Hasta La Gadget!

PENTAX RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD. has announced that they will release their new compact digital camera “GR” in late May.

It features the new “GR LENS 18.3mm F2.8″ lens with 18.3mm focal length. Low-pass filter-less, APS-C CMOS sensor (16.2 million pixel) is built-in. The new “GRENGINE” image processor brings ISO 25600. High AF speed of 0.2 seconds and 4 frame/second shutter speed.

Still pictures up to 4928×3264; Movies up to 1920×1080.

Support functions for shooting are abundant. 9 effect modes such as “Retro” and “Miniaturize”, “Dynamic range correction” to reduce over-exposure or under-exposure, “Face detection AF&AE” to take a photo of a person easily and beautifully, etc.

Estimated price: around 100,000 yen
Dimensions: approx. 117 x 61 x 34.7 mm
Weight: approx. 245g (with battery and SD card); 215g (without)

KING JIM’s new interesting product, to be released on April 19, has 4 cameras and a microphone allowing 360 degree participation in video conference calls.

In a normal video conference call/meeting, a traditional web camera cannot include all the people in the meeting room, however, with “MR360″ all participants can appear on the screen on the other side of the call.

3 shooting modes are available: “Single”, ” Divide in quarters” and “Auto” that makes each camera switch automatically as required. Video output can be playable on “MR360″ or a personal computer.

Price: ¥34,650 (Including tax)
Display: 2.4 inch TFT color LCD
SD card slot: SD card max 2GB/ SDHC card max 32 GB
Size: 77 × 77 × 220mm
Weight: 485g

MR360 can be ordered here.

“Wireless memory card reader/writer A” (R03W002A) was released through AU’s “au +1 collection” today.
You can wirelessly play music, movies, pictures etc., saved in an SD card, accessing it through your iPhone or Android smart phone or tablet, and also you can use it to back up the data saved in your smart devices.
Up to 6 devices are able to connect to the “Wireless memory card reader/writer A” at the same time and it is capable of 8 hours of …

JVC Kenwood is releasing a stylish sound system, the RV-S1-S, with a unique tube-like design. It produces powerful deep bass sounds and avoids unnecessary vibrations, utilizing 4 high-powered speakers (including 2 woofer outputs).
The built-in iPhone/iPod dock is also very interesting. You can close the cover, so it will protect the device during outdoor activity. When using iPhone 5, you need to connect it to the USB Port.
Music saved with USB memory or SD card (MP3/WMA) is playable. …

Samsung’s ARM-running Chromebook is barely out of the starting gate, and it’s already being tweaked to run without as much of an online dependency. By a Google employee, no less. Not content to rely solely on Chrome OS, Olof Johansson has loaded Ubuntu on the Chromebook by partitioning an SD card, mixing OS components and booting from USB. The technique unsurprisingly requires being more than a little comfortable with a Linux command line as well as playing fast and loose with the warranty. It also won’t be cheap or quick — commenters note that you’ll ideally have a partitioning-friendly SD card, and running a desktop OS from a slower kind of flash storage creates an inherent bottleneck. Anyone who likes the Chromebook’s $249 price, but isn’t as enraptured with the cloud as most of the team in Mountain View, might still want to try Johansson’s step-by-step process for themselves.

Filed under: Laptops, Software, Samsung, Google

Googler loads Ubuntu on an ARM-based Samsung Chromebook, gives solace to the offline among us originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink TG Daily  |  Olof Johansson (Google+)  | Email this | Comments