Filed under: Digital Cameras
It takes a while to put a camera like Canon’s EOS 40D fully through its paces, but a few brave souls have blazed through the feature set, menus, ISOs and megapixels afforded to them by the new camera in time to get reviews up mere weeks after launch. Of course, the flashiest […]

Filed under: Portable Audio, Transportation
It’s not the first such unit we’ve seen, but car stereos with SD card slots instead of CD players are still rare enough to get our attention, which is exactly what Blaupunkt has managed to do with its new Melbourne SD27 system. If that’s a bit too limiting for you, you […]

Filed under: Displays, Portable Video
Nearing on a year from its first unveiling, it’s nice to finally see the Headplay Personal Cinema System head mounted display “out and about.” That Visor headset is stilling rocking support for up to XGA resolutions with a pair of single LCoS micro-displays that are supposed to reduce eye strain, while […]

Filed under: Peripherals
It was supposed to ship in June, but it looks like Belkin is finally shipping the Network USB Hub this week. The five-port USB hub “simulates a direct USB connection” that allows you to use all your USB devices over the network — and special caching software even lets you use USB 2.0 […]

Filed under: Gaming, HDTV, Home EntertainmentDetails are beyond sketchy at this point, but Personal Computer World is reporting that Mark Bennett, Microsoft’s European HD DVD business director, announced that Microsoft would be shipping a revised 360 HD DVD drive in 2008 — presumably one with improved support for HD DVD’s HDi interactive features, which Microsoft […]

Filed under: Robots
To be honest, we’re not sure if Boston Dynamics decision to not include a head on its so-called “LittleDog” makes the bot more or less creepy, but it sure is pretty darn impressive either way. It’s claim to fame, and the result of $1.5 million in funding from DARPA, is its ability to […]

Filed under: Robots
Apparently, robot designers are worried that they’re not creating automatons that are creepy enough, because a team of engineers at Virgina Tech have put something together that will give even the toughest of men chills. The robot in question is the three-legged STriDER (Self-excited Tripedal Dynamic Experimental Robot, not to be confused with […]

Filed under: LaptopsWe’ve seen a couple monster laptops with internal RAID arrays before, but Alienware is the first manufacturer we’ve seen to load its machines up with two 2.5-inch 320GB drives — letting you lug around over half a terabyte of data. “Lug” is definitely the operative word, of course — only the 17-inch Area […]

Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops
Toshiba’s newfangled SpursEngine chip could soon be used to “work alongside a microprocessor to process video streams, recognize and process images, and tackle other multimedia chores,” and while we’re not exactly sure what kind of hit this will take on battery life, the prototype version is said to consume 10 to 20-watts […]

Filed under: Displays, WearablesWe’re still trying to figure out exactly who is buying up these gaudy 3D goggles, but apparently, the market is still lucrative. Consequently, Kopin and SENSIO have teamed up to deliver a new set of 3D eyewear, which “combines Kopin’s BDM-922K binocular optical engine with SENSIO’s S3D-220 decoder chip technology.” Reportedly, the […]