Are you ready for a wave of HDR to crash over the consumer electronics industry, leaving nothing but oversaturated photos and full-to-the-brim Flickr groups in its wake? We’ve got a sneaky suspicion that Apple’s inclusion of HDR in the iPhone is one of those telling warning signs that you ignore at your own risk, and now we’ve got HDR video to cower from behind our fast-aging current gen devices. As you might expect, HDR video looks just like HDR stills (an underexposed and an overexposed image combined into one), except in motion. The effect has been accomplished by Soviet Montage Productions, who used two Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLRs and a beam splitter, which allows each camera to look at the exact same subject, to accomplish the effect. They’re short on details on the post-processing end, but we’re sure there will be “an app for that” before too long. Sample is after the break.

[Thanks, Mike]

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Apple definitely surprised us this morning by relaxing its restrictions on third-party iOS development tools and publishing its app review guidelines, but that’s nothing compared to the almost shockingly blunt tone of the guidelines themselves. Grab the PDF for yourselves at the source link now and check out the highlights after the break.

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Way to take the wind out of our sails, ARM — no sooner does your dual-core Cortex-A9 finally ship, do you reveal an even more powerful smartphone, smartbook and server-slaying beast. The Cortex-A15 MPCore picks up where the A9 left off, but with reportedly five times the power of existing SOCs, raising the bar for ARM-based single- and dual-core cell phone processors up to 1.5GHz… or as high as 2.5GHz in quad-core server-friendly rigs with hardware virtualization baked in and support for well over 4GB of memory. One terabyte, actually. Like we’d heard, the ARMv7-A “Eagle” chips are destined for Texas Instruments, but ST-Ericsson and Samsung as also named as “lead licensees,” so we fully expect to see some badass silicon powering a Galaxy when the 32nm and 28nm parts ship in 2013. Press release and video after the break, replete with ARM partner companies fawning over the new hotness. We can’t really blame them.

Continue reading ARM reveals Eagle core as Cortex-A15, capable of quad-core computing at up to 2.5GHz

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Continue reading QuickPay announces ROAMpay credit card swiper for Android, BlackBerry, iOS

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Hey, there: it’s that time of year again. You or your loved ones will soon be heading back to school (if you haven’t already). We’ve been trying to help everybody out for the past month with our back to school guides — which you can check out right here — but we thought we’d take it a step further, and give you, our dear readers, a chance to win some of the gear featured in the guides this year. We’ll be doing three total giveaways this week, and here’s what we’ve got for you today.

- Toshiba Portege R705 P25 laptop worth $799
- Eco Extreme Rugged all terrain Speaker Case worth $49
- i4 Universal desktop charger woth $59
- Pentax Optio H90 digital camera worth $149
- Altec Lansing Mix IMT800 worth $300
- Sony ICF-CL75iP Clock Radio worth $149.95
- Sprint Samsung Intercept worth $99
-Amazon Kindle 3G (Graphite version) worth $189
-HP ePrint All-in-One printer with an HP 60 Photo Value Pack, HP 60 XL Cartridges, a $200 Staples Gift Certificate and a $50 Snapfish Gift Certificate (all courtesy of HP).

Yes, that’s nearly $2,400 of gear for one lucky winner. All you need to do to win is leave a comment below, and read the full rules after the break. Good luck!! Thanks to Toshiba, Grace Digital Audio, i4, Pentax, Altec Lansing, Sony, Sprint and HP for providing the gear!

Special thanks to all the companies for providing us with the gear!

Continue reading Engadget’s back to school giveaway, part two: win a lot of awesome gear worth nearly $2,400!

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Mad Catz’ Modern Warfare 2 peripherals won’t know what hit them when Black Ops debuts this fall — the quality of the company’s gamepads has increased yet again, and of course, this year the Call of Duty-flavored lineup ships with a genuine R.A.T. mouse. We snuck down the streets of San Francisco for a top secret rendezvous to test these controllers out, and discovered a pair of the most comfortable gamepads we’ve tried for our trouble. Read our full impressions after the break — totally declassified.

