Targeting the extreme photographer or just slightly clumsy, Fujifilm has launched a new water, shock, dust and freeze-proof camera featuring built-in GPS.
Designed to survive even the most boisterous activity, the Fujifilm FinePix XP30 is freeze proof to minus 10°C, waterproof to five metres, shockproof to 1.5m and also sand and dustproof.

On the inside the Fujifilm FinePix XP30 features an impressive 5x, wide-angle, zoom lens, 14-megapixel resolution and a broad selection of image functions.
It also offers HD movie capture of 720p at 30fps.
The Fujifilm FinePix XP30 is available in five fun colours — black, silver, orange, blue and green — and is available for around $213.

The Samsung SF310 has a 4GB memory and 320GB hard drive, more than ample for everyday use. The 13in 720p high resolution, wide-screen and LED backlit display makes it brilliant for viewing your media files.
Sleekly designed, the SF310 has a curved outer chassis, and a brushed aluminium palm rest and surrounding panels inside.
In keeping with its smooth design there are a range of ports neatly tucked away on the side, including an HDMI port.
This model is N Wi-Fi ready making it fast at finding networks across the country. The SF310 also features a ‘hot key’ just above the keyboard, allowing you to log on and off the internet quickly and easily.
This model is equipped with an Intel Core i5 processor, ensuring great performance.
With a battery life of around seven hours and the technology packed into a compact size, this laptop is a clever choice of travel companion.

Pros: The low cost – this laptop offers great everyday performance at an attractive price.
Cons: Although having a neat design, the SF310 is fairly heavy for a 13in laptop.

Dimensions: Width: 33.1cm • Depth: 23.4cm • Height: 2.7cm Vital statistics: Weight: 2.06kg • Screen size: 13in • Operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium • CPU: Intel Core i5 processor • Memory: 4GB • Storage: 320GB • Battery life: Approximately seven hours

Check Samsung SF310’s availability: retail price is under $750.

The HP ENVY 17 3D laptop features a 17.3in 3D Ultra BrightView display; unlike some of the other 3D laptops on the market (which make use of NVIDIA 3D Vision tech) this one uses AMD’s 3D tech and comes with a pair of active shutter glasses. As with a lot of manufacturers, HP allows you to modify the Envy to meet your specific needs. This model comes with a 4GB memory and 500GB hard drive for storing all your digital and media files, and has support for up to 2TB in hard drive capacity, but this comes at a cost. At 3.4kg, it is the heaviest of our laptop choices, but if 3D is your bag, then this is the laptop for you.

Pros: 3D screen and Ultra BrightView display allows fantastic quality when viewing images or watching films.
Cons: Slightly heavy and expensive compared with other laptops but there is room for a 2TB hard drive – unlike any other laptops we have looked at.

The HP ENVY 17 3D is available now for $2,399.00

Dimensions: Width: 41.6cm • Depth: 27.5cm • Height: 3.2cm Vital statistics: Weight: 3.4kg • Screen size: 17.3in • Operating system: Windows 7 • CPU: Intel Core i7 processor • Memory: 4GB • Storage: 500GB • Battery life: Two hours, 30 minutes

The new Tokina 16-28mm f/2.8 PRO FX is the first in a new generation of lenses designed for professional digital SLR cameras with full-frame (FX) image sensors.

Ideal for landscape or architectural photography, the PRO FX offers a super-wide-angle view and features a newly-developed silent DC motor that allows the lens to focus faster and more quietly. Fitted with a new GMR magnetic AF sensor, the lens offers an increased AF speed and has three SD super-low dispersion glass elements throughout its optical design.

It also features Tokina’s exclusive one-touch focus clutch mechanism which allows the photographer to switch between AF and MF simply by snapping the focus ring forward for auto focus and back toward the camera for manual focus.

The Tokina 16-28mm PRO FX is available with either Canon or Nikon fit and is on sale now with a price of $849.00.

The iPhone 4 was announced today during Steve Jobs’ keynote at WWDC and the world is taken by storm again.

Its flagship features are, of course, the extremely high resolution screen, video chat capability with FaceTime, and the sexy new form factor. But there’s more to the 4 than that, and even those seemingly self-explanatory new features deserve a closer look. Let’s see just what Apple’s done here with its biggest update to the iPhone since the original.

