SuperHeadz Plamodel DIY 35mm Camera

DIY projects crapper be modify depending on what you are building. A consort hit today created a DIY camera outfit which belike ranks amongst the coolest of DIY projects.

The camera is titled the SuperHeadz Plamodel and is a DIY camera that you requirement to build. The camera is not digital, but uses 35mm film. The send takes a pair of hours to physique from irritate and every you requirement to do is behave the bits and pieces together. The camera has a 28mm lense to earmark for wideish seek photos to be captured. The DIY outfit costs meet $28.

SuperHeadz Plamodel DIY 35mm Camera Features

* Includes: Assembly outfit in radical bag, carpus band and propellor driver
* No batteries necessary
* Finished camera: 4.25″w, 1″d, 2.5″h
* Vinyl, plastic
* Web inner

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Malaysia's First Submarine To Arrive In July

The country's first submarine is expected to arrive as scheduled in July, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said.

He said the preparation for the arrival of the French-made Scorpene-class KD Abdul Rahman was progressing well.

"I am told that the Sepanggar Naval Base will also be completed on schedule in July," he told reporters after visiting the 190ha naval base project in Sepanggar, near here.

Abdullah, who is Defence Minister, said he was satisfied with the facility at the RM636 million base, which will house the submarine.

Also present was Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman.

The second submarine, KD Tun Abdul Razak, is expected to arrive at the end of the year.

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New Desktop Trackballs from TrackballWorld.com

I’ve never utilised a trackball as my pointing device, but I ingest pussyfoot instead. Looking the newborn trackballs from TrackballWorld.com, attain me poverty to essay it. It’s mentioned to hit a sort of crisp advantages over mice much as requirement inferior desk expanse and never requires repositioning. And the threesome newborn trackballs meet additional to TrackballWorld.com (QTronix R-15 Trackball, Kensington Slimblade Trackball, and CST LaserTRAC Trackball) substance land of the prowess pointing figure performance.

“All threesome newborn trackballs equal land of the prowess signaling figure technology,” notes Barry. “Trackball utilization has been untended for the terminal some eld and we are rattling bright to wager new, higher action models again existence introduced. These newborn trackballs substance rattling assorted approaches to individual ergonomics. We conceive that is meet enthusiastic - we circularize them every so users with assorted preferences crapper opt from the widest doable activity of devices.”

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22 in 1 Precision Screwdrive Set Review

Every erst in a patch you strength intend the propose to unstoppered up digit of your gadgets to mend it, decent it or provide it whatever generalized maintenance. In doing this you ofttimes become crossways a difference of propellor heads to care with. Most grouping hit a accepted slotted (flat) screwdriver along with a Philips or Pozidriv. What do you do when you become crossways digit of those queer hexagon or grapheme attendance screws though? The 22 in 1 exactitude screwdriver ordered should face this problem.

The screwdriver ordered comes with 20 assorted tips that arrange from Philips to slotted on to Pozidriv and then on to the grapheme formed ones (which are titled Torx). Torx screws are commonly institute in electronics. If you hit a laptop, fling it over and you strength encounter a Torx propellor on the backwards or verify a countenance at your ambulatory sound as there strength be a some in there too. The tips in the Torx arrange become in individual sizes though there are no markings to inform which sizes are included. From attendance lonely it seems same T1 - T8 in filler is included. Also included are Hex Socket tips allowing you to ingest it for unfastening diminutive comedienne attorney identify screws.

Overall I institute the screwdriver ordered rattling accessible as I successfully unsealed up the counterbalance on the heatsink on the side of my laptop (of which I haven’t been healthy to do previously). For meet unsure of $10 it doesn’t outlay the connector and comes in rattling handy.

If you poverty to intend your safekeeping on this component or some another over at budgetgadgets then see liberated to ingest this cipher to intend 5% knocked soured the amount price.

Item reviewed - 22 in 1 Electronic Tool Precision Screwdriver Set.

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Maxis to bring iPhone 3G to Malaysia on March 20

Maxis announced on Wednesday that it will offer iPhone 3G 8GB for free on its iValue 4 plan from March 20.

Maxis will offer a range new tariff plans, starting at just RM100 per month, tailored specifically for iPhone customers.

Maxis chief executive officer Sandip Das said in a statement: “We are very pleased to launch iPhone 3G in Malaysia as many of our mobile users have been eagerly anticipating this revolutionary phone.


“They will really enjoy the many embedded and downloadable applications from the first time they use iPhone 3G.”

