| Smile-Detecting Sony DSC-T300 Digital Camera is Super Skinny
The T-series of digital cameras is well known for being among the slimmest in the business, but the feature set on the recently released Sony DSC-T300 is anything but skinny. In fact, it's surprisingly bloated given its incredibly thin profile You start off with basics like a 10.1 megapixel sensor and an impressive 5x optical zoom courtesy of Car Zeiss Vario-Tessar. And then it gets fantastically better with dynamic scene modes, a smile-detecting shutter, a face-detecting feature, a large 3.5-inch wide aspect touchscreen, ISO 3200, image stabilization, and improved focusing at close distance. Don't want to sift through your hundreds of pictures just to see which ones include your ugly mug? This camera can search though that library by face too. Rounding out the specs are 1080p slideshow output and a Memory Stick Duo slot.
Takahashi: Dress this cell phone according to mood
Dov Moran has a bright idea for the coming age where fashion and electronics will become intertwined. When you want a new look for an MP3 music player, put a new skin on it. If you want your phone to play cool videos, give it a jacket. And when you want to turn that phone into an alarm clock, find it a mate. Moran is chief executive of modu, an Israeli company that has created a tiny cell phone with a built-in flash memory music player that is highly modular. When you want to change the look and feel of the device, you simply slide it into another device. It's like adding a memory chip card, except it changes the identity of the new device. With it, you can change your electronic gear in chameleon fashion to suit your mood. You can, for instance, take your little modu phone and slide it into a digital camera.
Mother Earth Mother Board
The financial districts of New York, London, and Tokyo, linked by thousands of wires, are much closer to each other than, say, the Bronx is to Manhattan. Today this is all quite familiar, but in the 19th century, when the first feeble bits struggled down the first undersea cable joining the Old World to the New, it must have made people's hair stand up on end in more than just the purely electrical sense - it must have seemed supernatural. Perhaps this sort of feeling explains why when Samuel Morse stretched a wire between Washington and Baltimore in 1844, the first message he sent with his code was "What hath God wrought!" - almost as if he needed to reassure himself and others that God, and not the Devil, was behind it. During the decades after Morse's "What hath God wrought!" a plethora of different codes, signalling techniques, and sending and receiving machines were patented.
Wii, PS3 Celebrate First Birthdays; 'Halo 3' Expands; 'Ghostbusters ...
Last Friday, to celebrate the first year of the PlayStation 3's release in North America, Sony sent out birthday cakes to reporters. Arriving at the MTV offices at 8:30 a.m., along with party hats and noisemakers, was an 11-inch, square yellow cake with vanilla butter icing on the outside, vanilla custard within and topped with a printed, edible image of a PS3. Monday was the Wii's one-year birthday in America, and Nintendo sent nothing. But who should really be celebrating? One year later, here's a look at how the two stack up: Some comparisons are obvious: The Wii has handily outsold Sony's machine, and according to the NPD tracking group, in October there were 519,000 Wiis sold to 121,000 PS3s. The Wii crossed over as a cultural phenomenon, being used as a prop on late-night talk shows, while the PS3 largely went unnoticed.
Scary Movie 4 - Unrated & Uncensored
Starring: Anna Faris as Cindy Campbell Craig Bierko as Tom Ryan Leslie Nielsen as President Harris Regina Hall as Brenda Meeks Anthony Anderson as Mahalik DeRay Davis as Marvin Conchita Campbell as Rachel Ryan Beau Mirchoff as Robbie Chris Elliot as Ezekiel Carmen Electra as Holly Debra Wilson as Oprah Winfrey Kevin Hart as C. J. Dr. Phillip C. McGraw as Himself/Prisoner Shaquille O'Neal as Himself/Prisoner Michael Madsen Bill Pullman Chingy Henry Mah as Mr. Koji Garrett Masuda as Ghost Boy Link Baker as Lucky Puppet Simon Rex as George John Reardon as Jeremiah Charlie Sheen as Tom Logan Rorelee Tio as Yoko Allison Warren as Polish Delegate Chris Williams as Marcus Dale Wolfe as Hang Gliding Man Michelle Grigor as Spit Take Kid #4 Special Features: 15 Deleted and Extended Scenes with Commentary Bloopers The Man Behind the Laugh (Director - David Zucker) Zany, Spoof Humor - Zucker Style Interviewer's Worst Nightmare The Visual Effects of Scary Movie 4 The Youngbloodz Rappers & Actors Feature Commentary with the Filmmakers Other Info: Widescreen Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound Spanish Subtitles Running Time: 91 Minutes Synopsis: The following is from the DVD cover: "The Scary Movie gang is back for their funniest, most fearless installment yet, featuring an avalanche of hysterical celebrity cameos, including Carmen Electra, Charlie Sheen, Dr.
24-inch iMac Core 2 Duo/2.16GHz
But the new iMac completed our suite of 14 tasks using Adobe Photoshop CS2 in 24 percent less time than the old 20-inch model—a respectable jump. Quick operations For general operations, the 24-inch iMac's overall responsiveness was excellent. Opening, dragging, and resizing windows was very quick. HD video playback was smooth, and working in Intel-native applications such as Final Cut Pro ( ), Motion ( ), iMovie ( ), and iWeb ( ) was snappy. (You can custom configure a 24-inch model with a 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo processor for an extra $250. Our benchmark chart shows the performance improvements you'll see with this faster chip.) The 24-inch iMac also has an upgraded sound system, with a 24-watt digital amplifier (twice that of the other models) to power the built-in stereo speakers.
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