Kids will love shooting their own 3D pictures!

DXG says: Capture and Share Pictures in 3D! In 3 Simple Steps! Shoot it! Print it! View it!

This is something kids will really love; their own 3D digital camera. The DXG-018 is a simple-to-use dual-lens camera that takes full-color side-by-side still pictures. The settings are very basic: Auto / Sunny / Cloudy / Tungsten / or Fluorescent. You compose your photos via the 1.44” LCD screen on the back of the camera. You shoot photos on an SD card, which is not included. It can handle SD cards up to SDHC 16GB. When you take a photo you’ll hear the shutter go off and a split second later, the second shutter click. After you take your photos you print them out on any printer using 4 X 6” photo paper. You fold the picture edges along the dotted line and they’re ready to view.  When you see them in the included viewers, they really in 3D! I was quite impressed, considering the price. The camera features a 1.44" LCD screen to frame your subject. It’s powered by two AAA batteries. The camera has auto shut-off after two minutes to save battery power. The kit includes the DXG-018 3D Camera, three 3D Viewers, 2 AAA batteries, a USB cable and the instruction manual. It’s available in various colors. MSRP Price is $69.95, but if you do a web search you can find it online for about $50.

Company website: http://www.dxgusa.com/products/dxg-3d/dxg-018p.html

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Weekly Daily Giz Wiz, Week of July 11th, 2011, Netcast 1322

I confess. I don’t own a iPad, or any digital tablet!

I have six computers in my office, but none at home. My office and my apartment are back to back, so why bother getting another computer. But late at night if I want to check my emails I use either my iPod Touch or my Droid X2. But when Acer said they had some loner units of their Acer Iconia Tab, I thought it would be a great way to see what a tablet offers. The Iconia Tab ships with Android Honeycomb (3.1) and features a 10.1-inch screen (1,280x800-pixel resolution) along with GPS, front and rear cameras, Adobe Flash, micro-SD card slot and full 1080p HDMI output. Other specs include an Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor, 1,024MB of DDR3 dual-channel memory and 16GB of built-in storage.It’s WiFi only (b, g, n), and ships with two full games and a nice uncluttered screen layout. Apps are organized in different sections such as multimedia, eReading, etc. To test out the camcorder this week’s Video for Dick’s Gadget Warehouse was shot and uploaded to YouTube directly from the Acer Iconia Tab. Video quality was great. I should have checked the audio settings before I shot it, because it’s on the low side. The price in also a bit on the low side, 449.99 at Best Buy. Available now.

http://tinyurl.com/3zol6hp

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Play DJ on your iPad, iPhone or even iPod Touch!

I have to thank Sarah Lane for telling me the DJay App for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. It was a recommendation she made on iPad Today. She was recommending for the iPad, but since I used to love to mix my own music, I wondered if it was available for the iPod Touch. It was! And it was (and still is as of July 9^th, 2011) available for just 99 cents, instead of the normal $4.99. It’s $19.99 for iPad! After you download and install the app you are presented with two turntables. You pick music for each one from your music library and your selections become records on the turntables. You can vary the speeds, even slow them down or stop them with your finger! The one thing you can’t do is listen to the next track you want to mix. Until now! Griffin has solved that problem. It may look like a splitter cable, but it’s not. The Griffin DJ Cable is wired to enable the Split Output function in DJay. Once you turn that function on in the App menu you will be able to simultaneously hear both what music the audio speaker is playing and the track you are cueing up. With Split Output mode enabled, djay sends the master output to the left channel, and the cue output to the right channel. This lets you cue songs through your headphones independently of the mix that's going through the speakers. And it’s just $19.95

https://store.griffintechnology.com/dj-cable  

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The iPad Today Netcast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvCOx5TCd6c

Leo's Turn The Table Turkey of the week!

Leo’s pick this week is a new product from a company called Youbiq. The company says they like to make cool accessories for the iPhone 4. One of them is the Gymbl, a device that helps you shoot better pictures and video. There are two versions; the higher end model called the Gymbl Pro is said to “transform your iPhone into a camera with a smartphone.” Leo thought this accessory was pretty neat. The kits includes an all-in-one grip, a tripod and tripod adapter all designed to help capturing images smoothly. The pivoting, panoramic Gymbl head lets the user rotate the iPhone 4 around its optical center. You start by attaching the (included) hard-shelled case to your iPhone 4. Then the Gymbl attaches to the case and serves as a handheld grip to steadily and hold the camera in any position. Or you use the tripod for hands-free use of the iPhone 4. Leo said the price was very reasonable. A hard case for the iPhone 4 alone costs $40 to $50. You get the entire Gymbol kit, which includes a nice hard case for $69. The Gymbl Pro adds a companion Tripod Adapter and is made of black anodized aluminum. The black Tripod Adapter also fits the ergonomic case and can be securely attached to a tripod or monopod to shoot above the crowds. It retails for $99. Details are at the company website:

http://www.youbiq.com/site/gymbl/

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Back to Dick’s Gadget Warehouse for a nice 'disco-like' light machine.

Warehouse Friday

Lights! Camera! String! Action!

It was back in the mid 90’s when I came across the String Ray. No, not Sting Ray, the scary creature from the ocean, but the String Ray, a novelty item from "With Design In Mind" Using just a single string and a light with a rotating color disc it produces a hypnotic light show.  Two motors spin and twist a single piece of white sting as the light from below reflects color on it. You put on your own light show by adjusting two knobs on the device that control the spin speed of string and the spinning light. You can manually adjust the angle of the motor arms to get really unique and colorful patterns and colors. It sold for about $80. Turns out Can You Imagine still makes unique things which are available on Amazon and at toy stores. But they no longer make the String Ray. The video of my String Ray was shot with the Acer Iconia Tab and uploaded to YouTube directly from the pad. The video quality is really good, but the audio needs work. I probably had the volume set too low.

This is first video Dennis Wunderlin shot video using the Acer Iconia tablet. Dennis says it certainly has the biggest viewfinder he's ever used. (It's a 10" tablet.) You can judge the results yourself when you view the video.

Dick’s String Ray video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywdDTCJABas

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