56MP Leaf AFi 10 camera

Leaf introduces the Leaf AFi 10 medium format camera system. The True Wide Frame (TWF) 56x36 mm, 56 megapixel digital imaging sensor in the new Leaf AFi 10 camera system takes you to the edge of the medium-format frame. With best-of-class Schneider lenses, the Leaf AFi system can fully realise the power of 56 megapixels, delivering images of unsurpassed quality. Together with the new Leaf ‘Verto’ technology, the TWF sensor can be rotated internally, giving you the control and flexibility to shoot the way you want to.

CCD Size	56x36 mm
Pixel Size (micron)	6x6
Resolution	56 MP
Active Pixels	9288 x 6000
Capture Time	1 frame/sec
Exposure Time	Up to 1 minute
Light Sensitivity (ISO)	50-800
File size	114 MB (MOS), 171MB (RGB TIF 8 bit)

This marks the third 50MP plus digital back announced this month. You can read more about the New Leaf AFI System here.

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Sanyo Xacti DMX-HD800 camcorder for $468

Sanyo announced its new Xacti DMX-HD800, a sleek, slim HD digital movie camera. The Xacti HD800 features a 1/2.5 inch 8 Megapixel CMOS sensor, a 5x optical zoom lens, 12x digital zoom, Digital Image Stabilizer (electronic), ISO sensitivity up to 1600, and a 2.7-inch LCD screen.

Sanyo’s HD800 is able to record 1280×720 HD 720p videos at 30fps. The camera offers also Flicker mitigation, Wind noise reduction, Face Chaser technology, 3-dimension Noise Reduction (3DDNR) technology. It utilize the AVC/H.264 codec for video encoding.

The Xacti HD800 will launch in Japan in three colors (Gold, Pink, Black) on August 22nd.
Via this Sanyo press-release (Japanese).

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Studio Hybrid PC from Dell

One of these will set you back about $499. It's 80 percent smaller than a standard desktop, drains 70 percent less power, and 95 percent of the packaging is recyclable, plus it comes with a system recycling kit. You can also outfit one of these babies with a Blu-ray drive, wireless mouse and keyboard, TV tuner, and WiFi. Other specs are still unknown and the release is sometime this Fall.

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Microsoft Surface Sphere

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World's Thinnest MP4 - OMG That's Thin

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Fujitsu Lifebook U2010

Fujitsu’s Lifebook U2010 is a netbook, or a mini-netbook. It’s smaller than small with it’s 5.6 inch display. The U2010 mini-laptop/tablet will offer you power and portability. It has an Atom processor running either at 1.6GHz or 1.8GHz, a 5.6 inch display with resolution up to 1024×768, 1GB RAM, an 80GB hard drive, 3G radio, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth. It weighs about 1.5 pounds and it will retail for $1,300. It’s quite a lot but like I said, it offers power and portability which can’t come cheap.

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Nokia XpressMusic 5800 Tube

The S60 OS-based device is purported to have a 640×360 resolution 3.2-inch screen along with built-in GPS, haptic feedback and a 3.2-megapixel camera. Other specs after the jump with a gallery of photos.

Nokia Tube Xpress Music 5800 features

• 111 × 52 × 14.5 mm, and weighs only 104 grams.
• 16 million color TFT LCD
• 640 × 360 pixel resolution
• 16:9 display mode
• Fifth edition of Symbian S60.
• finger touch operation will provide vibration feedback function.
• 3.2 megapixel Carl Zeiss optical lens with autofocus
• Dual LED flash
• Built-in GPS
• 140 MB RAM
• GSM / GPRS / EDGE / WCDMA / HSDPA / WLAN wireless networking and Bluetooth technology.
• 3.5 mm Headset interface
• TV-out interface
• BL-5J 1150mah Battery

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Bookeen Cybook Gen3

Cybook GEN3 is the most improved version of this portable eBook reader model, featuring the E Ink-based display offering high viewability in any light conditions, from any angle, without showing flicker effects. As it looks like a normal paper, you can’t use it in dark environments, but it has a resolution of 166 dpi, 600 x 800 pixel, black and white display, 6 inches in diagonal, 4 grey levels, portrait or landscape modes, and the Vizplex technology, the fastest and brightest electronic paper display from the E Ink Corporation, providing 80% improved refresh rate and 25% more brightness.

