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Sharing is caring, and imaging devices that pack pico projectors sure do make it easy to care — assuming you’re in a dimly-lit room with a flat, color-free surface at your disposal. BenQ‘s DV S11 is the latest, a 1080p zoomless camcorder that exists in the Flip style and can also capture five megapixel stills. No specs are listed for the projector itself, except that it’s said to be able to push a 50-inch picture out its hole — presumably only if you’re at the bottom of a cave or in some similarly light-free environment. The combo is available now in Hong Kong priced at $2,399 HKD, which equates to about $300 American.

BenQ DV S11 camcorder has a pico up in there originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Usually we like writing about bigger camera sensors — bigger meaning more light, better quality, and more machismo. But, when you’re dealing with a camera that could very well find itself inserted inside your body, we’re just fine with smaller, thanks and, at 1.8 x 1.8mm, OmniVision‘s new OV6930 is about as small as it gets. No, you won’t be getting 1080p from that like you would from the company’s (relatively) monstrous 3.5mm beast for cellphones, you’ll have to deal with just 400 x 400. No word on whether this model will wind up in a pill like an earlier version from 2006, but give it a nice sugar coating and we’d take one — for science.

OmniVision releases OV6930, the 1.8mm square camera sensor, coming to an incision near you originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The GymyGym is like a Bullworker combined with an office chair. The admittedly rather comfy-looking chair, comprising a frame laced with bungees in place of seat-squabs, is further enhanced with exercise equipment, meaning you can visit the gym without leaving your desk.

More bungees with various handles and ankle-cuffs sprout from various spots on the chair, letting you work-out your flabby office-bound body. It certainly is ingenious, and you can pump pretty much every muscle with the right exercises. But I imagine it is also doomed to the same novelty graveyard as the car-seat bead-mat, and Jack Donaghy’s wonderfully mis-named Funcooker.

First, if you’re going to change into sports gear to work out (like the people in the demo videos), then why not just go out and take a walk. Second, you’ll look ridiculous exercising amongst your co-workers as they munch on bagels and chocolate, snickering at you. And they will, because you don’t have your own office. If you did, you could afford a gym membership.

You know what this chair will actually be used for? A nerd torture device. With all those bungees, it will be ideal for tying up the new guy on his first day and descending upon him, Nerf-guns loaded. $600.

GymyGym product page [GymyGym via the Giz]

See Also:

• Generation by Knoll Chair Moves With You
• Steelcase LEAP Chair – Sit and Grin
• Pumgo Fitness Toy Takes the Gym With You
• Gym Car Pumps You Up
• Steelcase Walkstation: Combo Treadmill and Desk
• Steelcase Reinvents the School Chair

Leaked videos showing the presumed forthcoming PlayStation Phone in action have found their way onto the internet. The handset is branded Sony Ericsson, and is running the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. A gamepad slides out form under the screen much like a keyboard does on other phones.

Remember back before the iPhone, when everybody thought that it would just be an iPod with a phone keypad stuck on? Well, that’s the kind of thinking that passes for innovation at Sony these days, if these videos are indeed the real deal (more on that in a second). The fat box is about as imagination-free as it could get, a standard Android touch-screen handset with a joypad stuck on the back, swelling it the the size of a well-stuffed New York bagel.

It’s looking pretty certain a PlayStation Phone will turn up one day, but this one looks like an early prototype at best, and a good fake at worst. That gamepad is obviously unfinished, and the “proof” of its PlayStation-ness in the second video below is nothing more than opening a folder with a custom icon to find it empty.

Hopefully Sony can make the final PlayStation Phone a little thinner, and maybe not build its DRMed game platform on top of an easy to crack OS.

Sony Ericsson ZEUS – Z1-PlayStation Phone (spy) [YouTube via Apple Insider]

This article was written on March 08, 2007 by CyberNet.

I have always been a big fan of using the FeedBurner Headline Animator as a signature in your emails, forum posts, and just about anywhere else that you’re trying to attract new readers. A post that I did several months ago regarding email signatures mentioned the Headline Animator and its usefulness, and then about a month ago someone created a Greasemonkey script to allow HTML signatures to be inserted into emails created in Gmail.

I’m sure you’ve seen the Headline Animator before, but you may not have realized exactly what it was. It’s just an animated GIF image that FeedBurner creates to shuffle through the recent posts on your site, and it can be created by going to your FeedBurner management page and selecting the “Publicize” tab. From there you’ll be able to choose a premade theme or you can create your own background like we did:

Recently, however, FeedBurner added a feature that I think is really awesome! They now keep track of how many people actually view the Headline Animator so that you can get a sense of whether people are seeing the image. Now on the sidebar for your feed you should see an option for “Headline Animator”:

Clicking on that item will reveal some stats that might surprise you! I didn’t realize how many people had seen my signature in that last 30 or so days, but it looks like the CyberNet forum is what’s causing people to view the signature:

Heck, there have been more than 1,500+ views for the Headline Animator in email clients which I found to be really impressive (since services like Gmail do not display images contained in an email without the user authorizing it). So if you’re looking for another way to promote your site, you should get involved in some forums and make sure to include a Headline Animator in your signature!

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