Laser welding of plastic is quick, precise, and
generates little waste, but it does have its limitations. The process
involves shining a laser beam through the edge of an upper
sheet of plastic and onto the joining edge of a lower sheet, which has
had soot particles mixed into it to absorb the radiation – this means
that manufacturers are almost always limited to joining transparent
plastic to black plastic. Researchers from Germany’s Fraunhofer
Institute for Laser Technology, however, have recently developed a
method for welding transparent plastics to one another. Read More
They – whoever “they” are – say that getting
there is half the fun. While that might not be true for trips where you
spend hours wedged into an airliner seat,
it can definitely apply to cross-country road trips. Often, the things
seen en route end up being just as fascinating as those that await you
at your destination. This fact is not lost on the folks behind the
RoadsideAmerica website and books, who have spent the past 25 years
collecting and sharing accounts of quirky museums, Big Things, “natural
wonders” and other weirdness encountered along the highways and byways
of North America. Now, road travelers can be alerted to the locations of
these must-sees as they near them, via the RoadsideAmerica.com
Attractions and Oddities GPS guide. Read More
Getting caught up in the game depends just as
much on immersive audio as it does engaging visuals. Gaming specialist Razer
reckons that it's come up with a pair of portable gaming speakers that
offer listeners room-filling, omnidirectional sonic enjoyment in a very
compact package. The new Ferox speakers feature a rising resonance
chamber mechanism, which is sure to prove a talking point in addition to
providing some bass oomph. Read More
Sony has announced a couple of superzoom
additions to its Cyber-shot camera range. Both the compact and the
DSLR-like models can record full high definition movies, are GPS-enabled
and have the ability to generate 3D stills without requiring the now
familiar dual lens setup seen in other cameras. They both offer
autofocus speeds comparable to digital SLRs and borrow some advanced
technology from the company's Handycam camcorders. Read More
Researchers able to lift fingerprints from clothing
By Paul Ridden
February 2, 2011
Promising early results from research undertaken
by the University of Abertay Dundee and the Scottish Police Services
Authority could lead to fingerprint evidence being obtained from
clothing, for use in criminal prosecution. Refining an existing
technique that's been used to successfully recover print detail from
smooth objects such as glass and plastic, forensic scientists have
managed to create a kind of photo negative of fingerprint impressions on
fabric. It's a bit hit and miss at the moment, but even when clear
ridge detail isn't retrieved, the technique could still prove useful to
investigators looking for other evidence. Read More
Google has announced a collaboration with 17 of
the world’s most acclaimed art museums that lets people view over 1,000
high res artwork images and 17 "gigapixel" images while taking a virtual
stroll through their galleries using “Street View” technology. While
nothing can beat seeing a work of art in person, the Google Art Project
could be the next best thing for those without the time and money to pop
on a plane and trade elbows with crowds of tourists looking to catch a
glimpse of what some of the best museums have on offer. Read More
When weighing up the impact of electric-vehicles
on the environment two factors come to the fore. EV's produce no
emissions locally, but depending on where the energy comes from, they
can still be producing greenhouse gases back at the power plant ... the
so called "long-tailpipe" argument. That's one. The second is batteries
– or more specifically, how much energy goes into making them and what
to do with the massive battery packs in these cars once they've passed
their lifespan. Auto manufacturers building EV infrastructure are taking
this second factor into consideration and now EV pioneer Tesla has announced a battery recycling program throughout Europe that will help reduce the carbon footprint of its vehicles. Read More
Google doesn't have a lot of competition in the search world – it rose from obscurity in the late 1990s to its current position of utter dominance
on the back of its clever results ranking algorithm; Google is the
megalithic entity it is today, because for the last decade people have
chosen its results over MSN, Yahoo and other search options. And now it
seems Microsoft's new(ish) search competitor, Bing, is copying Google
results in order to make its own search results better. In an
embarrassing sting operation, Google claims it has proven that Bing is
taking Google search results and displaying them as if they're coming
from the Bing engine – and you'd have to imagine the guys at Google are
absolutely delighted. Read More
Lunar Cubit: pyramids for the renewable energy age
By Darren Quick
February 1, 2011
The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) is a
competition that challenges entrants to think outside the box to create
functional yet beautiful renewable energy generation facilities. First
prize has just been awarded to such a submission, but this one thinks
outside the pyramid. The Lunar Cubit concept design consists of nine
pyramids made from solar panels in a configuration modeled on the Great
Pyramid of Cheops in Giza. The pyramids would not only be capable of
providing electricity to 250 homes, but are also designed to serve as a
lunar calendar. Read More
Seth Goldstein must hate doing up his ties even
more than I do. I changed my lifestyle about four years ago so I'd never
have to wear one again, but Goldstein has put countless hundreds of
hours into designing a robot that can do the job for him. The 'Why
Knot?' kinetic sculpture is hypnotic to watch, as the video after the
jump shows – and it makes you wonder at the marvel of our human
machinery when you see how difficult this simple task is for a
purpose-built robot to replicate. Oh, and when you watch it in
double-speed, it also sounds a bit like glitch techno music. Very cool.
