Monthly Archives: January 2008

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LED pranksters remember the Aqua Teen Hunger Force “bomb” scare

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In an expression of remembrance for a historical moment in hair-trigger overreactions, artists all over the Boston area have taken to the streets armed with provocative LED signage. Paying homage to the “bomb” scare of January 31st, 2007 (which was actually just viral promotion for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie using LED art), creative pranksters have descended upon the city with electronic recreations of President Bush, Osama Bin Laden, and a number of other inflammatory images sure to rile the local authorities but-good. Truck on over to MAKE to see a collection of images, and if you happen to be in the Boston area, don’t miss a chance to snap some photos of your own!

 

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Hands-on with Panasonic’s seven new Lumix models

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Wow, that’s a lot of Lumixes! If there’s one thing to be said for Panasonic’s digital imaging division, it definitely gives the consumer quite a large variety of models to choose from. And some, like the TZ4 and TZ5, offer pretty compelling features, such as a relatively monstrous 10x optical zooms in a relatively pocketable form factor. For the full list of models in the gallery below, which run the gamut from 8.1 to 10.1 megapixels, be sure to check out the official announcement post from a few days back.

Gallery: Hands-on with Panasonic’s new Lumix lineup

 

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Delkin’s ImageRouters daisy chain to read twelve UDMA CF cards at once

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Been looking for the perfect card reader to complement that ExpressCard-less MacBook Air of yours? Well here’s exactly what you aren’t looking for, the ImageRouter from Delkin. This thing is built for professional photographers who need to dump pictures in a hurry, and one of these $149 monstrosities can read up to four CompactFlash cards simultaneously over a USB 2.0 connection. But wait, there’s more! You can plug up to three ImageRouters into each other for a total of 12 CompactFlash cards in UDMA transfer mode all at the same time, perfect for all those 25 megapixel shots you’ve been snapping, or that RAID array you’ve been meaning to build. Delkin’s shipping this thing in March, and it also comes in a $249 version with some bundled BackupandBurn software.

[Via SlashGear]

 

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Hands-on with Sony’s new a300 and a350 DSLRs

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Just in case you thought that Sony was, you know, making up those snazzy new alpha DSLRs with articulating, live-view LCDs, we’re here with a plethora of hands-on shots to prove that they’re the real deal. Since you already know the specs by now — 10.2 megapixel (a300) or 14.2 megapixel (a350) sensors, 2.7-inch screen, ISO up to 3200, and traditional CF slots — we’ll just let you get right to the eye candy below.

Gallery: Hands-on with Sony’s new a300 and a350 DSLRs

 

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Apple prepping updated MacBook Pros?

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Although it’s only been a couple weeks since MacWorld, the Apple rumor machine is still going strong — this time with news of updated MacBook Pros. Apparently a utility called MiniBatteryLogger that provides public tracking stats recently got a record from a machine identifying itself as a “MacBookPro4,1” — current machines being “MacBookPro3,1.” That jives with entries for the same machine in dev builds of 10.5.2, and apparently the machine posted from an Apple IP address — which means, thrillingly, that Apple has updated MacBook Pros somewhere in development. We would have never guessed. Still, let’s hope we see them sooner rather than later — we might be ambivalent towards the MacBook Air, but we’re definitely interested in scoring a multi-touch trackpad.

 

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