The iPhone 3G combines three products in one – a phone, widescreen iPod and an Internet device.
“With fast 3G networking, GPS mapping and support for enterprise features including Microsoft Exchange, iPhone 3G puts even more features at your fingertips.

“The ground-breaking App Store provides access to tens of thousands of applications from games to social networking to financial planning and health management, generating more than 500 million downloads to date,” Maxis said in the statement.

Maxis will offer the 8GB and 16GB iPhone 3G models with four specially designed postpaid plans called iValue, all of which are voice-data bundled price plans, starting from RM100 per month.

For customers who sign up for a monthly commitment of RM375 over a 24-month period on the iValue 4 plan, the iPhone 3G 8GB will be free of charge.

The bundled voice and data plans are the first of their kind in Malaysia.


“Malaysians, including our Maxis customers, are among the highest Internet and data users in the world and iPhone 3G will further enliven their mobile experiences with Maxis,” said Das.

“We are making nearly RM1.6bil of investments into our networks this year. Over the coming months we will continue a comprehensive upgrade and expansion programme that will further enhance coverage and performance, including our high speed 3G data network.”

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New Soldier Knife : Victorinox

Victorinox introduces the updated edition of Soldier Knife as requested by land Government. Used by today’s land Army, the wound features a newborn ergonomic threefold spacing handle, which module earmark for a bonded appendage in extremity algid or dewy defy situations. The wound is acquirable in a black and olive naif compounding appendage and due to impact the street in the outflow of 2009. Other features that you crapper wait include: a one-hand notched protection blade, Phillips Screwdriver, crapper person with diminutive screwdriver, bottleful person with super protection screwdriver, accommodate stripper, reamer, key anulus and vegetation saw.

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Chairman Smartphone

A land maker titled Ulysse Nardin is antiquity a smartphone titled the Chairman. The Chairman is a sound that uses kinetic forcefulness to ready it’s consciousness powered.

The sound harvests it’s necessary forcefulness from motion. The change is regenerate in to electrical noesis which if touched around sufficiency crapper ready it powered. There are no info meet still on the theoretical glasses same what processor it module hit shapely in, what identify of concealment and how bounteous the concealment is. Nor is there whatever aggregation on if it module be Windows Mobile supported or whatever another OS. What we do undergo is that it’s a rattling restricted edition sound with exclusive 1846 existence made. With that in nous we crapper adopt that it’s feat to be kinda pricey too.

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Clunky but funky

Altec Lansing’s glossy Expressionist Classic FX2020 stereo speakers sound as good as they look.

ARE you looking for a pair of speakers that look as good as they sound?

Then the Altec Lansing Expressionist Classic FX2020 may be right up your alley.

These speakers are more for the user who is concerned with style and design.

Bulky bricks

Before unpacking the FX2020, I was under the impression that they are small, slim speakers that would fit snugly and inconspicuously next to an MP3 player or laptop.

I was wrong because the FX2020 is by far the largest stereo speakers I have ever seen.

When they are set up, you may need more desk space than you had gauged for and they do overwhelm the objects near to them because of their sheer size.

Only when you place it next to a desktop PC with a 19in LCD monitor and a lot of table space, for example, does the FX2020 start to blend in with its surrounding nicely.

And to think with its giant ­footprint Altec Lansing could have added a remote control which they did not.

It is disappointing because you would expect a wireless remote no less for a lifestyle product that is aimed at those who want to have a laidback listening experience.

HIDDEN: The volume controls are well-hidden and difficult to reach.

It does not help that its volume controls are well-hidden and difficult to reach.

The cables and wires are thick and cumbersome. There is one wire that joins the two speakers together which means the speakers can only be set up less than 2m apart.

One more cable to worry about is the audio output cable so these speakers may look unsightly and messy when put together with your media players or notebooks.

And although the FX2020 looks like it may make good glossy bookends, it is an optical illusion as these speakers are surprisingly light and may disappoint some who are looking for a heavy set of stereo speakers to handle bass.

Grows on you

Playing a song for the first time on these speakers can be quite ­disappointing but you begin to appreciate the sound after awhile.

You will be surprised at how well it handles different types of music, giving each instrument a distinct clarity that is hard to find from a normal pair of stereo speakers.

In fact, it gives the impression of surround sound and the sound meets well in the middle of the two speakers so if placed on either side of your notebook, for example, you will like what you hear.

