Amazing Gadgets

Casio has announced two new point-and-shoot cameras at PMA 2010 in the form of the Exilim EX-S7 (pictured above) and EX-Z35. The S7 sports a 12.1-megapixel image sensor, a 3x optical zoom lens, a 2.7-inch LCD display and 720p HD video recording. Continue reading »

Panasonic Canada has announced a special edition version of its Lumix DMC-ZR1 digital camera series by introducing the DMC-ZR1R. Billed as an official product of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, this compact camera comes with the Olympic logo on its front plate, Continue reading »

Garmin and Asus has joined together to release a new smartphone in the form of the Android-powered A50. The handset boasts a 3.5-inch HVGA resolution capacitive touchscreen display with a 3-megapixel Auto Focus camera, Continue reading »

Maxell MXSP-HT30 is a heart-shaped Speaker for iPod available in four pleasing colors. The speaker is compatible with fourth / fifth-generation iPod and iPod classic, iPod mini, Continue reading »

The much awaited PEN E-PL1 micro four thirds camera from Olympus is finally available for pre-order via Amazon. In case you didn’t know, this compact camera features a 12.3-megapixel Live MOS sensor, a 2.7-inch HyperCrystal Continue reading »

Well, this is nice: a Radeon HD 5000 series graphics card available on the cheap. It looks like you’re not sacrificing much in performance, either: The $60 Radeon 5450 has full DX11 graphics and Eyefinity multi-display support.

The $60 version comes with a 512MB memory configuration, and you lose a little speed compared to the 5800 and 5600 lines. But the 5450 is also optimized for HTPCs, with HDMI 1.3a with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.

UPDATED: Hey all! Took down a video that had been posted here previously, whose purpose was to demonstrate what DirectX is capable of. The 5450 does have DX11 support, but I didn’t mean to imply that this particular card would give you that exact performance shown in the video. I clearly see how that could have been misinterpreted, though.

Besides having its new 8x external Blu-ray writer ‘BRD-UH8LE‘ that we mentioned yesterday, I-O Data has also introduced its latest 8x external DVD drive called the DVDP-U8S. Measuring 137mm x 154mm x 20mm and weighing 340 grams, this slim drive features a USB 2.0 interface (mini USB connector) and is capable of reading DVDs at speeds of up to 8x and CDs at 24x. The DVDP-U8S will hit Japan later this month for 7,900 Yen (about $88).

Olympus will release their latest voice recorder in Japan later this month. Known as the V-82 Voice-Treck, this affordable voice recorder provides an 8GB of internal flash memory, which is enough to store up to 13-hour worth of PCM (16bit/44.1kHz) WAV files. The gadget also supports a VCVA mode, where anyone’s voice will automatically launch the recording mode. The V-82 Voice-Treck retails for 15000 Yen ().