If you take a very quick look at Sony's HXR-NX3D1 professional handycam, it looks like any other camcorder you are likely to see at any news event, right down to the front LED lighting bar. Go beyond that quick look and really look closely at the front end of the ... Read more (504 words)

It's tougher still when you think that most of the major home protections services require not only monthly fees, but, if too many false alarms are sounded from your home - as in you weren't quite quick enough to get your PIN entered into the master arm device - then ... Read more (574 words)

When Sony introduced its HDR-TD10 to the photography world most people were startled to find that instead of having one lens at the front of the standard Sony-style handycam, there were two lenses, roughly 31 mm apart.Why, many people wondered at the time, would Sony take its most popular consumer ... Read more (571 words)

When Sony went out to offer its NE X line of products the electronics giants wanted to show you didn't have to be a pro to shoot photos like one; you didn't need a Digital SLR to get the same types of image and if you preferred to "roll your ... Read more (631 words)

A longtime warrior in the battle of the digital camera, Olympus has learned what it takes to enhance its products so that they work for the photographer no matter what the conditions, for example, if light is changing the automatic mode of the PEN E-PL1 12.3 Live MOS Micro 4.3 ... Read more (737 words)

Award-winning and best-selling author Erik Larson pulls back the screen and exposes the world behind the glamor of 1933 Berlin with its beribboned, dashing young officers. Its seeming gaiety and the never-ending round of parties. This was the world into which the first Ambassador to Hitler's "Thousand Year Reich", William ... Read more (465 words)

Award-winning author James Glieck, who wrote "Chaos" and "Genius," has the depressingly encouraging answer to this waterfall of information that overtakes us by the hours as gigaflops and teraflops literally pour fourth from the disk farms of the world and onto the Internet burying us ever more deeply in even ... Read more (646 words)

If you are a professional news photographer or a professional videographer then you are likely very familiar with Sony's NXCAM series of professional camcorders. The first NXCAM camcorder was such as Sony's HXR-NX5U NXCAM Digital HD Video Camcorder. It was the first in Sony's new generation of tapeless memory handycams, ... Read more (572 words)

With Apple's release of its dual-band, multi-antenna router, the seemingly settled router wars were reopened and today it is D-Link DIR-655 Extreme-N Gigabit Wireless Router that has helped to keep things stirred up.Looking at it closely, you can hardly help but miss its three antennas set in the rear between ... Read more (480 words)

Today, there's a subculture for everything. If you like white ponies, then you're part of that subculture and if you like pugs, you are a member of pug-lovers subculture. There is one culture, though, that has facets of not only being a subculture, but also culture, as well, and that ... Read more (759 words)