Author Archive for Daniel
Digiscoping is not new to bird-watcher in digital era. Newer optical scope has built-in digital camera with memory storage makes it easy for bird spectators to record their rare encounter. Conventional digiscoping require extra brackets and adapters to mount digital camera on an optical scope. The Minox DEC 5.0 is a digiscoping eyepiece, with built-in [...]
Long before a built-in dusk removal tool available on a D-SLR, the dread sensor blobs were the common issues among the ‘dirty’ shooter. There are number of sensor cleaning products available since then. Some of them use solution from wet, dry, vacuum, tape to blow, whatever it takes to get the job done.
I found this Japanese sensor [...]
I’m sure some of you have few gadgets that use a rather inconvenient plug transformer, No? Take a look at you midget-side desktop speakers, a/v switcher or wireless router. Some of them are big, enough to occupy two outlets. Tributaries has a power strip that you may find it useful to void the bulky wall-warts [...]
With the fall of HD-DVD, the Hi-Def rental-lover has raised question on Netflix ability to sustain its glowing subscribers and demands for Blu-Ray Format. Their rival, Blockbuster has quietly surrendered on price war and raised a significant monthly fee, almost twice as much on the least profitable Total Access renters. The sudden price rise has [...]
The longevity of DVD-R optical media is how and where you store them. Keep them in a temperature control environment or away from chemicals that deteriorating the data layer is always a good practice. If you don’t have the luxury with environmental control, get the expensive flash media or highly-resistant optical media like the Mitsubishi‘s [...]
Samsung has launched its 3D Ready Plasma TV Cannes 450 in Korean Market. Like TI DLP-3D Dualview technology, the Samsung PAVV Cannes 450 is just another 3D Ready display that requires particular glasses, software or hardware to support 3D content. But for Samsung, the Cannes 450 is industry first Plasma TV with 3D capability and [...]
Have you noticed the popularity of FireWire is slowly declining in PC industry? Take 1394B or FW 800 for example, you don’t see them anymore. I have a 5-year old Abit mobo with four FireWires built-in, pair of 800 and 400 each, but you barely get one with FW400 these days. Pity, I like [...]
The two-wheeled Acabion GTBO reminds me of Burt Munro with his World’s Fastest Indian motorcycle. Burt made it to 183.58 mph, a record setting for streamlined motorcycles under 1,000cc but the GTBO, designed by the former Porsche engineer Peter Maskus, is a complete different animal.
Samsung showcased the giant 82-inch SyncMaster LCD display 820DXn back in SEK 2007, and today they announces the immediate availability of its largest and most powerful large format LCD display at 2008 Digital Signage Expo.
NEC introduced the MultiSync LCD5220, an industry first 52-inch display based on a professional-grade panel. The LCD5220 is a full high-definition, wide-screen display designed for digital signage applications, including transportation and corporate boardrooms. This ultra-thin bezel measures at a mere 0.7 inches, features NEC’s proprietary and advanced Digital Signage Technology Suite (DSTS) with nearly 30 [...]
