Ask Engadget: best slow-motion camcorder for around $200?
We
know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world
for answers, then here's the outlet to do so. This week's
Ask Engadget
inquiry is from Philip, who wants to document his son's baseball
adventures. If you're looking to ask one of your own, drop us a line at
ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.
I'm
looking for a HFR camcorder, as I like to record my son playing
baseball and play it back in slow motion. The Kodak PlayFull looked like
the solution, offering 120fps at 1,280 x 720 for $200, but then Kodak
axed its camera businesses and it never made it to market. What other
options, therefore, exist for 120fps video recording around a similar
price bracket?
To be honest, slow-motion recording at
such a low price is going to mean you'll only be able to get pictures
at dreadful resolutions. If you're happy with footage at 640 x 480, then
you could snag a
Canon Powershot S100,
but even that comes in at $319 from Amazon right now. It's a shame your
budget couldn't stretch to $1,000, as we're desperate to find out if
JVC's Procision
is worth the hype. It's at this point that we should probably turn this
over to the Engadget community and get them to share their wisdom -- so
join in, HFR fans.
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Mobile Miscellany: week of April 15th, 2013
If
you didn't get enough mobile news during the week, not to worry,
because we've opened the firehose for the truly hardcore. This week
brought a possible arrival date of the Lumia 521 to T-Mobile, our best
look yet at the Lumia 928 for Verizon and news of a new Android
compatibility option for Tizen. These stories and more await after the
break. So buy the ticket and take the ride as we explore
all that's happening in the mobile world for this week of April 15th, 2013.
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SimCity update 2.0 hits April 22, offers bug fixes, enhancements -- still no offline mode
Although
SimCity has become relatively stable following its
problematic launch,
there are naturally still ongoing bugs that the folks at EA Maxis have
been working to fix. Thankfully, that version 2.0 update that was teased
just over a week ago now has an arrival date of April 22 at 4PM ET.
Included in the update are 26 bug fixes, along with data map color
filters, a color-correct HUD for the colorblind setting and the action
of mayors traveling from their mansions to their jobs. Sadly, an offline
mode is still no more than wishful thinking, but at least that OS X
version should still be on track for a
June 11th release.
You'll find all the details about your virtual city's soon-to-arrive
enhancements at the source link -- expect some server downtime, by the
way, when the update itself hits.
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Via: Joystiq,
VG 24/7
Source: EA Forums
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Alt-week 4.20.13: NASA's Space Shop, nature's needles and 30 years of cellphone bills
Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days.
The
natural world offers up some ingenious biology that is only possible
through many, many years of evolution. Other ideas, well, they come
about through good old-fashioned brain power. We've got examples of both
in this edition. Naturally. This is alt-week.
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Cox TV Connect for Android launches, brings live TV streaming to 'select' tablets
We're
still waiting to see Cox's next generation cable TV-to-mobile streaming
app, but right now it's released a version of its existing
Cox TV Connect app for Android. Available on iPads
since the end of 2011
and on iPhone / iPod touch since the end of last year, it's finally
made the trek to a "select" group of Android tablets, consisting of the
Nexus 7 and Samsung Galaxy 2 / Galaxy Note slates. A support document
also mentions Amazon's Kindle Fire family, however the app isn't in its
store as of this posting. For those not familiar, it's a free app for
subscribers that lets them watch a selection of live TV channels while
connected to their home wireless network, and view listings anywhere.
We'll be interested to see if the list of compatible (Android 4.0+)
hardware grows quickly, or if users will need to wait for a port of the
new app which
adds personalization features tied into Cox's Trio DVR platform.
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Home Entertainment,
Tablets,
HD
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Source: Google Play,
Cox TV Communications (Twitter)
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Logitech G products updated to support Mac OS
It may not be the most
popular hardware configuration in PC gaming circles, but Macs actually make
pretty capable gaming rigs.
It's hardly a surprise, then, that Mac users are clamoring for serious
gaming peripherals. Logitech is happy to oblige, of course, announcing
recently that its updated its gaming software to support more devices on
Mac OS. Gamers in Apple's ecosystem can now make the most of the
company's full line of G series mouse and keyboard products, including
the eight it released to herald the
rebranding
of its gaming lineup. The update is free, of course, and promises to
offer Mac users the same level of customization that traditional PC
gamers enjoy. Check out Logitegh's official announcement at the source
for the full list of compatible devices.