Read More
Marine net-pen fish farms aren’t popular with
environmentalists for a number of reasons, one of the main ones being
the amount of fish feces and uneaten food that they release into the
surrounding ocean. In the UK, help for that problem may be coming in the
form of the sea cucumber. Despite its name, the sea cucumber is an
animal, that resembles a big slug and is about the same size as ...
well, as a cucumber, or sometimes larger. Given that sea cukes subsist
on organic matter that they scavenge from the sea floor, scientists at
Newcastle University have proposed that they be introduced to fish farms
where they could process waste. After eating all that fish poop, some
of the cucumbers could then be served up as gourmet cuisine for humans.
Read More
It’s kind of like table tennis, kind of like
squash, and looks like it would definitely be a good workout – it’s
360ball, a new racquet sport out of South Africa. Games are played on a
circular court by two players, or two teams of two players, who are
situated around a central concave deflecting disc. Players hit the ball
into the disc, trying to do so in such a way that when it bounces out,
their opponent(s) won’t be able to reach it. Unlike tennis, say, there
are no designated sides on which players have to remain. Instead,
everyone is allowed to move 360 degrees around the disc as play dictates
... hence the name. Read More
TouchType has now transferred its touchscreen
typing smarts from smartphones to the big screen, bigger than a
smartphone anyway. The company has launched a new tablet version of its
SwiftKey typing app to coincide with the release of Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) and the launch of the Xoom
tablet from Motorola. The app is claimed to make touchscreen typing
more intuitive thanks to an improved version of the Fluency predictive
text engine and easier thanks to optimized keyboard layouts and
multi-language support. Read More
The MINI Cooper S name first graced the classic
Mini back in 1963 and during the ensuing half century it has represented
the ultimate performance Mini, having won the Monte Carlo rally three
times plus countless other races and rallies around the globe. Now for
the first time there’s a diesel version too – though not as
fire-breathing as the petrol Cooper S, the SD’s 2.0-litre turbodiesel
four produces 143 bhp at 4,000 rpm, and an almighty torque figure of 305
Nm (225 lb-ft) from 1,750 to 2,700 rpm endowing it with rapid
acceleration all the way to its top speed of 215 km/h (134 mph). It’s
the ecologically balanced nature of the pocket rocket which appeals most
though, as despite this performance, it’ll return EU test cycle figures
of 4.3 litres per 100 kilometres (65.7 mpg imp) with CO2 emissions of
114 grams per kilometre. The Cooper SD will debut in Geneva in March and
hit showrooms in Q2. Read More
Joining products like the Life Straw, the Bobble and the Katadyn Vario
in the portable water filtration market, the Revolve filter bottle is
designed to remove up to 99.99% of all contaminants found in tap water
and one filter will produce the equivalent of 800 single use 16 oz
bottles of water. Read More
Over the years we’ve seen increasing numbers of solar backpacks and messenger bags designed to keep mobile devices juiced up by harnessing energy from the sun. With the flood of tablets looking to jump on the iPad’s coattails at CES 2011,
it comes as no surprise to see a solar bag specifically designed for
such devices. Produced by Voltaic, the company behind a variety of solar
backpacks and messenger bags including the Converter,
the Spark Tablet Case’s solar panels generate 8 watts of power to
provide about an hour of iPad runtime for every hour in direct sunlight.
