Hasta La Gadget!

Looks like our one of our dreams just might come to fruition after all, if this newest rumor coming from the vicinity of Nikon is to be believed, anyway. Now, there aren’t a lot of details to go round here, but Nikon Rumors is reporting that Chasseur d’Image — a print magazine in France with a history of publishing rumors that turn into reality — has published a report that Nikon will soon announce the VP650. What is this VP650, you ask? Well, it’s a hybrid compact digital camera with an LED projector (which may or may not be manufactured by Taiwanese company Foxlink) that can project 8 x 12 images in “good quality” in the dark. Chasseur d’Image reports that the VP650 will ship in September. Like we said — not a whole lot of detail, but we’ll keep our eyes peeled to see if this thing ever appears. We’ll say this though — such a product would probably make the tiny projector a lot more attractive.

Filed under: Digital Cameras

Rumor mill: Nikon VP650 camera / projector combo soon to be revealed originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you love the Pre, but hate Best Buy or Sprint, now you’ve got the option of nabbing one through an online reseller you can live with: Amazon. The device has just popped up on the super-retailer’s site, and like the aforementioned blue and yellow reseller, you don’t have to worry about any pesky mail-in rebates — the phone is $199.99 out the virtual door. Also of note, you can nab the non-contract version for $499.99, which is a $50 savings over the Sprint pricing, and certainly a value compared to Best Buy’s $749.99 price tag. Only bummer note? Amazon says these babies won’t ship for 4 to 6 weeks… which basically sucks.

[Via PhoneNews]

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Palm Pre sales go live at Amazon originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oh, the joys of self-diagnosis. Thanko’s unleashed a USB dental “microscope” to let you check out the inside of your own mouth in great detail — because you’re so much more knowledgeable than a real dentist, right? This puppy’s got six LEDs plus a small CMOS camera so you can shoot JPEGs / BMPs or 1,280×1024 resolution vids of your champers then check them out on your home computer. Of course, the sample shots (which are disgusting and after the break) inexplicably show a closeup of someone’s scalp, demonstrating that this USB badboy has a variety of uses, all of them pretty gross. Is there something wrong with us if we just don’t want to see our bodies in that much detail? It’s only available on Thanko’s Japanese site for the time being, and costs in the neighborhood of $80, but we have a feeling that it’ll show up in the States anyday now… as soon as Oprah gets wind of it.

[Via Gizmodo]

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Thanko USB dental device will help prove you still need a dentist originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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According to a report in Barron’s, a phantom “veteran analyst” has actually handled Apple’s heavily rumored tablet-device-thing. If you believe what the report is laying down (and honestly, that’s a big if — analysts have a funny habit of making things up) the tablet is still on for a September unveiling, with a shelf life beginning somewhere in November. What’s also interesting about the report is that the analyst claims the device will be marketed somewhere in the $699-$799 range — as was previously rumored — and will be aimed at uses as a media player (with some kind of potential Apple TV tie-in) and gaming device. The analyst, who obviously declined to be named, said that the tablet is simply awaiting Steve Jobs’ final blessing, and claimed that other ODMs have paused new products until they see the finished version of what Apple has in store. That last bit is potentially the most interesting of all, as we’ve recently heard reports of device-makers freezing new production until 2010, which definitely raises the possibility that the industry is holding its breath to see what kind of new trick Apple has up its sleeve. Yeah — things are about to get fun. [Warning: read link requires subscription]

[Via 9to5mac]

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Barron’s: Analyst handled Apple tablet, says competitors have paused production lines until launch originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on January 17, 2007 by CyberNet.

In October of 2006 we saw one of my favorite Linux releases get unveiled: Fedora Core 6. It was a significant improvement in speed over the previous versions which I found to be nearly unusable with my hardware. Actually, what I’ve been playing with lately is the Fedora Core 6 Live CD that was just released toward the end of December, and this is a great way to see how much you like Fedora.

The future does look bright for Fedora with version 7 just a few months away. April 26, 2007 appears to be the current release date for Fedora 7 if all goes according to plan, but more often than not a release schedule doesn’t turn out as expected. For just having 6 months between releases I do have to say that it seems pretty ambitious:

• The release will now be known as Fedora 7 (without the Core) because they are combining both the Core and Extras.
   
• They will have 3 separate releases for Fedora:
  Fedora Desktop: This is what you would probably expect from a Fedora release.
   
  Fedora KDE: If you prefer to use KDE you’ll probably want to use this since it will include the K Desktop Environment. This will be the flavor of Fedora that I choose.
   
  Fedora Server: One of the examples they give where this would be useful is “Bill needs to set up a DNS server, and his boss told him to use FSS; Bill has no Linux/Unix experience but is a proficient admin of that other OS.” It will be really interesting to see what this evolves into because Fedora is what we use on our server and it would be nice to have a website optimized version of the operating system.
   
• Improved wireless support.
   
• Better startup and shutdown times.
   
• Fast user switching so that users don’t have to logout to change users.
   
• Both a Live CD and DVD will be available.
   
• And there is much more…

Next Tuesday, January 23, we should see the first pre-release of Fedora 7 become available. All of the features won’t be implemented until February 20 and then after that the primary focus will be on fine tuning all of the new stuff. With Ubuntu 7.04 expected just one week before Fedora 7 it should be interesting to see the two Linux distributions go head-to-head with their milestones.

News Source: Phoronix

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