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SilverPac is clearly seeking to dominate the digital picture frame market with this B-E-A-U-tiful SilverFrame. This Advanced Digital Picture Frame (ADPF) was announced at Computex 2009.
The SilverFrame has a 10.1 inch display that sports a 1024 x 576 resolution. Since it has WiFi b/g/n connectivity and Bluetooth 2.0, the user has many ways to download photos to this frame from such programs as Picasa, Photobucket, Facebook, and Windows Live.
Pictures can also be put in via USB port, multiformat memory card slot, and micro-USB port. Since it runs Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2, the user can easily set up a slideshow with Windows SideShow and Live FrameIt. It can also play video, music, show e-mails, and sync with the user's calendar. Nice. Very nice!
The ADPF also has a Freescale processor with 512MB of RAM and 1 GB of Flash memory. It also has an infrared remote, twin 1.5 speakers, plus a rotation sensor. That means you can rotate your frame, and it will sense what direction the pictures are and automatically make the adjustment.
Yes, I know it looks nice, but I don't have any word on price or availability. I'm a little concerned that it will be a little too much for the average consumer. This is not your cheaply made digital photo frame, after all.
In Photoshop, there's a little pen which will copy the color settings of anything on your monitor screen so you can use it as your color in the program. Well, think of the Real Life Color Picker as … well, a real life version of just that – only for the real world.
The Color Picker can scan any color in the real world by placing the head of the pen against the object of color and pressing the scan button. Color sensors inside the pen talk to the attached RGB cartridge, which then mixes the proper proportions of red, green and blue to come up with an accurate ink color. It can then be used for artistic purposes like drawing or simply writing with it. Very cool.
I can see literally hundreds of possibilities for hobbyists – particularly scrapbookers and costumers looking to match the color of a particular garment or wallpaper sample in order to then get the right swatch to create the perfect scrap book page or costume. Or simply someone like my wife, who's been writing in a journal non stop since she was 13 (now 42) and getting ink to suit her mood at the time.
It's just a concept right now, but if this sucker gets funding, I can see Parker or Paper Mate picking this up just in time for school.
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Looks like Sony can't really keep their secrets from leaking out to the public before the official announcement, as image leaks as well as whispers of the PSP go were already making their rounds well ahead of the E3 announcement. Well, for those who recently picked up a Sony PSP-3000 (yes, it is in its third iteration already for that particular generation), there is a new device that looks set to displace the PSP-3000 in due time - assuming it does crazily well, of course. We're guessing that Sony is taking Nintendo's similar approach as they did all those years ago, touting the DS Phat to be the "third pillar", only bringing it to the forefront and discontinuing the Game Boy line when the DS was found to be doing exceptionally well. Only time will tell, but let us take a look at the Sony PSP go in greater detail today.
The PSP go will arrive in stores for folks living in North America this October 1, while Europe/PAL territories and Asian countries will get theirs a month later, retailing for $249 and an equivalent amount in Euros, of course. As stated earlier, the PSP go will co-exist with the PSP-3000 in retail stores as gamers as well as those who are curious learn to decide which is the best possible portable gaming system for them. What makes the PSP go different is it won't come with any UMD drive - instead, it will ditch all disc-based content by catering to those who want on-demand entertainment, featuring 16GB of internal memory as well as the ability to receive digital entertainment via the PlayStation Network. Sounds fine and dandy, but what about less developed markets where over-the-air download speeds are excruciatingly slow? Guess those folks will just have to settle for regular PSP-3000s.
Some of the interesting features available on the spanking new PSP go include an easy sliding panel alongside original applications, a game sleep function that lets you operate the XrossMediaBar while suspending gameplay for the moment, Bluetooth connectivity and a wide range of accessories to go along with it. What do you think of the form factor, and will the PSP go do for Sony what the DS Lite did for Nintendo?
It is nice to know that ever since Dell bought over extreme gaming brand Alienware, they haven't really affected the company's performance in any way. Dell still churns out reliable (for most people, anyways - there are always horror stories to tell of any brand in this world) notebooks and desktops for millions of people around the world each day, and Alienware sticks to what it does best - working on drool-worthy gaming machines that cost a bomb, and yet people won't mind forking out good money for it due to the overall aesthetics as well as performance that come in a single package. Having said that, Alienware has rolled out yet another masterpiece today - the Alienware M17x gaming notebook that is set to blow your mind away.
While the M17x isn't exactly the best kept secret in the world, it is nice to get an official announcement, where Dell has touted it to be the "most powerful laptop in the universe." That's surely stating their faith that advanced alien civilizations out there don't exist - but that's a different can of worms for another day. What can you expect from a thoroughbred like the Alienware M17x? For starters, check out what a fully pimped out model can offer.
2GB of total video memory just blows our minds away. We're guessing that this means the era of notebooks being viable gaming platforms is coming, although bringing down the price by a bunch would go a long way in helping that dream get realized. One thing's for sure – we'd strongly recommend you sit right next to a power outlet if you plan to use this for more than a couple hours of hardcore gaming.
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