O’Reilly, the well-known publisher of computer books, is launching a new magazine called Make, in 2005.
Intended for DIY people with a tech bent, the first issue will focus on things like Kite Aerial Photography, and how to make a video camera stabilizer.
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Anandtech has just published an extremely detailed (18 pages of charts and graphs) review of 3 small form-factor digital cameras: The Canon PowerShot S410, the Casio Exilim Ex-Z40, and the Pentax Optio S40. All 3 cameras have 3x optical zoom and 4 megapixel output.
In summary, they recommend the Canon S410, and conclude their review with the following comments:
“In the end, we had to choose the Canon PowerShot S410 as the best camera of the bunch. It produces bright, colorful, well-exposed, and sharp pictures very consistently. The Pentax Optio S40 would be our second choice”.
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Sharp has just introduced the world’s largest LCD TV …. at 65 inches.
The Aquos 65V has 6,220,800 dots at 1,920 (H) x 1,080 (V).
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Hitachi-Omron Terminal Solutions Corp. next spring will start selling ATMs to Japanese banks that are equipped with a finger vein biometric identification system.
Works by assigning a mathematical value to the pattern of your veins as viewed in near-infrared light. Great if it eliminates the need for an ATM card & PIN number.
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SpaceShipOne won the $10 million Ansari X Prize yesterday.
The craft reached an altitude of 367,442 feet (69.6 miles), exceeding the 100-kilometer (62.5-miles) altitude required to win the X Prize.
Pilot Brian Binnie is the 434th human to have left this planet (temporarily).
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Update on December 1st 2004:
Time magazine has declared SpaceShipOne as its “Invention of the Year“
The Sky’s the Limit
Ingenious design. Entrepreneurial moxie. A world-changing vision of the future. The amazing SpaceShipOne has it all
Toshiba and Sharp have just announced the world’s first hand-held audio-video players designed to receive digital multimedia broadcast by satellite!
The satellite broadcast provider will be Tokyo’s Mobile Broadcast Corporation. MBS will start beaming digital multimedia content on October 20th 2004 from its MBSAT S-band satellite operating in the the 2.6GHz band and in synchronous orbit over Japan (well, actually over the equator, and aimed at Japan).
MBSAT’s “&12514;&12496; HO!” service, as it is called, (don’t ask me to pronounce that), will offer a number of satellite video, music, data and specialty channels at a variety of subscription prices and hopes to attract 20M customers in Japan. MBSAT coverage will practically anywhere in Japan including cars, buildings, public transportation as well as airplanes. Gaps in coverage will be filled by land-based retransmission stations.
Sharp’s satellite AV receiver, model 4E-MB1, has already been announced and is shown below.
The 4E-MB1 unit itself has a 320×240 pixel LCD screen and supports JPEG, MPEG4, XMDFand MP3 formats, not to mention the satellite antenna.
The Toshiba MTV-S10 pictured below is another satellite AV receiver. The Toshiba model has not been announced yet, but is expected to have a similar spec set and price point.
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This unannounced MP3 & WMA player from Panasonic might be available next month. The MP510V model has a not-overly-generous capacity of 256MB, with the 500V coming in at at an even smaller 128MB.
These models also contain an FM tuner and a voice recorder.
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The latest Neiman-Marcus Catalog lists a 5,000-square foot, four-lane bowling and entertainment center at a cost beginning at $1,450,000.
The price includes a computerized multimedia system with 2 large-screen plasma TVs, an integrated stereo sound system, and a karaoke machine.
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This new mobile phone from Arima looks good and has a nice feature set.
The U300 is a tri-band smartphone and uses the Symbian OS v7.0 operating system. It has a sliding keypad, 1.3 mega pixel camera, an almost-QVGA 208×320 LCD touch screen, FM radio and an audio and video player.
Other features include an HTML Browser, support for SMS, EMS, MMS and Email, PIM apps such as Contacts and Calendar, SyncML Synchronization, and integrated Bluetooth.
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