Blackmagiuc has this week released a demo of the video footage you
can capture using their new Blackmagic Pocket Cinema camera which was
unveiled at NAB earlier this month.
The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera is equipped with a Super 16-sized
sensor, and captures its recorded footage directly to SD cards, and
features a Micro Four Thirds mount.
Adapters are also available for the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema camera
which can open up the variety of lenses to be used with the camera
increasing your creativity. Blackmagic explains a little more:
"The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera records 1080HD resolution
ProRes 422 (HQ) files direct to fast SD cards, so you can im
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With smart watches becoming ever more popular with manufacturers, and
Apple, Microsoft, and Google all saying they are developing smartwatch
solutions, plenty of new applications and services are sure to be
released to run on them.
However one thing that is a little harder to accomplish on a small
screen is typing, enter Zoomboard. Zoomboard is a solution specifically
designed to make the task of typing on a smaller smartwatch screen
easier.
The Zoomboard solution consist of a
full QWERTY keyboard which zooms in as you type making selecting the
correct key easy., Watch the demonstration below to learn more about the
Zoomboard project and see it in action.
At this years CES exhibition back in January, Chinese manufacturer Hisense was showcasing a number of tablet products including their new Hisense Sero 7 Lite, which Hisense created ready for launch within China.
However it now looks like Hisense is gearing up to the Android tablet to North America after its Hisense Sero 7 Lite Android tablet was spotted at the FCC this week.
The Hisense Sero 7 Lite Android tablet is expected to ship with Google’s Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system installed, and comes with 802.11b/g/n WiFi connectivity together with a 7 inch multitouch display.
Unfortunately no hardware specifications, pricing or availability in
the US has been released as
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Details have been leaked of another new smartphone from Huawei, the Huawei P6-U06, which could end up being one of the thinnest smartphones to date measuring just 6.18mm thick.
The Huawei P6-U06 is rumored to come with a 4.7 inch HD display
with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, processing comes in the form of
a quad core 1.5GHz procesor and it also comes with 2GB of RAM.
Other specifications on the Huawei P6-U06 include an 8 megapixel rear camera and a front facing 2 megapixel camera, it will come with Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean and will be available in black, white and pink.
If you find typing on your tablet device or smartphone a little
tricky with your thumbs a new solution called the KALQ Keyboard might be
just the thing for you to speed up your typing.
The KALQ Keyboard offers users a modified keyboard layout dropping the traditional QWERTY layout for a more unique arrangement of keys, as seen in the picture below.
The KALQ Keyboard has been specifically designed for use on touchscreen tablets, and has been developed by researchers at the University of St Andrews, who explain:
"Two-thumb typing
is ergonomically very different from typing on a physical keyboard. The
QWERTY layout is ill-suited for tablets and other touchscreen devices
when typing w
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Now that Samsung has launched their new Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone, the company has released a video which tells the design story behind their new flagship Android smartphone.
The Samsung Galaxy some impressive features and specifications like
Smart Pause which will pause the video you are watching when you look
away from the display.
It looks like Samsung may have another hit on their hands with the new Samsung Galaxy S4, and it will probably end up being Samsung’s most popular smartphone to date.
If you have been patiently waiting for the little PLAiR streaming
devices to launch, after being first unveiled back in CES earlier this
year, you will be pleased to learn that the PLAiR device is now
available to purchase.
PLAiR has been designed to free up its users from the mirroring
restrictions of AirPlay and other alternatives. When a user beams a
video, PLAiR takes over the streaming and allows the user to browse the
Web, logon to Facebook. Watch the video after the jump to see it in
action and learn more.
PLAiR is powered by a 1GHz ARM Processor, supported by 1GB of DDR3
RAM, together with 802.11n wireless, and a built in GPU/VPU for full
1080p streaming.
f you are looking forward to gaming using the new Oculus Rift virtual reality gaming headset, you might be interested in a new trailer which has been released this week for Eve Online EVR.
Eve Online EVR has been developed in Unity for the Oculus Rift, and
has been created by CCP Games, the developer behind Eve Online and Dust
514.
Eve Online EVR a first-person, multiplayer
dogfighting game set within the Eve Online universe and has been
specifically designed for use with the Oculus Rift virtual reality
headset.
Eve Online EVR is still in the very early stages of development and Eve Online executive producer John Lander explained to PC Gamer : "6v6
instanced combat is
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We have been hearing a number of rumors about what Google will be
releasing soon, and now according to a recent report, Google has a new
Nexus tablet in the works, the Google Nexus 11.
The Google Nexus 11 will apparently be made by Samsung for Google,
and the device will come with an 11 inch Super PLS TFT display, and an 8
core processor, in the form of Samsung;s Exynos 5 Octa processor.
Other rumored specifications on the Google Nexus 11 include front and
rear facing cameras, with a 2 megapixel camera up front and an 8
megapixel camera on the back, as soon as we get some more details we
will let you guys know.
Windows Phone design studio general manager Albert Shum and Todd
Simmons, creative director at Wolff Olins, recently held a talk called
"re-imagining” Microsoft at the recent design day event in Norway,
explaining a little more about the latest Microsoft rebranding exercise.
Which goes into a little more depth about the Microsoft
rebranding changes the company has gone through over the last year.
Watch the video after the jump to learn more about the "re-imagining”
Microsoft project and see it in action.
"The talk is about the alignment of design and marketing, product
and brand harmoniously at a massive scale and not the least what this
means for Microsoft organizations culturally.”
