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Panasonic’s new HM-TA1 and HDC-SDX1 ‘budget’ camcorders attack the concept from very different ends
Let's just put it out on the table: the Flip-inspired HM-TA1 ($169, left) and the ultra traditional (though delightfully mini) HDC-SDX1 ($499) are very different cameras. But are they $330 different? You be the judge. The 1080p-shooting TA1 is nothing surprising if you've seen any recent portrait-style pocket camcorders from Flip or Kodak, though it has a quality build and friendly interface. It also records to Apple's 960 x 540 iFrame format, and can ...
Let's just put it out on the table: the Flip-inspired HM-TA1 ($169, left) and the ultra traditional (though delightfully mini) HDC-SDX1 ($499) are very different cameras. But are they $330 different? You be the judge. The 1080p-shooting TA1 is nothing surprising if you've seen any recent portrait-style pocket camcorders from Flip or Kodak, though it has a quality build and friendly interface. It also records to Apple's 960 x 540 iFrame format, and can ...
All Giz Wants: Gadgets With Character [All Giz Wants]
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I feel like a castaway in a sea of glossy black plastic, chrome, and glowing blue buttons. Do we really need every piece of electronics to look the same, sandwiched in this shiny ebony that is the 21st Century beige?
I go to buy a TV and my head spins out of boredom, making me sick. What the hell happened to industrial design? Most products ...
I feel like a castaway in a sea of glossy black plastic, chrome, and glowing blue buttons. Do we really need every piece of electronics to look the same, sandwiched in this shiny ebony that is the 21st Century beige?
I go to buy a TV and my head spins out of boredom, making me sick. What the hell happened to industrial design? Most products ...
Testing out the JVC Everio GZ-HM1SU (in the middle of Jamaica)
Secrets bokeh~! Did you know that I’ve had the JVC Everio GZ-HM1SU in my possession for about a month now? Kinda hard to know that seeing as though I’ve never written about it. We’re going to fix that right now. And while we’re at it, let’s kill two birds with one stone. A friend of mine invited me to Jamaica last week—he’s some sort of big shot down there, it seems—and I thought to myself, “This looks like an excellent opportunity to really test out the camera, ...
Secrets bokeh~! Did you know that I’ve had the JVC Everio GZ-HM1SU in my possession for about a month now? Kinda hard to know that seeing as though I’ve never written about it. We’re going to fix that right now. And while we’re at it, let’s kill two birds with one stone. A friend of mine invited me to Jamaica last week—he’s some sort of big shot down there, it seems—and I thought to myself, “This looks like an excellent opportunity to really test out the camera, ...
Mouse Computer adds 2 new desktop PCs: LITTLEGEAR i710PA5 and Lm-i720-RB
Mouse Computer from Japan has introduced two new desktop PCs, more specifically the LITTLEGEAR i710PA5 for the gamers, and the Lm-i720-RB for the business people.
In the inside of the Mouse Computer LITTLEGEAR i710PA5 you can find a powerful Intel Core i7-870 processor, on the graphics card a GeForce GT240, and on the memory RAM 8GB of DDR3. The storage solution is divided in two parts: a 40GB SSD (solid state drive) and a SATA II ...
Mouse Computer from Japan has introduced two new desktop PCs, more specifically the LITTLEGEAR i710PA5 for the gamers, and the Lm-i720-RB for the business people.
In the inside of the Mouse Computer LITTLEGEAR i710PA5 you can find a powerful Intel Core i7-870 processor, on the graphics card a GeForce GT240, and on the memory RAM 8GB of DDR3. The storage solution is divided in two parts: a 40GB SSD (solid state drive) and a SATA II ...
Dropbox + text editing = Droptext
Most of the bloggers here at TUAW are huge fans of Dropbox, the free cloud storage service. Since you can share documents with all of your iDevices, wouldn't it be nice to be able to edit your files from any of them as well?
There are actually several solutions for cross-platform on-the-go Dropbox file editing, like Documents To Go Premium (US$14.99) for both iPhone and iPad. However, if your need is just for plain vanilla ...
Most of the bloggers here at TUAW are huge fans of Dropbox, the free cloud storage service. Since you can share documents with all of your iDevices, wouldn't it be nice to be able to edit your files from any of them as well?
There are actually several solutions for cross-platform on-the-go Dropbox file editing, like Documents To Go Premium (US$14.99) for both iPhone and iPad. However, if your need is just for plain vanilla ...
