Genius, a division of KYE Systems, is releasing a new digital pad for artists, graphic designers and generally anyone who likes to digitally doodle. The Genius PenSketch 9X12 is priced at around $249 and should be available now.

The Genius PenSketch 9X12 is a pen tablet style digital pad for letting users sketch screen art and other forms of free-hand design. It has a large work area and is cordless so that users can work more comfortably. A rubber coated cordless pen with two programmable buttons can be put into the pen-holder when not in use. This pen can control all kinds of shapes and is built with 1024-level of pressure to make thickness control, editing and design easier to do.

Sony’s hoping to hit up the wallets of social networkers and video bloggers everywhere with its unveiling today of a Web-focused, portable camcorder. The new Sony Net-sharing Cam is priced at around $200 and should be available in September.

The Sony Net-sharing Cam, which shoots video in the MPEG-4 recording format, can record about five hours of video onto a 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo when default settings on the camcorder are enabled. It also can snap five-megapixel digital camera images and measures 1-3/16″ by 4-1/8″ by 2-1/4″.

Remember when you had to take your film roll to the local Fotomat to get it developed? They would come back in an envelope with the negatives in the bottom just in case you needed to get the pictures developed again someday.

This device, apply named The Slide And Negative To Digital Picture Converter will scan those old 35mm negatives as well as slides and convert them into digital photos through your computer. Plug this converter into your USB port and use the included software to convert all of those pictures of you when you were even geekier than you are now into timeless digital photos.

It can scan up to 1829 dpi and uses a 5MP CMOS sensor to capture your slides or negatives.

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Smartparts is not a name which immediately rolls off the tongue when I think of consumer electronics. That name is sounding a little sweeter though with its unveiling of the SP15MW digital picture frame. What’s so cool about that you ask? How about the 15-inch display screen for starters.

That’s right - 15-inches of digital picture display goodness. That beats out many of the other digital photo frames on the market. Smartparts said in a press release the SP15MW also has a 24-bit display capable of showing over 16 million colors and supporting XGA (1024 x 768) resolution. In addition this frame can store up to 2,000 digital photos (JPEG) in its 256MB of internal memory, which looks to be expandable via support for a variety of media cards.

Other interesting features of note on the SP15MW include MP3 audio enjoyment through built-in speakers, …

At the risk of having a wallet that rivals the likes of George Costanza’s, Brookstone has a version that holds a small digital picture frame inside so you can carry around multiple pictures of your loved ones, 21st century style.

The Digital Photo Wallet is pretty much like any other leather bi-fold wallet except that it has a spot for a digital picture frame which can hold up to 50 digital photos inside your wallet. The picture frame shows photos on a 1.4″ LCD screen and the whole thing can be taken out of its place in the wallet to view or to connect to your computer through a USB connection in order to transfer files.

There’s also an included internal battery that recharges through the USB cable so there isn’t the need to buy or replace batteries. As a great Father’s Day gadget this Digital …

The day when you will be able to flip pages on your newspaper while watching full motion video articles and ads may be sooner than you think. Yesterday LG Philips announced that it has successfully manufactured the first A4-size color electronic-paper capable of displaying up to 4,096 colors. The e-paper, which is a flexible thin sheet, measured 35.9 cm (14.1 inches) diagonally and is just 0.3 mm thick. LG also said that it had made its e-paper to be power smart and uses energy only when the image needs to change on the “page”.

E-paper works by using the electric charge to move electronic ink across a metal foil. Instead of using backlighting the e-paper reflects the light allowing for a greater field of angles (up to 180 degrees) to read the page from. LG Philips’ new e-paper also utilizes a color filter that …

The digital photography age hasn’t been kind to old school titans like Polaroid. The creators of the instant photo have taken a beating as digital cameras and photo quality printers hit the market and eliminated the need for dropping off your canister of film at the local photo department. However, this latest announcement from the company shows that there’s still innovation happening in their R&D department.

The Polaroid Media Backup CGA-02540 is perfect for anyone you know that is technophobic when it comes to downloading or transferring photos from one computer to another. When you plug this unit into your system’s USB it automatically searches for any digital photos, copies them to its 40 GB of storage and voila, instant backup. That’s it. No software to learn, no extra cables to clutter up your drawers, it all comes down to Polaroid’s ClickFree software.

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Today, General Imaging launched its anticipated line of GE digital cameras.

This new line totaling 8 cameras is the first time the GE brand has been used on a consumer camera. Every camera offers the advanced features that we see in a lot of cameras these days. This includes image stabilization, red-eye removal, high ISO sensitivity, and panoramic stitching.