As it was designed with a 1-mm thick screen and integrating a very small Lithium Polymer battery, the new Cybook portable eBook reader measures just 188 x 118 x 8.5 mm at a weight of 174 grams. The E Ink technology doesn’t require power to maintain an image so while you read a page it doesn’t consume power, this leading to an increased battery life for up to 8,000 screen refreshes.

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Cowon P5 touchscreen media player

Cowon's not known for dull media players and its latest lust infused launch is no exception. Offering a full five inches of 800x480 touchscreen action the P5 will pack up to 80GB beneath its brushed metal body.

It's based on Windows CE and touts a heavy duty RMI Alchemy AU1250 700Mhz processor but Cowon's been busy with the interface to add support for custom widgets and fingertip trembling haptic feedback.

Playback of just about any video and audio is no problem with support for AVI, ASF, WMV, MPG, OGM, DivX, Xvid, MPEG4, WMV9, MP3, WMA, AC3 and possibly 8-track and Betamax if pushed.

Bluetooth and FM radio are both in there and you can add Wi-Fi for web browsing as long as you don't mind having a dongle sticking out the P5's USB port.

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Sony Ericsson W902 Walkman phone

Sony Ericsson has a new Walkman phone for the masses - the W902. This is one of the better Walkman handsets to be released to date, offering a pretty solid multimedia performance.

Sony Ericsson W902 Features

• Outstanding music sound
• Retro music navigation keys
• Crystal clear video playback
• 5 megapixel camera
• Scratch-resistant 2.2” QVGA screen and lens
• Memory Stick Micro memory card slot
• UMTS/HSDPA 2100
• GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900

The Sony Ericsson W902 Walkman phone will come in Volcanic Black, Wine Red and Earth Green colors this Q4, albeit without price tags attached to it at the moment.

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New Sony Ericsson W595 Walkman Phone

The W595 Walkman is perfect for those who want to share sounds with their friends. Store and play your music collections through the built in stereo speakers. Plug in the in-box sharing jack to listen silently to your tunes with a friend or Bluetooth your sounds to Sony Ericsson’s range of wireless speakers.

Just as the W902, the new W595 slider walkman phone also features a 2.2″ bright display screen. The retail package will bundle with a 2GB Memory Stick Micro (M2) and a stereo share jack so you can listen in from an additional headset.

The W595 Walkman is a UMTS/HSDPA 2100 and GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 phone that will be available in selected markets in Active Blue, Cosmopolitan White, Jungle Grey and Lava Black in Q4 of 2008. The W595c/W595a Walkman phone will support GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900.

W595 features at a glance:

• Walkman player
• 2GB Memory Stick Micro (M2)
• Share jack and stereo speakers
• Shake Control
• Bluetooth
• TrackID and SensMe
• 3.2 megapixel camera
• Java
• FM Radio
• Access NetFront Web Browser
• Dedicated music keys
• USB mass storage
• USB support
• Size: 100 x 47 x 14 mm
• Weight: 104 grams
• Screen: 262,144 colour TFT
• Resolution: 240×320 pixels
• Size: 2.2 inches
• Phone memory: Up to 40MB
• Memory Stick Micro (M2) support
• Talk time GSM: Up to 9 hrs
• Standby time GSM: Up to 385 hrs
• Talk time UMTS: Up to 4 hrs 30 min
• Standby time UMTS: Up to 365 hrs
• Video call time: Up to 2 hrs 30 min
• Music listening time: Up to 25 hrs

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