We’re all pretty familiar with the new body, since it was really the focus of Gizmodo’s exposé. In fact, that was pretty much the limit, since they couldn’t do much else with a dead, locked phone. But they examined it very closely and found it to be beautiful and metallic. Its new squared-off look is a signal from Apple that this is an entirely new phone, not just an iteration of the original. You might say this is the true sequel to the iPhone, the 3G and 3GS being merely refinements of the original design. Three years is a long time to stick with what was essentially the same design, especially for a company as chameleonic as Apple. A change was due, and the change is welcome.

The new design is more squared off, with a flatter back, creating a stronger shape in both your hand and eye. It’s not trying to hide the buttons, but rather showing off their careful placement and clean lines. I think the overarching themes here are power and superiority, rather than slickness. The glass on both sides, we found out in the closing video, is “almost as strong as sapphire crystal” and can deform pretty seriously without breaking. Good news to those of us afraid of exploding iPhones.

The previously reported dimensions are accurate: 4.5×2.31×0.37 inches. It weighs 137 grams, more than expected and slightly heavier than the 3GS. It’s similar enough in size and weight to the old one that you probably won’t notice the difference, but the new flat back and squared-off edges will either delight or bother you. I’m guessing delight.

The announcement that the steel rim of the phone is in fact the phone’s antenna nullifies concerns people had about potential signal blocking, like we have seen in several other Apple products.

The Display

The new 3.5-inch “Retina” IPS LCD display sports 326 pixels per inch, and is 960 by 640 pixels. They’re calling it “resolutionary.” Hmm — Apple puns. 960×640 will be a meaningless number to most people, but the resolution nerds among us will recognize three things about it right off the bat.

• It’s a higher pixel count than any other phone out there. Even the mighty EVO 4G is only 800×480, and at a larger screen size to boot. This means the iPhone screen is among the sharpest, if not the sharpest, in existence (and suggests a similar upgrade for the iPad once the LCD tech is scalable).
• It’s twice the original resolution. All the old iPhones were 480×320. By multiplying both of those numbers by two for the new resolution, Apple has ensured that all the old apps can run on the iPhone 4 with a simple 2x stretch filter. Very important for back-compatibility and taking advantage of the enormous number of apps in the store. Expect “HD” upgrades for your favorite apps, though, and expect to pay. Update: We got some full-size screenshots here.
• It’s very nearly iFrame. Surprisingly, though, the iPhone 4 records in 720p. Whither iFrame? Is Apple giving it up? I sure hope so. (update: nope, it’s there in iMovie instead of 480p)The Cameras

The new 5-megapixel rear camera is a decent improvement. I complained recently about cameras trying to resolve too much detail on a tiny sensor, and the iPhone camera will continue to to that, I’m sure, but the larger lens can only make things better. The backside illumination, too, should really improve low light performance, as well as the LED flash.

iMovie: We’ve written it up in a little more detail here, but essentially you’ve got a powerful mobile timeline-based movie editor. That’s pretty insane. The interface looks pretty simple; you won’t be cutting together feature films with this thing, but you could certainly edit a home movie, and of course it’s perfect for sticking together multiple shots from your iPhone. It’ll cost $5 in the App Store — which seems kind of weird until you realize that it’s really sort of a premium add-on, and its themes and assets are things some users would rather just not have clogging up their phone.

iOS 4

Too many improvements to mention here…

There’s also iBooks for the iPhone now. Not bad: the increased resolution puts the iPhone 4 almost in e-ink territory when it comes to sharpness of text, so this could be real nice. Native support for PDFs will be handy as well. Good news: all your iPad books will work on the iPhone 4 as well. No separate download or separate book.

It’s worth mentioning that IOS is already an OS, and one by Cisco to boot. It’s deja vu all over again!

iAd got another plug, and will be going live July 1st. Joy!

Inner gear

The iPhone 4 runs on the A4 processor, the same one that’s found in the iPad (or near enough). Jobs claims a 40% improvement in battery life due to the efficiency of the A4 (plus the 16% larger battery): 7h 3G talk, 6h 3G browsing, 10h Wi-Fi, 10h video, 300h standby. Nice. This will certainly be used for making better and faster apps, and you’ll be seeing a lot of that in new games. Speaking of which:

The iPhone already had an accelerometer setup that allowed for limited motion controls, but the new 3-axis gyroscope is “perfect for gaming” according to Steve. Take that, Nintendo! With the new screen and this improved controller, the iPhone may now actually be a credible threat to the big N.

