2003 Attractions…
Sony’s Stunning All-in-One
It looks like an LCD TV, behind the glossy black 15-inch screen lurks a powerful multimedia Pc. Ideal for cramped spaces, the Sony VAIO PCV-V100G all-in-one desktop Pc will incorporate a TV tuner and the Company’s Giga Pocket personal-video-recording software. Weighing less than 17 pounds, the unit will be easy to move from room to room. It will be powered by a 24-GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor and will come with an 80GB hard drive and integrated DVD/CD-RW drive.
Olympus Debuts home Photo Labs
Ink Jet printers are great, but got true continuous-tone photo printing, you need a dye-sublimation printer. The Olympus P-10 digital Photo Printer produces true photo-quality 4-by-6 or 3.5-by-5 borderless prints in less than45 seconds. The P-10 also has the convenient PictBridge technology, which lets you connect a compatible digital camera directly to the printer without using a PC. The higher-end Olympus P-440 Digital Photo Printer produces five different print sizes up to true 8 by 10 in only 75 seconds.
Interactive Plasma Display
Hitachi software’s Interactive Communications Group has introduced the Hitachi StarBoard P-50X, an interactive 50-inch plasma display device for presenters and educators. Integrated sensors in the 16:9 HDTV display’s bezel, combined with the company’s StarBoard software, let presenters run and annotate computer applications or digital video right on the plasma screen using a supplied pen or even a presenter’s finger. Annotated data can be saved in several file formats, including HTML.
Store Photos On the Go
With the Micro Solutions Roadstor portable drive, you can archive digital photos on the road automatically without a PC. You can also assemble slide shows on the fly and play DVD movies.
Be MTV
Our favorite instant-video-creation software is getting even better. Muvee auto Producer 3 will have a host of new features, including support for syill images and improved integration with DVD-authoring tools. Simply import a clip, pick a style and background music, and let the program do the rest.
