The ongoing floods in Thailand are some of the country’s worst ever, so much so that it is now trickling into the world of consumer electronics. As many of you know, there are a boatload of manufacturing facilities throughout Thailand and other parts of Asia. Back in March when Japan had the devastating earthquake and tsunami, several consumer electronics manufacturers had issues then, too. But today it is Canon who is in the news. The flooding is apparently bad...
Nerds such as myself take pride in showing off our geeky sides wherever it may be. My desk at work is but another canvas to paint the nerdy image of my life day in and day out. We’ve all seen various USB gadgets, nerdy clocks, and shape shifting gizmos, but what we haven’t seen is a desktop canon. This tiny canon isn’t your standard geek toy, firing nerf darts or anything “harmless”. Instead, light up the fuse and prepare yourselves for...
Ever find yourself looking at the $500 lens on your $5800 camera, wishing you could poor liquid goodness deep down inside and carry it around as a “custom” mug, showing off the true nerd lifestyle you long to live? Ya, not so much, do ya? But what if someone went through the trouble of making a mug that looked like some expensive photography equipment? Might be a little more welcoming huh? Apparently photographers shooting it up at the Olympics in Vancouver...
If you can recall a year or two ago, (I know, reach deep into the depths that is your mind….I’m just kidding you ‘ol bear trap you), SED technology was a TV technology with a bright future ahead looking to become the dominating standard, if not at least a worthy competitor to OLED, and the now defunct FED standards with it’s extremely nice image quality. Then drama, greed, and confusion took place as various partners dropped support and funding. ...
It is CES week and electronic companies are starting to divulge scores of information for upcoming products of ’09. Canon has let loose a whole slew of information about a boat load of new camcorders coming hopefully very soon. So without any further blabbing click through to see the full list (it is quite long). *Pictures go from lowest to highest in each series* We’ll start with the Hi-Def Camcorders first: 1. HV40 HDV 2.96 Megapixel Full HD CMOS...