Its output options are unfortunately limited compared with other devices: the dock connector will allow for a 1024×768 signal, which was nice in 2007. The iPhone 4 can play 720p files up to 30FPS, but HD output would have been nice as well.

Pricing and Availability

The new iPhone will be available on June 24th. It comes in black or white, and with a new contract, costs $199 for a 16GB version and $299 for 32GB. If your upgrade date is in 2011 (i.e. 1/1/11 or later) you can get the early update price, which is $399/$499. And of course you can always pay full price: $599/$699 with no contract at all. The 3G is being retired, and the 3GS will now be $99. The June 24th date is for the US, France, Germany, Japan, and the UK. The rest of the world will get it in July.

The Tekkeon NavDock Home Media Center with On-TV Navigation for iPod/iPhone lets you navigate your iPod/iPhone through an on-TV menu to play videos, photos and music on a connected television.

The Tekkeon NavDock browses directly through your iPod/iPhone menus, so finding and playing music and videos is easy.
You can use the 16-button remote to adjust or mute volume, shuffle, repeat or skip songs, and fast forward or rewind through music or videos.
The remote offers a five-way navigation pad and quick keys that jump directly to the videos, photos, music or settings menus.

With Tekkeon NavDock, you have complete control. You can change the language, the menu color scheme to fit your mood, or the navigation speed to fit your taste. You can even access the equalizer or display the lyrics or album art that appears next to your songs in the Now Playing screen in motion as your personalized screensaver.

The graphic display that appears on your TV is very nice, both aesthetically pleasing and easy to read, with adjustable color backgrounds.

The remote gives you full navigation of your IPod: Playlists, Artists, Albums, Songs, Podcasts, Genres, Composers and Audiobooks. It also allows you to set your Equalizer just like on your IPod and basically shows about everything on your TV screen that your IPod display does.

The display on the TV screen will show you what is currently playing and you can set the screensaver to come on after various lengths of time. The title of the current song always scrolls across the album cover area. Yes, it shows album covers! And you can turn that feature on or off; just like the IPod Classic it works a little faster without the album cover display turned on but I prefer to see the album covers. Anyway, it’s nice to have the option.

The NavDock will play your videos and photos as well, though with photos you have to first navigate using the IPod display itself, instead of using just the display on the TV to navigate. This is the only time you ever have to look at your IPod itself when you have the NavDock connected. Everything else can be done with the NavDock remote: you can browse artists, genres, and albums and one nice feature is that the remote has a shuffle button right on it, so you don’t have to go into the menu to turn shuffle on or off.

Get the Tekkeon NavDock now for US $89.99 (and save up to 31% off its regular price!)

It’s hard to believe but these two compact cameras are able to accomplish a mission impossible.
They’re both well under US $ 100, both feature 12 Megapixels sensors and 3x optical zoom!

Meet the Kodak EasyShare MD41: a really easy compact camera, with a 35–105 mm (35 mm equivalent) optical zoom, a face detection function that locates faces and automatically adjusts camera settings for great shots, SD/SDHC support.

It supports ISO positions 80, 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1600 on a 1/2.3 inch CCD sensor and weighs 115 grams and sports a 2,7″ LCD.

In the Kodak EasyShare MD41 there are also a lot of on-camera playback features such as cropping, undo-delete, picture rotation and self-timer. You can also tag your images with text and make use of multi-field search.

The Kodak EasyShare MD41 price?
A mere $89.99. You Save: $60.00 (that’s 40% off!)

What about a touchy display and interface? What about the HP PB360?

The HP PB360 offers 12.2 megapixel resolution, 3X optical zoom, and 5X digital zoom.
A wide 3″ touch screen LCD display with on-screen icons allows easy camera control.
More features? Smile detection, digital image stabilization, red eye removal, different scene modes, and more.
With Motion JPEG video capture capability, you can record special moments and easily share them with your friends and family on YouTube.
Capture clear and bright images with a wide range of ISO sensitivities (up to 3200) even in dim light.

Ok, so touch the HP PB360 at US $99.99 and save up to 29% (that’s US $40.00 less!).

