AXIA Eyeplate
$230 | “>www.logitech.com
A handheld device that uses Bluetooth wireless technology to provide control over presentations from a guaranteed distance of 30 feet. It also transforms to be a cordless optical mouse making it the perfect companion for the road. The Presenter ships with a USB receiver enabling the device to work with notebooks that are not Bluetooth enabled.
EPSON PROJECTOR 51c
$3,699 | “>www.adobe.com
Adobe’s venerable Photoshop gets yet another major facelift. Enhancements include a new Paint Engine that simulates traditional painting techniques; a Healing Brush that effortlessly removes defects such as dust, and wrinkles while preserving shading, and texture; a bevy of Web authoring tools to automate and simplify the management of rollovers and animations and allow transparency effects; a Pattern Maker plug-in to create realistic or abstract patterns such as grass and rocks simply by selecting a section of an image. There’s even a built-in Spell Checker for search-and-replace operations and spell-check in multiple languages. The best just got better.
MINI COOPER S
FROM $29,600 TO $38,500 | “>www.sigma-photo.com
Best known for its innovative lens designs, Sigma now ventures into making their own cameras as well. The breakthrough SD-9 digital camera is significant for being the first to utilize the new Foveon X3 technology. The image sensors of Foveon X3 are different from all today’s CCD’s or CMOS image sensors, all of which capture only one color per pixel. By only capturing one color per pixel, today’s CCD and CMOS image sensors require software to estimate the missing two colors which are not detected. The Foveon X3 image sensor captures three colors per pixel and as a result it captures three times the color resolution. By capturing real color information instead of estimating information, Foveon X3 image sensors deliver image quality that is far superior to comparable sensors.
LaCie electron22blue III
$999 | “>www.epson.com
This lightning-fast scanner approaches the image quality and features of professional flatbed scanners. The EPSON Perfection 2450 scans slides, photos, film strips, transparencies, graphics or text. Delivering 2400 x 4800 dpi resolution and true 48-bit color. Includes USB 2.0 and FireWire (IEEE 1394) connectivity, a built-in 4″ x 9″ transparency unit, and powerful software titles.
CITIZEN SKYHAWK JR3060
$695 | “>www.nokia.com
The Communicator is a fully integrated mobile terminal combining phone, fax, e-mail, calendar, and imaging. The Nokia 9290 Communicator combines a vivid, active-matrix color screen with the Symbian operating system and offers Internet access via WAP and HTML-based WWW browser. Support for PC applications, including editing of Windows Word and Excel documents and viewing of PowerPoint documents, is built in. The Communicator weights only 244g and measures 158 x 56 x 27mm.
HP PAVILION zt1000 series computers
$1,849 to $3,549 | “>www.hp.ca
Four-megapixel total resolution 21x total zoom, 3x optical zoom with Pentax lens and 7x digital zoom, 1.5-inch colour LCD with 4x magnification in playback mode for immediate review of photos. Photo storage with 16MB Secure Digital (SD) memory card included. Docking capability and in-camera charging with the optional HP Photosmart 8881 digital camera dock which includes 4 AA NiMH batteries.
BROTHER MFC5100c MULTI-FUNCTION CENTER
$475 | “>www.nikon.ca
The Stylish COOLPIX 2500 features a 3x Optical Zoom-Nikkor lens and a 4x digital zoom. The camera’s 2.0 effective megapixels CCD deliver high-definition 1,600 x 1,200-pixel images. The camera comes with the newly developed rechargeable battery and charger, 8mb CompactFlash Card, USB cable and Nikon View 5 software.