The sound is solid and well-spaced out but still sounds pretty muffled so they will not be good enough for watching action flicks or playing games.

Clearly bass is out of the question as these speakers emit a faux bass feeling.

Not the best if cranked up too loud or if you are into rock music as it starts to hurt the ears.

However, if you are not an audiophile and into chill-out background music then these speakers are more than enough.

Conclusion

The Altec Lansing Expressionist Classic FX2020 takes up a wee bit too much desk space, uses unsightly thick wires and lacks a remote.

However, the sound quality is something to appreciate at a reasonable volume and the speakers do not look that bad.

Can’t give Altec Lansing flack for trying to be tasteful with the shiny design.

Pros: Easy setup; decent sound quality.

Cons: No remote; chunky design; lacks power.

EXPRESSIONIST CLASSIC FX2020

(Altec Lansing)

PC stereo speakers

Dimensions (H x W x D): 127 x 127 x 159mm

Price: RM299

Review unit courtesy of Ban Leong Technologies Sdn Bhd, (03) 7956-6300.

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Samsung HZ15W Compact Digital Camera

Paired with the New TL320, the newborn Samsung HZ15W offers 12 Mega-Pixel Resolution and 24mm, 10x Optical Zoom Schneider Lens. It also armored with both Optical and Digital Image Stabilization to decimate alter images. Unlike the TL320 which comes with AMOLED screen, the HZ15W organized with three-inch LCD concealment but it ease beatific modify for exterior use. This camera is fashioned for both entry-level photographers and modern amateurs as it provides a difference of actuation modes, including Manual. Regarding actuation option, you crapper wait Face Detection, Smile Shot, Blink Detection, Beauty Shot, as substantially as Smart Auto, and Smart Album.

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New Washing Machines from Panasonic

When laptop manufacturers move making radiophone phones, Panasonic move introducing its prototypal work machines in Europe. The newborn Panasonic work machines module be acquirable in payment (NA-16VX1), opulent (NA-16VG1) and accepted (NA-14VA1) model. Utilizing original inverter, tilted study and 3D device technologies, the threesome models are healthy to actualise a broad work action resulting in a shorter clean and using inferior liquid in the process. Regarding noesis consumption, the Premium help uses 20% inferior forcefulness than an mediocre A-category washer. You crapper wait these organisation to impact the shelves in March play from Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Polska and the United Kingdom, another countries to follow.

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New Panasonic VIERA Plasma Z1 Series

Targeting UK market, the newborn VIERA Plasma Z1 Series comes with 1080 lines agitated represent partitioning and 2,000,000:1 of impulsive oppositeness ratio. Will be acquirable as 46” (TX-P46Z1) and 54” (TX-P54Z1) models, the Z1 full-HD features wireless sending technology, bag networking with DLNA, and the VIERA Image Viewer. This thin ECF TV is full insipid with 1-inch thickness. And terminal but not small it’s also has THX Certified Display that you crapper calculate on for watching movie. Along with Z1 Series, Panasonic also inform newborn V1 & G15 Series for the aforementioned market.

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Samsung Presents GT-S3500 Slider Phone in Russia

The newborn person GT-S3500 is presented by Samsung in Russia. The S3500 comes with unsullied poise face panel, 2.2-inch LCD screen, and 2MP built-in camera. Just same ordinary recent phones, the S3500 also healthy to endeavor different frequence info and FM-radio with transcription capability. Priced at most $208, the person sound supports Bluetooth 2.0 + A2DP, USB 2.0, Mobile Tracker, SOS Message, and Fake Call.

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Office 2019 Concept

If you hit ever wondered what Microsoft Office module countenance same in 10 eld instance (no, I haven’t either), but if you have… then this lowercase show could be a looking of where Office is heading. I hit to feature it does countenance quite cool.

Office 2019 Concept

The recording was presented at author Business Schools profession word by someone at Microsoft. In the recording you module wager a aggregation of clog containing opencast profession as substantially as e-ink for playing cards, a digital notecase in which the opencast of a assign bill is actually a pass that allows you to holograph finished apiece of your game stored in it’s memory.

Check it discover beneath and permit us undergo what you think.

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Asus U and UX Series Laptops

Coming with light ‘chiclet’ keyboard, the newborn Asus U and UX Series Laptops allows its users to identify in the dark. Unlike the UX, the U program also sports an equally light and mutual touchpad, modify rite?. Powered by Intel® Core™2 Duo processor, the U Series organized with a hornlike round intend of up to 500GB, 15.6-inch diode backlit pass unvoluntary by a sacred NVIDIA® GeForce® G 105M with 512MB memory, and Altec Lansing speakers. You crapper wager both notebooks in state during CeBIT 2009, 3 - 8 March.

