Canon EOS 5D Mark III full-frame DSLR unleashed: 22-megapixels, 61-point AF and 6fps burst for $3,500

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  • March 2, 2012 at 1:15 pm

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Canon EOS 5D Mark III medley

While we’ve already brought you the full specs of the EOS 5D Mark III before it was announced, Canon officially revealed the new full-frame DSLR early this morning. The EOS 5D Mark II allowed photographers to get their hands on a relatively affordable and lightweight full-frame camera, but after three years since its release it’s been showing its age.

The hotly anticipated successor is now a reality and Canon has brought a pretty solid feature list to the new camera. It’s got a new 22.3-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor with DIGIC 5+ processing technology. The new camera has actually adopted some of the features of the flagship EOS-1D X, like its 61-point autofocus system with up to 41 cross-type points and the rear 3.2-inch 1,040,000 dot display.
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Apple’s next iPad could be called iPad HD instead of iPad 3

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  • March 2, 2012 at 3:21 am

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Apple iPad 3 (iPad HD) event invitation - finger touching calendar

We’ve been trying to restrain from posting too many news on Apple’s upcoming next generation iPad, which should be announced on March 7th, but this is an interesting piece of news.

It’s long been speculated that new iPad will follow the same naming convention as previous generations of iOS products, i.e. will be called the iPad 3. However a new rumor suggests that it will actually be called iPad HD. Although we generally dislike the trend of simply slapping “HD” on everything, it could make sense as the key new feature of the next iPad is expected to be its high definition 2,048 x 1,536-pixel display.
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Full Canon EOS 5D Mark III specs leaked ahead of official anouncement

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  • March 1, 2012 at 5:57 pm

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Canon EOS 5D Mark III front

The Canon EOS 5D Mark III is the proud successor to the popular full-frame 5D Mark II DSLR, and is going to be announced officially in a few hours. But as with most good things, it’s hard to keep it a secret, with photos and details of the new DSLR having leaked repeatedly (just check out timeline below).

Well the latest leak from CanonRumors now has a full list of specs for the Mark III along with some additional pictures of the camera.
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Why we love tech: Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room is the closest you’ll get to floating in space

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  • March 1, 2012 at 2:12 pm

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Yayoi Kusama retrospective at the Tate Modern in London

Obsessiveness, repetition and of course dots sum up the incredibly original work of Yayoi Kusama. Aged 82, Kusama came into adolescence while Japan was entering its postwar period and later moved to New York in the 1960s, exhibiting alongside Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, before returning back to her home country in 1973. Kusama didn’t just follow the trends of her time, she created them.

The Japanese artist has been on a creative roll ever since she was a young child incorporating her trademark dots for the first time in a drawing at the age of 10, which as she admitted were part of her first hallucinations.

Even after she self-admitted herself to a mental institution in 1977, Yayoi Kusama continued to work fanatically from a studio near the hospital in Shinjuku, Tokyo even to this day. It’s no wonder she is one of Japan’s most celebrated artists
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Wacom announces Intuos5 digitizing tablets with multitouch, wireless connectivity and capacitive keys (video)

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  • March 1, 2012 at 7:53 am

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Wacom Intuos5 touch Medium digitizer

This one is for all you illustrators, graphic designers, digital artists and pro photographers out there. Wacom, makers of fine digitizing tablets, has just announced the next generation in its Intuos lineup. Intuos5 takes the reigns as the company’s most advanced graphics tablet line.

Wacom has added some useful features to the new line. The Intuos5 gains multi-touch gesture support, taking advantage of the touch capabilities already built into OS X Lion and Windows 7. For example, you can navigate, rotate and pan images using your fingers. In addition the new software gives you the ability to create and customize gestures for individual applications. Another new feature is that now all the tablets in the line-up can connect to your computer wirelessly, provided you have the separate Wacom Wireless Accessory Kit.
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview is out, here’s how to get it

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  • February 29, 2012 at 3:45 pm

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Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Over the past several months we’ve been closely following the development of Microsoft’s next version of Windows. Windows 8 offers a ton of improvements and changes over Windows 7 and since September, developers were able to try out the new operating system in the Windows 8 Developer Preview.

Now anyone can download and install their own preview copy of Windows 8 with the Consumer Preview. Microsoft is not officially calling it a beta, though it will, hopefully, help shape the finished product. Microsoft claims to have made over 100,000 code changes following feedback it has received so far since the Developer Preview.
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Nokia 808 PureView 41-megapixel sensor sized-up and explained (sample pictures)

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  • February 29, 2012 at 1:18 pm

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Nokia 808 PureView phone back and front

One of the most interesting devices to come out of this year’s Mobile World Congress is the Nokia 808 PureView. The 808 runs Symbian Belle over the company’s current crop of smartphones running Windows Phone. What makes it special is the new 41-megapixel camera sensor — no that’s not a typo — paired with Carl Zeiss optics, which Nokia has aptly named PureView.