Pantech Pursuit Cell Phone Review–You Can Do Better
The folks out at Wirefly sent me another exciting cell phone, the Pantech Pursuit. I actually enjoyed my experience with it, because it’s so compact that it seems a bit on the futuristic side.
The Pantech Pursuit is a slider-style cell phone with QWERTY keyboard, 3G wireless, a two megapixel camera, music player, Bluetooth connectivity, a six hundred entry phone book, speakerphone, alarm clock, calendar, world clock, calculator, stopwatch, timer, GPS, sketchpad, mobile web, mobile email, a variety of AT&T specific services like the cloud-dependent ...
The folks out at Wirefly sent me another exciting cell phone, the Pantech Pursuit. I actually enjoyed my experience with it, because it’s so compact that it seems a bit on the futuristic side.
The Pantech Pursuit is a slider-style cell phone with QWERTY keyboard, 3G wireless, a two megapixel camera, music player, Bluetooth connectivity, a six hundred entry phone book, speakerphone, alarm clock, calendar, world clock, calculator, stopwatch, timer, GPS, sketchpad, mobile web, mobile email, a variety of AT&T specific services like the cloud-dependent ...
Build an Arduino-Powered, Tweeting, Self-Watering Garden System [DIY]
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We've shown you a few automated irrigation systems, both large and small, but if you're an Arduino fan, you'll love DIYer Jouni's set-up, made out of a bucket, a submersible pump, and plastic hose. It may not use water recycled from your air conditioner, but this compact self-watering solution is perfect for any size garden. It's extremely simple, too (apart from the Arduino, perhaps), and doesn't require a lot ...
We've shown you a few automated irrigation systems, both large and small, but if you're an Arduino fan, you'll love DIYer Jouni's set-up, made out of a bucket, a submersible pump, and plastic hose. It may not use water recycled from your air conditioner, but this compact self-watering solution is perfect for any size garden. It's extremely simple, too (apart from the Arduino, perhaps), and doesn't require a lot ...
I-Jerry Resonance Speaker Review–Small But Powerful
Today I’ve got something REALLY strange to tell you about, everybody–see, the folks out at Chinavasion sent me one of the strangest things they’ve ever sent me, and these are the guys who’ve sent me two different cell phone watches. Today I’m talking about the i-Jerry Surface Vibration Speaker, a strange little unit that does some interesting stuff.
The i-Jerry (named, most likely, for the fact that it looks like a mouse, to the point where the ears control some functions and there’s an add-on tail available) offers a built-in FM ...
Today I’ve got something REALLY strange to tell you about, everybody–see, the folks out at Chinavasion sent me one of the strangest things they’ve ever sent me, and these are the guys who’ve sent me two different cell phone watches. Today I’m talking about the i-Jerry Surface Vibration Speaker, a strange little unit that does some interesting stuff.
The i-Jerry (named, most likely, for the fact that it looks like a mouse, to the point where the ears control some functions and there’s an add-on tail available) offers a built-in FM ...
New Olympus voice recorders: same old, same old
No, you’re not seeing triple — those really are three totally different models of voice recorder from Olympus. Well, they’re not actually that different. Core functionality is largely the same between them: a few gigs of internal storage, rechargeable AAA battery, built-in stereo mics, and a monochrome LCD screen (now bigger!). People do, in fact, still use these; not everyone can get by with a 99¢ iPhone app for recording important meetings and lectures. Here are the key features of the new models, from left to right: ...
No, you’re not seeing triple — those really are three totally different models of voice recorder from Olympus. Well, they’re not actually that different. Core functionality is largely the same between them: a few gigs of internal storage, rechargeable AAA battery, built-in stereo mics, and a monochrome LCD screen (now bigger!). People do, in fact, still use these; not everyone can get by with a 99¢ iPhone app for recording important meetings and lectures. Here are the key features of the new models, from left to right: ...
SD cards branded with an upper-case ‘I’ are faster, yo
Since they're theoretically capable of 300 megabyte per second transfer rates, we knew SDXC cards wouldn't stay slow forever. How will we separate wheat from chaff when faster models do appear, though? You're looking at it. This week, the SD Association unveiled the UHS-I specification for SDXC and SDHC cards capable of transferring data at up to 104 megabytes per second -- reportedly fast enough to record HD videos ...
Since they're theoretically capable of 300 megabyte per second transfer rates, we knew SDXC cards wouldn't stay slow forever. How will we separate wheat from chaff when faster models do appear, though? You're looking at it. This week, the SD Association unveiled the UHS-I specification for SDXC and SDHC cards capable of transferring data at up to 104 megabytes per second -- reportedly fast enough to record HD videos ... 
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