As expected, Sony has unveiled the NEX-3 and NEX-5 mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras.
Both come packing the same new 14.2-megapixel Exmor APS HD CMOS sensor, which is almost 60% bigger (23.4mm x 15.6mm) than what you’ll find inside a micro four thirds body. Both can capture HD video and stereo audio via the built-in microphone, but the NEX-3 tops out at 720p, while the NEX-5 can crab 1080i video in AVCHD format; meet the new, mirrorless E-mount.

Both offer high-resolution tilt/flip screens, fast continuous shooting and HD video capture, with 720p from the NEX-3 and 1080i, AVCHD from the NEX-5.
Also announced are three E-mount lenses: a 16mm F2.8 pancake, offering a 24mm equivalent field-of-view, a standard 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 stabilized kit zoom, with a 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 stabilized superzoom to follow.

If you’re not satisfied with three lens options (and you have a little extra room in your bag), the optional LA-EA1 Mount Adapter allows both NEX cameras to use the full range of Alpha lenses, plus a “huge range” of other legacy A-mount lenses if you don’t need AF. It’s worth noting that there’s no internal image stablization on the NEX bodies, so you’ll have to opt for the 18-55mm lens if you want to enjoy the Optical Steady Shot functionality.

Despite the extra sensor real estate, both bodies are impressively compact.
The NEX-5, which has a magnesium alloy body, weighs just 10.1-ounces (with battery and media) and the NEX-3 checks in at 10.5-ounces.

The new NEX-3 and NEX-5, which will be hitting shelves in July.

The Rechargeable Speaker Logitech S315i will blow you away with 20 hours of music when you use the power-saving mode.
That’s a full day’s (or night’s) worth of music without missing a beat. This little beauty powerfully reproduces your favorite songs with accurate highs and every note will be heard loudly and clearly.
A custom, full-range driver brings you crisp, sharp sounds. And since it’s rechargeable, this is a sleek and stylish speaker and goes with you wherever you go.
You can play and charge your iPod or iPhone with a dock connector. The result is a product that makes the most of your music. Go ahead. Play a song or two … or 300 … without recharging.

Get now the Logitech S315i and act quickly! It’s now available for US $ 49.99 (that’s 50% off its regular price!).

The Nikon Coolpix S8000 lays claim to the title of the world’s slimmest 10x zoom compact. And while tech is dominated by constant chatter about “world firsts”, this nifty little number is every bit as good as its makers reckon.

The zoom is the real big drawer with the Nikon Coolpix S8000.
Use it in conjunction with the ace macro mode and your shots will be imbued with excellent detail and will let you get close up without any nasty blur around the edge of your pics.

Push the lens wider though and your landscape shots will really look the part. The 30mm shots we took looked vast and rich in detail, perfect if you want cracking pics without investing in something bulkier and pricier.

Elsewhere the Nikon Coolpix S8000 is instilled with the camera maker’s excellent and easy-to-use UI.
Accessing scene modes is straightforward via one button, letting you optimise your shots wherever you are.

Moreover the LCD screen slapped on the back is ace too. At 3-inches and featuring 921k pixel it’s more than ample for viewing your handiwork, although we would have preferred AMOLED in order to get a slightly bigger viewing angle and it’s comparable to higher-level Nikon’s D90!

Nikon Coolpix S8000’s short list of features:

• Macro shooting from as close as 1 cm (0.4 in.)
• High-speed performance
• 16 scene modes for optimized shooting in various settings
• Scene Auto Selector
• Subject Tracking
• Quick Retouch
• D-Lighting
• Auto Sort function
• Approx. 32 MB of internal memory
• USB charging via Charging AC Adapter EH-68P/EH-68P (AR) or PC
• HDMI connectivity

The Nikon Coolpix S8000 is available right now at the slim price of US $262.20, so you save $37.75 (that’s 13% off its regular price)!

Forget your tiny iPod speakers and pump up the volume with da beautiful Lasonic i931, a portable music system in true retro ghetto blaster style.
The Lasonic i931 features playback of MP3s via an iPod dock, usb port, or SD/MMC card slot.
In addition, the Lasonic i931 has AM/FM radio, remote, mic input, and bass and treble EQ controls. The system is capable of blasting out 15 watts per channel through separate woofers and tweeters.

Da features:

• Supported USB flash disk and SD/MMC card to playback MP3 files
• Enjoy your iPod without earphone
• FM 20 preset stations and AM 20 preset stations
• Separate bass and treble controls
• Powerful speaker sound system (12W x 2)
• Full function remote control

It’s bulky, chunky, heavy and everyone will notice it so… why bother? Everyone will see you’re in da house!

