A new patent application has been filed by Apple [AAPL] that shows a new camera system.
The new camera system uses a new camera flash that is optimised based on what the subject of the scene is. By using a flash redirector, imaging sensors that sense conditions and a touchscreen, it aims to capture better pictures.
The system might be used to direct more light to the dark parts of a photo to more evenly light the scene. If a dark spot is seen on the touchscreen, you could just tap to illuminate the dark portion. [Read more…]
Although the Xbox 360 is nearing 5 years in age, it could still be a number of years before the next generation games console arrives.
The Google Chrome Web Store looks like its preparing to go live shortly. The reason for thinking this is that Google [GOOG] has started to ask US developers to start linking their apps up to Google Checkout merchant accounts so that they can preview what the app will look like when it goes live in the store.
You need to have a pinch of salt type mind set when you read this rumour. We hear today that Nokia is looking in to using Windows Phone 7 on some of its smartphones in the near future. The information supposedly comes from Stephen Elop, the new CEO of Nokia, who wants the company to investigate alternative operating systems to use on handsets.
Two weeks ago, we wrote about YouTube Instant.
Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg has commented that the company plan to get rid of unlimited data plans with in the next four to six months.
Yesterday, Facebook went down for 2.5 hours. Normally this kind of news wouldn’t be covered here as it’s not that interesting. However, as it’s Facebook that has a good number of servers and infrastructure handling the millions/billions of requests per day we thought we’d mention what actually happened.
Adobe has created a new system for computational photography that uses a plenoptic lens to capture subjects. What makes this particular set up different is that it can capture a subject and then process the photograph afterwords to get the correct part of the picture in focus.
The HTC Desire ROM was ported to the HTC HD2 earlier this week. The team at XDA Developers have now managed to port the same ROM over to the DROID Incredible, the HTC Desire and the EVO 4G.
T-Mobile is beginning to open up pre-orders today for the new T-Mobile G2. The website below shows a pre-order date of September 24 through October 4 followed by a release date of October 6.
We have seen the Samsung Galaxy Tab in other videos. In the past, the videos have just demonstrated the tablet hardware its self and not so much the software that runs on the Tab other than a few glimpses of a few apps.
