Hasta La Gadget!

Energizer’s Energi To Go catalog just keeps getting sweeter. After introducing a new range of XPAL battery chargers last month, the company is evidently gearing up to reveal what’s likely to be its most convenient and altogether useful product yet. The USB clip you see above is designed to make contact with DSLR and camcorder batteries and provide juice via USB; in other words, it’s like a portable, highly mobile DSLR battery charger. OhGizmo points out that you may need one of Energizer’s USB-equipped battery packs to charge up the 7.4V cells, but at least we’re still talking about a non-proprietary charging connector. Per usual, there’s no mention of dollars and cents, but hopefully it’ll be rolled out for less than a song here soon.

[Via OhGizmo]

Filed under: Digital Cameras, Peripherals

Energizer USB clip to charge camcorder / DSLR batteries via USB originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ross Rubin (@rossrubin) contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

At least since the advent of the first camera phones, people have been wondering whether the cell phone would limit the opportunity for all kinds of other products, particularly portable electronics. Even the more pedestrian features of basic cell phones have been blamed for the declines in (or at least limiting the market for) pagers, Family Radio Service (FRS) radios, and even watches. And beyond portable electronics, cordless phones have also been in a state of decline for years as more consumers cut the cord.

But the iPhone 3GS has renewed the old debate for a number of reasons, including data that shows that iPhone users are disproportionately inclined to use their phone’s advanced features and changes in the hardware and software that improve the digital camera, add video capture, and open the door to in-vehicle turn-by-turn navigation. TomTom, which has returned to its roots by demonstrating navigation software for the third-party hardware of the original iPhone 3G, can now offer that software through Apple’s App Store. So, will the iPhone shutter Canon, run Garmin off the road, or make Flip flop? Thankfully, for the sake of all wishing to avoid reading headlines containing these atrocious puns, not for the foreseeable future, at least in the U.S.

Continue reading Switched On: iPhone 3GS is fine, young, but not a cannibal

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Switched On: iPhone 3GS is fine, young, but not a cannibal originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s outrageous claim time again, with Veho is saying its new Muvi micro DV camcorder is “officially the smallest high resolution DV camcorder in the world.” We’d have to say it looks a little bit bigger than that Wrigley’s-sized model we spotted a few years back, and 640 x 480 is hardly high resolution, but let’s move on. The Muvi is designed as something of an actiony cam in the vein of a Twenty20 or a ContourHD, able to clip to your jersey or stick to your helmet and record video plus two megapixel stills onto a microSD card. Voice activation means you should be able to activate it without pressing any buttons, and hopefully you can teach it to start filming whenever someone says “Hold my beer and watch this.” The cam appears to be shipping to European adventure-types for a good bit less than its £79.99 ($132) MSRP, but there’s no word on when thrill-seekers elsewhere can clip one on.

Update: Well, it definitely isn’t the smallest; as many of you pointed out this is just a re-brand of the AEE Mini DV cam that’s exactly the same size… and shape… and is already widely available for under $100.

[Via Crave]

Continue reading Veho’s Muvi adventure-oriented camcorder claims to be world’s smallest, probably isn’t

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Veho’s Muvi adventure-oriented camcorder claims to be world’s smallest, probably isn’t originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Another wild one from the surreal landscape of Computex. DigiLife’s new DDV-JF1 camera bears much resemblance to most mini camcorders, but while it’s perfectly content to shoot 720p footage and show it off on its 2.5-inch LCD, things really start to get wild when you notice that there’s a 640 x 360 pico projector built right into the thing. No word on price or when to expect this thing to show up in your local Dalí-ist electronics shop.

Filed under: Digital Cameras, Displays

DigiLife DDV-JF1 pocket cam shoots HD, packs its own projector originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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“World’s Lightest*,” says so right in the Panasonic press release. What’s that? It’s a qualified statement? Oh we see it now, it’s the world’s lightest Full-HD AVCHD camcorder. Well, that’ll make Sanyo’s lawyers happy. Anyway, the new Pannys bring SD/SDHC card support, touch-screen control, intelligent auto scene selection and AF tracking along with Panasonic’s optical image stabilization to keep the shake under control while zooming in at a 16x optical max. The TM10 differs from the SD10 in that it records to 40GB of internal storage before automatically switching to SDHC/SD cards of up to 32GB. The cameras also feature a 3 second Pre-Rec function that continuously pre-records content into an internal buffer which is then added to the beginning of the clip as soon as you hit record — never miss a goal again. Pricing in the UK is set at £529.99 for the HDC-TM10 and £499.99 for the HDC-SD10 with June availability.

[Via Pocket-lint]

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Panasonic’s HDC-SD10 and HDC-TM10: nearly the world’s lightest Full HD camcorders originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 19 May 2009 06:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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