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Kodak Easyshare M1093 IS digital camera packed with innovative features

The Kodak Easyshare M1093 IS is a sleek but powerful digital camera for style-conscious consumers and is packed with innovative features. The 10MP, 3X optical zoom camera brings the latest picture-taking technology right to your fingertips. With Kodak's innovative Smart Capture feature, it's the take-anywhere camera that does it all—automatically. Take better pictures than ever before. Kodak's innovative Smart Capture feature adjusts camera settings for great pictures in just about any environment—automatically.

July 11, 2008 | Related Entries - Digital Cameras

Kodak Easyshare Z1015 IS 15X optical zoom Digital Camera

The high-zoom Kodak Easyshare Z1015 IS Digital Camera is equipped with intuitive functionality, perfect for the aspiring photographer who enjoys both automatic and manual control over their picture-taking experience. Boasting 10MP resolution and an impressive SCHNEIDER-KREUZNACH 15x optical zoom and 28mm wide-angle lens, this versatile camera allows consumers to capture both long distances and wide-angle shots. The image quality of the Z1015 IS is further enhanced with its ability to take HD still images (16:9 aspect ratio) and video (720p at 30fps), which can be viewed on the camera's large 3-inch LCD screen. The Kodak Z1015 IS also features smart capture technology, which intuitively detects the particular scene being shot and automatically adjusts the camera's settings to capture the best still images possible.

July 11, 2008 | Related Entries - Digital Cameras

Kodak Zi6 Super simple HD video camera right in your pocket!

The Kodak Zi6 Pocket Video Camera is the first dedicated pocket digital video camera from Kodak. This fun and simple-to-use video camera offers uncomplicated HD video capture (720p at 60fps with 16:9 aspect ratio), viewed via a vibrant 2.4-inch TFT LCD screen. The Kodak Zi6 Pocket Video Camera is ideal for easily and instantly sharing personal video content. The dedicated ARCSOFT video software, included with the camera, allows consumers to quickly edit, personalize and share videos, and instantly upload them to video-sharing sites such as YouTube, from any computer.

July 11, 2008 | Related Entries - Media Devices

Kodak Theatre HD Player

The Kodak Theatre HD Player is an interactive device that displays personal and web-based content on an HDTV, while wirelessly connecting to a household's private Wi-Fi Network. Able to display HD still images (16:9 Aspect Ratio) and video (720p) on a HDTV, the remote operated Kodak Theatre HD Player lets consumers relive their favorite, and even forgotten, memories through a HD slideshow, as well as edit and upload images and videos to popular online content sharing sites.The Kodak Theatre HD Player is compatible with USB drives and SD memory cards.

July 11, 2008 | Related Entries - Media Devices

Kodak Easyshare W1020 and W820 Wireless Digital Frames

Kodak today announced a feature-packed wireless digital frame series boasting innovative capabilities and accessibility to online content. The new Kodak Easyshare W1020 and W820 Wireless Digital Framesare available in 10-inch and 8-inch versions wirelessly connect consumers to photo-sharing sites including Kodak Gallery and Flickr, and Internet content manager FrameChannel, a service of Frame Media, Inc.

July 11, 2008 | Related Entries - Media Devices

Intel's personal health system Receives Clearance from U.S.FDA

Intel today announced the receipt of 510(k) market clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Intel's personal health system, the Intel Health Guide, a care management tool for healthcare professionals who manage patients with chronic conditions. The Intel Health Guide enables caregivers to provide their patients with more personalized care at home, while also engaging and empowering patients to take a more active and positive role in their own care.

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July 11, 2008 | Related Entries - Other Stuff

Samsung MLC based 128GB solid state drives enters in Volume Production

Samsung has begun mass producing 1.8- and 2.5-inch multi-level cell (MLC)-based solid state drives (SSD) with a 128 GB storage capacity. Mass production of the Samsung MLC-based 64GB SSD also began this month. Samsung SSDs feature far greater reliability, faster boot times and faster application start-up times than hard disk drives. Power consumption for the Samsung SSD is exceptionally low in standby mode at approximately 0.2 watts and in active mode at 0.5 watts. Featuring a 3.0 gigabit-per-second interface, the 128GB MLC-based SSD consists of 64 MLC NAND flash memory chips of 16 gigabits each, optimized single-chip controller technology and advanced flash-management firmware technology.

July 11, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing

OCZ Elixir Keyboard Series launched

OCZ today announced the expansion of its gaming peripherals under a new “Alchemy” line, with the introduction of the Elixir keyboard series for highly advanced functionality in game-play. Featuring a wealth of user-friendly features combined with an ergonomic and sturdy design, the OCZ Elixir keyboard will deliver a unique combination of performance and value to gamers as they blaze through the latest PC titles.

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July 11, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing

First persons to get iPhone 3G mobile

The world's first iPhone 3G buyer is a student in New Zealand. Gladwell held his place in line in the city of Auckland for 60 hours, motivated by the urgings of friends who said they would cover the cost of the gadget--and who supplied an exercise bike and a masseuse.

