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It’s not scheduled to be announced until tomorrow, but it looks like Olympus’ Micro Four Thirds tribute to the classic rangefinder has leaked out onto these here Internets looking every bit as handsome as the top-side leak seen earlier. Remember, we’re talking about a DSLR-sized sensor stuffed inside that retro compact body. Judging by the pics of E-P1, we’re looking at a stock, 17mm lens with an interchangeable 14-42mm (3x) zoom lens available at launch. One more day and we’ll have prices, ship dates, and full spec-sheet to share — can you wait? 3x lens and few more color variations in the gallery below.

Update: Possible specs accompanying authentic looking images have now entered the rumor mill. Said specs have the camera measuring in at 120 x 70 x 35mm (about the size of a Sigma DP2 or slightly larger than mainstream point-and-shoots) snapping 13 megapixel RAW images and 1280 x 720 pixel video to SD card, ISO 6400 sensitivity, 11-point AF, electronic anti-shake, and 3-inch LCD if we’re reading the machine translated text correctly. It’s expected to ship in July with prices starting at about $900 — though it’s unclear what you get at that price point.

[Via 43rumors]

Filed under: Digital Cameras

Leaked Olympus E-P1 Micro Four Thirds compact has us hot, bothered (updated) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple did a pretty a good job of talking up those new MacBook Pros during last week’s WWDC keynote presentation. There’s one new spec the company didn’t mention, however: The computers’ SATA interface. According to a number of folks who picked up the new laptops, the company has bumped the SATA Interface from 3GB to 1.5GB on the 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pros.

The SATA interface on the 17-inch MacBook Pro and 13-inch MacBook Air remains at 3GB. As Mac Rumors points out, users aren’t likely to see much of a difference in performance unless they upgrade to a Solid State Drive.

NVIDIA is filling in what it presumes to be holes in its next-generation GPU lineup, adding the 40nm G210M, GT 230M, GT 240M and GTS 250M, with GDDR3 memory ranging from 512MB to 1GB, to its existing GTX 280M, GTX 260M and GTS 160M laptop graphics cards. Apparently the new cards sport “double the performance” and “half the power consumption” over the last generation of discrete GPUs they’re replacing. The cards are SLI, HybridPower, CUDA, Windows 7 and DirectX 10.1 compatible, and all support PhysX other than the low-end G210M. Of course, with integrated graphics like the 9400M starting to obviate discrete graphics in the mid range — even including Apple’s latest low-end 15-inch MacBook Pro — we’re not sure what we’ll do with eight different GPU options, but we suppose NVIDIA’s yet-to-be-announced price sheet for these cards will make it all clear in time.

Filed under: Gaming, Laptops

NVIDIA pops out five new mobile GPUs to fill invisible gaps in its 200M series lineup originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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On Monday, Hillcrest Labs announced that it will begin selling its Loop wireless mouse on Amazon for $99.

What is the Loop, you ask? Well, it’s a circular, bracelet-sized remote mouse designed for a media-center PC, or just any application where a wireless mouse is needed to navigate a display. Think of it as a Wii-style controller for your PC; in fact, last year Hillcrest sued Nintendo, claiming that the Wii’s controller infringed on its patents.

Hillcrest has actually marketed the Loop to OEMs for years; the first time we saw it was back in 2007, when the future of remote controls was being debated. Then, according to Hillcrest, the Loop was just a prototype.

According to Hillcrest, the device uses a USB transceiver, and otherwise works as a standard mouse. Two bonuses of note: the Loop can be used as an alternative controller to surf the Web on the Sony PlayStation 3, and can be used with the Apple TV as well, provided that aTV Flash from Fire Core is installed, according to Hillcrest Labs.

There are really too many choice rhymes here to pick just one as a representative sample of all the “dope” and “ill” on display in Nokia’s new N97 ad featuring the lyrical stylings of LL Cool J. We recommend you check it out before he begins to attempt to threaten you with physical violence. Video is embedded after the break.

[Thanks, Jorge]

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LL Cool J’s hilariously aggressive N97 ad: “don’t call it a comeback” originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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