Kodak has always been known for their impressive line of cameras and camcorders, continuing their push into portable hand-held camcorders, they have announced the Kodak PlaySport 2. With the PlaySport 2, Kodak plans on fixing some downfalls of the previous PlaySport. With it's better designed body it will now be both waterproof to 3 meters and shockproof from 1.5 meters.
Kodak will be unveiling a lot of new gear at CES 2011 in the coming week. The gear will include several new cameras and a digital photo frame among other stuff. The stuff that Kodak has announced includes the new Easyshare Touch camera with a $149.99 MSRP in the US. The camera has a 3-inch touchscreen on the back and can shoot 720p video. It has 14MP resolution and 5x optical zoom.
Sometimes there are things that surface that are very cool, but the name does them no justice. This is one of those cases. Kodak has unveiled a new custom printing service that people can take advantage of from those print kiosks in some of the big stores near you.
Kodak's recent line of digital imaging products might not make for the most inspiring of spec-sheets, but they've got the sort of bargain price-tags mainstream users are looking for. We caught up with the Kodak PLAYTOUCH Full HD camcorder, the Kodak EasyShare M590 camera and 10-inch PULSE wireless digital photo frame to see what your money gets you.
Kodak has been in the multifunction printer business for a long time now. The big claim to fame for all of the company's printer offerings is the cheap ink. You can get the cartridges that Kodak printers use for much less money than competing printers from other makers like Epson.
Kodak has outed what they're calling the world's thinnest digital camera with a 5x optical zoom, together with the 10-inch Kodak PULSE digital photo frame spotted hopping through the FCC last week. The company is obviously so excited about the Kodak EasyShare M590's slimness that they've neglected to mention that other great photography competition: how many megapixels it packs. Still, Kodak are so heavily pushing their Share button - which tags images for upload to various social networking and gallery sites once you plug in to a computer with a network connection - that they're probably assuming the raw shots will end up cropped down and compressed for online viewing, so original resolution doesn't really matter.
Forgive us, Kodak, but calling your new PLAYTOUCH video camera makes it sound like a bra. If you can get past the daft name, the PLAYTOUCH seems a decent little pocket camcorder, with a 3-inch capacitive touchscreen, on-device editing and Full HD 1080p recording.
A new, larger model of Kodak's Pulse WiFi-enabled digital photo frame has been spotted crossing the FCC. The Kodak Pulse W1030 has a 10-inch LCD display, rather than the 7-inch version announced back at CES 2010, and according to the wireless testing documents supports WiFi b/g together with having a USB port, SD/SDHC/MMC/MS/XD memory card slot and MS/MS Pro Duo card slot.
From time to time I like to think about the idea of disconnecting from the digital world for an extended period and what I'd miss as a result. In the end, I came up with five gadgets that changed the world for me, products the descendents of which I'd rather not be without on a regular basis. What's interesting is that for me, the PC didn't make the list. Perhaps it’s an uber-gadget that just goes without saying or it's just not that important to me personally anymore.
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Considering the amount of time people spend on their mobile devices, especially their smartphones, you'd think that printing from them would be pretty commonplace by now. Especially with the fact that they're all fused with WiFi and Bluetooth. But, it's still not everywhere quite yet, so when Kodak announces a brand new printer that features the missing link, well, we get pretty excited.
It's been a few months since Kodak came forward and announced the Playsport Video Camera existed, but the time's finally arrived and the feature-packed HD camera is available right now. It may not be the most attractive piece of hardware out there, but you've got to admit: it's pretty cool that you can throw it into a shallow pool of water, right? Well, at least the picture makes it look fun.
Pentax's huge medium-format 645D digital camera has had a public outing in Toronto this past weekend, demonstrating its updated Kodak 44 x 33 mm sensor - that has climbed from 30- to 40-mexapixels since we first saw the concept back in early 2009 - and general all-round awesomeness. Shooting a single frame per second, the Pentax 645D is apparently intended for scenery and other still-life photography, rather than anything faster moving. Scolirk grabbed some hands-on time and a demo video you can see after the cut.
Video demo after the cut