Filed under: Laptops

If you were prepared to snap up whatever ultraportable Steve Jobs threw at you during his Macworld keynote, and started frantically refreshing the Apple Store to buy the MacBook Air as soon as it was announced, you might be seeing a shipping notice from Apple in your inbox pretty soon. Reports are coming in from early adopters that their MacBook Airs are on the way, with some projected arrivals as early as February 1st — pretty much right on target for Apple’s projected two week wait. The rest of you suckers who dilly dallied in your purchasing decision might have to wait a bit longer, and potentially be subject to the humiliation of the laptop hitting stores before it arrives on your doorstep.

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Filed under: Digital Cameras, Displays

What’s a good digiframe without a good speaker? Apparently, it’s not anything Mustek wants you to be interested in, as it’s hoping the sweet sounding NXT flat-panel drivers integrated into its brand new PF-A950PS will catch more than just eyes. Set to debut at PMA, this 9.5-inch digital photo frame boasts NXT speakers that are actually “concealed within the screen,” and it also features an 800 x 480 resolution, a multicard reader that handles SD, MMC, MS, MSPro, xD and CF formats, 128MB of internal memory, USB 2.0 port and playback support of JPEG, AVI, MJPEG and XviD files. It’s all yours for $249.99 this May.

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Filed under: Digital Cameras

Panasonic didn’t exactly do the best job keeping its PMA camera lineup a secret before things got official, but it looks like it’s finally gotten its act together and it’s now loose pictures details on the whole lot of them. As expected, those include new entries in the company’s LZ, FS and TZ-series as well as, perhaps most notably, the FX35 (that’s the tiny one up above), which is the first Lumix with a 25mm wide-angle lens. Hit up the appropriate read links below for the official word on each camera from Panasonic, or just head on over after the break for a rundown of the key specs.

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Filed under: Cellphones

The K-NFB, a joint venture between Kurzweil Technologies and the National Federation of the Blind, introduced knfbREADER this week, a text-to-speech program for the N82. Coupling Kurzweil’s image processing with the N82’s camera, a user only has to snap a pic of the document to be read and the software will speak it back and allow you to follow along on the handset’s screen as it highlights each word read. The device is able to read just about all printed materials, from newspapers to glossy printed material and even US currency. Compared to earlier products — dating way back to giant contraptions in the early 80’s — this tiny package will be a boon for the visually impaired, as there’s now no need to drag something around that’s the size of a photocopier. We’re hoping that we see this offering expand to other sets with capable cameras, and that the pricing gives all a warm fuzzy feeling.

[Via Yahoo News]

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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

It’s that time again boys and girls — the time when Sony pours out enough VAIO updates all at once that your head starts throbbing uncontrollably. Without further ado, we’ll start by tackling the Type T (pictured), which gets upgraded to a 1.2GHz Core 2 Duo U7600, goes from 1GB to 2GB of RAM and now comes in a bevy of swank designs. Moving on, we’ve got the 17-inch Type A, which now sports one of those speedy new Penryn chips (exact model apparently depends on how you CTO it) but otherwise remains similar to the prior iteration. Lastly, we find that the outfit’s adorable TP1 now houses a Core 2 Duo T8100 CPU, a 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M and a Blu-ray burner to boot. For all the nitty-gritty, put on your patience cap and wade through the links below, but be forewarned, it’s a jungle down there.

[Via AkihabaraNews]
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