After A Year In The Pacific Ocean, A Canon EOS Camera & Photographs Are Reunited With Its Owners

After spending more than a year being washed around the Pacific Ocean, a Canon EOS 1000D camera and the photographs contained on its SD card have been reunited with its owner.

As you would expect the Canon EOS camera, pictured below, is no longer working. But the SanDisk Extreme III SD card inside of it was able to be washed, and more than 50 images were recovered. With a date stamp suggesting the camera had been in the salty depths for over a year.

The camera was found during a scuba trip by Markus Thompson, who was diving in Deep Bay just outside Vancouver. After publishing some of the images on Google+, Markus was able to track down the Canon EOS 1000D camera’s original owner. A firefighter and his family from British Columbia and reunite them with their photographs and Canon EOS 1000D paperweight.

Source: Engadget : Verge

Image Credit: Markus Thompson

Samsung Wave 3 Launched In Europe

Samsung announced their latest Bada OS smartphone, the Samsung Wave 3 back in September, and now the device has just launched in Europe, and will be available in France initially, and then Germany, Italy and Russia, plus other European countries before the end of the year.

As a reminder, the Samsung Wave 3 features Samsung’s Bada OS 2.0, plus a 4 inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display, which features a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, and processing is provided by a single core 1.4GHz processor.

On the back of the Samsung Wave 3 is a 5 megapixel camera with an LED flash and auto-focus, up front there is a VGA camera for video chat, plus it comes with 4GB of built in storage and a microSD card slot which can take up to 32GB cards.

Other features on the Samsung Wave 3 include A-GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and WiFi direct, there are no details on pricing as yet.

Source Samsung

South Korean Prison To Be Run By Robots

Personally I couldn’t think of anything worse than being in prison, what about being in a prison run by robots? A south Korean prison will introduce robot guards next year, and the guards will stand 150cm tall and will be introduced to the City of Pohang Prison in March of next year.

The prison has spent a total of $850,000 on these new robots, and the plan is that the human guards will spend more time rehabilitating the offenders, whilst the robot guards will do some of the more menial tasks like patrolling at night.

“The robots are not terminators. Their job is not cracking down on violent prisoners. They are helpers. When an inmate is in a life-threatening situation or seriously ill, he or she can reach out for help quickly.” said professor Lee Baik-chul of the South Korean Kyonggi University.

I wonder what the robots will look like, lets hope they don’t look like the original Terminator or the robots from iRobot.

Source Gizmodo, WSJ

LG Optimus 3D, Optimus Black And More To Get Android 4.0 ICS Update

LG recently announced that the LG Optimus 2X would be getting the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update, and LG also said that other Optimus devices would be getting ICS.

Now we have more details on which devices will get Android 4.0 ICS, and these will include the LG Optimus 3D, the LG Optimus Black, and the Optimus LTE.

LG confirms today that the Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) OS will be initially available for the following high-end LG smartphones which were introduced this year: the Optimus 2X, the Optimus Black, the Optimus 3D and the Optimus LTE. We are also continuing to evaluate the ICS OS to determine whether it is compatible with the functionality, features and performance of other LG smartphones to make the ICS OS available on as many LG smartphones as possible.

Lg has also said that they are still looking at the rest of their Android devices, and other models may get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in the future.

Source LG / Facebook, Engadget

ASUS GTX560 Ti 448 Core a 289 dollari

A un giorno dal lancio ufficiale ASUS mostra al pubblico la sua nuova scheda video GeForce GTX560 Ti 448 Core, caratterizzata dal sistema di dissipazione DirectCU II. Ricordiamo che la nuova versione della GPU Nvidia offre maggiori performance rispetto alla versione GTX560 Ti standard, non solo con l’integrazione di 448 shaders ma anche grazie a un’interfaccia di memoria a 320 bit.

L’ASUS GTX560 Ti 448 DirectCU II ha un dissipatore ad alto profilo con doppia fan e che occupa ben 3 slot PCI; le frequenze operative sono di 732 MHz per il Core e 3800 MHz per i 1280 MB di Memoria Video GDDR5. ASUS ha anche annunciato il prezzo in 289 dollari.

Galaxy Nexus: confronto con top Gamma Galaxy e video tour multimedia by HDblog

Dopo i primi video di alcune settimane fa relativi al Galaxy Nexus, ecco che vi proponiamo nuovi filmati che mostrano le qualità del nuovo Google Phone e i miglioramenti fatti con Android 4.0. Di seguito un confronto tra i tre top gamma Samsung nella navigazione internet sia in versione mobile che desktop e un video che mostra Widget e giochi su Android 4.0.

Bug Volume Galaxy Nexus: il fix è già disponibile

Torniamo a parlare del bug Volume che affligge i Galaxy Nexus (non tutti a dire il vero). Mentre Google sta ancora effettuando gli ultimi test per rilasciare un update correttivo, sul web è già apparso il fix che sembra funzionare senza problemi. L’installazione non è complessa anche se ovviamente va fatta manualmente e bisogna avere un po’ di praticità con sblocco device e installazione tramite file zip.

Per gli utenti meno esperti consigliamo di aspettare pochi giorni e scaricare il fix ufficiale direttamente dal telefono appena disponibile. Per coloro che volessero invece provvedere con l’installazione del Fix attualmente disponibile, vi rimandiamo alla pagina di Modaco dove è possibile leggere la guida e scaricare il pacchetto.

Alla fine comunque sembra essere confermato che si tratta di un semplice problema software.