Nokia hasn’t gone completely crazy, jamming more pixels into a tiny sensor and letting you handle crappy 41-megapixel files. First of all the sensor size is 1/1.2 inch, about five times larger than the typical 1/3.2-inch sensor found in most mobile phones. Because the sensor is bigger, the pixel size is still 1.4µm, the same as most current phones. You can actually see the 808 PureView sensor below at the bottom right, compared to an 8-megapixel and a 5-megapixel sensor this thing looks enormous. When you combine the Carl Zeiss f/2.4 lens and a Xenon flash the entire camera array takes a substantial amount of real estate.
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Raspberry Pi $35 pocket-sized ARM Linux computer goes on sale in the UK, sells-out in just two hours

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  • February 29, 2012 at 8:58 am

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Raspberry Pi Model B board photo

The Raspberry Pi foundation began selling its ARM-based $35 Linux computer at 6am GMT today through two UK mail order electronic distributors, but initial demand was so high that brought the websites to their knees while the system quickly sold out.

The Raspberry Pi computer is the size of a deck of cards and is made up of a 700MHz ARM11 CPU with 256MB of RAM, SD card storage, a USB port and HDMI, audio and RCA video outputs. The system boots Fedora Linux from the SD card and connects to a TV and a keyboard for a pretty standard computing experience.
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Canon EOS 5D Mark III full-frame DSLR leaked again, to be announced March 2nd

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  • February 28, 2012 at 6:07 pm

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Canon EOS 5D Mark III front leaked

It’s been more than three years since the Canon EOS 5D Mark II hit the streets and the, relatively, affordable and lightweight full-frame camera has met a lot of success. But three years is a long time in the ever-changing world of tech and Canon has long been rumored to be preparing a successor.

The Canon EOS 5D Mark III was first spotted on an African safari, though at the time it was yet unconfirmed whether it was indeed Canon’s upcoming full-frame DSLR. A new leak over at the forums of Canonrumors has brought us a number of new pictures, confirming the Canon EOS 5D Mark III.
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NVIDIA DirectTouch promises more responsive multi-touch experience on Tegra 3 powered Android devices (video)

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  • February 26, 2012 at 4:51 am

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NVIDIA DirectTouch architecture comparison

One of the criticisms against Android over Apple’s iOS, is that it doesn’t offer the same level of multitouch responsiveness and UI smoothness. This perceived ‘lagginess’ has been the subject of much debate, but we won’t go into that right now.

Well NVIDIA has been pimping its newest 4-PLUS-1 quad-core (plus fifth power-saving core) Tegra 3 system-on-a-chip (SoC) and created a new mobile touch technology, named DirectTouch, promising to improve multitouch experience. The DirectTouch architecture offloads part of the touch panel processing to the Tegra 3 CPU cores, reducing lag and increasing touch samples per second. This should improve user interface responsiveness and accuracy and of course gaming experience, without any expense on battery life.
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PSA: Olympus OM-D E-M5 now up for pre-order from Amazon UK with free battery grip; shipping April 1st

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  • February 24, 2012 at 6:50 pm

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Olympus OM-D E-M5 MFT digital camera - black - top

Amazon UK now has the newly announced Olympus OM-D E-M5 up for pre-order here. The 12-50mm lens kit goes for £1,150, while you can get the body only for £999 here.

Though British Micro Four Thirds friends will have to shell out more than their counterparts across the pond, Olympus is offering a nice sweetener to the deal. Anyone ordering the Olympus E-M5 in the UK before the 30th of April will get the HLD-6 battery holder and grip for free. The HLD-6 kit contains both the landscape grip and the portrait grip with extra battery holder. Considering that otherwise you would be looking at around £200-250 for the grip only, it’s not such a bad deal.
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Samsung Galaxy B bezel-free smartphone rumored

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  • February 24, 2012 at 5:15 pm

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Samsung thin bezel concept smartphone in video

Would you like an edge-to-edge-screened bezel-free smartphone with that? Yes please! Apparently someone up there has been listening to our wishes. After Samsung promised that we will be getting at least a full day’s worth of battery life from our smartphones in 2012, another of our wishes could become true this year.

The rumor comes with a good pinch of salt, but if a Korean publication proves right, Samsung maybe preparing a new smartphone with a very thin bezel that would make our dreams of edge-to-edge displays true. The device is named, at least for now, Galaxy B and it may emerge in the third quarter of the year.
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Samsung Galaxy S II tops 20 million sold units in ten months

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  • February 23, 2012 at 8:57 am

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Samsung Galaxy S II

Samsung is currently head of the Android camp when it comes to selling its goods and that’s in no small smart thanks to the success of its Galaxy S series and the current flagship, the Galaxy S II handset. Now we can put a number on that success, with Samsung announcing that it has sold over 20 million Galaxy S II units in the ten months since the 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus smartphone has been in around. The Galaxy S II was announced at MWC 2011 in February and launched in late April last year in Asia, it was available in most European countries by May but only reached the US last September.
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