Olympus has today announced the E-30 digital SLR. The mid-range DSLR features a 12MP Live MOS sensor and 2.7″ tilt and swivel LCD. It also incorportates Live View with Contrast AF, Image Stabilization, 5fps continuous shooting and shutter speeds of up to 1/8000th sec. The E-30 also introduces a set of six ‘Art Filters’, a Multiple Exposure mode and offers a choice of 9 aspect ratios.
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IFA 2010: Sat-nav iPhone stylee
TomTom has revamped its iPhone app, and added a brilliant new aspect whereby you can set the app to take you to the destination of a photo, essentially turning your iPhone’s camera album into a living, breathing address book.
The new feature works by tapping into the geo-tag location stored within an iPhone’s photo, and ties-in with what TomTom’s GPS product manager told Pocket-lint at IFA; when he said that the sat-nav giant was “definitely looking at” the massive boom in location based services and that it would be “silly not to be looking at it”.
It means that you’d be able to take a picture of all your favourite addresses, restaurants, shops, or even just random spots and never have to worry about a postcode ever again.
As well as the photo-location feature, the new update brings with it iPhone 4 optimisation, to get the best out of that retina display, multi-tasking, and the latest up-to-date maps.
You’ll also still get access to all the usual TomTom stuff like HD Traffic (with a subscription), IQ routes, spoken street names, advanced lane guidance and local Google searching.
The new app will be hitting the App Store imminently and the Western Europe and UK apps are priced at ?42.99.
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TomTom iPhone app takes you to the pictures originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:10:00 +0100
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IFA 2010: Two companies show technology at IFA
While 3D television with glasses is here, in our living rooms, and getting the big shout at IFA in Berlin, a handful of companies are already showing off the 3D televisions of tomorrow.
They might not be household names in the UK and US, but Vestel, the largest TV manufacturer in Europe which accounts for 16 per cent of the LCD TV market, is showing off a 46-inch lenticular lens based television that would let you watch TV in your living room without 3D glasses.
A spokesperson for the company told Pocket-lint, that it will be on sale in Europe at the start of 2011.
However, CEO of Dimenco, Maarten Tobias, says that his lenticular lens based television is available now to private customers looking to ditch the glasses.
A 56-inch television, that has been developed in connection with Philips?will be 56 inches in size and cost 40,000 euros as they aren’t commercially available as yet.
Even if you’re ready to stump up enough cash to buy you a very nice car, you’ll struggle to find content to watch on the new televisions. Unfortunately it’s not just a case of getting your new 3D Blu-ray player and away you go. Footage has to be split into 9 or 15 images per slide all by a rendering chip inside.
So when will this brand of televisions become a reality? Tobias believes we’ve got another 3 – 5 years to go before IFA will be filled with the new technology, most of which Philips owns the patents for.
However, as with everything, early adopters won’t have to wait that long. Tobias says his company is releasing a 52-inch monitor for businesses costing around ?6000 in the next couple of months.
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Limited edition controller for Street Fighter’s first lady
We at Pocket-lint are a noble, honest and dedicated bunch of chaps and, as such, when we play Street Fighter – we play as Ryu. He is the only character we can relate to you see. (We too have a tortured past that explains for our assassin-style martial arts).
But sometimes (and only on special occasions) we’ll take on the guise of Chun-Li. There’s just something so satisfying about landing rapid kicks with those sharp heels.
And so, Mad Catz’s Chun-Li inspired, limited-edition, Street Fighter IV Arcade FightStick: Tournament Edition Xbox controller has more than caught our attention.
The blurb states:
“Limited to a product run of just 4000 units world-wide, this stunning new FightStick features highly detailed and exclusive artwork provided by Capcom”.?
“Designed to celebrate the ‘first lady’ of Street Fighter: Chun-Li, the new FightStick is the first to feature an all new 3D lenticular design and exclusive new chassis colour scheme”.
The controller comes in some special edition packaging as well, and features two rows of buttons which, as all true Street Fighter players will know, is the classic setup, although there are eight buttons now rather than six – the times, they are a changing.
If you manage to get over to PAX in Seattle this weekend, Mad Catz will be selling the controllers from its stand.
We’ll bring you UK availability as soon as we hear word of it.
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Spinning Bird Kicks ahoy with Mad Catz’s Chun-Li controller originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:32:00 +0100
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IFA 2010 PHOTOS: Tosh believes that, with screen sizes, the bigger the better
“We’ve been doing tablets since 1992,” says Graeme Simons, Toshiba UK business manager, when asked why the company has plumped for a 10.1-inch tablet, rather than a 7-incher similar to rival manufacturers‘ devices also revealed at IFA, Berlin. “And it’s an area of the market that’s been opened already [by the iPad]”.
But his own philosophy is far simpler: “As long as it’s not too heavy, the bigger the better”, he exclusively tells Pocket-lint, citing video playback as a main driver for the multimedia tablet market, throwing in a slight dig at the competition, “if you’ve got this, why watch video on a phone”.?
Certainly, the Folio 100 is a beefy beast, albeit one that only weighs 765g. And as its screen is 16:9 (1024 x 600) it already has an advantage over that Apple product when used as a movie playback device.?
Perhaps its biggest draw, though, comes with its connectivity… As well as 1080p-capable HDMI out, this particular slab of tech has a USB input – something the iPad and Galaxy Tab do not. Plus, there’s an SD card slot to increase the on board storage capacity of 16GB by a further 32GB.?
Unlike the Tab, though, it doesn’t have a rear-mounted camera, but then it would be a touch unwieldy as a camcorder. It does, however, sport a front-facing webcam for video chat and all manner of tomfoolery.?
The Android 2.2 OS is, sadly, far from the finished product at present, and few of the tablets functions are working, so it’s hard to judge fully. However, Toshiba is so proud of its efforts so far, it is already planning a 3G version in the near future (the first release, at ?329, will be Wi-Fi only).
And as Simons tells us, there’s more to come: “We want to offer multiple platforms,” he said.
This is only the beginning.
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