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Canon have announced a new line of five VIXIA high definition and six standard definition camcorders for 2009, which are available in a variety of different recording formats, including Flash Memory.
Highlighting the list of new features is Canon’s newest and most sophisticated image processor, DIGIC DV III. The new HD processor is featured in [...]

On 20th February 2009 Nintendo will release it’s next offering in the Fitness Game market sector it has created with the popular Wii Fit game.
Walk with me! Do you know your walking routine? is a four player game for the Nintendo DS portable console that includes a set of fob sized pedometers for players to [...]

On February 24th 2009 the fourth and probably last Futurama movie is being released on DVD and Bluray. I hadn’t thought too much about it until today, mostly because Futurama 3 - Bender’s Game was a bit of a dissapointment. But then Joy O Joy, I ran across an article by James O’Connor over at [...]

The UK Gadget Show recently did a side by side comparison of Nikon’s F5 film camera and the D700 full frame DSLR cameras to decide if digital imagery is as “good” as film yet.
To do this they produced massive photo blowups measuring 170 square feet… and the very visible difference in results might be surprising [...]

The Tokyobling blog has some interesting shots of a Nikon D3 and 14-24 Nikkor lens cut in half for a display at December’s Tokyo Eco Products convention.
http://tokyobling.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/nikon-d3-cut-in-half/
Check out the amount and thickness of glass used in the lens!

Sony has really impressed the prosumer market at it’s first attempt at a full frame sensor DLSR model, the A900. Right now my personal choice of the three would be the 5D Mk2 but I have high expectations that new generations of this Sony platform will make that choice a lot harder for the next [...]

The last remaining private development branch of the open-source Android mobile operating system project, Cupcake, will be incorporated into the core release next month.
Finally we will see ‘normal’ cut-n-paste functionality available, along with a raft of other improvements that give hope we are also about to start enjoying handheld mobile computing in the way it [...]

Amazing new 3D “anaglyph” photos by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal the planet’s topography in extraordinary detail, that is nothing short of eerie in 3D.
The images were captured with the HiRISE camera (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment), the most powerful camera ever placed in another planet’s orbit, which can show features down to 1 [...]

Gizmodo.com’s Brian Lam held an exhibition of cool gadgets, gizmos and other geek stuff in New York City’s Lower East Side last week.
The show included the original Sony Walkman that kicked off the portable media player revolution, the world’s first $500,000 video phone and some super cool toys any geek would love.
See Scientific American.com’s slide [...]

Australian company Kogan Technologies has staged a minor coup by becoming just the second manufacturer to start selling a Google Android powered smartphone device, The Kogan Agora and Agora Pro.
In a Blackberry style form factor the Kogan Agora features a 2.5 inch touchscreen (320×240), 624MHz processor, 128MB RAM, tri-band 3G, backlit QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth 2.0 [...]