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Nikon has announced its two new Coolpix point-and-shoot cameras, the S52 and S52c. With both models offering 9.0-megapixels, the S52 and S52c were designed for camera enthusiasts who are looking for a stylish camera with good technical features.

The Nikon Coolpix S52 and S52c are both equipped with 38-114mm Zoom Nikkor lens with 3x optical zoom capability, optical vibration reduction image stabilization, manual sensitivity settings that can go as high as 3200 ISO, enhanced Face-Priority AF, In-Camera Red-Eye fix and D-Lighting that compensates for excessive backlight or insufficient flash in images.

The Coolpix S52 and S52c will be available sometime in May and retailing for $249.95 and $279.95 respectively. The $30 price difference is due to the Wi-Fi capability of the S52c, and possibly because of the color as well. The Coolpix S52 comes in Crimson Red and Midnight Black, while the S52c sports a Vibrant Black color.

Read [Nikon Press Center]

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When you were a kid, did your parents always hassle you about turning off the lights when you left a room? Well now that you have your own place, you probably understand exactly why they would tell you that. What’s more is that you also likely have a lot of gadgets around your desk that still use power even when you’re not using them. This is why Watt Stopper created the Isole IDP-3050.

This rather ordinary-looking power strip is designed to save power by shutting off gadgets when you aren’t around. The small wired box is actually a passive infrared sensor which will kill power to most of the outlets when you aren’t around.

Two of the outlets are not controlled by the sensor, which would be ideal for plugging in your PC. You can also program how long it will wait before shutting off power. It can be anywhere from 30 seconds to 30 minutes. It will likely take a while for your investment to pay off though, this power strip will set you back $90. Either way, you’re saving the environment, right?

Source: Crave

by Thomas Ricker, posted Apr 11th 2008 at 5:10AM
Stuff.tv is kicking back in Nike’s HQ at the moment and claims to have official word about Nike’s future plans with Apple. They say that the Nike+ system will “definitely” extend beyond the iPod nano to support the relatively bulky iphone and ipod touch. Interestingly, it will leap-frog the proprietary RF link between the shoe module and nano adapter to take advantage of WiFi and eventually 3G. This of course leads to all kinds of speculation with regard to Apple’s “lifestyle companion” patent we showed you last month. 3G support would presumably allow for real-time coaching and uploads of your training activity through the Nike Plus website. So let’s see… cellphone (check), iPod (check), Internet device (check), handheld gaming (almost), and now a Nike lifestyle companion (could be).

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First the bad news. The number of unique viruses will reach 1,000,000 (1 million) by the end of the year. More bad news. About 25% have been generated in the last 6 months out of all generated in the past 20 years. Ugh.

The good news is that the number of viruses/malware making it through to user inboxes is down to 1 in 1000. Five (5) years ago, it was 1 in 40. Naturally, we need to get that down even more. So would you please stop adding your name to those weird mailing lists and yell at your friends for putting you on those mass forwarded e-mails!

via Webb Alert and PC Guide.

Posted in Computers, Networking & Internet

I’m not much of a photographer, so I’m not sure I’d want to use up/ruin a whole wall with any picture I’ve taken, but I can definitely see My Foto Wall doing well. This new site allows users to upload a favorite picture, which will then be turned into wallpaper. Not virtual wallpaper - the real thing.

A typical wall will cost £295 ($586) to decorate, so you may not be covering all your walls this way, but for a unique design, I can’t think of better way to customise a room. You can crop and cut your your chosen photo to scale, and if you put in your wall/room measurements, you’ll get an exact quote.

I think a nature shot would work best, but if you want that Demi Moore-inspired pregnant pose on your living room wall, go right ahead: it’ll be a talking point, at least.

(Oh, and I feel I should apologise for the unnecessary apostrophe in the picture above: it makes my heart ache, but I’m trying to overlook it).

Via Geekbrief TV.

