Steampunk-styled guitars with macabre pasts
(Credit: Tony Cochran Guitars)
If you're a fan of old electric guitars, then axes that have been modified to look like they came out of steampunk fantasy could be right up your alley. Guitar enthusiast (and man behind the comic strip Agnes) Tony Cochran is selling a range of instruments that have been meticulously modified to look like steampunk creations.
A leaked press shot of what could be the Samsung Galaxy S II Plus. (Credit: Twitter)
The Samsung marketing team must either be rubbing its hands in collective glee, or worrying that someone will be fired soon for a leaked press image of what could possibly be the rumored Samsung Galaxy S II Plus.
As reported earlier, the news that the Samsung Galaxy S III will not be making an appearance at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona meant that Samsung would not have a new flagship device to wow the attendees with.
Hope, however, has arrived in the unlikely form of Eldar Murtazin, who's known for leaking product information before the news breaks. He's more often right than wrong, but the press image leaked seems legit.
If the Android OS is not your cup of tea, perhaps you would like some Mango--also known as Windows Phone 7.5. Our resident mobile phone reviewer gives us the lowdown on the Samsung Omnia W.
Much has been said about the iOS 5 jailbreak for both the iPhone 4S and iPad 2--we've even recommended what to download for free and what to pay for on the Cydia app store. Now we have five good reasons why you shouldn't go ahead with it.
At its Financial Analyst Day, AMD showed off a Trinity-powered ultrathin laptop from Compal.
Would an Ultrabook by any other name be just as thin, light and power-efficient? Perhaps.
Although AMD cannot use Intel's "Ultrabook" moniker, the company has similar ambitions--it recently showed off an ultrathin laptop measuring 18mm. This Compal-built notebook is powered by AMD's next-gen Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), Trinity and is expected to cost around US$900. AMD also claims that it will have better battery life than Intel's equivalent.
Google Maps has come under fire in France.
(Credit: Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET)
A Paris court earlier this week ordered Google France and its parent company Google to pay plaintiff Bottin Cartographes 500,000 euros (about US$660,000) for providing its free mapping services to businesses across the country. The court also required Google to pay a 15,000 euro fine for its practice.
"We proved the illegality of (Google's) strategy to remove its competitors," Jean-David Scemmama, attorney for Bottin Cartographes, a company that provides mapping services to businesses, told the AFP in an interview earlier this week.
(Credit: Lensbaby)
To get you even closer to your subject, Lensbaby has introduced a set of macro converters with one, 8mm converter and one, 16mm converter, which can also be stacked together to make a 24mm converter.
Depending on the lens body and optic combination you can focus anywhere from zero to 8.13 inches from your subject. Lensbaby has a full chart to see just how close you can get with its various optics with these adapters used separately or stacked.
Where art thou, oh iPad 3?
(Credit: Apple)
Japanese Apple blog Macotakara today clarified its original report saying that the "special event" it heard about from an "Asian supplier and a source from the United States" that would bring the official unveiling of the iPad 3 is actually taking place next month.
The site added that Apple was still going to have a "strange" event sometime this month, without adding details to what product or service it may related to, or why it was an oddity.
Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer and American Idol host Ryan Seacrest hosting the keynote at CES 2012.
(Credit: Aloysius Low/CNET Asia)
The next big iteration of its Windows Phone platform appears to address many of the early concerns and brings it to par with competing platforms. Microsoft is still fighting an uphill battle in getting its phones--which have been critically praised--into the hands of consumers. So far, consumers have by far favored Android smartphones and the iPhone.
The version, codenamed Apollo, will allow vendors more choice with how they build their phone, going back on Microsoft's previous insistence upon using a standard set of specifications. That allows the handset manufacturers to better compete and stand apart from each other with varying levels of specs.
The Pentax K-01. (Credit: Pentax)
It seems that the rumors were spot on. Pentax has just launched a large-sensor K-01 interchangeable lens camera (ILC).
The main highlight of the K-01 has got to be its K-mount lens--the camera retains full compatibility with all of Pentax's lenses. This means Pentax dSLR users would be able to use their existing lenses (such as the K-, KA-, KAF-, KAF2- and KAF3-mount versions) without having to resort to an additional lens adapter. Shutterbugs can even use the company's film-era optics (via an adapter), which is a bonus as such lenses are usually available cheaply on online auction sites.
Can you actually edit videos properly on a tablet?
That's what Avid is attempting with its first prosumer video editing app for the iPad. Although the company claims that the app will have most of the features found on its desktop equivalent, Avid Studio, we aren't sure if the iPad's smaller display will be adequate for users who are accustomed to larger screens. There's also the issue of storage space on the iPad, though the app allows full projects and videos to be transferred via iCloud and iTunes.
However, with a starting price of just US$4.99 (rising to US$7.99 after 30 days), the Avid Studio for iPad app costs only a fraction of the desktop version (US$130).
Avid's announcement comes just days after Apple moved to rebuild its reputation with video editors with an update to restore some features that had been removed from its high-end desktop video editor, Final Cut Pro X. The latest version of the software was a radical remake that generated much controversy among professional users.
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