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 As an added bonus, it kind of looks like a sci-fi weapon. (Credit: Zoom)Congrats to Angela C. of Spartanburg, S.C., for beating out almost 2,700 giveaway entrants to win last week's freebie, a 42-inch Vizio 3D TV. This week, we've got another great prize, the Zoom Q3HD. The handy HD pocket camcorder, compatible with Windows and Mac, is basically a Flip camera with the microphones and recording quality of a high-end audio recorder. It captures video in 1080p at 30fps or in 720p at both 30 and 60fps in MPEG-4 H.264 (MOV) video format. Three lighting settings -- Auto, Concert, and Night -- let you capture your star subjects just so. Audio recording settings allow for recording quality up to 24-bit/96kHz WAV. So who might like the Zoom Q3HD? CNET's Donald Bell pegged it as one of his top tech gifts for musicians in 2010 (he should know what rock stars like -- he's in a band!), noting that in today's YouTube-centered world, music fans expect to see great live videos from their favorite musicians.
We can think of all kinds of people who'd appreciate this gadget, though -- journalists, proud parents, podcasters, or just about anyone wanting to upload high-quality... [Read more]  Coming soon in color? (Credit: David Carnoy/CNET)Back in 2009, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos disappointed those dreaming of a color-screen Kindle by saying such a gadget was "multiple years" away. Well, if industry sources cited by Digitimes are correct, "multiple" might actually only be "three." Digitimes reported today that Amazon is likely to launch color e-readers in the second half of this very year. The publication bases its projection on "industry sources" who say makers in the supply chain will begin shipping related components this month. Said Digitimes: Amazon's new color e-book readers will be built with multitouch capacitive touch panels instead of infrared touch panels used in the previous mono-color e-book readers, the sources noted.Digitimes further reports that Amazon will probably use color display panels from E Ink, and that a touch panel maker named TPK Holding has received orders for touch modules for the color readers. Related stories
Asked about the coming of a color-screen Kindle in 2009, Bezos said, "I've seen the col... [Read more]  Snapkeys is a QWERTY iconoclast, exchanging old typing logic for new. (Credit: Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)NEW ORLEANS--You know all that typing on your phone's virtual keyboard? Snapkeys says that so long as you're using a QWERTY layout, you're doing it wrong. The company believes that there's little logic to the traditional way a keyboard's arranged, and instead offers up an onscreen virtual keyboard that uses only four buttons. More CTIA stories
The buttons are organized by letter types: one for letters that touch the bottom of a ruled line once (like T and I); one for letters with two touch points (like K and H); one for letters with straight lines at the bottom (like E and L); and one for ... [Read more] |
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