DSLR Deluxe: New $5000-Digital-Camera Nikon D3 announced

Wow, what e beauty! Finally, it’s here. After the longest period of speculation ever Nikon has today lifted the covers on their first full-frame digital SLR, the new 12.1 megapixel D3. The D3 is all about speed and sensitivity, twelve megapixels on a big CMOS chip means large photosites (8.45 µm pitch to be precise) and that adds up to base sensitivity of ISO 200 to 6400 with an additional two stop boost over that (up to ISO 25600). The other side of the speed story (apart from blistering AF and shutter lag) is that the D3 can shoot at nine frames per second with AF tracking or eleven frames per second without. Other headline features are a newly branded EXPEED image processor, a new 51-point AF sensor, color AF tracking, dual CF compartments (with UDMA support), an amazing 3.0″ 922,000 pixel LCD monitor with Live View (including contrast detect auto-focus), HDMI video output and even a virtual horizon function which can tell you when you’re holding the camera perfectly level. There’s too much to fit here so we crammed as much as we can into a preview. The D3 will be available in November, at around US$5000. Via: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0708/07082312nikond3.asp

AvantGarde Cell phone collection: For moneybags with a taste for the conventional

If the soon to launch Nokia Prism Collection is not choice enough for you, maybe you can list this one as well that are expected to hit the shelves at around the same time (the last quarter of 2007).

If you thought the Gresso Limited guys had mysteriously shut shop, the good news for some wealthy guys out there, is that they seem to have been busy developing the sleek and suave cell phones that you see up there. Of course, at first they look like nothing extraordinary, but a redone version of some sleek Motorola phone. But if they go to tell you about the specs like the laser-etched numbers, roman numerals (talk about preserving tradition), and the sapphire crystals it has up front, you might want to give it some more thought. Its keyboard is made of gold - I mean, do you have the security guard to go with that? Read more

Segmented Red LED Clock: For the lovers of bizarre home adornments

If everything around your new home can be innovative and spell ‘ATTITUDE’, then why not your alarm clock? Yeah right, you’d say, as if you care about the deadline-reminding 30-second wonder. But if you check out those LED clocks up there, you might have a change in opinion. B&W Tubes Clock features those six segmented LED’s in dome-shaped bottlish structures. Sure, it has a lot of oomph, but for some reason it looks to me like some deadly destruction data reflecting on a ghostly night in blood transfusion bottles. Blame it on my imagination. However, the stainless steel and wood base save my nightmarish night. Read more

USB Memory Watch: Confidentiality assured

What you see up there is not some cheap imitation of a well-branded analog watch. It’s an analog watch that has USB memory. Wow, you’d say. Carrying all that data around couldn’t have got simpler would it? And if you’re working in some highly confidential field, then this one’s definitely the best security your information can ever get. Packing an impressive 2 GB flash memory, Read more

Sonoro Cubo: Adding an element of cute compactness to your musical world

In an age where fragility and compactness rule the roost, it’s only obvious for us to have an attitude change towards everything around us. Me, for one, just can’t stand anything looking chunky or meaty anymore, even if its books or a yummy plate of Sizzler. And if you’re like me, then you’re going to dig these compact music systems from Germany’sSonoro Audio. Available in a dramatic range of colors, they sure would make a style statement in a typical executive home. Read more