While Sony’s new Bloggie Touch provides the template for how simple and easy a touchscreen camcorder could really be, Kodak’s similarly well built and attractive PlayTouch provides a stark contrast, with a modicum of simplicity on the surface, but a megaton of functionality to uncover. The PlayTouch isn’t as pick-up-and go as the Bloggie, but the basic touchscreen controls can be quickly mastered. What sets the PlayTouch apart are the in-depth features like an external microphone jack (complete with gain control), video effects (like black & white and sepia modes), and the particularly ambitious video editor.
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Kodak PlayTouch preview
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It’s no good buying an eCoupled inductive charger if it won’t work with your Powermat , or your Touchstone . Non-standard chargers suck, so we’re glad to see that the Global Qi wireless power standard has been released, and the first products have been announced. A number of companies, Nokia and RIM to name but a few, have signed on their support, with Energizer stepping up first with the Energizer Inductive Charger.
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Global Qi wireless power standard released, Energizer and Sanyo announce products
Maybe we’re a bunch of idiots, but while the Flip and its ultra-simple camcorder ilk have certainly made shooting video simpler and more accessible for the masses, we still find many of these cameras surprisingly unintuitive or just “blah” at doing what they do (Kodak’s otherwise excellent Zi8 and PlaySport cameras come to mind) when it comes to UI. After playing with the horrendous Flip Slide HD , we were almost sure touchscreens would act as another obstacle to using these things, but of all people, Sony has come to the rescue
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Sony Bloggie Touch preview: an actually simple ’simple camcorder’
Yeah, we spied a few of LG’s new 31-inch, 2.9mm thick displays the other day , but we hadn’t seen the standard TV-like configurations — which don’t mean too much, because this is still a prototype, but they’re a comfort all the same. We also managed to peep a 3D setup with the screens, which used polarized glasses and was surprisingly sharp. We promised ourselves it would just be a quick look, and that we had important things to do today, and that we really don’t need a new TV all that much..
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LG’s 31-inch OLED spin-slices its way into our cold LCD hearts
We’re excited about the Boxee Box , and the new-look Apple TV is intriguing, but no single box is as good as a box that doesn’t exist yet does the same stuff. Confused? Sit down, let us explain.
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Plex announces partnership with LG, pledges to beat Boxee Box and Apple TV for free
Chinese telecom giant Huawei — which has been playing the Android game with major carriers around the world for some time now — has selected IFA to debut the Ideos, a new entry-level model running Froyo in a variety of colors. Huawei’s press release calls the Ideos “the world’s first affordable smartphone” — which seems like a bit of an overstatement (okay, a huge overstatement) to us — but really underscores the fact that this thing is going to be launching for somewhere between $100 and $200 unsubsidized in Europe, Asia, and both North and Latin America.
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Huawei Ideos hands-on
Lacie’s keeping up its eccentric branding strategy today with this pest-inspired new USB key. Measuring a mere 20mm in length and 10 grams in weight, the MosKeyto is ready to all but disappear once you plug it into your computer, and it’ll outdo its physical counterpart by not only sucking data down but pushing it back out should you want it. Basically, it’s yet another miniaturized USB drive and can be owned today, starting at $18 for the 4GB version.
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Lacie MosKeyto streamlines portable storage, invites bad puns
Skype ’s Windows client is showing a bit of ambition today as its latest beta version now boasts a mighty 10-way video calling implementation. The earlier v5.0 beta threw up five-way vidchat , but it’d seem Skype kept its software engineers working through the summer and now we’ve got double the visual fun. Which would be awesome if we actually had nine other people we cared to see while talking to them
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Skype 5.0 beta brings 10-way video calling to the world
The quantum computer is still ranking pretty high up there on the vaporware charts, somewhere between Duke Nukem Forever and a Steorn in-home power generator. Eventually we’ll get there, and theoretical physicists at the University of Bristol are helping with a quantum cooling system.
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Quantum refrigerator could cool your quantum computer, allow for quantum overclocking
Looking to spoil yourself with a fancy new 3DTV ? Ain’t got the cash to go all-out
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Samsung’s 50-inch 720p PN50C490 3D plasma on sale now for under a grand
