(Credit: Fujifilm)We reported on the global announcement of the Z200fd back in May, but today at 12:01 a.m. Fujifilm announced this slim, feature-packed camera for the U.S. You can read the full announcement and spec sheet on Fujifilm’s press site. It’s actually–from a feature …
The LG BD300 Network Blu-ray Disc Player not only plays DVDs, it also receives streaming video from Netflix.
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Update at 7:30 a.m. PDT: The day of the announcement has been corrected.
Netflix fans will soon have another new option for watching movies.
On Thursday, the company …
This image shows a fragment of the Antikythera Mechanism. The right side of the image has the enhancement turned on.
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For all the technology that will go into orchestrating the Beijing Olympics this year, a new report in British science journal Nature is reminding the world where it all began: with a 2,100-year-old gadget that tracked dates of the ancient Olympic games.
Known as the Antikythera Mechanism, the astronomical calculator was discovered by divers in 1901 as one of the artifacts collected from a shipwreck off the coast of Antikythera, Greece. With its 3,000 characters and 30 gears, scientists have come to conclude that the intricate and once technologically advanced device calculated moon, sun, and planet locations for specific dates.
But most recently, the Associate Press reported Wednesday, experts have deciphered the word “Olympia” on the bronze device and discovered that one of its dials kept track of the four-year cycle of the Greek Olympic games.
A researcher told British paper The Telegraph that the team was surprised to find that such a technologically advanced mechanism kept track of an event that could be tracked relatively easily compared with such cosmic events as eclipses. The dial, he said, served not only mathematical purposes, but also represented the harmony between technology and culture.
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Intel is working on the next version of its low-cost laptop, which could be ready in the next month or so, according to a report in PC World.
The current version of the Classmate PC, to be updated by Intel soon.
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(Credit: Sanyo)And the mini-camcorder cavalcade keeps rolling on. Well, in Japan at least. Sanyo premiered its latest HD pocket-corder, Xacti, on July 30 in Japan. The DMX-HD800 records at up to 720p at 30fps in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, and does so with an improved 8MP CMOS sensor.
There …
It’s so hard to keep a good secret these days. Just ask T-Mobile. Word of its new Sidekick model, code-named Gekko, got out months ago and was all but confirmed about a week ago when the ruthless blogosphere got hold of some internal T-Mobile documents about the upcoming model.
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Are you a travel explorer, an editor, or student? Then does ASUS have the Eee PC for you! According to this slide image taken by Engadget Chinese, it looks like ASUS will soon have a total of 23 differently configured models of the widely known Eee PC netbook series–this includes
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Pandora's streaming music service is now free–albeit with ads–on the Logitech Squeezebox family of devices
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Add Pandora to the list of free online music services you can access through the Logitech Squeezebox. Previously, the music service–which creates the equivalent of personalized radio stations based on your favorite artists and music genres–required a $36 yearly subscription fee to be accessed on a network digital audio player in the home. But there is a trade-off: the free service will be ad-supported (the subscription plan remains available to users who prefer an ad-free experience).
Initially, it appears that the Logitech Squeezebox products will be the only home audio streamer with access to the free Pandora service. However, it’s a safe bet that the ad-supported Pandora service will also be making its way to the other two devices that support the current subscription service: …
The price of protection: the i114 Clear Scratch Resistant Film.
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I just got a press release from iLuv announcing its new line of iPhone 3G cases, which are–excuse the pun–just luvely. However, in clicking through to the site I was struck by one accessory the company is selling: …
The spring quarter was not a good one for Sony.
The consumer electronics giant on Tuesday reported that for the three months ended June 30, its net income was 35 billion yen ($330 million), or just more than half of the 66.5 billion recorded in the same period a …
