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Canon has the art of the compact digicam down to a science by now, and the PowerShot SD790 is no exception, according to Personal computer Magazine. The new shooter nabbed the publication’s Editors’ Choice award for “superior image quality” that pulled it ahead of the likes of Panasonic’s DMC-FX55 and Sony’s DSC-T2. The SD790 includes a new physical scroll wheel that took a bit of getting used to, but turned out to be a quicker way to skim through menus. The camera includes a new motion-detection feature to automatically switch ISO and exposure to keep the images sharp, and it worked as advertised. Other automatic settings have been tweaked for better images, and the camera performs notably well in high ISO shots. The flash isn’t super powerful, and the reviewer would’ve preferred a wider angle lens at this $350 pricepoint, but all-in-all there seems to be plenty to love about this latest Digital Elph.
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If anything, Minox does a decent job of aping its large name counterparts in looks and feature set — if only it wasn’t on average a couple years late to the party. The Minox DC-8011 seems to be a perfectly passable budget compact, with an 8 megapixel CCD, 2.7-inch LCD and electric image stabilization. It even measures in at under an inch thick and offers 4x optical zoom, but that’s about as exciting as things get here — which is to state, not very exctign. No word on price or availability, but we’re not really sure that’s much of a loss.
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While we maintain that Blu-ray represents the end of the optical disk for media storage, there are signs that we might be wrong. Professor Min Gu of Swinburne University of Technology has a group of scienticians working on a new optical disk with 20,000 times the capacity of a Blu-ray disk. You could, in effect, […]
While we maintain that Blu-ray represents the end of the optical disk for media storage, there are signs that we might be wrong. Professor Min Gu of Swinburne University of Technology has a group of scienticians working on a new optical disk with 20,000 times the capacity of a Blu-ray disk. You could, in effect, have an entire video store, each song ever recorded, and my vast collection of exotic pornography on one disk.
The technology is only about five years off, but that’s really not a long time. This would mean optical technology would vastly outpace magnetic technology, meaning the future DVD would hold much more than an equivalent hard drive.
It’ll work through utilizing layers in the disk using new forms of nanotechnology and even quantum theory. It sounds sci-fi, but it’s real, and I can’t wait.
Via [crunchgear]
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