Read More
How Lexar makes it memory chips – an inside view
By Jeff Salton
February 2, 2011
Much of the world these days relies heavily on
memory – not the human kind, but the manufactured variety. Many of us
have a plethora of memory cards and sticks kicking around in devices
like cameras, smart phones, USB thumb drives, etc., but have you ever
wondered what goes into the manufacture of a memory chip. This "behind
the scenes" promotional video from major manufacturer Lexar provides an
interesting insight to the process – it takes the company one month and
more than 800 processes to make a memory chip and the clean room in
which they are produced is 100 times cleaner than a hospital operating
room. That means in order to get in you have to do a lot more than just
wash your hands. Read More
Steam-engined vehicles are quaint, retro and
obsolete ... right? Well, maybe not. The current land speed record for a
steam-powered vehicle currently sits at 148 mph (238 kph), set by the British car Inspiration team in 2009.
Now, Chuk Williams’ U.S. Land Steam Record (USLSR) Team is hoping to
steal that title in its LSR Streamliner, powered by a heat-regenerative
external combustion Cyclone engine – an engine that could someday find common use in production automobiles. Read More
Bridges are generally exposed to the elements,
meaning they generally get a nice dose of sunlight often coupled with
some fairly strong crosswinds. For these reasons this “Solar Wind”
bridge concept from Italian designers Francesco Colarossi, Giovanna
Saracino and Luisa Saracino would seem to make a lot of sense. The
proposed bridge would harness solar energy through a grid of solar cells
embedded in the road surface, while wind turbines integrated into the
spaces between the bridge’s pillars would be used to generate
electricity from the crosswinds. Read More
Square system lets mobile devices take card payments
By Ben Coxworth
February 2, 2011
There’s no debating that credit and debit cards
are convenient, but typically the only places that you can use them are
in businesses, or via the phone or internet. In 2009 the co-founder of
Twitter, Jack Dorsey, set out to change that. He released a beta version
of Square,
a system that allowed mobile devices to receive card payments. A small
card reader plugged into the device’s headphone port, and an app handled
all the 1s and 0s. Two years later, Square is out of its debugging
phase and available for general use. Read More
After you've spent a considerable time learning
to play guitar or bass, you're then likely to want to find an individual
tone. For most of us, this involves the never-ending search for an
instrument that fits our personality, or taking what we can afford and
switching out the pickups or, if you're brave, more advanced rewiring.
With the aptly-named Game Changer from Ernie Ball's Music Man wing, you
can hang up the soldering iron for good and still get access to millions
of tonal variations in one guitar or bass. Read More
Red Bull rips the covers off title defender RB7
By Gizmag Team
February 4, 2011
F1 kicked back into life earlier this week with
the first official test of the season and the unveiling of most of the
2011 cars, the most significant of which was the Red Bull RB07 – the car
that will defend both Sebastian Vettel's drivers title and the energy
drink’s very own constructors championship. As is generally the case,
Red Bull's public relations output topped the field, and many of the highly informative illustrations in the image gallery come directly from the Red Bull press materials - images explaining the new RB7 changes, the pit crew roles and responsibilities, the 2011 steering wheel, driving position ad infinitum. Read More
Floating megacity designed for the banks of the Mississippi
By Darren Quick
February 3, 2011
Arcologies, which are essentially entire cities
crammed into a single high population density megastructure, are still
the realm of science fiction – or games such as Simcity. But with the
rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina ongoing, a group of
designers have come up with the proposal for just such a structure
designed to sit on the bank of the Mississippi. Called the New Orleans
Arcology Habitat (NOAH), the structure would house 40,000 residents
along with all services and amenities that would allow them to live
their entire lives within its walls if they so desired. Read More
Honda Japan has launched a special website
featuring the all-new compact Fit Shuttle, scheduled to debut in March.
