Welcome to another edition on Tech Talk. This week we’ll bounce around the worlds of gaming, mobile phones, and new tv tech. Sit back relax and get ahead of the game. The future is now
As technology gets better, it seems like
they can stick a camera in anything. Nintendo figured, why should your
hand held video game be any different? Which brings us to Nintendo’s
fully backwards compatible DSi. At first glance, it doesn’t look
much different from the DS Lite, but they’ve added a few features
What’s new:
· Forward and rear
facing 3 megapixel cameras
· Slightly larger
screen
· No Game Boy Advance
slot (allows it to be 12% thinner)
· SD card slot
· Integrated
music player
It’ll
be hitting store shelves in Japan in November, but unless you got that overseas
hook up, you have to wait until 2009 to get one state side.
The
next gadget I got for you is more like a camera with a phone built in, rather
than the other way around. The Renoir for LG brings the camera
phone to another level. It’s an 8 megapixel touchscreen multimedia
phone. Their Touch Shot feature will make other companies follow
suit. When taking a picture, simply touch the object you want to shoot,
when u release, the object is focused and your pic is taken.Specs:
· Quad-band GSM, UMTS
(HSDPA 7.2 Mbps)
·WQVGA 240×400 touch
screen display
·Homescreen Widgets
(including online widgets that pull down real-time data)
· Picture-Based Speed
Dial
· 8 megapixel camera
· Xenon flash,
Schneider-Kreuznach lens, auto or manual focus, face, smile and blink detection
and digital image stabilization
· Dolby sound
· VGA video capture
up to 30fps, QVGA capture up to 120 fps
·DivX and XviD video
support
·Integrated GPS,
with support for geotagging and location based services
· Bluetooth 2.0
· WiFi
· MicroSDHC support
·TV-out
It
is a GSM phone, so if you’re a Sprint or Verizon customer, you’re out of luck,
but maybe next time around they’ll hook you up. It’s scheduled for
release this month in Europe and various countries from November through
2009. No news on a U.S release date.
Here’s
some bonus info. If you like web video content on your TV, you might wanna
check out PlayOn. It allows you to stream services like YouTube, Hulu and
ESPN to your PS3, XBox 360 and Hp Media Smart TV. They just released a
software update that adds Netflix to the list. It’s currently in public
beta so it will be free for the 60 days and $30 afterward. Could be worth
a look.
That’s all I got for this week. Let me know what you think, what’s what
not, and what you wanna see more of. And as always, feel free to show
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