Pocket Plasma

Pocket Plasma, its a funky club light system you can wear on your belt. Hyper-reactive to sound, this brilliant little gizmo pulses with a weird and wonderful web of multi-coloured lightning bolts that radiate from its core. You can either set it to On, where it will dazzle with a random network of bright neon colour light, or set it to Sound where it will react to the slightest sound and movement sending out its coloured lightning bolts in time to music or flashing as you speak. The louder the sound the brighter the tendrils of light - its really quite mesmerising.

Features

• Mesmerising Pocket Plasma light system.
  
• Its attachable practically anywhere you want thanks to the built-in clip on the back.
  
• On/Off/Sound switch helps you to control your gizmo.
  
• Lightweight design.
  
• Requires 2 x AAA batteries (not included).
  
• Suitable for ages 12 years+.
  
• Size: 7 x 7 x 3.5 cm.

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Japanese Retro Style Miluira EV Car

The Takayanagi Miluira Retro EV is a throwback to the 1920s. The 770-pound Japanese one-seater, with a top speed of 37 miles per hour, is meant to be a city car. The lead acid batteries will give it a range of about 22 miles. With a price tag of $75,000 and retro batteries, the Miluira will most likely appeal most to collectors.

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Denon DN D6000

Product summary
Denon Professional Dual CD or MP3 Player DN-D6000
Manufacturer : Denon Electronics Ltd.
Price range : $899.00

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Panasonic Lumix DMC TZ5

Extremely similar to its less expensive sibling, the DMC-TZ4, the TZ5 offers higher 9 megapixel resolution (compared with 8 megapixels for the TZ4), a 1280x720 pixel resolution movie capture mode and a larger LCD (2.5 inches for the TZ4). Because of the higher resolution, the TZ5s performance is also rated a bit slower, with fewer photos fitting in its memory buffer, than the TZ4. Finally, its about 0.01 inch fatter and at 8.4 ounces, 2 ounces heavier.

Because it lacks manual and semi manual exposure capabilities, the mode dial is fairly sparse. The Easy Zoom button makes a nice shortcut for getting from one end of the zoom range to the other.

A dial lets you switch among camera and movie modes, as well as two slots for program exposure (scene) modes these have the same choices, but allow the camera to remember two of your last selections.

Intelligent Auto and an odd Clipboard mode that captures low resolution photos to internal memory for fast display.

The four navigation buttons toggle among the exposure compensation, flash, macro, and self timer options. Depending upon your current zoom, it automatically chooses standard or telemacro. One of my few complaints about the design of the TZ5 is the placement of the microphone on the top left of the camera.

Given that Panasonic states "do not block the microphone with fingers" five times in the manual, the company must be aware that theres a problem with its location. And despite the many warnings, my fingers still tend to wander over there while recording movies. The Q(uick) menu button brings up a subset of options that are also available in the full menus.

LCD brightness, picture size, aspect ratio, intelligent exposure, ISO sensitivity, white balance, AF mode spot, face detect, 9 area, 3 area high speed, 1 area high speed, and 1 area burst shooting and optical stabilization. The full menu adds more shooting settings picture quality, Intelligent ISO, metering, continuous AF, intelligent exposure, color effects, digital zoom, minimum shutter speed, audio recording, AF assist, and clock set as well as setup screens.

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Apple iPhone design faults

An Israeli researcher Aviv Raff has gone public with security flaws in iPhone after what he terms two-and-a-half months of inaction from Apple.

Writes Raff on his blog:

I have disclosed the technical details to Apple few weeks before that post, in a hope to get those security issues fixed as soon as possible. Unfortunately, two and a half months later, and still there is no patch for those vulnerabilities. Ive asked Apple several times for a schedule, but they have refused to provide the fix date.

The first is the URL display flaw in the iPhones Mail that could allow an attacker to send a message containing a malicious URL that looks legitimate. "In most mail clients (example on your PC/Mac), you can just hover the link and get a tooltip which will tells you the actual URL that you are about to click," explains Raff in a blog post. "In iPhone its a bit different. You need to click the link for a few seconds in order to get the tooltip. Now, because the iPhone screen is small, long URLs are automatically cut off in the middle."

This makes it possible for an attacker to create a long URL that displays a trusted domain while taking the user to another domain entirely, he explains. The user would only see the portion of the domain designed to look familiar and is more likely to click on the malicious link.

Opening the URL in the iPhones Safari browser would not help as it too displays only a portion of the long URL.

The second bug according to Raff is in the iPhones Mail application, which makes it easier for spammers to identify valid email accounts, and thus mark them for more spam.

Since iPhone automatically downloads all image attachments, and there is no way to disable this feature, it is easy for spammers to identify a working email account. "The spammer who controls the remote server will know that you have read the message and will mark your mail account as active in order to send you more spam," said Raff.

Raff recommends that since there is no way to disable auto-image download on the iPhone, users should refrain from using Mail until Apple patches the problem.

Raff calls this "a pretty dumb design flaw" which has already been fixed by most other mail clients ages ago.

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JVC Everio GZ MS100

JVC Everio GZ-MS100 (part of the Everio S series) is smaller at 2.2 inches wide by 2.7 inches high by 4.4 inches deep. Its traditional horizontal body design is atypical of the fashionable YouTube camcorders, which tend toward the shape and size of a deck of cards. This does mean JVC Everio GZ-MS100 is bigger and heavier (though it weighs only 9.6 ounces), but it allows for a debatably useful 35x zoom lens and a higher resolution 680,000-pixel CMOS sensor (340.000 effective) compared with VGA resolution (307.200 pixels) on most of those models.

The MS100 is also around twice the price. For these reasons size, chassis, components, and price the MS100 shouldnt be judged against the VGA camcorders, but against models like the Canon FS100. By that those standards, the JVC looks considerably less impressive. Even as small as JVC Everio GZ-MS100 is, its very comfortable to use and does look and feel nice, despite being entirely plastic.

The battery takes up most of the back theres just enough room for the record start or stop button to the right of it. On top are the zoom rocker and a snapshot button. You cannot take stills while shooting video, but instead need to flip a tiny switch on the left side of the body. (Photos are 640x480 and are typical quality for SD camcorders good enough for the Web at small sizes, barely.)

Above that switch sits a button to flip between play and record, and below it is one for changing out of Auto mode to Manual. Then there is the ballyhooed one touch Upload button and its partner Direct DVD button. This one button YouTube upload, though, really just connects, transcodes, and uploads via the bundled Cyberlink software (Windows only). It certainly doesnt relieve you of having to be in front of your computer to keep the process moving start to finish.

This is not really any different than the MS100s competitors, except in that some of them have the software built into the camcorder so you dont have to worry about where the softwares installed. Then there are the Laser Touch controls. Down the left side of the flip out 2.7 inch LCD is a touch sensitive strip that sort of takes the place of a joystick or directional pad. However, those generally have five directions used for selecting things. The strip, while responsive and pretty it lights up a brilliant blue when stroked only handles scrolling up and down, or for adjusting focus, exposure, and shutter speed in Manual mode.

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Festival of Lights

Hello, Everyone! I hope this Hanukkah~Chanukah has been a heavenly one for you!

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