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AMD might still have no actual Fusion product to sell us, but it’s added a fresh new codename to the stable of future CPU/GPU hybrids. The Zacate Accelerated Processing Unit is a Bobcat derivative, much like the Ontario, but it operates at a higher TDP of 18W and is intended for ultrathin and mainstream laptops along with power-sipping desktops and all-in-ones. Both it and the Ontario APU will offer two Bobcat cores allied to Radeon graphics capable of performing DirectX 11 instructions, though the Ontario dips all the way down to 9W with the stated aim of punching up netbook and small form factor pc performance. Just for reference, that’ll have to compete against Intel’s own dual-core solution, the 1.5GHz Atom N550, which scrapes by on just an 8.5W TDP… though, of course, it doesn’t integrate the same graphics processing prowess that Ontario promises. The two chips, Ontario and Zacate, will ride AMD’s Brezos platform when they finally debut early next year. Until then, enjoy the technicolor die shot after the break.

Continue reading AMD names second Bobcat APU Zacate, shows off Ontario die size

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Yo Nokia, you can keep your E5 and its HD Voice fanciness, we want ourselves an N-KIA E68. Why, we hear the enraged Nokia acolyte ask, why would we defile Nokia’s good name in such a manner? Mostly because this phone has one of the most fun and ingenious slider mechanisms we’ve seen yet. So what if we’ve got no idea what wannabe OS it’s running and so what if it’ll most likely fall apart on us a month into owning it? We still want one, dammit! Video after the break.

[Thanks, Derrty]

Continue reading Keepin’ it real fake: N-KIA E68 shows what an innovative Nokia handset might look like (video)

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Well well — what’s this? Look like all those rumors about Nikon licking its wounds and gunning hard for the high-end compact camera market were true: this hot little piece is the new Coolpix P7000, Nikon’s answer to the Canon G11. Like we’d heard, it actually drops the megapixel count from the P6000, with a 10.1 megapixel CCD sensor that can hit ISO 6400 sensitivity natively and 12,800 when boosted behind a f/2.8-5.6 7.1x VR zoom lens and a three-inch 921,000-dot LCD display. It also has full manual controls for virtually every setting, an optical viewfinder and accessory hot shoe, RAW support, and a 720p/24 movie mode with VR and continuous autofocus that might actually be useful for more than just casual shooting because there’s a mic jack. There’s also the usual range of Coolpix automatic adjustments and modes, of course, but come on — look at all those manual dials and buttons, people. It’ll hit later this month for $499.99 — we’re definitely requesting a review unit to put this head to head with seemingly-similar G11 and others pro compacts like the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5, so stay tuned. PR after the break.

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In addition to the intriguing new Coolpix P7000, Nikon also announced the Coolpix S8100 (pictured above) and S80 tonight — sure, they’re not the dramatic new models, but they’re certainly respectable updates to the S8000 and S70. The S8100 actually learned one trick from the P7000: it’s dropped the megapixel count to 12.1 from the S8000’s 14.2 in order to improve light sensitivity — it can now hit ISO 3200 natively, which isn’t bad for a tiny cam with a 10x zoom. It’s also got a new 1080p movie mode and a faster 10fps burst mode — although we’re told it can only burst five frames at a time, so that’s not nearly as interesting. It’ll hit later this month in a few colors for $299.

The S80 goes the other way, boosting the megapixel count to 14.1 from the S70’s 12.1, and upping the 3.5-inch touchscreen to OLED. The touchscreen enables all the same snazzy tricks as on the new S1100pj, including the ability to draw right on your pictures, and and the 720p movie mode and 5x optical zoom are unchanged. It’ll hit this fall in all sorts of colors for $329. Honestly, we’re still not entirely sold on touchscreen controls for cameras to begin with, and on top of that we’re definitely concerned that OLED will make a touchscreen camera virtually useless in daylight, but we’ll wait to see this thing in person before we rain too hard on this parade. Check a pic of the S80 along with both press releases after the break.

Continue reading Nikon Coolpix S8100 gets 1080p video, S80 sprouts an OLED touchscreen

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