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Sony DSC-T300: First Camera with Smile Detection

2008-02-27T12:06:23Z

While face detection has become a common feature in modern digital cameras, Sony took one step ahead and developed the first camera with smile detection, the DSC-T300, and proudly announced it today.

The main attraction of this camera is certainly Sony’s new smile detection technology. So how does this new feature work? When the camera is set to smile detection mode, a user can select one out of the three preset smile detection levels (i.e. smile, grin, and great grin). After the shutter button is pressed, the camera will detect the target’s face and shoot the photo automatically once the chosen smile level is reached. Sounds cool to me, with this great feature I’ll never miss the smiles while shooting photos :)

O2 Xda Atom Life, A HSDPA Pocket PC [4]

2007-03-05T07:13:00Z

O2 released its first 3.5G Pocket PC in HK on the last day of February. The new Xda Atom Life basically looks pretty much the same as its predecessor, the Xda Atom: a black body with simple and clean outline, a 2.4-inch QVGA display, a media player navigation panel along with the basic Pocket PC buttons, and a pair of shortcut bottons on the lower right side of the phone’s body. In addition, it has a 0.3-megapixel supplementary camera for video conferencing purpose. The Xda Atom Life weighs 145 g, which is only 5 g heavier than the Xda Atom.

Jabra BT8010 Stereo Bluetooth Headset [7]

2007-02-07T13:56:00Z

Jabra recently introduced a new Bluetooth 2.0 headset, the Jabra BT8010, which comes with pretty much everything you would want for a Bluetooth headset. The BT8010 features supports for A2DP and AVRCP, the new Jog Wheel rotating control, and a supplementary earphone which allows you to enjoy dual channel stereo sound while listening to music on your mobile device.

Sony Ericsson Announced Two New Cyber-shot Phones [4]

2007-02-06T14:52:00Z

Sony Ericsson today announced two new Cyber-shot phones, the K810 and the K550. The K810 basically share the same features as the K800, it comes with a 3.2-megapixel camera with auto focus, Cyber-shot Xenon flash with red eye reduction, 17mm thin
2.0â€ QVGA 262k TFT display, M2 slot with 128MB M2 in-box, 64MB user free memory, and other similar functions.

BenQ-Siemens Concept Phones [5]

2007-02-05T03:58:00Z

Product Visionaires GmbH, a BenQ Mobile subsidiary based in Berlin, is a creative think tank developing future concepts primarily for BenQ-Siemens. They have released their designs of few concept mobile phones recently. These phone designs are indeed cool and creative.

Lexar JumpDrive Mercury Reveals Its Free Space [4]

2007-01-25T01:24:00Z

I’m always annoyed when I have to check my USB flash drive’s free space with a few mouse clicks. As a winner of the Innovations award at CES 2007, Lexar’s JumpDrive Mercury really makes life easier for us. Why didn’t any other manufacturer think of what Lexar did – to equip USB flash drive with a capacity meter that lets you monitor its space usage?

Vega - Dual Core SLI Capable Notebook [8]

2006-12-16T15:01:00Z

Just when we thought the DELL XPS M1710 is gonna top the most powerful notebook computer for this year, PC MicroWorks released the a duo core SLI capable notebook computer – the Vega. It seems that the best things come in pair for the Vega, it is powered by AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core processor, jaw dropping dual 512MB nVidia Geforce Go 7950GTX or dual 512MB nVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M SLI GPUs, and dual 160 GB SATA hard drives (it also offers options for up to 600GB Perpendicular at 4200RPM).

Asus Released P535 GPS-enabled Pocket PC [9]

2006-12-08T01:17:00Z

Following Dopod and ETEN’s foot steps, Asus announced their first GPS-enabled Pocket PC, the Asus P535 on Wednesday. This new model is powered by Intel Xscale 520MHz processor, 64 MB SDRAM, 256 MB NAND flash memories, and Microsoft Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition (AKU3.2). Asus is targeting the P535 at the Asian Pacific market, with retail price of around US$740 (23,900 TWD in Taiwan).

MP4 Watch [2]

2006-11-25T13:51:00Z

We have seen many MP3 wrist watches which also let you store digital files via USB interface, how often do you see a wrist watch that lets you play video files? Thanko has a MP4 watch on their web based store, supporting video playbacks in MP4 (NXV) format, as well as audio playbacks in MP3 and WMA formats.

Turbolinux Wizpy MP3 Player AND Portable Linux Drive

2006-11-22T13:58:00Z

The Turbolinux Wizpy is not only a Linux based portable media player that plays MP3, Ogg, WMA, AAC and DivX formats, it’s also a portable Linux drive which lets you plug and boot into Turbolinux’s own Linux OS—Turbolinux FUJI on any PC.