Archive for March 11th, 2008

Take Better Pics By Learning How to Hold Your Camera
We nag a lot on the wisdom of using a tripod in certain photography situations, but you can get by most of the time hand-holding your baby — if you know what you’re doing. Boomer site Endless Years has a…

200803082207 We nag a lot on the wisdom of using a tripod in certain photography situations, but you can get by most of the time hand-holding your baby — if you know what you’re doing. Boomer site Endless Years has a nicely illustrated tutorial on how to hold your camera in a way that will utilize your body to steady the shot.

One additional tip: While composing the shot, repeat the mantra “Be the tripod. Be the tripod…”

How To Hold Your Camera and Camera Phone For Superior Results [Endless Years]


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LG’s Glimmer Phone Has Touchscreen + Keypad, Heading to Alltel [Cellphones]

LG’s previously leaked Glimmer phone does something interesting that we haven’t seen much of before—combine a touchscreen with a slide-out keypad underneath. The 2.8-inch touchscreen lets you control the 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and AGPS (assisted GPS), but if you’ve got ham hands and feel like touch-dialing is a bit of a chore, you can slide out the keypad and call from there. It’s an interesting compromise, and definitely an worthwhile phone if you’re an Alltel subscriber. No price or availability dates yet. [Electronista]


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World’s First MP3 Player: Eight Songs in Your Pocket
The Register has a great little history lesson on the origins of the MP3 player. The first commercially available player was the Saehan MPMan F10, which went on sale in Might 1998. The player featured what today are almost laughable…

mpman_f10_1.jpg The Register has a great little history lesson on the origins of the MP3 player. The first commercially available player was the Saehan MPMan F10, which went on sale in May 1998. The player featured what this day are nearly laughable specs: 32MB flash memory, a plug and pray parallel port and a tiny, wristwatch-style LCD display.

The MPMan was followed a few months later by the infamous Rio PMP300, commonly believed to be the first MP3 player; a mistake probably attributable to the fact that Rio was immediately sued by the RIAA. I guess some things never change.

Ten years old: the world’s first MP3 player [Reg Hardware]


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The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #19: From the iPhone SDK Release to Microsoft’s TechFest
In this week’s Wired Gadget Lab Podcast, Dylan Tweney, Daniel Dumas, and Jose Fermoso talk about the heavily hyped iPhone SDK press conference, where Apple announced a $100 opt-in for developer apps, and VC firm Kleiner Perkins dropped some jaws…

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In this week’s Wired Gadget Lab Podcast, Dylan Tweney, Daniel Dumas, and Jose Fermoso talk about the heavily hyped iPhone SDK press conference, where Apple announced a $100 opt-in for developer apps, and VC firm Kleiner Perkins dropped some jaws with a $100 million iFund development plan.

In addition, they’ll go over the recent reports from Microsoft’s TechFest, especially the Lucid Touch technology that prevents people from obscuring touch screens in the middle of a ‘tickle.’

Finally, they will discuss whether Dylan has enough programming skillz to create a killer iPhone web app, why Danny keeps falling on the floor (it’s a cool new bike!), and explain why Rob Beschizza had to ‘touch a bunny’ in the middle of a trip to Carnegie Mellon University.

Thank you for listening, and remember that you can subscribe to the podcast feed by clicking right here. And you can find the eighteen previous podcasts after the jump.

The Podcast (above) requires Quicktime (you can download it at Apple’s page here).

The last few Gadget Lab podcasts are below:

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #18: From Nokia’s Phone of the Future to the DIY-Friendly Chumby Gadget

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #17: The Bankruptcy of The Sharper Image and Insider Info on the Death of HD DVD

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #16: The End of the HD DVD Format, 1080p Projectors, and More

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #15:Technologies from Orwell’s 1984, Cool Gear From the Super Tuesday Primaries, and More

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #14: From Garmin’s Nuviphone to the Linux-based Haier Ibiza Rhapsody MP3 Player

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #13: Macworld 2008 Review and MacBook Air First Impressions

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #12: CES 2008, with Pioneer’s Project Kuro, the Dystopian Life Wall, and More

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #11: The CES 2008 Preview with Touchscreen TVs, Wireless Phones, and More

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #10: Last-Minute Holiday Gifts for Geeks and Wired’s 2007 Vaporware Awards

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #9: All Around Smackdowns Between the iPod and Zune 2 Media Players and Kid-Friendly Laptops

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #8: From Dell’s New Retail Strategy to the Film vs. Digital Deathmatch Controversy

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #7: From the Blu-ray/HD-DVD Wars to the Exploding Battery Mystery

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #6: From The Microsoft Zune 2 Release to Warner Music’s Surprising iTunes About-Face

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #5: From Google’s Android Alliance to the iPhone’s iBricking Firmware

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #4: From Wal-Mart’s Early Black Friday To NBC’s Word War With Apple

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #3: From the CTIA Trade Show to the Leopard Launch

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #2: We’re Giving Away Good Times (Nokia N810 Tablet and iPhone Apps)

The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #1: Listen and Be Amazed (Microsoft’s Zune and the Gateway One PC)


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LTK-2000 Therapy Station Tries to Soothe Your Senses All At Once [Therapy]

Sure, there’re plenty of gadgets to soothe your troubled soul with smells, lights and sounds— but why buy a bunch of these, when the LTK2000 does it all in one? Once the Therapy Station has calmed your ears with 24 resting sound options, a pop-up ring of bright LEDs tries to banish those SAD blues. Aromatherapy scents will waft around you from its built-in heater, while an anion generator cleans up the air. Strangely its designers missed tackling all five senses by omitting a massager and chocolate dispenser, but hey ho. Available for around $395 in Korea at first, we guess it’ll be over here soon enough. [Technabob]


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Intel Bringin’ SSD Drama: 160GB Capacity, 50% Price Drop [Storage]

Intel_SSD_Over_Samsung.jpgWe already told you about Intel’s new ultramobile SSDs, but their little size means high cost and low capacities, only up to 16GB. That’s why the company promised SATA-II SSDs in the 1.8″ and 2.5″ sizes with capacities up to 160GB, with read and write speeds exceeding Samsung’s 100MB/s and 70MB/s, respectively. Ideal of all, Intel says its goal is to drive down the currently exorbitant prices of solid-state storage to something less punitive, predicting two subsequent 50% drops in 2009 and 2010. [Daily Tech]


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Italian supercar manufacturer Pagani has gone into the luxury audio market and produced a carbon fiber-and-brushed aluminum stereo system whose bass speakers looks are reminiscent of the fat exhausts found on its Zonda supercar—at least, that’s what the 350-watt speakers look like. Find out what else the Pagani sound system has got under the bonnet after the jump.

There are two turntables (one for 45rpm, one for 33rpm), as well as a power amp, stereo amp and CD player. The system was unveiled at the Geneva vehicle show last week and if you need to ask the price, yeah, yeah, you can’t afford it. [Sybarites]


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