First off is the A Series of cameras. The most affordable of the bunch, these cameras are made for first-time buyers and offers the minimum. The E Series is for those who have had more experience with cameras. As with most average cameras on the market, cameras in this series offer a wide 3inch screen and 4x optical zoom. The G Series or G1 is the most compact of the line up. Made as a ‘point and shoot’ camera, this is perfect …

Nikon has announced that it will release its new D40x digital camera in April. Replacing the entry-level D40 unit, the D40x will feature 10.2-megapixels of resolution (40% more than its earlier model), a greater sensitivity range (100-1600 ISO), continuous shooting (3 frames per second) and a 3-area AF system.

Measuring 5.0 x 2.5 x 3.7 inches and weighing 1 lb., 1 oz., the D40x has a dedicated help function button, 3D Color Matrix Metering II system and easy to understand graphic user interface. In-camera editing is as easy as pressing the retouch button. The camera also features manual and automatic modes and eight preset Digital Vari-Programs for JPGS and NEF picture taking. Red-eye color correction and D-lighting are also built-in.

Nikon will offer the D40x separately or as part of a kit which will include a 3x zoom 18-55m lens. The D40x …

The very same company that produced the M2 Heliodisplay mid-air projector has just come out with their latest project – the new M3/M3i Heliodisplay.

This nifty thing is basically a monitor that displays images in free space, just like those holograms of Princess Lea asking Obi Wan for help. With a viewing space of 30inches and a resolution of 1024×768, the display is quite blurry and not very stable. However, with advances this particular technology should become a big thing in the near future. Currently, this will set you back a very hefty price of $18,100 for the basic version and $19,400 for the interactive version.

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We first saw this type of binocular/camera technology from Bushnell, but until now we haven’t seen a set of binoculars that have a 5 megapixel photo quality.

The Pro Viewer BinoCam has 8x mechanical zoom and can take photos and AVI video and show them on a 1.5 inch LCD screen as well as download them to your PC via a USB 1.1 interface. The camera has auto exposure and saves the pictures and video to an external SD card (no internal memory). Photos can be taken at two resolution settings, high at 1600 x 1200 or Low at 640 x 480.

The camera-binocular combo runs on 4 AAA batteries, weighs 1.3 pounds and measures about 6 inches long. The BinoCam retails for around $250 USD. Check out the cheesy infomercial describing the binocular camera:
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The new Mustek Ality picture frame has a few features that go a little beyond most of the digital picture frames we’ve seen.

This digital picture frame is made from a 15 inch touch screen which allows navigating the menu and settings directly on the picture. If you want to avoid fingerprints, there is also a wireless remote. The frame views images with a resolution of 1280 x 1024 and can be mounted on a wall.

Aside from being a pretty decent size and having a touch screen interface, this digital picture frame keeps bringing on the features with 2 built-in 3 watt speakers, 512MB of internal memory and the ability to transfer data via USB 2.0. The digital frame also can be powered by an AC adapter or rechargeable batteries. This is a real nice feature since having a power …

Yesterday at the CES in Las Vegas, Fujifilm accounced three more digital cameras in their FinePix lineup; the FinePix A800 (pictured top), the FinePix F40fd (pictured center), and the FinePix A610 (pictured bottom). These new digital cameras will be offered in addition to the A400, A500 and A700 models and will be available in the US in March of this year.

The FinePix F40fd, an 8.3 megapixel, 3x zoom camera which is expected to retail for around $299 USD is sporting a new facial recognition technology, in which the camera can recognize up to 10 faces anywhere inside the viewing frame in a slight fraction of second, and then focus on them appropriately. The company also boasts improved picture quality and color even in low light, due …

Multimedia is working it’s way into almost every part of our lives, and even after-lives in this case. The Vidstone Serenity Panel provides a 7″ LCD panel that runs on solar power and will show a 5-8 minute slide show of photos along with sound.

The 8″ x 6.5″ panel can mount flush to a gravestone and provides two headphone jacks to allow visitors to listen to music along with the slide show. It is weather proof and fade resistant, and uses simple one-touch buttons to operate the playback. The Vidstone requires at least 4 hours of sunlight per day for it’s solar panels to keep it fully charged.

This Vidstone Serenity Panel won the “most innovative product” award from the International Cemetery and Funeral Association, and retails for just under $2000 USD.

There are probably a number of places that would be available to view via webcam if only it didn’t need a computer and power in close proximity. DigitalXTractions has a solution to this problem by offering a webcam that runs on solar power and sends it’s images directly to an internet site through wireless phone lines.

The webcam has a 1.3 megapixel sensor that can capture either video or still pictures and send them to a site to be viewed through a wireless GPRS/EDGE cellular modem.

The actual camera is 7×4x3 inches and weighs about 5 pounds so it might not be real easy to hide, if that is your plan. Also, there is a solar power option (additional cost) and a back up batter that can take up some additional room wherever you mount it.

The real cool part about this solar webcam …