Have you ever wandered in the desert longing for a glass of water, having the water but not the glass? Well not anymore!
This fine stainless steel retractable cup may be the answer for what you’ve been looking for. It has three parts forming a 185ml cup. It also has a cover and a key-chain to carry around. Interested? Keep on reading…
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A brand new website dedicated to the Canon PowerShot G11 – tips, tricks and information has just opened.
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The price of Canon G11 just dropped from $500 USD to $450 USD. It is now on sale offered for a discounted price in Amazon.
This is great news if you’ve been interested in this great camera. The original price is $500 USD so hurry up before it goes back.
The Canon G11 offers superb image quality for both day-light shots and low-light photo-shooting. It’s a great choice whether you’ve been looking for one of the best IQ cameras on the market today. The G11 shows a remarkable improvement in high ISO settings compared to its predecessor Canon G10, not to mention the swivel LCD that was added to this model. This is the closest you can get as far as image quality goes in non-DSLR cameras with RAW capabilities.
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It took three years for my late Canon S3 IS to break. It died in an accident during a journey to Jordan. My Canon S3 IS has taken tens of thousands of photographs during two long journeys to the far east, and as mentioned, her latest one to Jordan.
So now it’s time to look for a new camera. Using a Super-Zoom camera for three years, quite extensively if I may add, has taught me a few lessons about the advantages as well as disadvantages of this specific camera. I’ve adpated a certain style during that time. For example, I avoided high ISO settings above 200 due to noisy results. I tried to avoid using the zoom feature when possible to keep image quality higher. I always used the top image quality settings (which in this camera was 5 mega-pixels).
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Looks like the 32GB microSDHC memory cards are going to show up by christmas this year.
One ebay seller offers a 32GB micro-SDHC card for $100 USD. It seems like a reasonable price, maybe even too good to be true.
Kingston 32GB micro-SDHC on eBay
It looks legit, but my vote still goes for a counterfeit / fake.
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The long awaited 32GB microSDHC cards are available as of today (August 29, 2009) for sale from a Chinese merchant. Apparently people can order or buy them from China.
My bet is that this is a counterfeit! Although, it’s nice to know someone is taking interest in SanDisk microSDHC 32GB memory cards. It seems as if SanDisk completely forgot about it (is this a wake-up call for SanDisk?).
As you can see in the low-quality picture, it is a SanDisk 32GB microSDHC Class 4. Or… is it?
My other theory is that this is actually a good sign. Either SanDisk’s factories in China began producing the real deal (which was the cause for fake cards popping out), or these are real SanDisk memory cards that someone in China got his hands on.
Well, let’s wait and see what happens!
More info & link inside this article
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Lately, Kingston has released its newest class 2 16GB micro-SDHC card to the market. It’s already available in Amazon for a reasonable price ($48)
While Kingston has their Class 2 card for sale, SanDisk has already released to the market their own Class 4 version for this card ( Mobile Ultra ), which is supposed to be twice as fast as the competitor. However, the higher speed comes with a cost – $100, not so cheap.
Whether you’re looking to buy a Class 2 micro-SDHC card or a speedy Class 4 micro-SDHC card, both options are already here for you to decide. I’ve found that for most applications Class 2 is more than enough.
Pretec has announced last week the first SDXC card in the world!
SDXC is the new SD card standard that will replace SDHC (limited to 32GB). While the new SDXC standard is limited to 2000GB (2 tera bytes), no one said you can’t manufacture a low-capacity SDXC card. So why on earth would we need a 32GB SDXC when there are already 32GB SDHC memory cards on the market?
We don’t need it! But good for Pretec for their breaking news. Currently, this Pretec 32GB SDXC can not be used simply because no device supports this standard. New devices that will support SDXC will also support SDHC, so even in the future there will be no real reason to buy this card, unless of course, it is truly faster than any other SD card in the market, as claimed by Pretec.
The SDXC standard specifies read/write speed upto 50MB per second initially and up to 104MB per second in the future.
Now let’s see who’s going to be the first to announce the real deal – 64GB SDXC. Will it be Toshiba, Panasonic, SanDisk or maybe even Pretec.
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SanDisk & Toshiba announced their latest achievement in 32nm X3 technology a few weeks ago. This technology is ideal for micro-SD memory cards, providing twice the capacity of the technology used today. It’s expected to be produced in the second half of 2009, this means 32GB micro-SDHC in the second half of the year.
A fake image of a SanDisk 32GB microSD card, found on the internet
The second half of 2009 is June. So does this mean we’re going to see this baby on the market in three months from now? Probably not. Expect this 32GB micro-SDHC memory card to be available not before the last quarter of 2009 (September – December).
As for the near future, there’s a big buzz around the new SDXC standard (the one that will replace the limited SDHC standard). These cards will be available in capacities of 64GB and up. If we take into consideration that usually micro-SDHC cards get on the market around the same time SD cards with four times the capacity get on the market, the really big news is, we might see 128GB SDXC (the bigger version) during the beginning of 2010.
On the other hand, SDXC is likely to have difficulties penetrating the market so the whole thing might be delayed for some time. We’ll have to wait and see.
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Last month the SD association (SDA) announced yet another SD format – SDXC which is supposed to be the next generation of SDHC which was the next generation of SD cards.
So let’s see what we have today:
SD Card – Secure Digital (Maximum capacity 2GB)
SDHC Card – SD High Capacity (Maximum capacity 32GB)
SDXC Card – SD eXtreme Capacity (Maximum capacity 2000GB).
To be honest, SDXC stands for SD eXtended capacity, not for eXtreme, but you get the drift.
I don’t know who is responsible for this catastrophe. Now we have to upgrade everything again! It was only two years ago when they forced us to upgrade and now they are going to do it again. That means that all of our devices are going to be obsolete by 2010. That is, if you want a super-high capacity memory card.
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