Trends & Innovations - Monday
(Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - Scientists have developed a software program that can duplicate a key from just a photograph of the key. They say this should teach people to think of keys as sensitive visual information, especially given that cheap image sensors have made digital cameras pervasive. The researchers at Univ. of Calif., San Diego, used just a cell phone camera photo of a key in one demonstration. In another demonstration, they used a photo taken from 200 feet away with a telephoto lens.
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iPhone Beware, The Nokia N97 Is Coming
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PC World - After months of waiting, Nokia finally announced the N97, the company's second (unreleased) device to challenge the iPhone and revive to the N-series to their former glory. With a 3.5" touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera and 32GB of memory, the N97 is one phone worth waiting for in the New Year.
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Olympus Puts 10X Optical Zoom In a Pocket Cam
(PC World)
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PC World - It's no 26x optical zoom behemoth like its just-announced SP-590 UZ, but Olympus put yet another feather in its zoom cap with the Olympus Stylus-9000. The company announced the slim 10X -optical-zoom digital camera in a press release as part of its 2009 offerings at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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Dell AIO Printers Designed for Home, Workgroups
(PC Magazine)
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PC Magazine - On Tuesday, Dell announced four all-in-one printers, plus two lasers and two inkjet models that range from small, photocentric wireless models for the home or home office to workgroup behemoths with sizzling speed and enormous duty cycles.
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Best Buy Gadget Kiosks Land at Airports
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 NewsFactor - You've been there -- late for a business flight, you forget your cell phone charger. Or, with a six-hour family vacation flight staring you in the face, the kids need something to keep them busy. You can relax: Chargers, Sony PSPs and even digital cameras will now be easily available in 12 U.S. airport terminals, courtesy of Best Buy.
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CEA Predicts 'Okay' Holiday Tech Spending
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PC Magazine - With the economy tanking, credit limits shrinking, and 401(k)'s dwindling, will consumers tighten their belts this holiday season when it comes to digital cameras, MP3 players, video games, and other gadgets? Probably not, the Consumer Electronics Association predicts.
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Olympus, Matsushita to offer smaller SLR cameras
(Reuters)
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 Reuters - Japan's Olympus Corp (7733.T) and
Matsushita (6752.T) announced a new digital camera format on
Tuesday that will make single lens reflex (SLR) models smaller
and lighter, in a bid to drive sales of their advanced
machines.
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iPhone Beware, The Nokia N97 Is Coming
(PC World)
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PC World - After months of waiting, Nokia finally announced the N97, the company's second (unreleased) device to challenge the iPhone and revive to the N-series to their former glory. With a 3.5" touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera and 32GB of memory, the N97 is one phone worth waiting for in the New Year.
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