The big news is that in addition to a petrol Fit Shuttle, Honda will
offer a hybrid model equipped with Integrated Motor Assist making it the
first wagon-type hybrid model in its class. Clearly the hybrid is now
beginning to permeate every class of vehicle. Read More
Those that think video game controllers are
already complicated enough with their array of joysticks, direction
pads, face buttons and triggers might balk at the sight of the N-Control
Avenger but, despite its imposing appearance, the device is actually
designed to make accessing a controller’s various buttons easier and
faster. Not only that, the device allows users to customize hair
triggers and reach all a controllers face buttons with the exception of
the A button without taking their thumbs off the analogue sticks. Read More
The quest to build a working “invisibility cloak” generally focuses on the use of metamaterials
– artificially engineered materials with a negative refractive index
that have already been used to render microscopic objects invisible in
specific wavelengths of light. Now, using naturally occurring crystals
rather than metamaterials, two research teams working independently have
demonstrated technology that can cloak larger objects in the broad
range of wavelengths visible to the human eye. Read More
Total production of the Mazda MX-5 sports car
reached 900,000 units today at Mazda's Hiroshima plant in Japan. The
milestone was achieved 21 years and 10 months after mass production of
the first-generation MX-5 commenced in April 1989 and further extends
the Mazda MX-5's lead as the best selling two-seater sports car of all
time. Indeed, the MX-5 took that title from the MGB (1962-80) in May
2000 when production reached 514,853 units to exceed the iconic British
sportster. Second place on the list is now held by Porsche's 911 series
(1964-present and pictured) which has sold over 700,000. It's also fifty
years this year since Jaguar launched the first affordable super sports
two-seater, the E-Type (pictured), but more on that shortly. Read More
One of the biggest problems with the move towards a hydrogen
economy is currently the production of hydrogen fuel takes a lot of
energy, which generally comes from burning fossil fuels. For hydrogen
vehicles to make sense, cleaner more efficient hydrogen production
methods will need to be developed. One promising approach takes its lead
from the natural processes of photosynthesis in order to convert sunlight into hydrogen fuel.
The latest breakthrough in this quest comes from Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (ORNL) where scientists have taken an important step towards
understanding the design principles that promote self-assembly in
natural photosynthetic systems. Read More
Over the past several years, a number of
companies and institutions have been developing technologies that could
allow windows to double as solar panels. These have included EnSol’s metal nanoparticle-based spray-on product, RSi’s photovoltaic glass and Octillion’s
NanoPower window. Last September, Maryland-based New Energy
Technologies joined the party by demonstrating a 4 x 4 inch (10.2 x 10.2
cm) prototype of its SolarWindow product. This Tuesday, the company
unveiled a working 12 x 12 inch (30.5 x 30.5 cm) prototype, which takes
it significantly closer to becoming commercially-viable. Read More
Combining an electric motor with a form factor
that has remained largely unchanged for over a hundred years, hybrid
electric bicycles make it easier to get around in an environmentally
friendly way, while still providing some much needed exercise. One of
the most distinctive electric bikes going around is the PiCycle.
The latest model from Pi Mobility retains the instantly recognizable
arch frame of its predecessor, but has been simplified even further and
now offers the option of integrated Wi-Fi-based technology to remotely
monitor the 2011 PiCycle’s performance and track the bike if it is
stolen. Read More
Studying the bumpy protrusions on the fins of humpback whales has already led to more efficient wind and tidal power turbines
and now nature is once again the source of inspiration for a new and
more efficient hydroelectric turbine. The latest source of biomimicry
is the basking shark, which industrial design student Anthony Reale has
borrowed from to create "strait power," a water-powered turbine
generator that tests have shown is 40 percent more efficient than
current designs. Read More
Agility will never be accused of sticking to
tradition for tradition's sake. Freed from the constraints of
complicated combustion engines and all the associated tackle, designer
Lawrence Marazzi has unveiled a brand new, fully electric British
motorcycle that turns the rules of motorcycle design on their head. The
Saietta features a hossack-inspired front end, an eye-popping fairing
design and a crazy degree of mass centralization that could only be
achieved with battery cells. Billed as a guerrilla commuter, it promises
to be a very exhilarating ride. See the video after the jump to hear
Marazzi talk about the design process, the future of electric
motorcycles and the unique properties of the Saietta. Read More
The Cougar20-H is a remote-controlled
surveillance robot that is so sensitive it can not only detect motion
through walls but, to ensure no one goes unnoticed, it can also detect
the breathing of a stationary person. Packing a fine beam ultra-wideband
(UWB), multi-Gigahertz radio frequency (RF) sensor array as well as
