Panasonic rolled out its highest-end point-and-shoot digital camera, the Lumix DMC-FX100, and managed to pack 12.2 megapixels into its diminutive form factor. This one’s built for speed, able to snap eight frames per second through its unusually wide 28mm f/2.8 lens with 3.6x optical zoom. And hey, the camera itself doesn’t look half bad, either, and gives you 2.5 inch viewscreen out back but lacks an optical viewfinder.
Of course, it has Panasonic’s tricked-out optical image stabilization, and it’s also touted to be able to shoot HD photos, that is, you can set the same resolution in the camera that a 1080p TV set can do, 1920×1080. The thing even makes an effort at shooting HD video, giving you the option of laying down 720p video, but unfortunately it’s only at 15 frames per second. As usual, Panasonic was coy about pricing, but did mention we’d be seeing the FX100 shipping in July.
Looks like making phone calls from Google Talk is just inches away. From a presentation for the Google Apps (find the screen shot under the Google Talk section), Sander spotted a screen shot of Google Talk displaying “Show dialpad“, and “Enter a name or phone number“.
Hey, that’s so obvious, we can make phone calls within Google Talk!
Hmm, don’t get so excited yet… Will the service be free and available worldwide?
The Stealth Motorcycle is a lithium ion powered beast. Well, maybe not beast…maybe more of a beast jr. or beast cub. Because any motorcycle that can’t top 50mph is just a moped in our book.
I’m torn. While I love the concept and even like the design, I shuddered when the word “chopper” was used to describe a virtually silent motorcycle. Let’s get this baby up to 88 miles per hour—the Gizmodo techmobile standard—and then we’ll talk.
There was precious little information accompanying this video that landed in our tip box this morning, but as you can plainly see, it’s a light table-like device that immediately scans whatever you set upon it, and it lets you resize, move and animate objects together using gestures.
It looks like there’s a camera above that can immediately take a picture of whatever you set on the table. It’s somehow able to cut out the image as it’s being scanned. Now if they could just tweak that display to be a bit less washed out, they might be on to something here. Excuse us while we have a brainstorm trying to figure out how this thing works.