If you’ve been doing your part for the environment by transitioning from regular light bulbs to energy-saving fluorescent lght bulbs, you might be interested to know that you can get energy-saving light bulbs that do more than just provide light. Kitchen Contraptions spotted this 15 watt ionic bulb, which produces 60 watts of ight and contains an ionizer that cleans the air around the bulb. The claim is that the ionic technology picks up airborne particles that contaminate your room and cause odors. The bulb provides 10,000 hours of lighting, 10 times longer than standard light bulbs.

There’s been controversy over the last few years about whether ionic air purifiers are effective. You might recall the lawsuit filed by Sharper Image against the publisher of Consumer Reports, claiming product disparagement relating to negative reviews of Sharper Image’s Ionic Breeze Quadra air purifiers (the suit was dismissed), and the class action suit against Sharper Image by consumers (which was settled in 2007).

Putting aside the debate over how effect ionic air purifiers are, it’s an interesting idea to make air purification a secondary function of a light bulb, since you have at least one bulb in every room of a house.

Sold for $14.99 each at Amazon..

Asus has added a new addition to their product line, and for a refreshing change it does not fit in the Eee family. The newest addition is the Essentio CS5110 desktop PC, in which Asus is claiming that it is “the world’s smallest Desktop PC equipped with a fully embedded discrete graphic card,” which is an NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics card with 256MB of memory.

With the graphics aside, the CS5110 seems to be a decent offering, and one that would work equally well for a home PC or a media-centric PC in the living room thanks to the low 23.9dB sound output when idling. The CS5110 also has an S/PIDF out which offers up 7.1 audio as well as HDMI support.

Otherwise the CS5110 features an Intel G35-based motherboard, which can support a Core 2 Duo, Pentium Dual Core or Celeron D processor, up to 4GB of RAM and has room for one 3.5-inch hard drive and a slot loading DVD burner with an optional Blu-ray drive. The CS5110 also has Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, VGA port, built-in card reader, six USB 2.0 ports and a Firewire port.

Sadly with all the information that Asus released, they neglected to mention any pricing or availability.

Via [DailyTech]

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The next generation of the Jawbone has made its appearance, and thanks to the FCC we have a little look as to what’s in store with the future of the Jawbone. Overall it seems that the Jawbone will have some welcome improvements. Judging from the images, it looks like the Jawbone has gone on a diet, sporting a slightly less bulky appearance and according the the “preliminary” manual the Jawbone will retain the patented “Noise Shield” and “Voice Activity Sensor” that make for that great sound, or lack of when it comes to background noise. Another item of interest is what appears to be smaller pins on the charging cable, otherwise the headset still comes with an earloop and various sets of earbuds to allow for a slightly more custom fit. Keep reading to check out some more pictures of the Jawbone, and don’t forget to thank to FCC.

Read [FCC] Via [Engadget]

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Today, Microsoft announced their new traffic system.  Yawn right?  Well, maybe not.  Seems their new system has a trick up its sleeve that other traffic systems, cams or other don’t.

While driving into work, an MS guy thought he’d beat the freeway traffic and hit the city surface streets.  The result?  Predictably, they were worse.  From that came a machine system that “learns”. 

According to Microsoft, their traffic system that will be available from their maps.live.com site, dubbed Clearflow will apply machine learning of complex traffic problems.  They system looks at both highways and surface streets and routes the fastest.  They system claims to learn how long it takes the surface streets to back up once the highway does and computes the time differences.

Analysts fear us common folk won’t understand what MS is doing here and it will be just another route with traffic taken into consideration.

MS is rolling this out for 72 cities across the country.  Note the time and day, this is the dawn of the machines learning how to cripple us: traffic.

Read [New York Times]

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Digital Trends reviews the Motorola RAZR2 V8 and writes, “Music aside, things are pretty much what one would expect from a MOTORAZR update. The 2 MegaPixel camera is easy to use and, because it has no flash, is somewhat grainy. The actual phone screen is a bit more colorful than the previous model, which probably helps the pictures look better than they actually are. The T-Mobile-driven web access is fast and efficient.”

Read more about the MOTORAZR2 V8.