multiple integrated cameras for day and night time visibility, the
Cougar20-H was designed by surveillance imaging specialist TiaLinx to
provide improved situational awareness to soldiers while keeping them
out of harm’s way. Read More
On October 26, 2006, NASA launched two STEREO
(Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) spacecraft. Using the Moon’s
gravity for a gravitational slingshot, the two nearly identical
spacecraft, STEREO-A and STEREO-B, split up with one pulling ahead of
the Earth and the other gradually falling behind. It’s taken over four
years but on February 6, 2011, the two spacecraft finally moved into
position on opposite sides of the Sun, each looking down on a different
hemisphere. The probes are now sending back images of the entire star,
front and back, allowing scientists for the first time to view the Sun
in 3D. Read More
DreamPlug offers compact, low power, performance computing
By Paul Ridden
February 6, 2011
Applications developers looking for a low power,
small form factor computing solution that won't break the bank will no
doubt appreciate the DreamPlug from Globalscale Technologies. Expanding
on the company's GuruPlug system, the new low-profile plug computer is
powered by a Marvell processor, has half a gigabyte of DDR2 RAM and a
generous helping of onboard micro-SD flash memory to store the Linux
kernel and root system files. Physical connectivity and expansion
options include USB, eSATA, JTAG and UART and the unit also has built-in
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless capabilities. Read More
A group of Cambridge scientists have successfully
identified the mechanism that drives our internal 24-hour clock, or
circadian rhythm. It occurs not only in human cells, but has also been
found in other life forms such as algae, and has been dated back
millions of years. Whilst the research promises a better understanding
of the problems associated with shift-work and jet-lag, this mechanism
has also been proven to be responsible for sleep patterns, seasonal
shifts and even the migration of butterflies. Read More
SnowBow lets you get straight ... to shovelling the snow
By Ben Coxworth
February 5, 2011
At the present moment, much of north-eastern
North America is buried under one of the biggest snowfalls to hit in
over 50 years. Much to the chagrin of home-owners throughout the region,
that means a whole lot of shoveling. While it might not require a huge
amount of energy to shovel one’s sidewalk – in fact, sometimes it can
be kind of invigorating – it’s the bending and lifting that really makes
it unpleasant. Various ergonomic shovels have been invented over the
years to address this issue, such as the wheeled Sno Wovel. A simpler product is now available, however, in the form of the SnowBow. Read More
G-Slate tablet headed for T-Mobile spring release
By Paul Ridden
February 5, 2011
Motorola's Xoom may have grabbed most of the Android 3.0
headlines of late but it's not the only tablet to run on Google's new
tablet-optimized operating system. T-Mobile and LG have announced a
spring release window for the newest member of the G-series of mobile
devices, the G-Slate. The Tegra 2-powered device features 3D-capable,
high definition display and can record stereoscopic HD video via its
rear-facing cameras. Wireless connectivity is also given a speed boost
thanks to T-Mobile's growing HSPA+ network. Read More
The Zonda supercar established Pagani in the
elite category of supercar manufacturers, so much has been expected of
its successor, which we now know as the Huayra. Named appropriately
after a South American God of the Wind, the Huayra will be shown to the
public for the first time in Geneva a month from now. Only 20 of the
gull-winged Huayras will be made per year, each costing one million euro
with its main distinguishing features being a very light carbon
titanium monocoque, 700 bhp, 1000 Nm twin-turbo mid-engined V12 and
movable rear wing and four adjustable flaps constituting the most
extensive active aerodynamic package yet to head for production. Though
response to the car’s appearance is mixed, a photoshopped mock-up of a
Huayra Spyder indicates the 230 mph supercar will be even better looking
without a roof. Read More
Every year, millions of people come into
emergency rooms complaining of chest pains, yet those pains are only
sometimes due to heart attacks. Unfortunately in many of those cases,
the only way to be sure of what’s going on is to admit the patient for
an overnight stay, and administer time-consuming and costly tests. Now,
however, a new procedure could reveal the presence and location of a
blood clot within hours. It’s made possible by the injection of
nanoparticles, each containing a million atoms of bismuth – a toxic
heavy metal. Read More
European cities influence travel behavior through parking reforms
By Paul Ridden
February 8, 2011
A report into inner city parking reforms has
found that European cities are leading the way in the battle to coax
people into using public transport instead of clogging up city streets
with cars. The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
(ITDP) has revealed that cities which have implemented a host of
innovative parking policies in recent years are now benefiting from
improved air quality and better standards of urban life, all thanks to
significant reductions in car use. Read More
