Nov 23, 2009
Olympus are trying very hard to push their entries in the four thirds marketplace, and with their recently released entry into the micro four thirds space, they have revived the now fifty years old Pen name, bringing forth the Olympus Pen E-P1 Micro Four Thirds Camera. The camera is available with either or both of a 17mm “Pancake” lens and a 14-42mm...
Sep 24, 2009
It’s only been in our hands for a few hours so we’ve taken the second generation of the Wacom Bamboo graphics tablets out for a spin to show you just how the new touch functionality with gesture control works. In this demo, we’ll look at the Wacom Bamboo Dock, drawing in Twitter, and how this new tablet runs with Adobe Photoshop, Audition, and...
Jun 27, 2009
This week, The Gadget Grill got invited to try out a new Navman GPS… but rather than just put it in our hands and hope that we knew what we were doing (which is dangerous at best), the team at Navman came up with a slightly different way of showing us how their models get you from Point A to Point B. Take a look...
Jun 12, 2009
The good folks at three.com.au gave me one of their INQ1 phones to report upon. This is also known as the Facebook Phone, and/or the Skype Phone, due to the fact that this phone includes embedded clients for these, as well as other popular web sites and services. What’s the phone like? Pretty good, and especially so when you take into account its intended...
Jun 3, 2009
When we last saw our hero, the Power Monkey, he had successfully charged the iPhone a couple of times, and also had successfully been recharged through the use of the solar charger in 2RDJ’s studio A. I can recall seeing that the charge light on the battery unit, originally glowing red, had changed to green. The LCD indicators were also displaying five...
May 27, 2009
It seems like everyone’s getting in on the whole “touchscreen phone” thing. We’ve talked before about some of Samsung’s touchscreen devices as early as our second radio show, and while those handsets felt a lot like they were playing on the same turf as the iPhone, the new Samsung UltraTouch is a handset with a different feel to...