Camera Phones Plaza

Sony and Toshiba released the smallest 1080p camcorders in the world a couple of weeks ago, but that resolution amounts to at most 2.1 Megapixels. Now RED comes along and releases a slightly bigger camera that sports a resolution close to 4.5 Megapixels.

The robust camera is known as Scarlet 3K and it integrates a 2/3-inch Mysterium X sensor. This sensor allows it to shoot at up to 120 FPS, with the possibility to record everything on dual CompactFlash cards. The camcorder is also capable handling up to 100MB per second of REDCODE RAW HD video. It’s got a 4.8” LCD so you can preview your shot s, and there's a 8x RED zoom lens included. Connectors such as HMDI, HD-SDI, FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 will sure prove handy for amateurs and experts alike, while the camcorder is compatible with the entire RED ONE array of accessories.

A feature that sets this camera apart is the integrated WiFi control. Here’s a list with some other notable features:

• 180FPS in BURST MODE
• Full Auto or Full Manual Shooting Modes
• STILL MODE

Scarlet 3K is expected to be available in early 2009 and it is supposed to cost around $3,000.

What would a lightning detector be useful at?
As StrikeAlert Lightning Detector can detect and wan of lightning from 40 miles away I’d say it’s a good tool for the work in open field or people that do jogging every day outside, and why not, for you while swimming in the pool.



It comes in a small form factor, with drop-resistance, easy to carry, and uses an audible alarm to warn you to keep your critical electrical and Information Technology resources safe, so you could shut them down when a lightning is tracked.
The distance is indicated by a LED light on the portable device which blinks when the danger approaches at 20-40 miles, 12-24 miles, 6-12 miles and within 6 miles.

You can wear the StrikeAlert Lightning Detector on your belt and provide it power from 2 AAA batteries for up to 100 hours of operating time.
Not only you can track the strike distance but also storm direction and battery life.
It is available at a price of $69.95.

The Birdsong Identiflyer is a portable audio bird song electronic dictionary that identifies specific sounds coming from birds and plays them back.



Imagine that you are in a mountain shed and you woke up in the morning hearing various beautiful bird songs. Some sound so nice that you’d want to know which bird is singing.
Here comes the Birdsong Identiflyer to help with its 10 different pre-recorded sounds from each SongCard.

You can identify other bird songs and store them on your card creating a real library that can be played using earbuds or the built-in speaker.
The Birdsong Identiflyer uses 3 AAA batteries to function and costs $34.95 including two SongCards to totalize 20 bird songs.
It is available on LiveScience Store where you can find also the Virtual Laser Keyboard featured earlier in one of our articles.

Got tired of your heavy metal watch? You’d like to have one of those Swiss mechanical timepieces, but you can’t really afford something like that. But you do want to keep an exclusive look so why not go with Think Geek’s Stainless Steel Video Watch?

It’s shiny like you old heavy metal watch, but it knows some cool tricks too. Hell, you could even compare it with an iPod player ‘cause it’s got a massive 8GB internal flash memory as well as a full color 1.8" screen. The screen has a 160X128 resolution and you can view videos at 20 fps.

Moreover, the watch has a built-in voice recorder, multiple OSD langu

ages to choose from, a built-in high quality speaker as well as an earphone jack, the ability to view JPEG pictures and listen to music at the same time, and a bunch of other neat features:

• Supported video formats: AVI, MP4, WMV, ASF, MPG, MPEG, DAT, RM, MOV
• Music formats: MP3, WMA, WAV
• Bit rate: 32~320Kbps
• Built In Watch with Digital Time Display
• 24 Hour Style Time
• Time/ Date/ Day Display
• Built in MIC
• Record Format: WAV
• Languages: English, Chinese, Portuguese, French, Korean, Spanish, Japanese, German, Italian, Polish
• USB 2.0
• Compatible with: Windows 98/SE/ME/2000/XP/Vista
• Power Source: Built-in Rechargeable Li-ion Battery
• Dimensions: Watch Face- 45x55x13mm (LxWxD)

If you really want to buy a fashion gadget, try the Stainless Steel Video Watch for only $129.99 on ThinkGeek.com.

The largest cell phone manufacturers are designing advanced models taking into account the customers’ needs for high-resolution built-in camera modules, and the first company that released such a cell phone back in October 2007 is LG, with its Viewty featuring 5MP for pictures, which was also the first mobile phone with DivX support.



Another famous cell phone manufacturer launched Samsung SGH-G800 camera phone in December last year, with 5MP resolution but this one is optimized for high-speed transfers through 3G HSDPA reaching 7.2Mbps speeds.
It comes in Titan Grey housing color and sports a 2.4-inch large TFT display with 262K colors and a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels, while the entire slider-style handset weights 134 grams at 101.5 x 52 x 18.8 mm.



With the 5MP camera you can capture pictures with autofocus at maximum 2560Ñ…1920 pixels, record videos, zoom 3 times to get a closer capture of the surroundings and shoot in low light environments using the Xenon flash.

Besides providing a high-resolution camera it is also a good music phone with support for MP3, AA, AAC+/e-AAC, and WMA file formats, and stereo FM radio so you can listen to your favorite tunes whenever you like.
The internal memory is of 160MB but you can extend it via a microSD memory card up to 4GB, to have plenty of space for storing all your favorite media including Office or PDF documents, pictures, music and the following video formats: MPEG4, H.264, Real One, 3GPP, H.263.



As connectivity options it has Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP for wireless file sharing with other compatible devices and USB 2.0 for PC connectivity.
Other features include HTML browser, email messaging, RSS reader, downloadable Java games, Speakerphone, Currency Converter, Bluetooth printing, handsfree, voice memo, TV Out and face detection security function, so that only the right user can access the data stored in the cell phone.

It is powered by a Li-Ion battery to last up to 3 hours and 20 minutes of talk time or 220 hours in stand-by mode.

You can find it in stores at prices around $470 but before that i recommend you to read several professional opinions and user reviews about Samsung SGH-G800 on TestFreaks.