The U.S. Air Force’s Space Fence program has entered its next phase with the three companies originally awarded US$30 million contracts to develop a Space Fence now cut back to two. Northrop Grumman is now out of the project, leaving Lockheed Martin and Raytheon,
which have each been awarded a US$107 million dollar follow-on contract
to further develop and prototype their systems in preparation for a
final Space Fence production contract next year. As might be easy to
misconstrue from its name, the Space Fence isn’t designed as a defense
against intergalactic interlopers, but is intended to detect and track
the increasing amount of space junk orbiting Earth. Read More
Fiddling with lenses and focal length extenders
to get the effects we want is an annoying necessity for photographers –
but the latest announcement from Canon has the potential to make all the
company's lenses at least twice as useful. The Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L
IS USM EXTENDER 1.4x is the first lens Canon has made with a built-in
focal length extender. At the flick of a switch, it goes from 200-400mm
to 280-560mm while maintaining its presumably stellar L series optics
through the whole zoom range. That's one less fiddly lens change for
wildlife and sports photographers, and one heck of a great idea! Read More
Air hybrid vehicles could halve fuel consumption
By Darren Quick
February 7, 2011
The most commonly used form of regenerative
braking is where a vehicle’s electric motor is used as an electric
generator to capture the vehicle’s kinetic energy, which is otherwise
lost as heat when braking. The generator converts the kinetic energy
into electricity that is then fed back into the vehicle’s battery pack
where it is stored for later use. New research suggests that pneumatic
or air hybrids that instead store the energy as compressed air would be
much cheaper to produce than the current crop of EVs and
battery-electric hybrids and could halve the fuel consumption of ICE
powered vehicles. Read More
World's first hard X-ray free-electron laser images intact viruses
By Ben Coxworth
February 7, 2011
An international team of scientists has obtained
the world’s first single-shot images of intact viruses – a technology
that could ultimately lead to moving video of molecules, viruses and
live microbes. The team was also able to successfully utilize a new
shortcut for determining the 3D structures of proteins. Both advances
were achieved using the world’s first hard X-ray free-electron laser –
the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) – which scientists hope could
revolutionize the study of life. Read More
NASA's Kepler space telescope has succeeded in its mission to identify potentially-habitable exoplanets.
Kepler has so far observed 156,000 stars in its field of vision and has
identified no less than 1235 candidate planets that sit in the
“goldilocks zone” (not too close to the star, and not too far away). Of
these, scientists at the NASA's Ames Research Center are excited to
announce the discovery of the Kepler-11 system – a rare multiple
planetary system similar to our own with five planets in the habitable
zone. Read More
Although surgeons need to frequently review
medical images and records during surgery, they’re also in the difficult
position of not being able to touch non-sterile objects such as
keyboards, computer mice or touchscreens. Stepping away from the
operating table to check a computer also adds time to a procedure.
Researchers from Indiana’s Purdue University are addressing this
situation by developing gesture-recognition systems for computers, so
that surgeons can navigate through and manipulate screen content simply
by moving their hands in the air. The system could additionally be used
with robotic scrub nurses, also being developed at Purdue, to let the
devices know what instruments the surgeon wants handed to them. Read More
By developing a simple one-minute sideline test,
researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have
tackled the issue of diagnosing concussion head on. Up until now
sideline tests for concussion have been vague and often miss a large
spectrum of brain functions that may have been affected. It is a
well-known fact that any concussion left untreated or ignored may lead
to serious or potentially fatal consequences, thus the Pennsylvanian
researchers are eager to get this simple and effective test into action.
Read More
Canon has just announced two new entry-level DSLR cameras,
theEOS 600D and the EOS 1100D (or Rebel T3i and T3 in North America).
The company hopes that both cameras will bring in new, aspiring
photographers looking to make that first jump from a point-and-shoot to a
DSLR. Appropriately, Canon has built in a number of user-friendly
features to make the EOS 600D and 1100D more accessible. Read More
The capability of the compact camera continues to
move forward at warp speed with Canon today announcing its latest
PowerShot SX230 HS model, complete with 14X optical zoom, 12.1-Megapixel
images and 1080P video. The integation of a GPS receiver in the SX230
HS is another pushing of the boundaries – in addition to the logical
recording of the latitude and longitude of where the image was taken in
each image's EXIF data, the camera comes with mapping software so you
can see where the pics were taken on a map, plus an internal GPS logger,
so you can track your route on a map, making it a useful application
for day or longer term trips. All this for US$350 and available next
month. Read More
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