Hasta La Gadget!

We were fairly hopeful that Fujifilm’s recently revealed 12 megapixel FinePix F200 EXR point and shoot would produce some great looking shots. Well, the fine folks over at Impress Watch have gotten their hands on one and taken it for a spin. In case you’ve forgotten, the camera is Fuji’s first offering to boast its new 1/1.6-inch Super CCD EXR sensor, and it’s got a 3-inch LCD, a 28-mm wide-angle 5x zoom lens, and is capable of 640 x 480 AVI video recording. The photos we’re seeing are very crisp and detailed, with excellent color and very low noise. Though we won’t know until we see for ourselves (still no word on pricing or availability for this one), we’re preliminarily impressed. Check a few more after the break — hit the read for full comparison shots with explanations.

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What’s better than one great deal? Yep, it’s three great deals. Check out Gearlog’s finds for Thursday, Feb. 5.

1. If you’re an audiophile and live for vinyl, but want a way to listen to those old records on your iPod, then check out Woot’s deal of the day. The Ion Audio iPTUSB Portable USB Turntable is on sale for $49.99, originally $149.99. Also, although the sound probably isn’t’ the best, it has a built-in speaker, so you can play your records anywhere you like (it also can be powered by battery or included AC adapter). The player also has a line input jack so you can connect other music sources, such as a cassette deck, to convert your music into MP3s. The deal ends today, or while supplies last.

2. Get the Kodak EasyShare C913 9MP Digital Camera for $69.99 from Newegg.com. The camera is on sale for $79.99, down from $99.95, but knock off an extra $10 with coupon code
CAMERA22310. The camera has a 2.4-inch LCD, 3x optical zoom, and 16MB internal memory. And it even ships for free. [Via Bargainist.com]

3. MacMall is having a Valentine’s Sale, so show your sweetie you care by buying him or her a Mac. Save up to $84 on MacBooks, up to $1,044 on MacBook Pros, up to $100 on iMacs, up to $1,194 on MacBook Airs, and up to $129 on iPods. Check out the sale here. But hurry, it ends at 11:59 PST on Feb. 12.

Hey, did you hear the economy’s tanking? Yeah, we know: tell us a new one. The pain’s hitting us all, so Engadget’s trying to do its part and add a little stimulus into the mix. Here’s the deal: we’re going to hand out a new gadget every day (except for weekends) to lucky readers until we run out of stuff / companies stop sending things. Today we’ve got a Pentax E60 digital camera on offer, so read the rules (no skimming — we hate that!) below and remember: think positive thoughts.

Special thanks to Pentax for providing the gear!

The rules:

• Leave a comment below. Any comment will do, but if you want to share a tale of heart wrenching economic strife, that’s good too.
• You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you’ll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.)
• If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you’ll be fine.
  
• Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don’t make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you have to be mad.
• Winner will be chosen randomly. The winner will receive one Pentax E60 digital camera. Approximate value is $140.
• Entries can be submitted until Thursday, February 5th, 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
• Full rules can be found here.

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Engadget’s recession antidote: win a Pentax E60! originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Professor Erno Rubik has made a career out of frustrating us and making us all feel a little, well … stupid. Oh, he also provided hours of entertainment with his iconic Cube, launched in the ’80s. Ladies and gentlemen, the nutty professor is back: and his new Rubik’s Cube is badder than ever.

Rubik’s 360 looks like something out of a sci-fi movie, but that belies the new, less cerebral sine qua non of the game. Instead of matching those colorful, infuriating squares in the perfect order, the new game requires players to shake six balls into six spheres within one large sphere. To do this, you have to shake those balls through one of two holes in the center of the clear sphere to their appropriately colored home. Sounds like good, frustrating fun–and exercise.

Rubik’s 360 looks like a work of art. And indeed, the original is on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. When released later this year, Rubik’s 360 promises to bring what the original gave our parents–a beautifully designed puzzle that makes us work our hands and our brains.

Telegraph via Crunchgear

Post by Alex Ivey

President Obama has his BlackBerry (and possibly a Zune…) and now former Vice President Dick Cheney has a Kindle.

When he is not predicting catastrophic nuclear attacks under the Obama administration, Cheney is curling up with a good war-related novel, care of Amazon’s e-reader.

“Suddenly a man of leisure, Cheney has a Kindle, Amazon’s wireless reading device, and said he used it recently to read James M. McPherson’s new ‘Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief,'” according to Politico.com.

Perhaps he was persuaded by Oprah’s endorsement. However, those looking to follow in Cheney’s footsteps will have to wait. The Kindle has been sold out since early December, and is still not in stock, according to Amazon.com.

So what else should the former VP be downloading to his Kindle?