Yo! Get the Lasonic i931 now for $114.95 and you save $185.04 (that’s 62% off!).

The ViewSonic PJL7211 is an advanced 3LCD projector which delivers 2200 lumens with a 1024 x 768 XGA native resolution.

This projector is designed for table-top use or can be mounted on the ceiling for classrooms and meeting rooms.
The top load lamp and bottom filter with slide design provide for easy maintenance.
There are 7 default picture modes (Normal, Cinema, Dynamic, Blackboard, Greenboard, Whiteboard and Daylight modes) to choose from depending on the user’s projected source.
Whisper mode helps extend the lamp life and drops the fan noise down to 30dB.
For increased security, a PIN lock feature allows you to set a password to prevent unauthorized use and Kensington security lock.

One reason to buy the ViewSonic PJL7211 now?

It’s available at US $457.96 , ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping, so you save US $291.04 (that’s 39% off!).

Let’s admit it, we can’t look forware for Zynga to release any Farmville sort-of for iPhone & iPod touch.
In the meantime, meet Ngmoco’s We Rule for iPhone.

In a nutshell, it’s a free game for iPhone in which you manage and rule (!) your personal medieval world!

Most elements in We Rule will be immediately familiar to Farmville fans: reign building starts right from harvesting field, selling products, gettin’ money and so on.
This is, of course, embedded in a sort of social world where you interact with lots of other users and trade crops/stuff with them.

[Via tiPhones.com ]

Based on a best-selling line of Japanese drawing books, Let’s Draw! challenges players to create full images by combining small, easy to draw shapes into larger objects and scenes.

Let’s Draw! makes art accessible by teaching children of all ages, even those who have not yet learned to read, how to draw via full voice instructions as they play.

Kids follow step-by-step guidance to create more than 100 different images that they can then bring to life with animation and sound. Let’s Draw! also lets players pair their newfound art skills with their imaginations to create and animate their own designs from scratch.

Let’s Draw! Features:

• Portable art studio: Because Nintendo DS is a portable game machine, kids can enjoy drawing at any time, anywhere without the need for paper and crayons!
• Touch and animate your pictures: Once a drawing is completed, touch it and bring it to life with animation and sound. Watch the elephant running, the rocket taking off, bird chirping, and more!
• Kid friendly voice instructions: Even a small child who can’t read yet can play by simply following the voice instructions throughout the menus and game.
• Play fun mini games, with YOUR creations!: Play 10 fun-filled mini games such as “Car Racing”, “Whack-a-Mole” or “Air Hockey” featuring the very characters you’ve drawn.
• Flex your creative muscles: Once you’ve mastered your drawing skills in “Learn to Draw” mode, it’s time to unleash the creativity! Draw whatever you like! Once completed, each picture is stored in the Album for you to view later.

Get Let’s Draw! now for US $ 19.99 and enjoy artistic fun!

The Dell Inspiron Mini 10 is a compact, easy-to-carry Internet companion that’s ideal for helping keep kids, teens, bloggers and travelers connected from just about any location at any time–whether on the couch or on the road. You’ll also be able to watch your favorite TV shows wherever you roam thanks to the internal digital TV tuner.

With the integrated digital TV tuner, you’ll be able to catch your favorite programs wherever you roam; moreover the the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 includes three USB ports, a VGA video output, and 3-in-1 memory card reader.

This netbook is powered by the 1.6 GHz Intel Atom Z530 processor, which is designed especially for mobile devices and features an innovative hafnium-infused circuitry that reduces electrical current leakage in transistors to conserve energy: thanks to a 6-cell battery for up to 6.3 hours of battery power.

You’ll be able to surf the Web, chat with friends (both via text and using the integrated 1.3-megapixel webcam), and upload on-the-go photos to blogs or social networking sites.
Standard built-in Wi-Fi wireless connectivity means quick and easy Internet access to hotspots in the home, on campus, in a local coffee shop, or in the office.
It comes in a range of colors, including a shiny Obsidian Black.

The Dell Inspiron Mini 10 comes preinstalled with the Microsoft Windows Windows 7 Starter and it’s available now for US $303.84 (that’s 24% or US $96.14 off its regular price) so hurry up!