Xbox Live Vision Mix Up
One lucky xbox 360 user managed to buy Microsoft’s Xbox Live Vision camera from Toys R Us, almost a month before its official release date September, 19. He courteously posted the images of the fruit of his spoils on Flicker.
The contents of the package include: the headset, camera, 1 month of Live Gold, and a free registration to the Xbox Live Arcade game Uno.
The Best Home Consumer-Grade Camera?
While my brother, Elliott has chosen Sony’s Cybershot DSC-H5 as the best consumer grade camera, I myself believe that Sony’s Cybershot DSC N1 8.1 megapixel camera is the best home consumer-grade camera.
The most important features are:
- 8.1 megapixels
- 3x optical zoom/6x digital zoom
- 3.0 inch LCD display/touch screen menu
- Long battery life: 300 shots per charge
- ISO 800
- VGA 640 x 480 Video at up to 30 fps
For a price of $380, Sony’s Cybershot DSC-N1 is an excellent consumer camera, especially for beginners. Its large 3.0 inch touch screen menu is easy to use, and also has an impressive slide show mode. PC Magazine reviewed the DSC-N1 and gave it a 4/5, “very good” rating, reporting that the camera consistently took high quality photos. Sony’s DSC-N1 is the perfect home consumer grade camera because of its high quality photos, large viewing screen, exceptionally long battery life, and beginner friendly interface.
Samsung’s YP-K5 MediaPlayer
Samsung rolled out another media player in Korea- the YP-K5.
Samsung’s YP-K5 DAP has integrated speakers, supports mp3, WMA, ASF, and OGG files, and is available in 1,2, or 4 gb capacities. There’s been no word on price or eventual US availability.
Optimus Mini Keyboard
The Optimus 3 Key Mini Keyboard uses programmable OLED screens as buttons.
Origianlly, the Optimus Keyboard was going to be made into a full fledged, completely customable keyboard– however, this 3 Key Mini Keyboard is the child of that endeavor. There are 6 possible presets for the three keys.
The Keys are 20 mm x 20 mm with 96 x 96 pixels each, and animation at 3 frames per second. The keys can be configures to start an application, show free memory and CPU usage, display a web cam, display time and weather, or control IE, Windows Media, and Word. The Optimus 3 Key Mini Keyboard will become available in September from ThinkGeek, and will cost $160.
Nokia 6230i Mouse
A Nokia user hacked his phone, and converted into a mouse.
The Nokia mouse has bluetooth, selectable buttons (also called soft buttons) on the phone as mouse keys, and uses existing Nokia Sync software to transfer data. Pyrofer wrote the java code and windows driver that would enable him to use his Nokia 6230i as a mouse. Pyrofer said: “Recently I saw an article on a USB Optical mouse that had been modded to include a Nokia Colour LCD Screen. This got me thinking, The screen was quite usefull but why go to all the effort of modding a mouse, why not use the whole Nokia?” To read more, and watch a video, go to Pyrofer’s Projects.