EA announced yesterday that Burnout Revenge for the Xbox 360 has already gone gold, and it has not even been released yet. It should be out later this month. The game looks very promising as it has some great features including the most realistic crashes and vehicle damage. Vehicle deformation, highlighted with localized scratch, crumple and scorch maps, Hollywood-inspired special effects and bigger explosions than ever before are the things we can look forward too in the near future. No wonder it went Gold already.
Archives for March 2006
Sony upgrades W digicam line
Sony has announced upgrades to its W-series compact digital camera line at the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) 2006 trade show.
The Rangefinder-style W series gets a facelift as the lower end is now a continuation of the more compact P-series of the recent years, and is more akin to the Canon ixus line in size and feature set. The higher end models retain the old W size and form factor, but now sport higher resolution CCD sensors (7 and 8 megapixels!) and upgraded optics.
New models include the W30 (SRP: US$ 230) and W50 (SRP: US$ 250) on the lower-featured, more compact side, and the W70 (SRP: US$ 300) and W100 (SRP: US$ 350) on the larger, more feature-packed side.
Across the W series, common enhancements include the following:
- Increased light sensitivity, up to 1000 ISO equivalent settings (up to 1250 ISO for the W100)
- Intuitive helptext for menu system
Now what would I do with that fast a light sensitivity? I’m worried about noise and pixellation at those ISO levels, even if this was meant to enable faster shutter speeds at low-light operation! But the help system is cool, though, for novice photographers–it takes out the guesswork in photography (sometimes “Auto” mode isn’t enough, since there are a plethora of options one can explore even on a simple point-and-shoot digicam)
At any rate, the W series is worth looking at. It strikes good balance between price and funcitionality.
Sony HDPS-L1
This is an electronic photo storage device; very simply put, you transfer photos from a flash media card to the HDPS-L1, where they are stored on the internal hard drive.
Sounds simple enough, comparable to the advent of sliced bread you may say, well it works and it works well. Included is a 80GB hard drive, as well as audio and video lineouts to connect the photo storage device to the home theatre system. Once downloaded, the images are automatically organized by date, as well as having the ability to sort photos by groupings.
The widget measures only 8.5�?x10�?x1.4�?, and supports seven different types of flash cards as well as USB inputs, and as well as being able to download from the cards, you can also upload to the cards.
When viewing the photos, you can utilize the remote control to move through your collection, as well as viewing them in slide show mode.
The Sony HDPS-L1 in detail:
Hard Drive 80GB
Video/Sound output
JPEG and Sony RAW file support
Background Music
WAV (pre-installed)
Handles USB, Memory Stick/Duo, Compact Flash, Micro-drive, SD Card, xD Picture Card, Multi Media Card
Available in May for about $300
via [fosforgadgets]
SRD-S3
The SRD-S3 is a CD/DVD Shredder.
Q: what does it do?
A: shreds CD’s and DVD’s
Q: why do you care?
A: becuase it is cool
Q: ‘but I’m not a geek, am I?
A’: yes you are
via [akihabaranews.com]
if you can read japanese
Gmail for domains
Google has been hinting about this new feature for a month, and then finally made it public. Gmail for domains lets you use Gmail as your domain’s mailhosting solution. A pretty cool idea, especally given Gmail’s 2.6+ Gigabytes of storage and threaded and labelled views (IMHO, a great way of organizing email).
What I currently do is mailforward all my domain email (racoma.net) to my Gmail account and use the “Send From” feature so in effect, Gmail manages my racoma.net email. I no longer have to worry about running out of email hosting space or bandwidth.
But a dedicated solution that lets you point your mail-exchange records towards the Gmail server is better. Ryderross.com has a screenshot here, and promises to put out more. I just applied as a beta tester; I hope I get approved soon so I can check it out personally.
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