Diesels's OLED packing watches

Diesel has just launched a pair of new watches that are damn cool looking and mainly has a superb OLED tech.

OLED is an organic light-emitting diode which usually contains a polymer substance that allows suitable organic compounds to be deposited. This resulting matrix of pixels can emit light of different colors. Such systems can be used in television screens etc.

The advantage that OLED has over LCDs is that OLED does not require blacklight to function. There are a very few OLED display watches which are not as attractive as compared to the diesel’s DZ7080 and the DZ7079 with awesome design and water-resistance.

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World's smallest camcoreder!!!

The world's smallest camcorder has been popped by Sanyo. The C6 is now the world's smallest camcorder. It's just 23mm thin and weighs just 159 grams!! The C6 includes a battery and a memory card which records DVD-quality videos in MPEG-4 format.

This "matchbox size" digital camcorder can record up to 6 hours of video on a SD memory card. All this can easily be shifted on your computer by using a USB.

Here are some of the features:

• Audio Recorder
• Fast USB download
• PC card slot for more memory
• 3" X 1.25" X .125"
• Use as digital data computer capture
• shutter speed: 1.8uS to 1/30 seconds
  

Featured Gadget: To Do

Posted by Kathy Walrath, Technical Writer

This blog periodically features a Google Desktop gadget and a quote from someone who uses it. If you'd like to recommend a gadget, send an email to desktop-gadgets AT google DOT com.

Mihai Ionescu of the Google Desktop team says: "The To Do gadget is an amazing time saver wherever I go with my laptop. It's like having a pack of Post-It sticky notes with you all the time."

The To Do gadget is part of the Google Desktop installation and should already be available on your system. If you don't see it in your sidebar, select "Add gadgets" (+ on the top sidebar menu), search for todo, and then add the gadget.

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goes on and on....39 MEGAPIXELS

Yes, you heard that right. A Swedish company is out with a whopping 39 megapixel camera. This awesome piece comes on a fabulous 48X35mm imaging chip. There is no way you can compare this to the canon EOS 1Ds mark III which is a 21 megapixel 36X24mm.

Here are some of the features which you would love to know:

• It has some of the best lenses in the world
• 3-inch LCD monitor
• built-in GPS
  

Its the Hasselblad H3D-II. Thats the name you would like to keep in mind.

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Solio - you just need the sun!!!

What is Solio?

Well, Solio is a universal hybrid charger that can charge all of your handheld electronic products at home or even outside!! The reason why the Solio is called a hybrid is because it can accept power from either the wall socket or the sun.The sun stores its energy within solio's internal rechargeablee battery.

Here are some of its advantages:

• It is compact and due to its lightweight design it is convenient for travel or emergency use.
• Adapters allows you to power multiple gadgets with a single charger.
• Can be worked with multiple gadgets such as mobile phones, iPhone, bluetooth headsets, digital cameras, mp3 players, GPS and lots more.

How does it work?
Solio comes as a fan-blade design. It achieves maximum solar area due to this design. All you have to do is spread out the blades, expose them to direct sunlight and you have the power that you require.

Here are some of solio's facts:

• Charging the internal battery takes about 8-10 hours of direct sunlight.
• Using the wall adappter, solio can fully charge in about 4 hours.
• When charging an iPod directly from the sun, one hour of sunlight will provide about one hour play time.
  

Clever Small Tripod for light Video Cameras

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Originally uploaded by Jonathan Marks

If you have 135 Euro to spare, this mini tripod is brilliant. Manfrotto showed it at IBC2007, though the staff on the stand had diifficulty finding words to explain why it's such a clever design. My Italian isn't good enough. You can use it to put the camera on a table, grip the handle or rest it against the shoulder. Brilliant.

IBC 2010 Barcelona?

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Originally uploaded by Jonathan Marks

IBC this year was interesting from a technology point of view, but disasterous from a logistics standpoint. The IBC has outgrown Amsterdam with a shortage of hotel rooms estimated to be in the region of 4000-6000 rooms. And the city has simply reacted to the situation by putting the prices up. The RAI is also going through a "makeover" but instead of gathering support for the make-over also put its (food) prices up and made parking sheer hell. IBC is back in Amsterdam next year to muddle through again, but in the mid-term definitely needs an exit strategy.

What is going on at Blogger?

Why are bits on my blog showing up in German? Software glitches in Google?

GPS Capable Laptop

According to Engadget, Asus claims to have made the "world's first mainstream notebook PC with integrated GPS capability." That particular distinction goes to the company's new U3S laptop, which relies on NXP Software's swGPS system for navigation duties. Among other things, NXP's system does all the necessary GPS signal processing entirely in software, which not only allows it to be much smaller, but also opens up the possibility of fairly significant software upgrades (including support for Galileo if the Europeans gets the system going within the lifetime of the laptop). Just don't expect "mainstream" to mean "cheap," with the laptop set to run €2,300 (or $3,200) when it's released later in September.

