Titillating stuff from Canon.
(Credit: Canon)Rumors of a successor to the Canon 5D have been circulating for a while and now the digital-imaging blogsphere is churning again--this time with a brooding ad Canon has posted on some of its Web sites featuring the murky outline of mysterious dSLR and the phrase "Destined Evolution." Everybody thinks its the Canon 5D Mark II because it appears to lack a pop-up mount and has some design features that harken to Canon's other high-end EOS dSLRs.
A next-gen 5D--the current model retails for about $2,300 (body only)--has been a long time coming, and advanced amateur shutterbugs (and some professionals) have been waiting not so patiently for the rumored 5D Mark II to arrive--so much so that they barely batted an eye at the just-announced $1,400 EOS 50D.
Anybody waiting to pull the trigger on buying a 50D until you see the 5D Mark II?
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Razer)
Well that was a yawn. Here we got all excited over that teaser page for a new mouse from Razer, mostly because we've seen it come up with some pretty neat stuff in the past. This time, not so much.
First of all, its name--"Salmosa"--sounds like a cross between a cocktail and a pet amphibian, when Razer usually comes up with more menacing monikers appropriate for its game gear, like "Diamondback," "Mako," and our all-time favorite, "DeathAdder." Second, and most important, it's an entry-level gaming mouse. There's nothing wrong with that, of course, but it hardly seems worth the suspense.
Razer does say the Salmosa is "the lightest and most compact mice of its class" for "finger-tip grip gamers who seek both speed and control" (hence the "Speed of the Light" teaser theme, apparently). The product itself may be fine, but to us it's like a marketing version of crying wolf.
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Sony)
Of all the companies that have caught the mystery marketing bug, Sony is quickly becoming the most prolific perpetrator. In fact, the campaign tactics may be too secretive for their own good. The Sony "Rolly," for example, still has people guessing what it's all about even after the product was officially unveiled.
Its latest entry is equally baffling. A teaser page on Sony's Japanese Web site offers virtually nothing other than an obscured photo and the obligatory "Coming soon" tag line. (We're thankful that they at least spared us the cliched countdown clock.) Engadget speculates that it could be an all-in-one PC, which wouldn't be a bad idea considering all the coverage that Gateway got with its version this week, but it's really anyone's guess.
And here we are, once again, getting suckered in.
You always knew there's an art to Rubik's Cubes, but it turns out there's more than you thought.
A mosaic made of 171 Rubik's Cubes
(Credit: Space-invaders.com)The street-art Space Invader folks, taking a break from surreptitious outdoor installations of vintage video-game mosaics, have branched out into using collections of Rubik's Cubes as an artistic medium.
They produced a number of simple Space Invaders mosaics, but more impressive are the larger photo mosaics--for example, the Clockwork Orange character made from a grid of 171 cubes. The phrase Stanley Rubikscubrik springs to mind.
A Sudoku cube
(Credit: find-me-a-gift.com)Meanwhile, for traditionalists, there are new advances in the Rubik's Cube brain-teaser crowd. This Sudocube Sudoku cube puts a new twist on the idea.
(Via John Nash at Adobe Systems and Gizmodo.)
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It takes some doing to create a significant buzz among jaded bloggers, but BMW has managed to do just that (and just as it had planned, we assume). The minicontroversy centers on a special Flash page that teases what looks to be some kind of uberdevice that "touts the ability to play MP3s, DVDs and CDs, has USB and Bluetooth connectivity options, can recognize voice commands, and has a 65,000-color LCD to boot," according to Engadget.
The question, of course, is universal: What is it? And BMW has done little to answer it, naturally, thereby heightening the curiosity factor. Autoblog, for one, asked why an automaker would want to get into personal electronics.
It may not be as much of a stretch as it seems. As we all know, co-branding of everything from laptops to cell phones has been common among luxury car companies for some time. The test will be whether BMW is actually designing and manufacturing this device itself--whatever it is.
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