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News.blog: Kodak boosts mobile megapixels

News Semiconductor chips currently detect light essentially by counting how many electrons result from light striking a pixel on the image sensor. If you pick up a camera phone from 2003 or and compare to one from 2008, that old one will produce nicer...

Tags: megapixel, detect, pixel, mobile phones

5 February 2008, 9:11

Photos: Tech and art combine at Sundance

News The mirrored image produced in the piece is activated by software Rozin developed that processes video signals and breaks up imagery geometrically, seemingly pixel by pixel", according to the materials.

Tags: artist, gallery, led, wall

22 January 2008, 9:16

Photos: Amazon sparks Kindle e-reader

News It has a 600x800-pixel resolution with a four-level grey scale. Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos on Monday unveiled the company's e-book reader, the Kindle -- the latest entry into the long unspectacular market for electronic handheld devices for reading...

Tags: mccarthy, kindle, hand, handheld

20 November 2007, 8:56

Putting hi-def video on your phone

News High-definition video -- 720x1,368-pixel resolution, which is 720p adapted for phones' portrait format -- at the high end, he said. But by next year, those first iPhones could be woefully outdated. Chipmaker Texas Instruments is in the middle of...

26 June 2007, 9:17

Safari introduces better browser colours

News For example, where sRGB devotes 8 bits of data to describing the red, green and blue colour components for each pixel of an image, scRGB can devote 16 or 32 bits per component and describe the colours with more flexible floating-point numerals...

20 June 2007, 9:57

Kodak increases digital camera sensitivity

News In nearly all of today's digital cameras, each sensor pixel detects either red, green or blue, with those particular colours placed in a quasi-checkered arrangement called a Bayer pattern after the Kodak engineer, Bryce Bayer, who developed it.

14 June 2007, 9:28

News.blog: Sony's techno-colour Vaio CR series

News The 14.1-inch widescreen display includes a fairly standard 1,280x800-pixel native resolution, and the display bezel has room for a built-in webcam and microphone. Forget Roy G Biv -- the rainbow according to Sony includes such colours as sangria...

12 June 2007, 9:16

Microsoft's Milan tabletop PC a nice touch

News NYU professor Jeff Han wowed the crowd at the March TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference with a similar technology and has launched a start-up, Perceptive Pixel, to commercialise it. Only if this machine were running the game, you...

30 May 2007, 10:09

Apple launches new MacBook laptops

News The new consumer laptops, all of which are 28mm thick and have 13.3-inch displays with 1,280x800-pixel widescreen resolution, are available in three models: white with the option of 2GHz or 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors, or black with the...

16 May 2007, 9:41

Samsung touts improved Q1 Ultra

News All four versions of the Q1 Ultra also are now powered by faster Intel processors that were specifically designed for UMPCs and have brighter, improved LCD screens that offer a 1,024x600-pixel resolution, up from 800x400 pixels.

8 May 2007, 11:56

Photos: Fujitsu peers into the future

News Shown here in a hard case, the 8-inch, 640x480-pixel resolution display requires zero power to show the image. At Fujitsu's North American Technology Forum 2007 on Friday, a developer shows off W-Wallet, a secure payment software that can be loaded...

20 March 2007, 10:31

Photos: Laptops at CeBIT

News The convertible device (from clamshell to tablet) has a 7-inch 800x480-pixel TFT screen and includes a camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS capabilities. CeBIT 2007 brought plenty of opportunities to check out the latest developments in laptops.

19 March 2007, 10:35

Do more megapixels mean better photos?

News Canon said it kept image sensor pixel sizes the same when it moved from its 8-megapixel EOS 350D to its 10-megapixel 400D sequel. Fujifilm, for example, has technology that uses two sensors for each pixel -- one for low-light sensitivity and one...

Tags: pixel, digital cameras, resource, digital camera

8 February 2007, 8:00

News.blog: iPhone squashes widescreen

News The specs of the iPhone list a pixel count of 480x320. Older Hitachi plasma panels, for example, have a 1,024x1,024 pixel count, but their rectangular shape delivers a widescreen image, rather than a perfect square one might infer from the...

17 January 2007, 10:48

Apple finally answers call for iPhone

News It incorporates a wide, 160-pixel-per-inch touchscreen, a single 'home' button, 2-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi capability and a mobile phone. In one of the most anticipated gadget announcements in recent years, Apple at Macworld on Tuesday introduced...

10 January 2007, 10:27