Monthly Archives: April 2007

Minox Germany today introduced the Minox DC 1022, a digital camera that may at first look like a plain Jane variety until you realize that it’s got 10.1 megapixels, 6x zoom and 2.8” screen. That’s a sizeable screen there, to be sure, and it manages to pack it in at just an inch thickness (it’s …

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ZDNet Australia reports that HP is planning to offer printing services, rather than printers, with its newest Edgeline technology. The HP Edgeline Technology is an ink-based printing engine designed with printheads that span the width of a page (is that you, Memjet?). The ZDNet report indicated that Edgeline will use the HP CM8060 Color MFP …

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Of course, it’s not just folks at lynda.com who write tutorials for Adobe CS3. Adobe Systems itself has its own team of experts who take care of this stuff. They have released their “Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book,” a self-paced guide to the newest Photoshop. Newbies can learn key concepts here, while experienced …

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It’s the New York Times’s turn to admit that they had published a retouched news photo on the front page of The Metro Section of the newspaper. The altered photo accompanied an article last Tuesday about flooding caused by the recent northeaster. It showed an antiques shop in Ridgefield, Conn., being washed away. The wood …

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You must have been horrified to see this footage in the news last week, a big zoo crocodile bit off a veterinarian’s arms. Luckily, Taiwanese doctors know a thing or two about stitching back a severed limb. So, Veterinarian Chang Po-Yu can now smile to the cameras to assure us that he’s fine, thank you. …

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Here’s another way to recharge batteries. The Sanyo “eneloop” USB charger can charge two “eneloop” batteries using the PC’s USB connector. The Sanyo eneloop system appears to be proprietary and uses its own eneloop batteries, although an earlier Nov 2005 announcement indicated these batteries to be of NiMH composition. “Eneloop” is a concept based on …

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Toshiba’s tiny 1.8-inch hard disk drives will provide storage for Intel’s next generation of ultramobile personal computers (UMPCs) and mobile internet devices (MIDs) in what is called the Intel Ultra Mobile Platform 2007. This was announced today at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2007 Conference in Beijing, China. Toshiba said their “1.8-inch HDDs deliver the …

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Aluratek is offering a new line of digital photo frames that just might catch your attention because of its high resolution. While not quite catching up with Pandigital’s screen size of 15 inches, Aluratek’s 10.5-inch digital photo frames feature the same resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels. That’s actually more pixels per square inch, and …

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Sony has revealed details of their new CompactFlash card lineup. While not really offering anything new, the new Sony CF cards will meet the speed and performance requirements of digital SLR cameras. Sony will be offering two 133x speed cards with capacities of 2GB and 4GB and a data transfer rate of 20MBps. There will …

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Lexmark has introduced a new line of low-cost inkjet printers that offer wireless networking capabilities. The Lexmark X4550 wireless all-in-one printer, pictured above, prints at up to 26 pages per minute in B&W or 18ppm in color. It can print borderless photos without a computer using its digital memory card slots, USB flash drives or …

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