Rollei rolls out three small shooters, and although their nametag reads “Prego,” they’re not exactly pregnant with gravitas. The pictured Rollei da1325 Prego ($315) being the flagship of the trio, contains a 10-megapixel CCD. All three of the compact cameras have a 3x optical zoom and a 2.5-inch viewscreen (sans optical viewfinder), and all have…
If your digital camera can’t hit 10-megapixels then you’re a lightweight, right? At least, that’s what the digital SLR vendors would like you to think. With the big Photokina show kicking off next Tuesday there’ll be more 10mp SLRs strutting around than scantily clad hostesses - sorry, students funding their education - in a…
Canon rolled out its next three Digital Elphs today, headed up by the SD900, or as it will be known outside the US, the Digital IXUS 900 Ti. As you may have guessed, that “Ti” stands for titanium, giving the 10-megapixel compact shooter an especially elegant look. The SD900 keeps that 2.5-inch LCD viewscreen of…
This DVD-HDD Hybridcam is only available in Japan as part of their “Wooo” line, but damn if it doesn’t make us say Wooo too. The disc accepts 8cm DVDs as well as SD cards for removable memory. However, it has a bonus of having an 8GB hard disk in there in order to seamlessly…
The as-of-yet unannounced Kodak C875 8 megapixel camera is up on Argos UK’s website for preorder. In addition to the 8 megapixel censor, there’s 5x optical zoom, 1GB of SD memory support, video out, 2.5-inch LCD, and PictBridge compatibility. The C875 is the highest of Kodak’s C point-and-shoot series in terms of megapixels. Its…
Canon fired back at Sony, announcing the HV 10, its first consumer-level HD camcorder. It records high-definition footage in the low-cost HDV format at Canon’s so-called “full HD 1920×1080i.” Consumers will also like its ability to take stills at 3.1 megapixels, and store them on a mini-SD card. Canon says the HV 10 is…
That’s the promise anyway. Microsoft has been previewing a new piece of software called Photosynth that allows you to take a collection of images and turn them into a 3D model that you can walk around or fly through. Developed by Microsoft Live Labs and boffins at the University of Washington, Photosynth can take…
NVIDIA has decided to plunk down a big honking graphics system for professionals only, showing the rest of the world that it’s not just playing games any more. The company’s latest leap into the graphics stratosphere is Quadro Plex, a dedicated visual computing system that combines up to eight NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics processing units…