Oregon Scientific is releasing ahead-mounted video camera, ripe for the extreme sports fan. The tiny device straps to a crash helmet, or a limb,letting you film exploits from any point of view. The waterproof AllTerrain Camera uses a CMOS imaging...
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Media giant NBC has opted not to renew its contract to sell TV shows through Apple's iTunes. Apple had previously claimed that NBC wanted the wholesale rate for each episode, which currently stands at $1.99, to be doubled. "We are disappointed to see NBC leave iTune...
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As Microsoft's Zune media player hit the shelves , SteveBallmer, Microsoft's CEO, says he expects it to break the dominance of theApple iPod. "We can beat them, but it's not going to be easy," Ballmersaid. "The market will have two big players for a long time, us and Ap...
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It's not everyday you see gadgets, death, Fathers 4 Justiceand tech-savvy owls all in one place. But it's standard fare for Weird Tech, a breedingground for tales of the weird, wonderful and just plain odd... An American man is being held by police after his internet bride, who hadbeen reported mi...
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Mobile terrestrial digital TV broadcasts are alreadymassively popular in Korea and are winning mindshare in Japan, making itinevitable that the rest of the world would follow suit soon, which is exactlywhat Samsung is planning....
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Sony has just made it a whole lot easier to check thosevideo shots taken with your HDV or DV camcorder when you're away on holiday oron the move. The comapny today announced the world's first high-definition videoWalkman. The Sony GV-HD700E plays HDV 1080i as well as miniDV tapes (SP andLP). It...
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A new security flaw in Yahoo Messenger could be used to spread malicious code, security firm McAfee has found. No patch has been issued yet. McAfee's Wei Wang warns Yahoo Messenger users about the zero-day flaw in a McAfee blog post. After initial reports on a Ch...
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Today'sstandard-resolution video cameras are under threat from the relentlessmarch of high-definition consumer products, which began last year withSony's HDR-HC1. Today in Tokyo, ...
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JVC hopesto vastly increase its hard disk camcorder sales, aiming at a 40 per cent increase for2008, according to the Japanese press. The company plans to sell 2.1 million more hard disk camcorders next year than it'sselling currently. The company's ...
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No sooner have weseen two new high-definition camcorders from Panasonic than a third one comesalong to round out the line-up, albeit in Japan. The newcomer is the ...
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User-generated video content and the rise of video sharing sites like YouTube are fuelling demand for MPEG-4 functionality on mobiles, according to a report published today. iSuppli says that there'll be 509 million phones with MPEG-4 (H.264/AVC/MPEG4...
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Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer has accused Apple boss Steve Jobs of being "greedy" at a conference in the USA. Stringer hit out at Jobs who himself had accused record companies of greed in 2005. Stringer said it was funny that Jobs had...
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The latest doomed attempt to mount a virtual cinema atop the heads of geeks everywhere comes from the oddly named Mikimoto Beans of Japan. Its iTheaterV will be available there next month for ¥...
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Anyone popping over to Paris this weekend could enjoy a visit to the Pompidou Centre - and find themselves making mobile phone movies as part of the Pocket Films Festival. The 3rd Edition of the Pocket ...
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The Frenchgovernment has outlawed the filming of violent acts by all but professionaljournalists in legislation passed by the parliament earlier this week. As one French civil liberties group warned, bloggers and amateurs filmingfor documentation, or those filming to collect evidence of a crime, are...
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Panasonic has announced a new high-definition camcorderusing its new AVCHD codec. AVCHD is an MPEG4 codec, used to record compressedhigh-definition footage. This is the first time thecodec has been used in a professional camcorder as AVCHD is a codec created for the consumer market. It also u...
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That attractive little number you see above is the latest funky satellite-navigation system to come out of South Korea, or The Home of Genuinely Practical Gadgets, as we're starting to know it. Aside from the navigation features, the FreesatCelrun FDN...
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We all know Japanese mobile phone users have it made, but the latest service available on handsets there is literally out of this world. For ¥315 (£1.35) a month, subscribers to the au network can sign up to ...
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A contractor of the US military hasdeveloped a video camera that can film speeding bullets. The Variable Acuity Superpixel Technology system (VAST) was created by Nova Sensors . It uses a two-fold imag...
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Panasonic has announced two new High Definition 3CCD camcorders, the HDC-SD5 and HDC-SX5. The Panasonic HDC-SD5 is the world's smallest and lightest 3CCD High Definition camcorder, and records on SDHC/SD memory cards while the HDC-SX5 can record on both SDHC cards and DVD discs. Both new Panaso...
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