Microscopic Photography with Canon and X-Loupe

Denmark’s NKS Tech ApS has what they call the X-Loupe, a digital portable field microscope which combines a digital camera and a microscopic module. You can see through it and take pictures of very minute objects magnified up to 150 times, and it beats toting around that bulky school microscope. NKS Tech recently demonstrated the …

Don’t Touch that Sensor: Here’s Cleaning Kit from Green Clean

You mean I still have to clean the insides of my camera? Yes, my dear point-and-shooter. If you just recently upgraded to a DSLR, you should know that your digital SLR needs some TLC and sometimes this involves cleaning the image sensor. Careful not to touch it yet; it’s very sensitive. You need the sensor …

Taiwan’s Foxconn to Make 15.4” Macbooks for Apple

Taipei-based Foxconn Electronics will manufacture 15.4-inch Macbook computers for Apple for the first time, breaking the monopoly of another Taiwanese firm – Asustek – on the lucrative Apple contract. Foxconn will commence production of the new Macs in May 2007 and will start volume shipments towards the end of that year; consequently, Apple’s orders from …

Kingston’s Privacy Edition USB Stick Coming Out in January

Remember that Kingston DataTraveler Secure – Privacy Edition we told you about? Well, Kingston has finally announced a date for its outing: January 2007. The Privacy Edition will feature a hardware-based 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to securely lock down your data and prevent unauthorized access. It will come in capacities ranging from 512MB to …

Sony Net Profit Plummets 94 Percent in Q3

While Canon, Nikon and Olympus are reporting that they are awash with cash, Sony’s finances for the third quarter suffered a steep decline. Earnings dropped 94% for Sony in the 3 months that ended in September, due mainly to a hugely expensive battery recall and manufacturing problems in its Playstation 3 game console. And while …

Paolo Pellegrin Wins $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant

Renowned photographer Paolo Pellegrin has won the 2006 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, which also carries $30,000 in prize money. The award was granted to support Pellegrin’s MAKTAB project, a photo-documentary of Muslims in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in the years following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The full title of …

Logitec LHD-ED Silent External 3.5” Drive

Logitec Corporation of Japan (not to be confused with Logitech of the mouse-and-keyboard fame) today announced its LHD-ED series of silent external hard disk drives. The LDH-ED uses a 3.5-inch hard disk drive that runs quietly and is able to turn itself on or of simultaneously with your PC. The Logitec silent disk is equipped …

Review: Casio Exilim EX-S770 Looks Pretty

“The Casio Exilim EX-S770 is definitely a head turner,” says Ben Stafford of Digital Camera Review after he took it out for a test drive in picturesque Cincinnati. According to Ben the EX-S770 looks set to be a winner: a stylish and sturdy design, good image quality, great battery life, and a bright, wide format …

Nik Color Efex Pro 2 and iView MediaPro 3 Bundle

It’s essentially a two-for-one offer from two software companies, Nik Software and iView Multimedia. They’re offering you a bundle of both their software for what comes down to a lower price for both, compared to purchasing them separately. Pay $229 for Color Efex 2.0 Select Edition and iView MediaPro 3 and you save $119, is …