Is this a camera or smartphone? Yes to both. Looking at the Samsung Galaxy Camera from this angle, it looks like a point-and-shoot with a rather large lens, a 21x optical zoom.
You remember the Razer Blade,
that gaming laptop with an additional screen right next to the
keyboard? The main complaint early adopters had about that unique
laptop, released almost exactly a year ago, was that it wasn't powerful
enough.
Logitech rolled out some gorgeous boomboxes and headphones this week, and my favorite is this Logitech|UE Boombox. It's so lusciously rounded and tastefully designed that I was tempted to prop it up on my shoulder and carry it around all day, old-school.
It's
hard to believe that a 235-miles-per-gallon car is actually getting
close to production, and might be available in limited numbers starting
next year. Although its exact release date is unknown, Volkswagen's XL1
is currently undergoing warm-weather testing, and these spy shots tell
the tale.
At first glance, it's a wireless mouse that looks like a stealth fighter, and has a wireless USB receiver but then when it's time to hit the road, this design concept can
unfold into an object the size of a typical optical disc, slipping right
into a DVD drawer for easy toting. When you fold it -- as if you are
engaging in a pleasant session of origami -- this flat CD mouse morphs
into its useful configuration, automatically powering up.
Take
a trip into the future of portable lighting with this Energizer folding
lantern. Here are two of them sitting on a table, ready for action.
Energizer sent us a prototype, one of the only ones in existence.
The 60-nanometer-thin lens is built around a gold-plated silicon wafer, and by chipping away part of that wafer to create rows of V-shaped structures, somehow (insert miracle here) that lens can capture wide-angle images with virtually no distortion. Someday, this technology might enable super-thin smartphone cameras to shoot photos that are just as good as those shot with today's bulky digital SLRs.
At the big IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, one of the major trends was the rollout of 4K TV, those super-high resolution displays that offer four times the resolution of ordinary HDTV. A variety of companies were getting into the act, such as LG, with its 84-inch 3D TV (model 84LM9600) that's already shipping in Korea.
Why do point-and-shoot and digital SLR cameras deliver better quality pics than smartphone cameras? One reason is the size of the imager, but another important factor is the size of the lens. Now, researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have figured out a way to revolutionize lenses, making them as thin as a sheet of paper.
The 60-nanometer-thin lens is built around a gold-plated silicon wafer, and by chipping away part of that wafer to create rows of V-shaped structures, somehow (insert miracle here) that lens can capture wide-angle images with virtually no distortion. Someday, this technology might enable super-thin smartphone cameras to shoot photos that are just as good as those shot with today's bulky digital SLRs.
Another big trend at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin was Windows 8 tablets that can also transform into a device quite similar to a laptop. Perhaps manufacturers are figuring if they can't beat the iPad, might as well shimmy into a niche somewhere between laptops and tablets. That's what Samsung did with its 11.6-inch Ativ Smart PC, whose laptop-like keyboard can be easily removed with a simple push of a button.
Now
there are even more iPhone 5 spy shots, this time comparing the new
iPhone to its predecessors. Here you can see a taller iPhone compared
with the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3. Look at how old-fashioned the iPhone 3
was, looking like some sort of toaster from the '90s.
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