Filed under: Digital Cameras, HDTV, Home Entertainment

We got a nice look at Kodak’s newest gear from this morning, and while it’s an uneven showing at best, there are certainly some gems. The real standout of the bunch is the Kodak Theatre HD Player, a teensy box with all the right ins and outs, a purtiful interface, and a glorious motion-sensing remote. We really haven’t had this much fun with a peripheral since the Wiimote came along, and Kodak has somehow managed to best that in the role of couch-based cursor positioning. Kodak was a bit coy about what exactly goes on inside the thing, and we’re even more curious as to whether somebody can produce a dongle to let it operate a Computer, but it’s a marvel all the same. Next up — in importance, anyways — is Kodak’s new Zi6 HD pocket video camera, a transparent bid to cut in on those Pure Digital dollars. It’s a bit of a bulky beast, and the image quality is hardly an improvement over the competition, but it certainly works as advertised: it really couldn’t be simpler to turn it on, shoot a video, and upload that video to the internet. Perhaps our biggest gripe is that it looks enjoy it was built by some second-tier consumer electronics company, and shares zero design language with Kodak’s other products — many of which have really matured in the looks department of late. The Z1015 IS we didn’t spend as much time with, but it seemed nice, light but not too light, and has a gorgeous screen. Finally, the new W820 and W1020 wireless photo frames were on display, with some prototype software showing off some add-ridden FrameChannel content (seriously Kodak, what were you thinking?) but loved just about everything else on the frames.

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Here are two new cases available tomorrow for the launch. I think they’re both from Incipio.

Here are two new cases available tomorrow for the launch. I think they’re both from Incipio.

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Filed under: Digital Cameras

We’re not sure why Kodak saw fit to announce the EasyShare M1093 IS camera separately from the slew of new gear it dropped early this morning, but here it is, all $199 and 10 megapixels of it. Nothing too spectacular here apart from Smart Capture, which intelligently adjusts settings based on the scene, but you’re getting an image stabilizer, ISO 3200 sensitivity, and an optional HDTV dock for two bills, so it’s not a bad deal — just don’t anticipate your socks to be rocked. Available in September.

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As we learned from Zero Punctuation, web comics are very easy to make. They involve a few basic things: a knowledge of the CE industry, an appreciation for its many absurdities, and the inability to draw. The results are somehting like SiliconApartment which has a basic premise: what if Steve and Bill had to live […]

As we learned from Zero Punctuation, web comics are very simple to make. They involve a few basic things: a knowledge of the CE industry, an appreciation for its many absurdities, and the inability to draw. The results are somehting like SiliconApartment which has a basic premise: what if Steve and Bill had to live together. The resulting hilarity is fairly limited but it’s always nice to see Steve Jobs’ 5 o’clock shadow every once in a while.

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Those DIMMs might not look that special, but they’re secretly sweet. These DDR3 modules are much faster and use less power than what you’ve got in your laptop right now, although I’m skeptical that laptop RAM uses more electricity than, state, the fans (especially in a high-performance laptop). Still, any saving of power is welcome, […]

Those DIMMs might not look that special, but they’re secretly sweet. These DDR3 modules are much faster and use less power than what you’ve got in your laptop right now, even though I’m skeptical that laptop RAM uses more electricity than, say, the fans (especially in a high-performance laptop). Still, any saving of power is welcome, especially when your main concern with a laptop is battery life, not performance — no one really even wants to max out the graphics on their laptop, it’s just not done. They want to be able to play WoW sitting in the sun at a cafe for 3 hours, not play 20 minutes of Crysis (although, as I’m finding out finally, Crysis is pretty awesome).

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Filed under: Digital Cameras, Displays

Kodak’s new W820 (8-inch) and W1020 (10-inch) are the latest in the company’s charming line of Quick Touch Border digital pic frames. Quite similar to their M820 and M1020 (pictured) counterparts in most respects, the new frames add WiFi, which brings with it services like Flickr, FrameChannel and Kodak Gallery. Unfortunately, the only way to add generic RSS feeds is FrameChannel, and all FrameChannel subscriptions include a monstrous banner ad across the bottom of each frame — at least Kodak’s partnership with Flickr is separate, so those subs are clean. Each frame includes 512MB of storage in addition to memory card slots, and they should be out next month for $250 and $280, respectively.

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