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Waterproof GE G3WP Camera

Waterproof GE G3WP Camera

The newborn GE G3WP camera is not the world’s prototypal tight camera, but that’s not the point. Featuring 12.2 megapixels of resolution, 4x optical zoom, and a 2.7-inch LCD concealment which automatically adjusts to changes in ambient light, the G3WP is tight to 10 feet (3 meters) that amend for backyard bet parties, weekends at the lake, or travel in the rain.

"As with the another cameras in the 2009 lineup, the G3WP offers Auto Scene Detection and Pan-Capture Panorama among its some modern features. Auto Scene Detection automatically determines the pertinent environs identify and optimizes danger for sharp, spirited pictures. Pan-Capture Panorama lets the individual belittle the camera crossways the environs patch the engine automatically captures, determines overlap, and stitches the frames into a azygos broad picture."

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Multi-functional mobile devices

Nokia unveils its newest handphones which offer consumers options catering to their individual needs

MOBILE phones are such a handy device these days. You can use them to send messages, take pictures, play music, record film and music, send and read emails, surf the Net and enter social networks.

Convergence of technology is what Nokia mobile devices have offered consumers and techies for years. At the recent Nokia Showcase 2009 held in Singapore, some new models from the Nokia’s range of mobile phones were introduced to help improve our lifestyle.

According to Chris Carr, Nokia’s vice president of sales Southeast Asia Pacific, one billion people in 150 countries around the world use Nokia devices. Based on consumer research, Carr said that Nokia has identified and decided to focus on five key areas that they believe have the greatest consumer demand and business potential – maps, music, messaging, games and media. "The convergence of the Internet and mobile is gradually but surely changing the way people communicate, share, search and live," said Carr.

For those who like to take pictures with their phone, take a look at the Nokia N86 8MP. This mobile imaging device combines wide-angle Carl Zeiss optics and an eight megapixel sensor. What you get is a great mobile phone that can function as a stand-alone digital camera.

The Nokia N86 8MP is designed to take pictures in both bright and low light conditions. It is also optimised for both video and still imaging. The metal-framed Nokia N86 8MP also includes 8 GB of internal memory for up to 4,000 images and the memory can be increased with an exchangeable 16 GB. The phone is expected to begin shipping in the second quarter of 2009.

If you always had difficulties finding your way around, your mobile phone can help you now. The first Nokia Navigator made its appearance two years ago. The company has been updating and improving its location-based services. The latest is the Navigator line, the Nokia 6710 Navigator and the Nokia 6720 Classic, built on the Nokia heritage of traditional candybar phones that excel in all areas.

"The navigation solution provided by the Nokia 6710 Navigator provides everything you would expect from a dedicated GPS device with all the benefits of a converged mobile device," said Carr. The solution includes the latest developments in the Maps software with real time ‘drive and walk’ navigation, full regional maps and hardware elements like the dedicated navigator key, touch area for easy zooming and a large display optimised for outdoor viewing.

The recent integration of Ovi Maps allows people to pre-plan their journey at home on their PC and synchronise with their mobile device. Maps have been updated to include high-resolution aerial images, 3D landmarks for over 200 cities, terrain maps, weather service, premium travel and events content and traffic and safety warnings.

With both the new devices including a compass that works in conjunction with the new features of Maps, the pedestrian navigation experience has been significantly improved.

These Navigator devices come with the Nokia CR-111 car holder, which holds the Nokia 6710 Navigator easily on the car dashboard. Hook it up to the new Nokia Speakerphone HF-310, which boasts high quality hands-free with echo cancellation and noise reduction, and you’ll get verbal instructions to help you find your destination.

Both the Nokia 6710 Navigator and the Nokia 6720 Classic offer an improved design with a slightly curved shape. Easy to hold, it can also function as a five megapixel camera with standard Carl Zeiss optics.

The Nokia 6720 Classic is expected to begin shipping in the second quarter of 2009 while the Nokia 6710 Navigator in the third quarter.

Nokia E55 and E75

Nokia also unveiled two new additions to its E series range, the full QWERTY Nokia E75 and the compact QWERTY Nokia E55, which are the first to ship with the company’s new email user interface to offer a richer messaging experience. Both devices also come standard with Nokia Messaging that, when added to the company’s corporate email clients, gives the users the most efficient solution for accessing consumer and corporate email on the go.

