Sony announced their first home theater front projector capable of displaying 4K video.The shows VPL-VW1000ES 4K Home projector enables to watch movies, and other video content, at up to 8.8 megapixels (4096×2160 resolution) with 2000 ANSI lumens of brightness. That’s courtesy of a new SXRD 4K panel which, Sony claims, is capable of a 1,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ration when paired with its Iris3 technology. The VPL-VW1000ES projector also features an exclusive 4K upscaler that dramatically enhances all content – SD or HD, 2D or 3D – allowing viewers to see 4K playback, even from their existing media libraries. Moreover, the VW1000ES gives a variety of installation options, including dual triggers, a 2.1 motorized zoom, expanded throw distances, an RS323 interface control over IP and compatibility with various home automation systems.

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At the IFA, Storage specialist, Intenso has its entry into the tablet market and announced the first model called ” Live Tab “. The Intenso Live tab will be released in Germany and will cost only 199 euro. The tab has an 8 inch screen and a 1GHz Cortex A8 processor. Unlike most other Android tablets which sport Android 3.x Honeycomb, this one has has Android 2.3 Gingerbread as its operating system. As for RAM and storage, the tablet boasts only of a measly 8-gigabyte internal storage and 512 MB of RAM. A decent 2-megapixel primary camera is also on board. Unfortunately, there is no access to Android Marketplace, there is only access to the apps of the AndroidPIT App Center.

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A Polaroid SX-70 reissue has hit the wires today. The Photojojo store is selling refurbished Polaroid SX-70 camerasa and it can be acquired for $290. When it was released in 1972, the Polaroid SX-70 with its foldable SLR design was the world’s first instant SLR. It was also the first camera to use Polaroid’s then new integral instant film that contained all the chemical layers required to expose, develop, and fix the photo. Restored to working condition by Hong Kong-based company MINT, each camera is packaged by Kate Bingman Burt. The foldable instant photography camera is equipped with a 116mm, f8 – f22 aperture lens, features manual focus of 10″ to infinity, and shutter speeds vary from 1/175th to 10+ seconds. You can even pick up some instant film, so you can do more than just stare at the thing.

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Sony’s anticipated F65 4K digital cinematography camera will available in Japan in January. The camera is now officially announced with a launched scheduled to January 2012 at around 6 Million Yen or $65,000 USD in North America!. Sony first announced the F65 at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in April. The Sony F65 CineAlta features the unique 8K image sensor, with approximately 20 total megapixels, offers higher image fidelity than any other digital cinema production camera; half of which are sensitive to green and the other half are equally shared by red and blue pixels. Sony claims that this is the first sensor in the industry that provides a dedicated green photosite for each pixel in the 4K (4096×2160) output image.

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MSI recently announced the GT780DX gaming notebook with a 17 inch Full HD non-glare LED display. MSI collaborated with SteelSeries, Fnatic.MSI and Dynaudio to design the best Gaming notebook. Next to a multicolour backlight keyboard, this GT780DX has a totally redesigned layout specifically made for gaming. The MSI GT780DX notebook comes with an Intel Core i7-2630QM processor at 2GHz, and to make all the games run smoothly there are 16GB of memory RAM which should be enough to suit most gamers. The MSI GT780DX is built around a 17.3-inch LED backlit display that is available in both HD+ (1600×900) and Full HD (1920×1080) resolutions. Instead of an array of mechanical drives, systems will come with a 500GB or 7500GB 7200RPM HDD alongside a 120GB Intel SSD. Other core specifications remain unchanged, including a DVD or Blu-ray drive, a 720p webcam and the usual cornucopia of connectivity.

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At IFA, Toshiba has just announced three new Full-HD CAMILEO Camcorders – the CAMILEO CLIP, X200 and X400. They all feature Full HD (1920 x 1080) video recording. The devices bizaarely don’t have internal hard drive storage but it compensates by offering 12x optixal zoom on the X200 while the X400 boasts a 23x zoom. The most interesting camera is the Camileo Clip. The cam gets its name from the clip on the back that allows the user to clip it to things for hands free shooting. The Camileo Clip is a rugged, splash-proof pocket camcorder which has a 1.5-inch LCD, electronic image stabilization and supports miniHDMI and Mini-USB 2.0,. The sensors is 5MP units and it can shoot still photos at up to 16MP resolution. The Clip has 10x optical zoom and all come with software for editing and uploading video. It is available in dark blue, hot red, bright yellow, snow white colors.

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The waterproof Fujitsu Arrows Tab F-01D has landed at the FCC. The tablet was expected to launch with 4G LTE on NTT DoCoMo, a Japanese leading mobile carrier. Tablet with 10 inch landscape display is declared waterproof and dustproof. Presumably, a tablet with this kind of resistance is still rare on the market. In US, it is in a Wi-Fi only variety according to one detail mentioning GSM and W-CDMA bands being disabled. The tablet will have a 10.1-inch (1280 x 800 pixels resolution) capacitive multi-touch screen display, a 1 GHz dual-core TI OMAP 443 processor, 1 GB of RAM, and a 16 GB of internal storage. The tablet also features Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, GPS, 5MP rear camera, 1.3MP front-facing camera, microSD card slot, micro USB, and micro SIM card slot. Tablets that use the Android operating system Honeycomb, is equipped with a TV tuner.

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Maylong’s M-250 budget Android tablet just hit FCC.Maylong are the producers behind more than a few cheap Android tablets in the past. There aren’t many details about the tablet revealed in the user manual or photos, but it does appear that the Maylong M-260 is running Google Android 2.3 and ship with access to the Google Android Market to easily download and install thousands of third party apps. The M-260 packs WiFi, a microSD slot, and what appears to be a front facing camera. From The picture it is also seen that it has HUGE buttons, a micro USB port, 3.5mm headphone jack and a few other large holes on the bottom possible housing a stylus to go with the cheap resistive touchscreen.

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At the IFA PocketBook announced the launch of its new Pocketbook A10 Android tablet. It will feature a 10.1� 1024×768 TFT LCD display and will be running on a 1GHz TI OMAP 3621 processor, supported by 512MB RAM. The tablet has WiFi support and there is the option of 3G connectivity as well. It’s not the thinnest tablet, but it’s relatively light at 1.5 pounds. It measures 9.6″ x 8.1″ x 0.6″ and the tablet has a speaker, mic, a 2MP camera and 7 hours of battery life,. There’s 4GB of storage space onboard, plus it’s been adapted to support a wide range of e-book formats – and has the buttons to make page navigation easy. The operating system is Android 2.3, otherwise known as Gingerbread, a step back from the honeycomb

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When the HTC Flyer first came out, it had a different HTC Sense user interface, running on an Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The first pictures have emerged online of the HTC Flyer running Honeycomb 3.2 and Sense 1.1 for Tablet. MoDaCo’s Paul O’Brien got a hold of a beta version of the update along with the “Sense 1.1 for Tablets� update and has publicly released the ROM for all to download and has also tossed up some screenshots of the new interface. According to Paul, this HTC classifies this ROM as “an early Beta,� something that HTC Flyer owners should take into consideration before deciding to flash it. Because of its “beta� status we do not recommend HTC Flyer users to flash the ROM unless they are developers. It’s important to add this won’t work with the HTC View 4G, which is Sprint’s version of the tablet.

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