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GALLERY: IXUS and PowerShot compact upgrades from Canon
It seems rather like HD video recording has become what makes a compact camera high spec this week which is a bit of shame given that it has little to do with taking photos. Nevertheless, even the mighty Canon has succumbed to the apparent desires of the public by announcing a relatively expensive range of Ixus models in excess of £250 in which only two feature wide angle lenses.
Mercifully, the PowerShot series holds the side up with more under the hood…
GALLERY: HP bosses to product team: "Release the mice!"
In a dark castle, somewhere in deepest Transylvania, HP’s bosses squint into a crystal ball. “What do you see?” says one. “Everyone’s in Barcelona at MWC” comes the reply. “Ah! So the last thing anyone would expect is for us to release five different mice and a webcam, with some targeted towards women!”.
Joking aside, here we’ve got four mice, a mouse-and-keyboard combo, and a webcam. They run the gamut of target audiences, from gamers to girls (not that two audiences can’t overlap) and they all look pretty, so I’ve stuck them in the gallery. Click on the flowery number below to begin.
Gallery: Facebook is five today. See how it's evolved
On Friday 4th February 2005, Facebook was born. Initially designed as a way for students to connect online, the past five years has seen it grow into a huge social network with a huge variety of people connecting with friends, relatives and complete strangers on a daily basis.
In his blog post, Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, wrote:
While we at Facebook make products that enable people to share information efficiently, Facebook is mostly the product of the people who use it. Without you and the connections you make to others, the products we create wouldn’t have much meaning. So we feel fortunate to have all of you with us. To express our appreciation, we’ve created a “Thank You” gift, which will be available tomorrow in the Facebook Gift Shop for you to to give freely to others. In the spirit of celebrating connections between people, we encourage you to use this gift to give thanks to your friends, colleagues and family members with whom you are connected on Facebook.
Take a wander through the past five years and see how Facebook has evolved…
Five best snow gadgets
Continuing the chilly theme around Tech Digest Towers today, you’re probably wondering “how on earth can I make the perfect snowball?”, or “how can I make a brilliant home-made snowball cannon?”. Well, fear not, We’ve got you covered.
For our top five snow-related gadgets, just click through to the main post.
Related posts: TD Tips: Winter Gadgets | Winter: the survival-horror Wii title that was canned for not being a kid’s game
GALLERY: Panasonic's new Lumix compact digital cameras
Panasonic has unveiled yet another range of compact digital cameras. This time it's a new set of Lumix cameras with a range of features including high quality images and video, zoom, face recognition, image stabilisation, shooting modes and high definition output.
Click the image of the camera below to start the tour…
Top 10 Tuesday: Blurry Spy Shots of Gadgets
The art of the tech spy shot is a sophisticated one. There are a few rules that must be followed. Firstly, the product must be unreleased. Secondly, the product must be eagerly anticipated by at least a few people. Thirdly, and most importantly, when you take the shot, you have to shake your arm around as much as you possibly can, so that no-one can remotely see what's going on…
Screenshots of GTA: Chinatown Wars for the DS released
The folks over at Nintendo Everything have managed to get their hands on some screenshots of the forthcoming DS version of GTA – GTA:Chinatown Wars, which we posted new details about on Friday. Click on the image below to start the gallery.
GTA: Chinatown Wars (via Nintendo Everything)
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The Scan Toaster: concept USB gizmo burns pictures onto toast
There seems to be a fascination with burning recognisable images into toast, and we’ve covered quite a few already, but this concept (which I really hope Electrolux decide to make) is for a USB-powered Scan Toaster.
One of the nine finalists of this year’s DesignLab competition, the Scan Toaster can “print” news, weather, and pictures on to bread, and was developed by Sung Bae Chang of Sejong University in South Korea.
The concept is fairly simple. Plug in the toaster to a free USB port, place the bread, and the software will then start burning whatever it is you want.
I’m sure overzealous health and safety officers would instantly ban this should it ever make it to production. I suppose in an age of saving paper, this method of creating a hard copy of a document needn’t go to waste after being read. Just don’t try to fax it.
And now, for your stomach’s pleasure, here are the Top Ten Tech Toasties. If you can recreate these in an ordinary toaster, we’ll be really impressed. Click on the image below to see the whole gallery.
(Via OhGizmo)
Roberts portable energy-saving DAB radios
This’ll be good for my Green Challenge scores. Roberts have launched a cluster of new portable radios – all similar but slightly different. They have mostly sensible names too – the “ecologic 1”, the “ecologic 2”, the “ecologic 3”, and then the “Gemini 21”! What the hell happened there? It’s as if the product naming committee took all morning naming three of the models, and then retired to the pub for a hefty liquid lunch before attempting the fourth…
GALLERY: Google Android on HTC Dream handset
Well, I’m sort of stunned. It looks like all the rumours in the ether about Google Android have been absolutely true. These new leaked pictures do indeed show that the first device is an HTC…