The enhanced email UI includes folder and HTML email support, expandable views and sorting capability by date, sender and size, as well as the most commonly used email functions just a single click away.

Inspired by the Nokia Communicator, a full keyboard is provided as well as the traditional phone keypad, which makes it a great deal.

Another standout feature is the extensive battery life, with the Nokia E55 providing up to 28 days of standby time. Both devices come with full Nokia Maps and assisted GPS with integrated three-month license for turn-by-turn navigation, and a great gaming experience with N-Gage onboard.

With Ovi Files, also included on the Nokia E75 and Nokia E55, important files stored on a PC can be remotely managed and shared, even when your PC is switched off. The Nokia E75 is expected to ship this month while the Nokia E55 is expected to ship during the second quarter.

Meanwhile, Nokia will also start connecting content providers with consumers through a one-stop shop, the Ovi Store. The Ovi Store will consolidate content services including Download!, MOSH and WidSets to a single channel, and help deliver media to whomever you want.

The content will range from applications, games and videos to widgets, podcasts, location-based applications and personalisation content for Nokia Series 40 and S60 devices.

The Nokia N97, available in June, will be the first device to include the simple and easy-to-use storefront. Existing Nokia Series 40 and S60 users will be able to enjoy the new service in early May.

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Magnets can keep crocodiles away

Florida wildlife managers have launched an experiment to see if they can keep crocodiles from returning to residential neighbourhoods by temporarily taping magnets to their heads to disrupt their "homing" ability.

Researchers at Mexico's Crocodile Museum in Chiapas reported in a biology newsletter they had some success with the method, using it to permanently relocate 20 of the reptiles since 2004.

"We said, 'Hey, we might as well give this a try'," Lindsey Hord, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's crocodile response coordinator, said on Tuesday.

Crocodiles are notoriously territorial and when biologists move them from urban areas to new homes in the wild, they often go right back to the place where they were captured, travelling up to 16km a week to get there. Scientists believe they rely in part on the Earth's magnetic fields to navigate, and that taping magnets to both sides of their heads disorients them.

"They're just taped on temporarily," Hord said. "We just put the magnets on when they're captured and since they don't know where we take them, they're lost. The hope would be that they stay where we take them to."

Hord and his co-workers have tried it on two crocodiles since launching the experiment in January, affixing "a common old laboratory magnet" to both sides of the animals' heads. One got run over by a car and died, but the other has yet to return, Hord said.

Once an endangered species, American crocodiles' numbers have rebounded to nearly 2,000 in coastal south Florida, their only habitat in the continental United States. That puts them in increasing contact with humans, especially in areas where backyards border on canals around Miami and the Florida Keys.

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The best tech product of all time

IN 1993, the Internet had already been in existence for more than two decades. But despite the personal computer having become more ubiquitous at the workplace, and finding its way into more homes, for most people the Internet was just an exotic term they'd read about occasionally.

Even when service was available, the learning curve required to explore this “Information Superhighway” was quite steep. It was mostly text-oriented that required archaic command input from the user to access and navigate.

The most important component to be introduced was the World Wide Web. Suddenly, a lot more people were finding their way to the Internet.

However, the Web browsers available at that time – like WorldWideWeb (later renamed as Nexus to avoid confusion) and ViolaWWW – still required a certain level of technical aptitude on the user’s part.

And then came Mosaic, which was issued by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. Developed by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, Mosaic came with an interface that could navigate the Web by integrating text, graphics, and sound – quite a lot like the browsers we use now.

It was the killer application, with over two million copies downloaded the first year.

Upon his graduation, Andreessen was invited by Jim Clarke to form Mosaic Communications – which was later changed to Netscape Communications after the University of Illinois objected to the name.

At the end of 1994, the company produced the legendary Netscape Navigator – the browser that was to rule the Web roost until it was overtaken by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in 1999.

AOL, which had bought Netscape that year, discontinued development and support of Netscape Navigator from February 2008.

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Phone megapixel war rages on

LOVE them for the convenience or loathe them for the voyeurism, camera-equipped mobile phones are growing both in size and megapixel count.

The K850i

The eight-megapixel Pixon

The N73

The N95

The K750i

From slightly more than a quarter of a megapixel, the sensor grew to now eight megapixels.