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Sony announces Jak and Daxter Trilogy coming to PS Vita this June
Despite what the
sales figures might imply, the general consensus is that, for the most part, the
PlayStation Vita's
a neat portable console -- although some still argue Sony could do a
little more to give its precious handheld a boost when it comes to
available content. And just
as it did with the
PS3, the Japanese electronics maker has now announced that a remastered collection of
Jak and Daxter is headed to the PS Vita as well, which includes
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy,
Jak II and
Jak 3. The
trilogy's said to be debuting on the PlayStation Vita at some point in
June of this year for $29.99 in North America, or a corresponding €29.99 for those located across the pond in Europe. Not too bad a price to pay for some
nostalgia-filled gaming sessions, eh?
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Via: Joystiq
Source: Sony
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Adapteva shows off production Parallella mini 'supercomputer' boards
With its ambitious
Parallella computing project funded on Kickstarter since last October, Adapteva's now showing off its first mass-production boards. These
Raspberry Pi-esque devices are capable of supercomputer-like
parallel computing
performance thanks to power-sipping Epiphany multi-core accelerators.
As proposed, both the $99 13GHz 16-core (26 gigaflops) and $199 45GHz
64-core accelerator (90 gigaflops) variants make an appearance in the
pictures. The company is tweaking this initial batch of 10 to test
various functionalities, with its current update noting that getting
Linux to boot off the boards is the next step in testing. Final units
are still slated to arrive on doorsteps during the summer, and hardware
schematics will eventually be available as open source-info -- after
all, the Parallella has always been pitched as an open undertaking.
Those enthused by circuits and the boards they live on will find a path
to more info at the source link.
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Via: Tech2
Source: Adapteva (Kickstarter),
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Twitter narrows TweetDeck AIR and mobile app shutdowns to May 7th
Twitter has been warning for weeks that it would shut down TweetDeck's
AIR and mobile apps
sometime in early May, but it didn't say exactly when loyalists would
finally have to move on. The company now has a firm date: May 7th. In
just over two weeks, Twitter will both pull the apps from their
respective stores and stop existing installs from working as the
service's version 1.0 API rides into the sunset. While the persisting
native and
web-based
desktop apps will lessen some of the sting, we'd suggest that you pay
your last respects if you have fond memories of TweetDeck's early apps.
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Cellphones,
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Via: Android Central
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SES demos first Ultra HD transmission in more efficient HEVC standard
We're still a bit away from
Ultra HD becoming
the
standard for television. One of the things standing in the way is just
how much bandwidth pushing that many pixels demands. SES recently
demonstrated an Ultra HD transmission that uses the up and coming
HEVC
(High Efficiency Video Coding) standard, as opposed to the more
established H.264. It's demonstrated 4K broadcasts before, as seen above
at its IBC booth last year, but those were using older codecs. The
3,840 x 2,160 image was broadcast at a data rate of 20 Mbps, roughly a
50-percent improvement in encoding efficiency over H.264-based MPEG-4.
The demonstration was performed with support from SES's partners,
Harmonic and Broadcom, the latter of which provided the BCM7445-based
decoding box used for pulling in the video. The tech still isn't quite
ready for prime time, but we'd say a 4K
House of Cards stream is probably closer than any of us realized.
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Samsung explores touchless tablet interaction with brainwave technology
Try
and wrap this one around your noggin. Samsung is currently working with
researchers at the University of Texas on a project involving
EEG caps that harnesses
the power of one's mind
to control tablets and smartphones, and if that weren't enough, the
company's actually hoping to take it mainstream. Now, before we get too
far ahead of ourselves, let's be clear: in its current stage, the system
is cumbersome and aimed at those with disabilities, but Samsung's
already proven that it's interested in
alternative input methods, and this could certainly be the logical conclusion.
As
is, participants are asked to wear EEG caps that measure the electrical
activity along their scalp. Then, they're able to make selections by
focusing on an icon that flashes at a distinct frequency from others,
which the system recognizes as a unique electrical pattern. Overall, the
accuracy of the system is in the ballpark of 80 to 95 percent, and
users are able to make selections on average of every five seconds. In
order to make the system more approachable, the researchers hope to
develop EEG hats that are more convenient and less intrusive -- in other
words, ones that people can wear throughout the day. We can't promise
this type of futuristic tech will come anytime soon, but for a closer
peek, hit up the source link for a peek at Samsung's next wild idea.
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Science,
Samsung
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Via: BGR
Source: MIT Technology Review
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