Taichiro Nakamura is the first to buy the iPhone 3G in Japan. He purchased the iPhone 3G near the Softbank Corp flagship store in Tokyo's Omotesando shopping district.

The first iPhone buyers in Switzerland poses for photographers next to Apple's new iPhone 3G in Zurich .

The first buyer of the new 3G iPhone in Hong Kong.

Jordon Brown, the first buyer of the new Apple iPhone 3G in Toronto,Canada. Update - The iPhone 3G went on sale today at the Softbank flagship store in Omotesando/Harajuku, Tokyo. Few images of the iPhone 3G fans waiting in queue after the jump.

July 11, 2008 | Related Entries - Mobile Phones

New Honda Acura TL with Super Handling All-Wheel Drive system to debut this fall in America

The all-new, completely redesigned Honda 2009 Acura TL employs dramatic new styling along with a luxurious interior that includes more driver relevant technology than ever. Featuring the most powerful Acura engine ever, the 2009 TL will be available in two distinctive versions including the first ever application of Super Handling All-Wheel Drive (SH-AWD ) on TL. Honda Acura offers a full line of technologically advanced performance luxury vehicles through a network of 270 dealers within the United States. The Acura lineup features five distinctive models including the RL luxury performance sedan, the TL performance luxury sedan, the TSX sports sedan, the turbocharged.

July 11, 2008 | Related Entries - Transport

Sun lounger please give way to the Tech Chair

The Tech Chair designed by PC World gives users access to thousands of songs, videos, movies, podcasts, games, and photos, as well as Wi-Fi internet access from the beach or poolside. The Tech Chair has everything from solar fabric to docking stations for cameras, iPods and laptops. The Tech Chair will allow users to upload their digital holiday snaps onto their laptop before uploading them onto social networking sites such as Facebook or My Space. The special solar fabric will also provide the products protection from sun, wind, sand, water and suncream.

July 11, 2008 | Related Entries - Other Stuff

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B Hard Drive can store 250,000 MP3s, 300 movies or over 333,000 photos

With today’s announcement of its second-generation one terabyte hard drive, the Deskstar 7K1000.B, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) is forecasting the dawn of a new age in technology that it has dubbed the “Tera Era.” As the amount of digital information created, captured and duplicated around the world continues to grow at an uninterrupted, unrelenting pace, Hitachi’s vision is that three elements – rich media content, culture, and increasing capacity – are uniting to create an entirely new landscape for enterprise and consumer data storage. It is against this exciting backdrop that Hitachi is announcing the Deskstar 7K1000.B, the world’s most energy-efficient 7,200 RPM one terabyte (1TB) hard drive.

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July 10, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing

MSI Mainboard Wind Board saves up to 82% on electricity even when used for 24-hours!

MSI Eco-Friendly & Energy-Saving mainboard– Wind Board is based on energy-saving technology and Intel Atom 230 processor. MSI Wind Board is the new generation ultra-low-power platform which is used high efficiency and stability of the passive cooling system design. No need to use the fan cooling system, noise is almost 0dB while operating the system. MSI Wind Board is the ultra-low-power platform designed for a mix of performance, low power usage, affordability which is suitable for DIY user and mobile applications or for users who leave their computers on 24-hours per day.

Compared to the 200~250W power consumption of general desktop computer, it can save up to 82% on electricity even when user use the computer for over a 24-hour period. The idle power consumption of Wind Board is less than 10% of general desktop computer.

July 10, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing

Apple fans camp out two days before the launch of Apple iPhone in Tokyo!

More than 30 people lined up on Wednesday in front of Softbank Mobile Corp’s flagship store in Harajuku, two days before the nationwide launch of Apple Inc’s iPhone. The iPhone will go on sale at this store at 7 a.m. on Friday, five hours earlier than any other Softbank store in Japan. The iPhone 3G, which Apple is billing as twice as fast and half as expensive as the debut model, will roll out in cities from Tokyo to Sydney on Friday. When the iPhone 3G goes on sale worldwide Friday, Japan will be among the first countries to have it, following New Zealand and then Australia. Lines are starting to form in other countries as well, with the New Zealand Herald reporting Wednesday about a man who began camping out Tuesday night in an attempt to become the first person in the world to own the latest iPhone.

July 10, 2008 | Related Entries - Mobile Phones

Hyundai to Start Sales of World’s first hybrid vehicle powered by liquid petroleum gas in July 2009

Hyundai Motor plans to start retail sales of its first LPG–electric hybrid vehicle in July 2009. To be sold initially in the Korean domestic market under the Avante badge, the Elantra LPI Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) is the world’s first hybrid vehicle to be powered by liquid petroleum gas (LPG) and the first to adopt advanced Lithium Polymer (Li–Poly) batteries. Powered by a Liquefied Petroleum Injected (LPI) Gamma engine displacing 1.6 litres, a 15kW electric motor and a continuously variable transmission, the Elantra LPI HEV is a mild–type hybrid capable of delivering a competitive fuel economy rating.

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July 9, 2008 | Related Entries - Transport