’s Colonel Kurtz bore to his Stanley Kowalski. So, what’s new? The Pen E-PL1 is still an interchangeable lens, Micro Four Thirds (M4/3) camera, but it gains a pop-up flash and a direct video-record button (this button, found on the Panasonic GF1, is wonderfully useful for quick clip shooting).
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New Olympus Pen Adds Flash, Loses Good Looks
The Apple iPad tablet is finally here, but it hasn’t drawn quite the same cheer from Apple enthusiasts and gadget fans that some observers expected. About 60 percent of the 1,114 readers that took Wired.com’s iPad poll said they would not buy the iPod. Some 41 percent of the 892 readers who took a separate poll said the tablet did not live up to its hype, though they expect it to find a home among high-end consumers
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Would You Buy an iPad? Wired Readers Weigh In
It’s too early to say whether Natal will be a hit — too early to really even say if it works or not, really — but we know it’s captured the imaginations of gamers and developers alike. But apparently it didn’t impress Nintendo when they were (allegedly) pitched with an early version of the tech back in 2007 . To be fair, it was in a rougher state than we have seen it, and of course Nintendo already had a working motion control technology and another in the works.
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Did Nintendo pass on Natal?
When Steve Jobs said Apple’s new iPad tablet would have 3G data service from AT&T during Wednesday’s press conference, sighs of disgust could be heard from the audience, presumably from disgruntled iPhone customers. Prior to the unveiling of the 9.7-inch device Wednesday, a few vague rumors suggested Verizon would carry the tablet. Instead, Jobs announced two versions of the iPad: a Wi-Fi only model and an unlocked, Wi-Fi + 3G model for use on GSM networks
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With iPad, Apple Still Has a Fatal Attraction for AT&T
We love the iPhone book-reading app Classics, and apparently Apple does, too. The iPad tablet includes an app called iBooks, and its similarities to Classics are beyond the realm of coincidence. The UI is the same idea: a shelf of books that you can tap to choose a title.
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Apple’s Tablet E-Book App Rips off Indie Dev’s Creation
Lucky reader Andrew S. was picked by our sophisticated random number generator as the winner of our show us your office contest! Andrew tells us that “the only work that gets done is usually fueled by caffiene and any random snacks I have on hand.” That pretty well describes my own work ethic, so good on yer, Andrew! Most of the photos sent in to us were traditional office environments
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Congratulations to Andrew S. and his office, for winning our contest
Mvix’s Ultio Pro looks suspiciously like a commercial version of an HTPC. Designed with 1080p decoding, network media playback from a NAS or PC, and the option to add a PVR, I might have to get one of these to replace my old Xbox Media Center. The Ultio Pro supports pretty much every media file format I can think of, including WMA, MKV, and ISO files.
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Mvix announces Ultio Pro media center
Apple’s feverishly awaited tablet, the iPad is here . The device has a slim iPhone-like design but is larger thanks to its 9.7-inch screen. Still, the lightweight gadget (it weighs a mere 1.5 pounds) brings a decidedly netbook like-vibe with a 1-GHz processor and up to 64 GB of flash storage
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Give Us Your Personal Download On the iPad
New York ( CNN ) — We were right all along. It’s called the Apple iPad, and it’s a smallish, $499 computer (for the entry-level model, that is) that can best be described as a big iPhone or iPod touch. It will be available in 60 days
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Get Nicholas’s take on the iPad’s over on CNN.com — seriously, CNN
Rumor has it the much anticipated Apple tablet will be a blown-up iPhone with a 10-inch screen. While we wait for that fabled device (presumably in late January), take a gander at Lenovo’s S10-3t — a 10-inch part-time netbook, part-time tablet running Windows 7. The “t” stands for tablet, and that’s because this 10-inch netbook (aka notbook) features a swivel touchscreen that can be rotated for use as a tablet
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CES 2010: Hands-On With the Lenovo S10-3t Tablet
It’s the new year, and time for some new stuff from Lenovo . The laptop manufacturer announced their latest and greatest recently, the new ThinkPad X100e and the ThinkPad Edge (amongst others). The ThinkPad X100e is one of Lenovo ’s new ultra-portable line, running on either an AMD Neo or Turion CPU.
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Lenovo announces new ultra-portables and business laptops
You know people are bored when they’re more interested in the “mock” “future” “desingerish” “WTF” device than the actual laptops. Waveface is supposed to be ASUS’s new UI concept that uses foldable materials that you wear.
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Can’t read my, can’t read my… ASUS Waveface
Two touch pads are better than one! Wait, what? That’s a main feature on Asus’s quirky NX90J, an all-in-one notebook with a polished aluminum finish, a high-definition 18-inch display, a Core i7 processor, a Blu-ray drive, surround sound and support for dual hard drives among other dreamy features. Who knows why we would want two touch pads, though.
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CES 2010: Asus Teases NX90J All-in-One Notebook
Yay! for Brando and yay! for convergence! Of course you need this really small MP3 player that doubles as a microSDHC card reader. Why? Hell, I don’t know, but it’s so small that it won’t take up any space at all in your gadget junk drawer and then that one time when you actually need a microSDHC card reader that doubles as an MP3 player, you’ll thank good ol’ Matt Burns and CrunchGear.
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This is a tiny MP3 player and microSDHC card reader from Brando
As the tail end of a series of holiday giveaways, SteelSeries and CrunchGear are going to be giving away a pretty fat care package of sweet SteelSeries gear. One lucky winner will be taking home a limited edition gold Xai laser mouse , a Siberia v2 headset, and a 4HD gaming surface (i.e. mousepad).
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Gaming gear giveaway: give us your CES predictions!
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Apple may have the Jesus phone, but today Google rolled out its own “superphone.” Google unveiled its Nexus One touchscreen handset during a private press-only event at its headquarters here Tuesday. Developed in partnership with hardware manufacturer HTC, the Nexus One is Google’s first branded entry into the smartphone market. The Nexus One runs the latest version of Google’s Android mobile operating system, allowing for several forward-thinking features.
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Google Debuts Android-Powered Nexus One ‘Superphone’
We’ve seen companies try this before (with little success): the convertible tablet, aka a netbook with a swivel touchscreen that can be rotated for use as a tablet. Lenovo claims its convertible tablet, dubbed the S10-3t, is the first of its kind to use capacitive touchscreen technology
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CES 2010: Lenovo Takes a Whack at Tablets With Multitouch Netbook
As the economy sputters back to life, gadget makers are preparing a whole raft of hardware for you to buy in 2010. Some of it will even be worth purchasing. Among the highlights: set-top boxes and TVs that will let you kiss off the cable company, 3-D televisions, increasingly powerful device “platforms” enhanced by massive app stores, e-book readers, a new crop of netbooks, and tiny projectors crammed into everything from cameras to netbooks.
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Video Boxes, ‘Notbooks’ and E-Books to Dominate Gadgets in 2010
E-readers are likely to get hotter with the next generation of devices sporting color screens and large displays expected to launch through the year. One of the first products to announce its arrival is the Skiff e-reader , a lightweight device with a 11.5-inch full flexible touchscreen that makes it the largest e-reader on the market, beating the 9.7-inch display Kindle DX . Unlike other e-readers designed for reading mainly books and PDF files, the Skiff is optimized for newspaper and magazine content and will use Sprint’s 3G network to offer wireless connectivity.
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Slim, Large Screen E-Reader Skiff to Debut on Sprint