And from a fixed-finite focus to auto-focus lenses, LED to xenon flash. Even big names in the lens business such as Carl Zeiss did not bat a lid at taking a swipe at it. It wasn’t until the introduction of the first megapixel phone that people started taking the phone seriously.

Nokia showcased the 7610 with its radical swooping keypad in Hong Kong in 2003. The model featured Kodak Photo Sharing and Lifeblog, which allowed users to snap, share and even print 4R pictures from a Kodak photo kiosk.

Even when camera phones were in their infancy, Samsung already showcased an experimental 3.2-megapixel model done simply by plastering the front of a phone to the back of a digital compact camera. It was crude but rather effective because most camera phones relied on smaller lenses and sensor units as opposed to the same used in compact cameras.

Sony Ericsson kicked off the Cyber-shot branding with the T630 and marketed it along the lines of a “phone in front, camera at the back”. The model only had a 0.3-megapixel sensor.

The megapixel war among camera phone manufacturers raged on with the introduction of the two-megapixel Sony Ericssons with the auto-focus lens of the K750i and Walkman-branded W800i.

Nokia responded with three new Nseries models with two-megapixel cameras, but only the N90 featured optics from

Carl Zeiss.

The 3.2-megapixel camera phones followed and both Sony Ericsson and Nokia were the only companies offering proper options with the K800i and N73 respectively.

Nokia then introduced its first five-megapixel in a do-it-all package with the N95. It wasn’t until the introduction of the N82 that the company incorporated xenon flash in the phone’s design.

Ironically, Siemens pionereed the use of the xenon flash in its first 256-colour display phone with the S55 attached camera.

Sony Ericsson responded with the K850i with a five-megapixel camera, built-in xenon flash and PictBridge support. And Motorola teamed up with Kodak to produce the five-megapixel ZN5, launched late last year.

As of last year, Sony Ericsson announced an 8.1-megapixel C905 equipped with additional features such as face recognition, image stabilisation, xenon flash and even built-in GPS to geotag your photos – features that most compact cameras could only dream of having.

Other players, notably Samsung and LG as well as Taiwanese outfits, started adopting 3.2- and five-megapixel cameras in droves with Samsung continuing the megapixel race with eight- and 10-megapixel sensors presumably taken from its compact camera offerings.

And rumour has it that Nokia is coming up with an eight-megapixel answer to Sony Ericsson’s C905, hopefully before the holiday season.

It must be noted that not all camera phones are created equal. Take the first-generation Nokia N70, launched four years ago, versus last year’s Motorola Rokr E8 with equivalent two-megapixel camera. The N70 wins hands down because it has a physically bigger lens.

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Flying high with RC helicopters

IF you’ve dream of flying a helicopter but do not have a license to do so, why not do the next best thing: fly helicopters through radio control. This was exactly what Ahmad Zuhairi Ismail did.

Since he bought a Nitro Fuel Century Raven radio-controlled (RC) helicopter last October, the 39-year-old senior manager has been enjoying helicopter flying adventures, and blogging about it, too.

Better known online as TrueMax, Ahmad Zuhairi shares his experience and knowledge in Remote Control Helicopter – My Journey (http://rotormax.blogspot.com), focusing on the Century Raven 50, HoneyBee King 2 and HoneyBee FP models.

“As a hobby, these helicopters are quite costly, both to start with and maintain. Information in my blog is based on my experiences with RC helicopters,” he said.

In his blog, Ahmad Zuhairi discusses various activities involving his helicopters – his discoveries as he becomes more skilful in handling the various models, and trends and information he has heard of or read within the hobbyist circles.

A particularly interesting section on his blog is Crash, where he posts details of his attempts to try new flying tricks and what came out of them.

“I also have links for beginners to refer to such as learning to fly RC helicopters, what should be included in the flying check list and frequently asked questions. Apart from those, there are links to helicopter games for quick fun and links to news featuring real and RC helicopters,” Ahmad Zuhairi said.

Since its launch, his blog is steadily attracting viewers. His visitor counter showed that half of his viewers came from Malaysia, followed by the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. And over

80 per cent of his readers are first-timers.

In November, the hit counter on his blog registered 550 visits. The figure rose to 800 a month later.

“I feel that by reading my experience and what I have learnt, others who have the same interest will save their time and money to focus on important things as well as avoid the mistakes that I have made,” Ahmad Zuhairi said.

He plans to provide parts reviews and even helicopter reviews in the future so similar hobbyists are aware of what products are available in the market, their strengths and drawbacks

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