Now if only the GPS data from the microphone or camera is automatically added to the metadata about where the script is written. Just t5hink of how this could be used for journalists working in the field - and indexing their material automatically for later searches from the archives.

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Satnav S series

You might want this awesome satnav by Navman which is slim and which gives it a new look and which will definitely not make your windscreen look ridiculous.

For those of you who do not know what a satnav is, well satnavs are satellite navigation devices. A standard generic term for the satnavs would be the Global Navigation Satellite System. Basically, it is an electronic device that determines ther location.

Navman will help you not to do all the pesky map-reading cause its out with the all new S series, it’s the S90i. Here are some of its features:

• 4.3 inch sceen

• Text-to-speech

• Bluetooth

• Built in traffic receiver

IBC Radio Mystery

There was a special radio station at IBC 2007 this year (although I think it was a very well kept secret. It seems some free promotional radios that were supposed to be in boxes like this at the exhibition never arrived in Amsterdam. IBC tells me the podcasts of what was broadcast are available here. Don't look on the main IBC site, you'll never find it. Not sure if analogue radio is the best medium for this...IBC Daily news should get into VODcasting. But judge for yourself.

Made the front page of IBC Daily News

In 2020 and beyond we will still need public broadcasters
By Kate Bulkley

Future-gazing is always a tricky business but those who believe there should be a future for public broadcasters beyond 2020 were cheered when Duane Varan, the executive director of the Interactive Television Research Institute in Australia called the erosion of public service broadcasting "a big mistake."
In Varan's view, as audiences fragment and competition for them becomes more intense, the role of PSBs become more critical than ever, especially for news, education and information-based programming.

"Audience fragmentation pushes news to the edge - it's what I call the Fox News effect - where the idea of objectivity loses out to the need to shout to be heard in a fragmenting universe," Varan told the packed audience at Future-gazing: the Broadcasting world in 2020.

Jonathan Marks, media anthropologist, journalist and producer, said the move to an all-digital world means that PSBs have a mandate to preserve a country's heritage. "PSBs have a role to serve the citizens not consumers - 80% of the world's broadcast archives are rotting and in 10 years many of them will be gone," Marks warned.

Wendy Hall, professor of computer science at the University of Southampton, predicted that our digital personas would become increasingly complex and rich, begging questions about who owns and controls 'your' information. Hall suggested that we might entrust third parties with personal information, "much like we use a bank today."

Another potentially huge problem discussed by the panel is what we record and store all this information on so it is 'playable' in the future. "You don't want to store it for yourself because the formats may change," said Hall.

Sony Vegas Pro 8

Interesting to watch the extended demo of Sony Vegas Pro 8, launched today at IBC 2007. It was the most interesting Non-linear editor I saw at the show, bearing in mind the readers of this blog. There are useful features here not in Final Cut, especially the ability to mix and mash-up video in different formats and qualities. Seems they have also cut down the rendering time and addressed an old problem - namely the titles were rather simple in version 7. Must confess I was thinking of changing platforms to Mac as the machines here are due for upgrade. Now I am not so sure.

NPR Research

Interested to see that NPR has come up with the equivalent of teletekst for digital radio. Its a way to put text of a broadcast using the HD-Radio standard now being rolled out across the USA. Looks like HD Radio will be a evolution rather than an evolution. I see the Taiwanese company of Sangean now has HD Radios on the market.

Good news...

Felt better wandering around Halls 1 & 2 today at IBC 2007 and seeing some excellent restoration work being in a European project for both tape and record archives. Brilliant work that will save a lot of great stories from fading into the noise.

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LG's Viewty

Lg is now out with its new Viewty and its called that because this phone has an awesome camera. You can go on and on about this phone. Its got a top class camera. You could probably call it a "phone camera" rather than a camera phone!! Check out what the camera has for you:

• 5 mega pixel snapper
• 16X zoom
• A massive 3-inch screen
• The camera can take videos at an amazing 120 frames per second
• Video can be played back to back in DVD quality at 30 fps
• Editing pictures and videos are easy
• Touchscreen helps you find your way in no time
  

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iPhone style MP3 player

Now apple is out with an iPod touch that looks exactly like the iPhone with the multi-touch opiton. So, basically it iPhone without the blower.

There is also instant access to Youtube. It can also access sites like Facebook. Here are some of the interesting features that you need to look at:

It has

• contacts
• calendars
• A clock
• WiFi connection

The WiFi connection comes with full Safari access which helps you get hold of the iTunes by which you can tap a song to preview, hit the download button and the next time you dock it, its there!!

You can get this in either 8GB or 16 GB. This piece is gonna hit the market sometime this month.